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Siquijor athletes make it to 2017 Palarong Pambansa
SIQUIJOR (PIA) - - At least three School for Triple Jump and Jomari Galabin, host province of Antique. student athletes from this province made it to a Special Education (SPED) ID of Larena The event will carry the theme the Palarong Pambansa in Antique Province Central Elementary School for 16-and-above “2017 Palarong Pambansa: Converges Youth set on April 23 to 27, 2017. 400 meters category, and Jose Marie L. Power, Builds Sustainable Future” where This was disclosed by Genevieve Ingking of Enrique Villanueva High School thousands of student athletes from elementary Aso, Central Visayas Regional Athletic for Discuss Throw, secondary category. and secondary schools in the 18 regions of Association (CVIRAA) announcer and The 2017 Palarong Pambansa will the country will converge in San Jose de principal of the Larena Central Elementary highlight the role of the youth in building a Buenavista City for the 60th edition of the School, Division of Siquijor. better future, the Department of Education Palaro, the biggest inter-school competition Also in a press release, it was (DepEd) earlier said during the signing of the organized by DepEd. (rac/PIA7-Siquijor w/ reported that 10 athletes from Siquijor memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the reports from DepEd-Siquijor) Division have earned gold, silver and bronze medals The first lady Vice-Governor of Siquijor province, during the recently conducted Mei Ling Quezon talks on Women Empowerment CVIRAA and three of them to parolees and probationers in the province. are qualified to compete for (PIA-Siquijor) the Palarong Pambansa 2017 as part of the Central Visayas delegates. They are gold medalists in Athletics Christian B. Tomarong of Cabulihan Integrated School for the 500 meters; Almer Miñosa, of Tambisan National High School, for Pole Vault; and silver medalist Joey Lee Bongat of Enrique Villanueva Central Elementary School, who earned two silver medals in Athletics for Triple and Long Jumps. Other CVIRAA winners are Silver Medalists SIQUIJOR, April 11 (PIA)-- The Metro Siquijor Water District (MSWD) is now upgrading and in Tennis, Clint Mejie rehabilitating water services for its consumers in four municipalities in the province of Siquijor. Samson and Sept Francis Engr. Leonido Catiel, during the monthly meeting of the Siquijor Association of Information Samson of Siquijor Central Disseminators (SAID), said the MSWD wants to give better services to its consumers from the towns of Maria, Elementary School for the Lazi, Siquijor and San Juan. elementary category, and The upgrade includes the establishment of additional deep well and water service distribution lines. Kenneth Banico and Heart Currently, the MSWD is implementing the P5M Salintubig Project for the rehabilitation of the Sotto of Assisi High School transmission lines from Solangon to Paliton in San Juan, Siquijor to service at least 300 households. The fund also for Tennis, secondary source is 50 percent grant and 50 percent loan. category. In Barangay Caipilan, Siquijor, Siquijor, an additional deep well was constructed tthat spills 4.2 liters Bronze medalists per second. in Athletics, elementary This will address the existing demand for water supply. category are Kimberly Water services rehabilitation and development for Lazi amounting to P400,000 and Maria towns were Hilongo of Licoan Elementary also constructed and are now operational. (rmn/rac/PIA7/Siquijor/IAAbatayo/ST)
MSWD-Siquijor upgrades water services
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Science & Technology
SSC, DOST hold IP Rights seminar on traditional health practices
by Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing SIQUIJOR, March 31 (PIA) – The Siquijor State College (SSC) and the provincial center of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PSTC) conducted a series of community education workshops on traditional health practices and sessions on training seminar on intellectual property rights as part of the research paper conducted by SSC. The event took place in three different barangays in Candanay Norte, Pasihagon and Luyang in the municipality of Siquijor where traditional health practices have been widely practiced and where there is abundant source of traditional health medicines. Siquijor State College through its project leader Dr. Josel Mansueto organized the event and supported by DOST Siquijor PSTC through Provincial Science and Technology
Director (PSTD Engr. Mario de la Peña. The community education workshop on community health was organized with communities involved as part of the education, transparency and acquisition of consent to share the information to the public. On another development, the local community were taught on the basics of intellectual property rights and were explained how these law can be applied to the traditional health practices. Atty. Gilbert Arbon, PSTD of DOST Negros Oriental, served as the resource speaker who gave a presentation on the topic. After the discussion, Dr. Mansueto along with project assistants showed to the local community the output of their research during the “pangalap season”. The community were then explained to give their consent to publish or not to publish
relevant information pertaining to the traditional medicines located in their community. Dr. Mansueto explained that the team needed the approval of the local healers and the community to post the information on the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health. The folk healers and the local community agreed to publish the needed information on the internet. SSC is currently conducting the second phase of the research on Folk Healing Practices of Siquijor: Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health. DOST- Philippine Council for Health Research and Development funded the research. (rmn/rac/PIA7-Siquijor/Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing, DOST Siquijor PSTC IO-designate)
10 Things You Didn’t Know About ASEAN 1-ASEAN will be 50 years old in two years’ time. It started with five founding member countriesin 1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei joined it in 1984. ASEAN’s membership further expanded with Viet Nam joining in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997, and Cambodia in 1999.
At current trends, it is projected to be the world’s fourth largest economy by 2050. 8-The ASEAN chair – and host of annual ASEAN summits and meetings – rotates yearly among member states, going by alphabetical order. But at times, the order can differ from this pattern. For instance, this year’s Chair is Malaysia, to be followed by the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in 2016. This is because Lao PDR switched chairmanship slots with Myanmar, which had requested 2014. The Philippines will chair ASEAN in 2017, during its 50th Founding Anniversary.
2-ASEAN did not have a secretariat until 1976, nine years after its creation. It is based in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and is headed by a Secretary-General. There are about 300 employees in the secretariat. 3-The ASEAN charter entered into force in 2008. The charter gave ASEAN, after more than 40 years of existence, a legal personality and profiled it as a rulesbased organisation. 4-Each ASEAN Member State has appointed a Permanent Representative to ASEAN with the rank of Ambassador based in Jakarta. All of them collectively constitute the Committee of Permanent Representatives (CPR). The CPR is chaired by the ASEAN Member State holding the ASEAN Chairmanship. The CPR supports the work of the ASEAN Community Councils and ASEAN Sectoral Ministerial Bodies, coordinates with the ASEAN National Secretariats, liaises with the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat on all subjects relevant to its work and facilitates ASEAN cooperation with external partners.
5-Eighty-three non-ASEAN countries have appointed ambassadors to ASEAN. 6-ASEAN has 10 Dialogue Partners. These are Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States. ASEAN has also established a Comprehensive Partnership with the United Nations. More countries are keen to be Dialogue Partners, including from as far as Latin America and Europe. 7-If ASEAN were a single country, it would be the third largest economy in Asia and the seventh largest in the world by GDP.
9-The 8th of August is observed as ASEAN Day, marking the day of its creation through the ASEAN Declaration in 1967. Various activities are held to mark it at the national and regional levels. 10-ASEAN is keeping the momentum of regional integration and communitybuilding through the next 10 years, after the launch of the ASEAN Community in December 2015. ASEAN’sVision 2025 is a bold, visionary, progressive and forward-looking document to reflect the aspirations of the next generation of ASEAN nationals. It will realise a politically integrated, socially responsible, and a truly people-oriented, peoplecentred and rules-based ASEAN.
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Women Empowerment
Siquijor State College (SSC) Prof. Dina Fe I. Mamhot talks on Women’s Month theme: “WE Make Change Work for Women” during the traditional Flag Raising Ceremony at the Police Provincial Office in Caipilan Siquijor, Siquijor.
San Juan Vice Mayor Gemma Cenas on making change work for women in a separate program also at Siquijor Police Provincial Office (SPPO) during the Women’s Month kick off ceremony.
Over 5T security personnel deployed for ASEAN meet in Cebu (PIA) -- Over 5,000 policemen, military and other personnel from the different national government agencies will be deployed for the security and other emergency measures needed for the scheduled Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) sub-meetings here starting tomorrow, April 3. Early Sunday morning, a ceremonial sendoff was held inside the Mactan Air Base in Lapu-Lapu City. Senior Insp. Reslyn Abella, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said delegates as well as the media, who will be covering the event, should expect tight security measures. “Our security details are similar to what we implemented during the Asia Pacific Economic the success of the meeting is assured,” he said Conference (APEC) meetings here but stricter during the send-off ceremony this morning. Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, PRO-7 since the country is still on terror alert. Wala pa man nag-downgrade (It was not downgraded regional director, in a separate interview said yet),” she told the Philippine Information Agency there is no threat for the ASEAN sub-meetings here but emphasized that they are prepared for 7. Abella further said the public may every scenario. “Yes lahat ng scenarios napaghandaan expect high police visibility especially in Lapu- natin yan. Nagconduct tayo ng cotingency Lapu City, where the meetings will take place. She added there will be no signal planning. Paminsan-minsan merong simulations jamming that will be implemented during the exercise to address a certain scenarios. Meron tayong team na nag-iikot at yun ang kanilang week. But, Abella noted, they may do it gagawin kundi check status, readiness ng mga personnel na naka deploy (Yes, we have “depending on the prevailing circumstances”. Chief Palace Protocol Officer and prepared for all the scenarios. We have conducted Asean National Organizing Committee head contingency planning. We also have simulations Marciano Paynor urged the people who will be exercise to address certain scenarios. We have a team that is checking the status, readiness of the deployed to do their best. “We have to do our best that we can in personnel that are deployed),” he said. According to the Department of all of our tasks given to us and make sure that
Finance (DOF), it is expected that ministers and central bank governors from member states of the Asean are meeting this week to discuss ways of fleshing out Asean’s commitments to financial integration and cooperation, against the backdrop of a new wave of protectionism and other uncertainties in the global economy. Philippines’ Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. will host the meetings at the Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa in Lapu-Lapu City on April 6-7. The meetings will also include the Asean Finance Ministers’ Investors Seminar (AFMIS), an annual event that aims to provide the regional bloc’s member-states with a platform to interact with investors and financial institutions, and exchange views on how to promote Asean as a regional investment destination. (rmn/clm/ PIA7)
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Cebuano News: DOH, nipasidaan sa publiko sa mga sakit nga mahimong makuha sa mga public pools March 30 (PIA)--Nipasidaan ang Department of Health (DOH) sa publiko kalabot sa mga sakit nga posibleng makuha sa paglangoy sa mga public swimming pools karong ting-init. Matud pa sa DOH nga daghang sakit partikular na sa panit ang mahimong makuha,
ilabi na kun hugaw ang mga swimming pool. Apil sa mga sakit nga posibleng makuha sa paglangoy sa mga public swimming pools mao ang sore eyes, ear infections, hadhad, bun-i ug matag tiki. Posible usab nga magkagastroenteritis nga makuha sa
Dobleng pag-amping aron malikayan ang pag-abuso sa mga kabataan - DepEd
March 30 (PIA)--Nanawagan ang Department of Education (DepEd) sa publiko nga mahimong maigmaton ug sa mga ginikanan nga ampingan, giyahan ug bantayan og maayo ang ilang mga anak. Tungod kini sa sunod-sunod nga kaso sa pagpanglugos nga gilambigitan sa mga estudyante niini lamang buwan sa Marso. Partikular nga natala ang maong insidente sa Malabon diin gilugos ang 12anyos nga batang babaye sa iyang lima ka ka-eskwela, usa ka Grade 10 nga tinun-an nga gilugos sa lima ka menor de edad sa Malolos, Bulacan ug usa ka 11-anyos usab ang gi-rape
sa upat niya ka ka-eskwela sa Ajuy, Iloilo. Matud pa ni DepEd Undersecretary Jess Mateo, ang maong mga insidente napatala dayon sa Kapolisan ug gi-imbestigahan na. Apan gi-klaro ni Mateo nga ang maong mga insidente sa pagpanglugos wala nahitabo sulod sa tunghaan. Tungod niini, nanawagan si Mateo sa publiko nga mahimong maigmaton ug sa mga ginikanan nga ampingan, giyahan ug bantayan gayud og maayo ang ilang mga anak. Matud pa nga kinahanglan usab giyahan ang mga menor de edad ilabi na sa paggamit sa social media tungod kay dako ang epekto niini sa hunahuna sa mga kabataan. (ecb/PIA7)
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