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DAVAO CITY—Senior citizens in the interior province of Compostela Valley got a free mentoring at digital literacy in a special program by the provincial government intended solely for them.
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DAVAO CITY—Senior citizens in the interior province of Compostela Valley got a free mentoring at digital literacy in a special program by the provincial government intended solely for them.
DAVAO CITY—The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here said the declining tariff on many products, including cement, in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has drastically reduced the smuggling attempts on these products.
DAVAO CITY—The Japanese government turned over a modern communications system for the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) installed at the Central Visayas station in Cebu City.
DAVAO CITY—Owners of private lands lying along the path of a multimillion-peso road bypass project were cautioned against falling into the lure of private firms and individuals promising higher compensation for the affected lands.
DAVAO CITY—A training has been hatched for Filipino professionals here on US-certified medical coders and billers. The selection process would focus on those working on the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
DAVAO CITY—The civil- rights group Save Sulu Movement reacted strongly to the dismissal by the Ombudsman of the case of financing terrorism and graft cases leveled against former Justice Secretary, and now detained Sen. Leila M. de Lima and former Sulu Gov. Abdusakur M. Tan, saying the dismissal took away from government the chance to prosecute and jail high-level government officials for “manifest complicity” with a terror organization.
DAVAO CITY—Senior government and key business leaders of the four-country BIMP-Eaga
DAVAO CITY—Mindanao is keeping a tight watch over Tropical Storm Basyang, earlier projected to trek on the path of Typhoon Vinta that hit the area in December last year, bringing torrential rains and flooded a wide swath of eastern and northern Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY—The Home Development Mutual Fund, known as Pag-IBIG Fund, set aside the day of hearts for its sponsored civil mass wedding for members nationwide.
DAVAO CITY—The Philippine Air Force sent a new female pilot to an aviation program organized by the US Air Force to familiarize other countries’ air forces to new aircraft.
DAVAO CITY—Ravaged Marawi City could tap into the unprogrammed funds of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) amounting to P150 million, which its regional governor committed to help rebuild the lakeside city after a five-month battle to free it from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis)-linked Maute Group late last year.
DAVAO CITY—The camp of Rep. Antonio R. Floirendo Jr. of the Second District of Davao del Norte reacted to the recent Congressional probe on the family banana-plantation operation inside the Davao Prison and Penal Farm, saying the probe has turned personal because of his archenemy, the House speaker.
DAVAO CITY—The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DSWD-ARMM) is going around the region’s scattered provinces to refresh local government executives on the rules governing the implementation of the cash-transfer program, called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
DAVAO CITY—The regional Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here is slated to expand the reach of Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) survey this year to elevate the level of competitiveness among peers and to show innovations in improving government frontline services.
DAVAO CITY—A tribal council claiming several member groups across Mindanao expressed worry at the series of killing of tribesmen and leaders which the council linked to the bitter struggle between the government military forces and the communist-led New People’s Army to win the tribes over to their respective sides.
DAVAO CITY—President Duterte promised to shell out P100 million to develop agriculture and livelihood programs in tribal communities across Mindanao, moves that he believed fend off the influence of the communist-led New People’s Army (NPA).
DAVAO CITY—From the initial shivers following the declaration of martial law across Mindanao, the tourism sector here has bounced back with significant revenues from tourists as other multimillion-peso housing and accommodation projects have not reached their target completion
DAVAO CITY—The Depart-ment of Agriculture (DA) is offering incentives to farmers in the Caraga region in Northeastern Mindanao to put up demonstration or model farms in raising corn for the government’s rice-corn blend.
DAVAO CITY—Maguindanao is reviving a fading industry on weaving ethnic Maguindanao cloths and tapestries to ignite interest as it enters its second year this February, and organizers expect 10 percent more visitors over those who visited last year.
DAVAO CITY—The die is cast.
DAVAO CITY—Volunteer teachers Johaira Ali, Musarafah Ebrahim and Sandra Mustapha gingerly await the appointment papers on their plantilla teaching posts in Maguindanao, and wait with bated breath as their turn comes nearer in the queue.
DAVAO CITY—The Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC) has recommended the extension of a government mechanism called feed-in tariff (FiT) for at least the next five years to allow power developers to catch up with their investment and to offset the absence of wholesale market on power in the island.
DAVAO CITY—An ambitious free land-distribution project in one of the conflict areas in Central Mindanao hopes to eradicate the decades-long violent clan wars among the Maguindanaoans, mostly rooted in land disputes.
DAVAO CITY—No new big investor, local or foreign‚ has filed application nor signified interest to explore the Diwalwal mining area in Compostela Valley, formerly the site of a gold rush.
DAVAO CITY—The properties of closed banks in Mindanao are up for bidding in next month’s round of public auction by the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp., (PDIC) its communication executive said.
DAVAO CITY—Mapua University’s Malayan Colleges Mindanao (MCM) is bringing to Mindanao its prestigious multidiscipline, multiskill interschool competition ahead of the opening of its first education foray into Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY—Eight electric cooperatives in Mindanao are expected to boost their reserve electric supply as a power subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corp. began commissioning its hydroelectric plant in Bukidnon.
DAVAO CITY—Around this time when presidents usually see their trust ratings plummet, indicating that the honeymoon period is over, analysts based here agree that President Duterte’s political will allowed him to continue enjoying high ratings.
DAVAO CITY—Two days before Christmas, the city sidewalks here were busy: people passing, meeting smile after smile.
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