General Santos

KORONADAL CITY — A multi-sectoral body here has pressed the alarm button over a looming water crisis in South Cotabato due to forest destruction and improper water usage.

A FOREIGN-BACKED mining firm in Mindanao eyeing to employ open pit in excavating copper and gold resources in three provinces has become the “poster boy” of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on conservation efforts.

ALABEL, Sarangani — For Eufemio ‘Django’ Diamante, life in past years was spent moving in mountain ridges and rainforests, eluding or watching the enemy pass by.

KIDAPAWAN CITY — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, who are at odds with armed militiamen in Datu Piang, Maguindanao for four days since Sunday, repositioned themselves to prevent another sporadic clashes.

FOR most Filipinos, pork is a rich source of protein. An average-sized porkchop provides 45 percent of the daily protein needs of a person.

KORONADAL CITY — A dispute among tribal members and a group of small-scale miners over a gold-rich village in T’boli town, South Cotabato has erupted, officials said Thursday.

SOME tuna canning plants here have cut production time by 16 hours due to scarcity of stocks, which affects about half of their labor force, a top industry official said on Tuesday.

AN OIL industry executive has scoffed at the government’s thrust to promote jatropha curcas (tuba-tuba), describing the move like a “pyramiding scheme.”

TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato — Xstrata Copper is likely going to exploit copper and gold resources here using open pit mining method even as the company is confronted with the project’s high arsenic content, company officials said.

WELL into the first decade of the new millennium, a renaissance of sort in Philippine professional boxing was ushered by Manny Pacquiao’s brutal demolition of Mexican boxing great Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003.