General Santos News

General Santos City journalists arm themselves
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Fearing that more attacks would be launched against them, media practitioners here have started to arm themselves following the murder of local tabloid publisher Christopher Guarin earlier this month.

The Philippine tuna industry crisis: Another look (2)
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 February) -- The two-year ban has impacted the volume of landing of tuna at the General Santos City fishing port complex.

PDEA nabs 3 in GenSan drug buy-bust
MANILA, Philippines - Three people were arrested when agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) busted a drug den in General Santos City this week, PDEA said on Saturday.

Magnitude 4.5 quake rocks General Santos
DAVAO CITY -- General Santos City has been shaken by a magnitude-4.5 quake Sunday morning, state seismologists said. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake,...

Magnitude-4.5 quake hits General Santos area in Mindanao
A magnitude-4.5 quake jolted the General Santos City area in Mindanao Sunday morning, but there was no initial report of damage or casualty.

Learning to kick the ball: The different football styles
Football is the world’s most popular sport and has been dubbed “the beautiful game.” Though it may seem like you can boil the sport down to” kick the ball hard,” there’s actually a lot going on in a game of football. In this series, “Learning to Kick the Ball,” we bring you the football basics to help those new to the sport learn to become beautiful, or at least be part of the beautiful game.

Olympics: Not about medals for cash-splashing Sweden
STOCKHOLM—Sweden's sports and culture minister has told Reuters the government does not expect a gold rush of Olympic medals despite investing almost 200 million euros ($264 million) in sport.

Australia, Japan football hit by Olympic setbacks
Australia's Olympic hopes were dealt a major blow with away defeat to Uzbekistan, while Japan were knocked off the top of Group C with an upset loss to Syria.

Crazyhorse demolishes Sumaba FC in Aboitiz Football
CRAZYHORSE logged a 25-0 annihilation of Sumaba FC yesterday to take over the top spot in bracket A of the men’s open category of the 14th Aboitiz Football Cup at the Aboitiz Sports Field in Subangdaku, Mandaue.

Jenny McCarthy wants ‘football player’
Jenny McCarthy got into the Super Bowl spirit by joking she wanted to “hook up with a football player”.