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Volume IV, No. 022 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Friday
June 12, 2015
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Int’l drug ring now ‘operates’ in Misor By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental––The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has raised alarms over the alleged presence of three international drug syndicates now operating in Misamis Oriental. Provincial governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano on Wednesday urged government operatives to
run after the three international drug syndicates, one a locally based drug ring with international connections. Emano issued the appeal after receiving a report from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) of the presence of two international drug syndicate in collaboration with a third local drug syndicate in Misamis Oriental.
The PDEA made the disclosure during the Provincial Peace and Order Council meeting here last week where a government agent identified the three drug syndicates based in Misamis Oriental. “The report is no small matter. It seems drug syndicates have found Misamis Oriental a transshipment point to the rest
territory as far back as three centuries ago. The map debunks the so-called nine-dash-line China has been using as proof of its claim over the South China Sea. It also locates Scarborough shoal, then known as “Panacot,” also called “Panatag” by Filipinos, off the shores of Luzon, then known as Nueva
Castilla. Scarborough shoal has been a source of conflict between the Philippines and China. The Jesuit priest Pedro Murillo Velarde had the map published in Manila in 1734. It surfaced in 2012 among the possessions of a British lord, who put it up for auction at Sotheby’s in London,
Ph to submit 300 year-old map to UN By Ellen T. Tordesillas of VERA Files
THE Philippine government will be submitting to the United Nations Tribunal on the Law of the Sea in The Hague this week an almost 300-year-old map of the Philippines showing the disputed Scarborough Shoal being part of Philippine
See drug, page A11
See submit, page A5
Oro’s oldest store looks forward to the next century and beyond By Mike Baños Editor-at-large
(We are bringing back stories of the olden days of Cagayan de Oro in commemoration of the 65th Charter Day Anniversary of its founding) IN the center of Wadhu’s Quality Store stands a 1931 NCR cash register, bought by the store’s founder by mail order from Sears & Roebuck in the United States 79 years ago. During the second world war, the owner wrapped it in grease and buried it in his backyard. After the war, he dug it up and it still serves the same store now run by his grandson Haresh. That cash register is the living testimony See store, page A11
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