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COTABATO CITY– The information technology chief of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) describes the state of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the region as better and brighter compared with previous years.Abdelnur Campong, chief of the ARMM governor’s ICT office, said there were no efforts in establishing ICT in the regional government before 2011.Now, Campong added, all regional line agencies have their own websites and instituted their database systems even as the ARMM government created an ICT office through an executive order.These efforts add up to refo

DAVAO CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) pledged a total of P4.196 billion to fund programs for their constituents in support of the ARMM Regional Development Framework 2016-2019.Local officials from across the region drafted the programs, projects, services and activities (PPSA) during the 3rd ARMM Local Government Summit held from November 30 to December 1 at the SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center in Davao City.Atty.

DAVAO CITY -- Citing lines from a song, Sec. Ismael Sueno of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) shared how he used to feel as a government official from Mindanao. Kami'ymgaMuslimlamang,kami'ymgataga-Mindanaolamang, he said. When he was faced with the prospect of leading his political party, he initially questioned if he had what it took to lead at the national level.Much has changed since then.A challenge This same feeling has become a challenge to many of us, Sueno said.

DAVAO CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to talk lengthily about the fanatical Dawlah Islamiya in the two-day governance summit here of local executives from across ARMM to start at noontime Wednesday.The summit, organized by the office of ARMM Gov.

MAGUINDANAO --- The police assured to speedily prosecute guerillas of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front implicated in the murder on Sunday of Vice Mayor Anwar Sindatok of Datu Saudi Ampatuan town.Supt.

COTABATO CITY ---Unless law enforcers learn how to appropriately establish cases against drug-traffickers, Malacañang’s recent feats in its anti-narcotics campaign in Maguindanao might all turn to waste.

COTABATO CITY– The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), through its Regional Commission on Bangsamoro Women (RCBW), will conduct a series of activities and a forum promoting its advocacy drive to end violence against women (VAW).The VAW campaign is observed annually from November 25 to December 12 and is aimed at raising awareness among all stakeholders on this issue.

LANAO DEL SUR -– The Lanao del Sur provincial government now has an operation guide book for its women and peace center, a venue for enterprise development and peace-building activities.Salma Jayne Tamano, Lanao del Sur’s provincial information officer, on Friday said the manual was launched early this week at the provincial capitol in Marawi City.The center, established with the help of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), is located inside the capitol compound in Marawi City.Tamano said the symbolic launching rite was led by representatives from OPAPP, from

COTABATO CITY - Representatives from Japan will tour central Mindanao starting Tuesday to inspect vital Japanese-funded projects meant to hasten the attainment of lasting peace in the country’s troubled south.Japan, through its Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is a major benefactor of peace and development programs in Southern Philippines, particularly in underdeveloped provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).The ARMM, which covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, both in mainland Mindanao, and the islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, are common bastio

COTABATO CITY --- The military is certain residents in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will surmount domestic security woes by sustaining ARMM’s noticeable rise now from underdevelopment.Major Gen.