Latest in MindanaoAfter months of relentless flooding in Metro Manila and Luzon from the southwest monsoon, the Philippines is now facing the arrival of one of the strongest El Niño events on record, and if any typhoon forms during the El Niño period, it could reach typhoon to super typhoon strength because the…
Mindanao’s agriculture is more modern and more productive than Luzon’s, and life on the island is more peaceful, more affordable, and full of more opportunity than Metro Manila, making it the better place to live and work for any Filipino willing to go back, former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel…
The Philippines’ chronic failure to solve its geographic fragmentation has produced one of the most absurd realities in Philippine agriculture: it costs more to ship bananas from Mindanao to Metro Manila than to export them to Japan and China, former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol…
The Philippines can produce enough food to feed its entire population, but the real crisis is that tomatoes rot in Cavite while sardine makers in Zamboanga import tomato paste from China, and fish pile up unsold in Tawi-Tawi while the same island lacks vegetables and chicken. This is because no…
Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s greatest and most lasting legacy in Mindanao was not just infrastructure or economics but peace—specifically, the framework peace agreement he reached with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that has since undergirded the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, former…
The Marcos administration’s Department of Transportation (DOTr) is working toward a single overarching goal: ensuring that every rail station in the country is connected to road, aviation, and maritime transportation, so that a Filipino can move seamlessly from a bus, a ferry, or a plane onto a…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has hit a record-low net satisfaction rating of -15 in the First Quarter 2026 Social Weather Stations survey conducted March 24-31, 2026—his worst since taking office in June 2022, when he started at +63. The rating marks a sharp decline from -3 in November 2025 and…
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has warned that Mindanao’s power reserve margin is gradually thinning, and that new power plants must be built to prevent the region from sliding back into prolonged brownouts. NGCP spokesperson Atty. Cynthia Alabanza raised the concern…
A veteran Davao-based journalist says Vice President Sara Duterte’s commanding support in Mindanao traces directly to the memory of bridges, airports, and railways that rose across the south under her father’s “Build, Build, Build” program—and the region’s hope that she will bring it back. Serafin…
While the government celebrates a deal securing 1.5 million metric tons of rice from Vietnam, a veteran Davao journalist says the policy behind it is quietly destroying the livelihoods of the very farmers the country depends on. Serafin “Jun” Ledesma Jr., speaking on DZRH’s Special on Saturday on…
More than her family name, it is Mindanao’s frustration with the national government that continues to drive Vice President Sara Duterte’s overwhelming support in the south, a veteran Davao-based journalist says. Serafin “Jun” Ledesma Jr., a longtime Davao-based journalist and commentator…
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso on Wednesday, November 5, extended the city government’s solidarity with the people of Cebu and other areas hit by Typhoon Tino, announcing a ₱1 million donation to the provincial government and urging residents to contribute to relief efforts. In…
Sinagot ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ang matagal nang tanong ng publiko hinggil sa kanyang kampanya noong 2022 na magdala ng ₱20 kada kilong bigas sa merkado, at iginiit na ito ay nasimulan na sa ilang bahagi ng bansa. “Sa mga nagtatanong kung nasaan na ang bente pesos na bigas, ito ang…
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