Education caravan, panambay sa barangay ug tigum sa mga kapitanes gihimo sa lungsod sa Malimono

Intiro adlaw an tagbuhos na oras ni Gobernador Sol Matugas ug Vice Governor Arturo Carlos Egay, Jr., niadtong miaging semana didto sa lungsod sa Malimono, diin ang team capitol migikan sa syudad alas 6:00 sa buntag ug namauli gikan sa Malimono alas 6:00 sa gabii. Ang isa ka…

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Malaysian Investor Group Visits Surigao City

A group of investors from Malaysia visited the city this weekend to look into various investment prospects in the locality. Led by Mr. Anthony Phong, Managing Director of Malindo Multi-Resources based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Mr. Jimmy Hua, Executive Director of Era-Qu…

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Montenegro Shipping to deploy newly acquired roro vessel to Surigao-Leyte route

Montenegro Shipping Lines Inc., one of the country’s major vessel operators, has acquired another roll-on/roll-off (Roro) vessel using National Maritime Leasing Corp.’s (NMLC) funds. Vicente Montenegro Jr., the company’s general manager, said the firm was granted a P152-mill…

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Caraga seen as emerging mining capital in Asia

The Caraga region is now being viewed as the emerging “mining capital” in Asia with an increasing number of foreign and domestic investors pouring capital into the local mineral industry, a ranking official of the region’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here said. Ca…

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NFA begins selling imported rice to Northeast Mindanao

The state-owned National Food Authority (NFA) started selling imported rice stocked at the agency’s various warehouses in this northeastern Mindanao region to accredited grain-dealers, but limited to 5,000 bags per purchase. Gil Pepito B. Paqueo, Caraga NFA regional director…

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NiHAO Mineral Resources buys into Oriental Vision

LISTED NiHAO Mineral Resources International Inc. announced that it acquired roughly a third of privately held mining operator Oriental Vision Mining Philippines Corp. In a stock exchange filing yesterday, NiHAO said it acquired 3,000 shares worth P3 million. The company pla…

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Template on disaster risk to be adopted

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) will launch in the regions beginning next month the guidelines in determining the various sources of disaster and finding the ways at reducing their impact on lives and properties. It will also ask the local governments…

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Century Peak to put up P7-B smelting facility

HAVING just listed by way of introduction on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Tuesday, mining firm Century Peak Metals Holdings Corp. is wasting no time in bringing operations up to speed as it expects to start the construction of its P7-billion smelting plant soon. A…

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Enrile cites mining-industry potentials

SENATE President Juan Ponce Enrile advised major players in the local mining industry to adopt best practices in their operations to “prevent environmental disasters of catastrophic proportions.” “Exercise prudence and extreme caution in your mining activities for, if you do…

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SC votes 8-7 on illegal-campaign case, Mayor Penera disqualified from holding office of Santa Monica

THE Supreme Court (SC), voting 8-7, has issued a decision declaring that Section 80 of the Omnibus Election Code, banning election campaign outside the campaign period, remains in effect despite implementation of Republic Act 9369, or the poll-automation law. In a 34-page d…

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Surigao del Norte town aiming to become Southeast Asia’s game-fishing capital

SIARGAO Island, Surigao del Norte—A sleepy community of barely 10,000 people, Pilar town and its people have big dreams—to become the game-fishing capital of Southeast Asia, if not Asia itself. With the support of the national government and the Department of Tourism (DOT),…

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Mindanao to get infrastructure help to ensure steady supply of food for NCR, Central Luzon and Region 4

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is allocating P2.5 billion between now and 2010 to build the infrastructure and logistics support needed to ensure the steady flow of cheap and fresh products from the production areas of Mindanao to the country’s main food markets in Metr…

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Feature: Sangyaw Redux

I was supposed to attend both, but missed out on the former as my son Jandy still had classes on the day of the parade (June 27). The latter’s parade, held on June 29, the day after our arrival, was still worth the visit. This cultural festival was first created by former F…

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Spanish official turns over five new elementary-school buildings to DepEd

FIVE new elementary-school buildings, constructed through assistance from Spanish government under its Improvement of the Quality of Primary Education (IQPE) program, were turned over by Spanish embassy official Miguel Angel Barba to Education Secretary Jesli Lapus in Carme…

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70,000 people jobless in Caraga region

At least 70,000 out of Caraga region’s total labor force of 1.045 million are jobless and only 21,000 of them are looking for employment either in the locality or overseas, a report released by the region’s labor and employment office here, said. The regio…

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DBP approves P9.59-B fund for Roro projects

SIARGAO ISLAND, Surigao del Norte —State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has approved the deployment of a total of P9.59 billion for projects under its Road Roll-On, Roll-Off Terminal System (RRTS), president and chief executive officer Reynaldo David said on…

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Filipino illiterates now at 5.2M

THE Department of Education (DepEd) is set to strengthen the education and literacy programs of youths and adults as the number of Filipino illiterates reached 5.2 million, and dropout rates stood at 6 percent in elementary and 7.5 percent in high school. “We are now at [a] …

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Road network takes shape in Mindanao

The remote eastern coastline of Mindanao would soon become a major transportation route connecting the once sleepy and disaster-battered but resource-rich coastal towns of Manay in southernmost Davao Oriental and Claver in northernmost Surigao del Norte. The different sectio…

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DOE to bid out contracts for 20 coal sites in March

THE Department of Energy (DOE) will bid out contracts to explore and develop 20 sites in the country. Energy Undersecretary Ramon Oca said the contracts will be bid out under the Philippine Energy Contract Round (PECR) this year. “We’re preparing for the contracting round, an…

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RP eyeing additional rice imports of .3-M MT

THE Philippines may buy an additional 300,000 metric tons (MT) of imported milled rice, on top of the 1.5 million metric tons (MMT) it bought from Vietnam, via a government-to-government negotiation. Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said the purchase of an additional 300,000…

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