Matigsalogs forms council to manage ancestral domain
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Matigsalog tribe of Marilog District in Davao City has formed a tribal council of elders to manage a 72,000-hectare ancestral domain recently carved out of a title issued to indigenous people of Kitaotao, Bukidnon.
Tribal leader Datu Ernisto Salumay said his tribe [...]
The indigenous peoples in Mindanao declared this week a full-blown war against the communist New People’s Army (NPA), in a ceremony in Davao City organized by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao Command (AFP-EastMinCom).
Led by Datu Joel Onad, chair of the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Conference for Peace and Development (MIPCPD), tribal leaders from [...]
A military spokesman in Southern Mindanao said Dabawenyos could learn a lesson from what village officials in a town in Negros Occidental who banned militant groups from entering their village.
“We should learn from what the barangay officials and residents of Linantuyan, Guiholngan in Negros Occidental did to the self-proclaimed human rights group [...]
Tribal leaders in Davao City yesterday scored militant groups using indigenous people to advance causes other than the plight of the lumads.
Datu Ruben Labawan and Datu Martion Dumacan cited the case of several members of the Matigsalog in Compostela Valley who fled to Davao City reportedly to avoid being caught in the [...]
PRIZED POSSESSION. A young child, displaced by military-rebel clashes in Compostela Valley in Southhern Philippines, holds a chicken as if his life depends on it, at an evacuation center in Davao City. Hundreds of farmers mostly indigenous peoples have fled Compostela Valley as government troopers lock in sporadic battles with the communist New People’s Army.
Davao Oriental mining firm wants Aussies out of nickel project
By ROGER M. BALANZA
A local mining firm in Davao Oriental wants to rescind its joint venture agreement with an Australian mining firm it accused of moving slow on the Pujada Bay nickel project.
Asiaticus Management Corp. (Amcor) said its partnership with BHP Billiton has remained on the [...]
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