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Wednesday 7th of November 2012
DAET, Camarines Norte, Nov 7 (PIA) -- Bagasbas Beach in this town will be in the center stage anew of another spectacle of water sports as paragliding enthusiasts in the country, Asia, and Europe will meet on November 8-11 for exhibition/clinic and lunch. On February 19-24, 2013, a bigger event will be held - the 1st International Paragliding and Hang Gliding Towing Competition.
The aerosports competition is jointly sponsored by the municipal government here, Bagasbas Beach Development Council, Mikes-Kites, and the Philippine Paragliding and Hang Gliding Association (PPHGA).
Mayor Tito Sarte-Sarion said that PPHGA aims to develop specific...
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12Mar2012DAVAO CITY, Mar. 12 (PIA) -- Officials and personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the region joined the Sports Festival 2012 of Kill Droga Club (KDC) and Junior Citizens Crime Watch (JCCW) on Sunday (Mar. 11) at the University of Mindanao (UM) Matina Campus, this city. With this year’s theme: “Drug Free Society is a Means to Ends Poverty,” the annual sports fest aimed to foster camaraderie and cooperation with students and the different school or...
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11Mar2012DAVAO CITY, Mar. 11 (PIA) – The women officers and civilian employees of the 10th Infantry (AGILA) Division of the Philippine Army joined the march in advocating women’s active involvement in environmental decision-making and peace efforts. The military women participated in the celebration of the 102nd International Women’s Month on March 8 with 4,000 other women from various sectors in Davao City. The women march was spearheaded by the city government in c...
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11Mar2012DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, Mar. 11 (PIA) -- Governor Douglas Cagas, during the local government’s commemoration of the 102nd International Women’s Day on Thursday, has called on his women constituents recently to cooperate and support the local government’s endeavors in protecting the environment, saying that women are the most affected especially those who are left at home. Cagas urged them to lead and actively participate in the clean-up drive i...
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08Mar2012DAVAO CITY, March 8 (PIA) -- Women farmers and producers opened the Women's Market earlier today at NCCC Mall Davao to show that they too are major force in food production. In time for the celebration of the 102nd International Women's Day, this activity gathered women from different provinces in the region to showcase and sell their produce. Organizer from Oxfam, Jessan Catre, said this is the first time that this project is brought down to Davao after holding it in Manila. ...
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05Mar2012MAGSAYSAY, Davao del Sur, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- The recently rehabilitated farm-to-market road (FMR), in Barangay Lower Bala of this town is seen to increase by 20 percent the income of rice farmers here. Previously, most parts of the 4.470-kilometer long road were impassable during rainy days interrupting the transportation of farmers’ produce to the market. Now, with the P7.2 million FMR rehabilitation project of the Department of Agrarian Refor...
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04Mar2012Skills expertise delivery! So goes a mobile training van that travels from town to town to deliver technical skills capacity training for the indigent youth and unemployed adults in Davao del Sur. The mobile training van is an innovative way of the provincial government of Davao del Sur to reach out to its constituents ...
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02Mar2012PANABO CITY, Davao del Norte, Mar. 02 (PIA) -- Thirteen boxers of the Davao del Norte Barangay Una Boxing Team are set to compete in the 2012 PLDT-ABAP National Amateur Boxing Championship slated on March 4-7, 2012 in Tagbilaran City, Bohol Province. The team, headed by its team manager Gene-rose Tecson and assisted by executive director Edwin Pardillo, is composed of campaigners in the Junior, Youth and Elite divisions who earlier emerged as champions in the Mindanao leg of the...
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02Mar2012DAVAO CITY, March 02 (PIA) -- This city will have a unique celebration of Earth Hour 2012 as it encouraged Dabawenyos to send off 10,000 biodegradable lanterns to the sky in time for the light switching off from 8:30 to 9:30 pm on March 31. Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (DCCCII) officer Bo Puentespina in Wednesday’s Club 888 said, “We’re making it bigger this time by making a statement and targeting 10,000 biodegradable lanterns to be sent off that ...
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29Feb2012DIGOS CITY, Feb. 29 -- The 5,000-seater coliseum in Davao del Sur province, touted as the biggest in Mindanao, is beginning to create a mark as a favored venue of sports events in the province. In basketball, particularly, the Davao del Sur coliseum has drawn into this southeastern Philippine province the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) to hold four PBA games in just a span of one year since its inauguration in December 2010. These allowed basketball aficionad...
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26Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) is set to turn-over early next month a three-classroom school building to the Salvacion Elementary School in Panabo City. The P2.3 million-worth building which is currently 97 percent complete is made of a combination of concrete-steel-wood materials complete with amenities such as ready-to-tap electric and water installations, lavatory in each classroom, and ceiling fans. The Department of Education (DepEd) will accept the ...
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26Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here has seized illegally cut lauan flitches and lumber estimated to worth P1.5 million in Compostela Valley province. DENR’s national and local anti-illegal logging task force confiscated the logs in two separate operations within this week. In one operation, the task force apprehended about 44 thousand board feet of lumber valued at P1.4 million at Purok 8, Sitio Agibawa, Barangay O...
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23Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 23 -- Music notes run the same around the world, and so music becomes a universal language. It brings a feeling of harmony to people regardless of color and race. It is this universal rhythm of music that pushes the Tagum City Tourism Council and the City government of Tagum to continue holding the Musikahan sa Tagum Festival which now runs for 11 years. This year’s Musikahan sa Tagum Festival seeks global audience as it banners the them...
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23Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- Various market prospects offered by the United Nations will be tackled in a one-day seminar on February 24 at Grand Men Seng Hotel in the city. Some 120 exporters, manufacturers, traders, business associations, and academe representatives will converge in the seminar to discuss concerns relative to the business opportunities and procurement activities of the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD). The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in th...
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22Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- This city will welcome the first cruise ship to dock on March 30, carrying 371 French nationals to visit Davao. Travel agency owner Wanda Teo announced in today's Club 888 the coming of NDS Voyages Princess Danae ship from France after it will dock at Papua New Guinea. "In the past years, it's just Manila and Cebu that cruise ships like this dock at. It took me some time to convince this group to try and take a look of Davao,&q...
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19Feb2012DAVAO CITY, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- Youth leaders from Davao Region and the Socksargen areas kept abreast with the knowledge and skills honing their leadership capability as advocates for peace. The regional officers of the Youth for Peace Movement (YFPM) of Region XI and the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos City (Socksargen) participated in a three-day Capability Enhancement and Planning Workshop which started Friday (Feb. 17) and will end today (Feb....
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16Feb2012STA. CRUZ, Davao del Sur, Feb. 16 (PIA) -- The municipal government here recently reorganized its Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) to involve more sectors and concerned stakeholders at all levels, especially the local community. Sta. Cruz Mayor Joel Ray L. Lopez issued Executive Order No. 02 on January 17 this year, ordering the streamlining of the MDRRMC in an aim to adopt a holistic, comprehensive, integrated and proactive disaster risk reduction and...
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15Feb2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Feb. 15 (PIA) -- Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario is pushing for a legislation creating the Davao del Norte Training Institute (DNTI) in order to attain excellence in local governance. In pursuit of the P.E.O.P.L.E. agenda in promoting education, the training center shall serve as venue for the training of local government officials, functionaries, and employees. P.E.O.P.L.E. is the acronym of the development agenda of del Rosario. It stands for ...
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15Feb2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Feb. 15 (PIA) – Sixty-nine couples from different parts of the city here were officially pronounced husbands and wives by Tagum City Mayor Rey T. Uy in a mass wedding celebrated on Valentine’s Day yesterday. The crowd erupted in loud cheers as the couples took their vows and exchanged rings during Tuesday's wedding ceremony held at the Pavilion of the city government’s Trade and Cultural Center. Dubbed as Kasalan ng Bayan, this y...
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10Feb2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Feb. 10 (PIA) --Government's assistance to micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Davao del Norte resulted to the generation of substantial export and local sales. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Davao del Norte provincial office officer-in-charge Vedastito Galvez said the exports value his office had monitored were transactions of MSMEs that DTI was able to extend help through its various programs, including its assistance for them to comply with IS...
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01Feb2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Feb. 01 (PIA) -- Department of Health assistant secretary Dr. Romulo Busuego called on local government units to enroll with the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PHIC) those working in the underground economy. Dr. Busuego made the call noting that some of those working in the informal sector have yet to acquire health insurance. While the national government has targeted poor Filipinos identified in the National Household Targeting System ...
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