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Container terminal

THE Mindanao Container Terminal located at PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate is now expanding.

The planned MCT phase 2 expansion is for the food, bulk and grains terminal. The current container terminal has a two quay side gantry cranes measuring 30 meters high; 37 meters outreach and four rubber-tired gantry cranes that are capable of stacking up to four-level high containers in six rows.

The planned expansion will give an additional 300 meters of wharf area and as shown in the google earth image below, the area being expanded is on the southern side going to Barangay Casinglot. The boundaries for the bulk and grains terminal are indicated by the arrows.

By RUTCHIE CABAHUG-AGUHOB Contributor

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ROQUIETA City -- A total of 954.10 megawatts (MW) or 62.72 percent of the Mindanao power grid’s installed capacity and 795.81 MW or 63.07 percent of its dependable capacity were provided by electric power plants from Northern Mindanao.

No mining gear

THE PRIVATIZATION Management Office (PMO) has managed to stop the Surigao City government’s planned auction of mining machinery and equipment which the former argues belongs to the national government.

The Court of Appeals issued the temporary restraining order (TRO), dated July 13, stopping the auction scheduled on Tuesday. It also ordered the Surigao City government to show cause why a writ of preliminary injunction should not be filed against it.

The machiner y had belonged to Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corp., now known as the Philnico Industrial Corp. (PIC)

Clogged drainage system caused water to stagnate along Sto. Nino road in Brgy. Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City as rainy season continues and makes movements of motorists and pedestrians difficult.

PHOTO BY GERRY L . GORIT

The Mindanao power grid has an installed capacity of 1,521.08 MW and a dependable capacity of 1,261.66 MW during the first quarter this year.

Data gathered by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Region 10 from the National Power Corporation show that the installed capacity of Region 10’s electric power plants remained the same at 954.10 MW during both quarters, but the dependable capacity,increased from 782 MW to 795.81 MW, or 1.76 percent.

Engineer Leon Dacanay, Jr, regional director of NEDA-10, said that the POWER/PAGE 9

Coop Ville for Sendong survivors unveiled

By BONG FABE, Correspondent

THE Federation of Peoples’ Sustainable Development Cooperative (FPSDC) led the official groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday of the Coop Ville situated in a 3-hectare property it donated to the national government through the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) as permanent resettlement site for at least 300 families who survived the devastation of Tropical Storm

Washi (Sendong).

“The property is provided by FPSDC and donated to the national government through the CDA,” said FPSDC chair Dr. Billy Tusalem in an interview after the ceremony.

Tusalem added that the role of the city LGU is only to make sure that the property is ready for the construction of the 311 housing units for coop members who were victims of Sendong.

But Tusalem said that it is not

only FPSDC who initiated the project. He said it is the outcome of the efforts of all cooperatives of the country which felt challenged after the Sendong catastrophe “to transform the crisis into an opportunity.”

“The challenge (is) for us to share what we have, the framework of coop housing that we would like to share to these victims and enabling them to begin a good life, and SENDONG/PAGE 9

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY. Dr. Billy Tusalem, chairperson of FPSDC, said that Coop Ville will be a sustainable community. The ground breaking ceremony was graced by Arch.

Antonio Ledesma, former Sen. Butz Aquino and Ating Koop Rep. Isidro Lico. PHOTO BY BONG FABE

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COAL ASIA Holdings, Inc. intends to spend P727.87 million in net proceeds from a planned initial public offering (IPO) to develop mines in Mindanao, documents showed, providing more details to the firm’s earlier announcement.

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Level of education, poverty influence family planning methods in women

By APIPA P. BAGUMBARAN, Contributor

THE practice of family planning is influenced by women’s education and poverty status.

Ma. Liza Bigornia, statistician III of the NSO regional office 10, presented these results of the fertility and family planning aspect of the survey during the Family Health Survey (FHS) regional data dissemination held here last week She said that as revealed by the survey, those with no education are less likely to practice family planning.

This came from the results of the 2011 FHS conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) in August 2011, where around 53,000 women aged 15 to 49 years were interviewed to produce estimates of the major indicators of family planning, maternal and child health, and other health-related concerns at the national level and for each of the 17 regions in the

country.

“The survey also shows that married women with some elementary education are still less likely to practice family planning than women with higher education,” she said.

According to the survey, four out of 10 women with elementary education and five out of 10 women with higher education practiced family planning.

The FHS further reveals that the use of family planning method is lower among women in poor households

(43.1 percent) than those in non-poor households (51.3 percent). “The difference is mainly due to the lower prevalence rate for modern methods among poor women than non-poor women,” added Bigornia.

On the other hand, the use of modern methods among those who practiced family planning had increased compared with those that use traditional methods.

The use of modern methods went up from 35.9 percent in the 2006 family planning survey to 36.9 percent in the 2011 FHS, while the use of traditional method decreased

from 14.8 percent to only 12 percent.

The pill remains the most preferred method of contraception according to the FHS. Its trend has increased from 13.7 percent in 2000 to 17.1 percent in 2005, sliding back down to 15.7 percent in 2008 but increased again to 19.8 percent in 2011.

The use of the pill also has the biggest portion of the pie on the contraceptives used in Region 10 with 22.3 percent, followed by female sterilization and intrauterine device both sharing 7.4 percent each.

Other methods of contra-

ceptives used in the region are rhythm and periodic abstinence, followed by withdrawal at 4.1 percent, injectables at 2.4 percent and male condoms at 1.9 percent.

However, 46.1 percent of the currently married women aged 15 to 49 years old in Region 10 are not using any family planning method. “Apart from wanting more children, poor access to family planning methods, health concerns and fear of side effects were cited as some of the key reasons for not using any family planning methods,” Bigornia added.

DTI, DavNor to jumpstart less developed areas

By CARINA L CAYON Contributor

TAGUM City -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Davao del Norte are partnering to develop some municipalities in a bid to spur economic growth.

DTI’s Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED) program will jump start several economic activities in the less developed towns of the province.

LRED is a process by which stakeholders from public and private sectors are mobilized to become partners in a joint effort to improve the economy of a defined subnational territory, which would increase its competitiveness.

Initially, the collaboration will focus on the development of Braulio E. Dujali, a municipality 57 km north of Davao City.

Dujali is one of the nine areas in Davao del Norte

identified by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) as among the 609 priority municipalities/cities for poverty reduction under the Aquino administration.

Other Davao del Norte focus areas are municipalities of Asuncion, Kapalong, New Corella, San Isidro, Santo Tomas, and Talaingod; and the cities of Panabo and Samal.

Trade and Industry Undersecretary Merly M. Cruz said that with right planning and staunch support from government and private partners, Dujali can be developed into a tourism site.

“This could be an area for the development of pangasius (a variety of catfish) or tilapia.Therefore, this could be made a destination by those people who love fishing.

Before you know it, Dujali is already a popular tourist destination,” she said.

To further enhance the

town’s tourism potential, its products can be improved in order to become more marketable and enticing for tourists.

“Let’s identify products which are unique to Dujali.

We can value-add on that and that will be the role of DTI,” she said.

Meanwhile, Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario said the celebration of the 45th Kadagayaan Festival is the starting point of the plan to develop Dujali.

“We start now. Let’s start with Dujali then follow it up with the other municipalities,” he said, adding that pasalubong centers will be established, which will serve as the selling areas for the value-added products of Dujali.

“Five years from now, we envision Dujali to be a resort area. It will be a half-way house between Bukidnon and Davao del Norte,” he said.

Training tackles laws on illegal recruitment, trafficking in person

By DAVID M. SUYAO Contributor

AGUSAN del Sur -- The Philippine Overseas Employment and Migration (POEA) and

the International Organization for Migration (IOM) presented on July 12, 2012 laws that would determine that illegal recruitment and trafficking in person are

present during the hiring and recruitment of applicants abroad.

Lawyer Antonio Millanes III of POEA presented five problems of illegal recruitment. He said illegal recruitment exist alongside legal migration, maybe committed by bothe licensed and unlicensed agencies, illegal recruiters may take advantage of announced job opportunities as an opportunity to dupe unsuspecting applicants, victims indifference and imbalance manpower supply.

The training was held at the provincial training center at the D.O. Plaza Government Center in Agusan del Sur. “But t hese problems can be controlled by two prolonged nationwide antiillegal recruitment campaign if we join our hands in delivering information and this is in the preventive side plus systematic law enforcement and prosecution on the remedial side,” Atty. Millanes III said.

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SM to open third mall in Pampanga This development came as SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SMPH) will open on the SMPH started in January Friday its 44th mall in the country.

The 44th SM mall opens in San Fernando, Pampanga today.

Smart targets ‘web snackers’ SMART Communications Inc. is banking on “web snacking” to fuel mobile data usage.

Web snacking is when mobile phone subscribers use mobile handsets to access the Internet from time to time.

“People check their Facebook or Twitter accounts.

They look up what movies are showing in which theater and what the traffic is like on Edsa. This is accessing the Internet in small bites,” said Emmanuel Lorenzana, head of Smart’s wireless consumer division.

He pointed out that rising mobile data usage will power continued growth for Smart even as the cellular penetra-

tion rate approaches 100 percent in the second half of 2012. But this surge will come in the form of many “tiny bites of the Internet.”

In the first quarter of this year, mobile Internet usage of Smart subscribers surged by 71 percent compared with the yearago level.

As of end-March, Smart had 50.5 million subscribers on its mobile network. The broadband subscriber base stood at 1.6 million during the same period.

T he boost has come from the increase in sales of smartphones such as the Apple iPhone and those from Samsung and Nokia.

“The high-end handsets tend to get the most visibility,

but the huge growth of midto low-end devices is just as important, if not more so, to our objective of putting the power of mobile Internet in the hands of more and more Filipinos,” said Lorenzana.

A big chunk of mobile Internet usage consists of access to web content “[like] small snacks,” he explained.

Smart has helped mobile phone users to “web snack” through its web-based platform called SmartNet. The platform debuted as the mobile web service platform behind the Netphone, which was launched in September 2011. It enables users to chat with other SmartNet users, search and add contacts from the cloud,

In a statement, the SMPH said SM City San Fernando is “strategically located right at the heart of the city in line the heritage district.”

The 7-story mall is only a few meters from the city hall and the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando.

In October 2000, SMPH opened its first mall in Central Luzon at the boundary of this city and Mexico town, while another mall is in Clark, Angeles City.

SM Pampanga is about six kilometers away from SM City San Fernando.

Gov. Lilia Pineda and mayor Oscar Rodriguez, who supported the establishment of the third Sy-owned mall in Pampanga, are expected to lead the blessing and inauguration of the mall on Thursday afternoon.

The SMPH said the highrise mall has a total land area of 7,835 square meters (sqm) and 28,753 sqm of f loor area. Major tenants are SM Department Store and SM Supermarket which will occupy 8,189.39 sqm and 2,578.01 sqm, respectively.

“The mall and its exterior heritage design will please every shopper to its convenient, secured, and fun-loaded worry-free shopping. Anchor tenants like the SM Department Store, SM Supermarket, SM Cinema plus fashion, electronics, beauty wellness shops, vital services and restaurants with three levels of parking will provide the best shopping experience that everyone is looking for,” said the SMPH statement.

the rehabilitation of the SM Clark in Angeles City. The work reportedly worth at least P.5 billion is expected to be completed by March 2013.

Ana Datu, SM Clark assistant mall manager, said site development had been completed and new and additional parking lots are now ready for use. “We are in the process of connecting the new expansion building with the main mall. This is the reason we have to temporarily close the meeting place area and reroute traffic,” said Datu.

The expansion at the SM Clark branch opened in 2006 will be for its additional retail stores and business process outsourcing offices.

It sits on a 16-hectare area at boundary of Angeles City and Mabalacat.

check on their Facebook and Twitter feeds, post updates and read articles.

“Since then, the number of SmartNet users had risen to about 320,000 as of endJune. The figure is rising by over 20,000 weekly, partly because SmartNet has been made more easily available

as an Android application that can be downloaded from Google Play,” said Lorenzana.

“SmartNet is quietly revolutionizing how Filipinos can use the Internet—affordably, conveniently, safely,” he added. To support the proliferation of smartphones and data-capable feature

phones, Smart has been aggressively marketing its various mobile internet service packages, particularly its Always Online services.

“Always online is gaining traction because it is affordable and fits the websnacking mobile lifestyle of people,” Lorenzana said.

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Cebu Pacific, ZestAir seek allocation for Papua New Guinea TWO BUDGET carriers, Cebu Pacific and ZestAir, have asked regulators for seat entitlements to Papua New Guinea left unused by f lag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL), documents from the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) showed.

“Notice is hereby given that the above-mentioned petitioners have filed with the CAB their respective petitions for designation as official Philippine carrier and allocation of entitlements to Papua New Guinea under Route I in accordance with existing confidential memorandum of understanding,” the notice dated July 5 read.

Cebu Pacific, operated

by Cebu Air, Inc., and Zest Airways, Inc. are both asking for 540 seat entitlements each for Route I. For this route between Manila and Port Moresby, the Philippines has a total of 600 seat entitlements per week, 300 of which have already been allocated to PAL. The country also has 2,500 unallocated seat en-

titlements per week for Route II or f lights between any point outside Manila to any point in Papua New Guinea.

A hearing for the two petitions has been set on July 24.

Meanwhile, sought for comment, Candice A. Iyog, Cebu Pacific vice-president for marketing and distribution, said: “Seats are currently allocated to PAL but they are not being utilized,” Ms. Iyog said.

“We are always looking at our options,” she said.

A l f redo A . Her rer a , ZestAir’s chief marketing and sales officer, for his part said the airline would like to take serve overseas Filipino workers in Papua New Guinea.

“There is a growing demand for Filipino miners there,” Mr. Herrera said in a telephone interview on Friday. “And also, we would to expand our options.”

C ebu Paci f ic a l most doubled the number of its international passengers SEEK/PAGE 11

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Tiger Airways buy out of SEAir stake delayed PLANS FOR Singaporean carrier Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd. to buy into the locally-operated South East Asian Airlines, Inc. (SEAir) has been delayed as due diligence has taken longer than expected, an official said.

The deal, nevertheless, is seen to be closed by endJuly, roughly a month later than the target, SEAir Chief Operating Officer Patrick T. Tan said.

“We are actually in the process of its conclusion,” Mr. Tan said. “There were too many items that had to be checked.”

“Because the acquisition of shares is into an ongoing business, there are a lot of conditions needed to be fulfilled and due diligence has to be finalized,” he added.

Asked when the dea l would be finalized, he said it should be ready “this month.”

Tiger Airways officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Last June 4, Tiger Airways, through its whollyowned subsidiary Roar Avia-

tion II Pte. Ltd., signed a sale and purchase agreement with SEAir’s major shareholders and company directors.

Tiger Airways moved to acquired 55,000 Common A shares and 145,000 Common B shares in the issued share capital of SEAir, which are owned by Iren Dornier and

Nick Gitsis, respectively, a disclosure to the Singapore Stock Exchange last month showed.

The acquisition represents 40% of the issued and outstanding shares of SEAir or equivalent to “$7 million minus the liabilities.”

An initia l sum of $2

billion will be paid on the closing of the transaction initially eyed on June 28.

Tiger Airways said the acquisition is seen to fortify its presence in the Philippines.

The company had wanted to take advantage of the TIGER/PAGE 11

Victorias Milling records 10% growth

Sugar producer Victorias Milling Co., Inc. posted a 9.86% net income growth for September to May of its fiscal year after enjoying favorable weather. -- AFP

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10th Judicial Region BRANCH 28 Mambajao, Camiguin

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10th JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 28 MAMBAJAO, CAMIGUIN IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF A MINOR, SHANEN CABLINDA,

SPL. PROC. NO. 464 FOR: Adoption

SPOUSES HERBERT B. CALUBAN AND JIMMIELYN MAE C. CALUBAN, Petitioners. x--------------------------------------------------- / ORDER Petitioners, husband and wife are Filipino citizens, of legal ages and residents of Mambajao, Camiguin. They seek to adopt the minor, Shanen Cablinda, 12 years old, who was born on September 20, 1999 at Polomolok, South Cotabato. The child to be adopted is the illegitimate child of the wife-petitioner, when she was still single.

Petitioners got married on March 5, 2011 before Rev. Fr. Arnulfo Cubero in Davao City and on November 30, 2011, they begot their child, Shelby Sophia Caluban in Cagayan de Oro City. Upon petitioner’s marriage, Shanen was already in their care and custody and the husband-petitioner poured his love and affection to the child as his own. Even if petitioner-husband had already a child with the wife-petitioner, his love and affection to Shanen remains unaffected as he introduced her as his own without reservation.

The petitioners possessed all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications to adopt. Petitioners are economically capable to support the child to be adopted and their child or children in the event they shall beget more children, being a medical practitioner. The child to be adopted has no property of her own, real or personal, nor is she expecting to succeed any fortune by inheritance and the child to be adopted has consented to the adoption by virtue of an affidavit on Consent. The child’s well-being is the paramount concern of the petitioners and further pray for the Honorable Court to grant the adoption of Shanen, entitling her of all rights and privileges as their own child and to bear the surname of the husband-petitioner, “Caluban”.

Finding the petition sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for hearing in this Court’s Session Hall, at Lakas, Mambajao, Camiguin on August 30, 2012 to start at 8:30 o’clock in the morning.

Let copy of the petition and of this Order be furnished the Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Region X, Cagayan de Oro City, for the preparation and confirmation of the Child and Home Study reports and submit the same before the date of hearing as well as to conduct counseling sessions with the natural mother on the matter of adoption of the adoptee and accordingly submit a report therein before the date of hearing; and another copy of the petition and of this Order be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General, the Provincial Prosecutor of Camiguin, the Local Civil Registrar of Polomolok, South Cotabato, the Local Civil Registrar of Mambajao, Camiguin and the biological mother in Mambajao, Camiguin, for any step they may deem best and proper to take in this Petition.

Let copy of this Order be published at petitioner’s expense once a week for three successive weeks before the scheduled hearing in any newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Camiguin.

Any person or entity opposed to the petition in this case may file written opposition at any reasonable time before the scheduled hearing and personally appear during the hearing to show cause why the petition shall not be granted.

SO ORDERED. Done in Mambajao, Camiguin, this 25th day of June 2012.

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SUGAR PRODUCER Victorias Milling Co., Inc. saw its net income rise by almost a tenth in the first nine months of its fiscal year on the back of improved revenues, it announced on Tuesday.

In a quarterly report filed with the local bourse, the sugar firm said that its earnings from September to May came in at P343.86 million, up by 9.86% from the P312.98 million recorded in the same period in the last fiscal year.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE RECORDS OF BIRTH IN THE OFFICES OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OF GUINSILIBAN AND MAHINOG ALL IN THE PROVINCE OF CAMIGUIN,

SPL. PROC. NO. 463

SPOUSES CHARIE A. EXCHAURE and RAQUEL BORROMEO EXCHAURE, Petitioners, -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF GUINSILIBAN PROVINCE OF CAMIGUIN and THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF MAHINOG, PROVINCE OF CAMIGUIN, Respondents. x-------------------------------------------------------------------------- / ORDER Petitioner’s spouses, both of legal ages, and residents of Benoni, Mahinog, Camiguin thru the Public Attorney’s Office, allege, that their respective birth certificates contained erroneous entries. Petitioner Charie A. Exchaure was born on November 2, 1980 to spouses Carlito W. Exchaure and Lucresia R. Abecia at Cabuan, Guinsiliban, Camiguin whose birth was duly recorded in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Guinsiliban, Camiguin but which birth erroneously recorded his Sex as FEMALE when in fact and in truth he is a MALE as shown in the Medical Certificate, issued to him by Ralph Jino Z. Cortes, M,D..of the Camiguin General Hospital, Mambajao, Camiguin. Petitioner Raquel Borromeo-Exchaure was born on July 3, 1972 to spouses Eliseo Borromeo and Florina Honrado at Benoni, Mahinog,Camiguin whose birth was duly recorded in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Mahinog, Camiguin but which birth record erroneously recorded her Sex as MALE when in fact and in truth she is a FEMALE as shown in the Medical Certificate, issued to him by Questor C. Nudalo, M.D., of the Camiguin General Hospital, Mambajao, Camiguin. In order to correct such erroneous entries this petition is filed.

The petition being sufficient in form and substance is hereby set for hearing in this Court’s Session Hall on September 20, 2012 to start at 8:30 o’clock in the morning.

Let copy of this Order and of the petition and its annexes be sent to each of the following: Office of the Solicitor General; Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Mambajao, Camiguin, Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Guinsiliban, Camiguin, Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Mahinog, Camiguin and the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Camiguin.

A copy of this Order is required to be published at petitioner’s expense in any newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Camiguin once a week for three consecutive weeks prior to the date of hearing. ny person or entity whose interest might be adversely affected by the proceedings in this case may file written opposition and personally appear during the hearing and substantiate the same.

SO ORDERED. Done in Mambajao, Camiguin, this 22nd day of June 2012.

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Victorias Milling said favorable weather improved sugar production, which in turn resulted in greater revenues. The firm’s consolidated revenues stood at P3.595 billion as of end-May, up by 16.46% from P3.087 billion in 2011.

“This year’s production performance compared to last year greatly improved, particularly on milling tonnage, raw sugar production, milling recovery and refined

sugar production,” said Victorias Milling.

According to the sugar miller, its milling tonnage rose to 3.022 million metric tons (MT) as of the end of May from 2.905 million MT a year ago.

Raw sugar production, meanwhile, stood at 311.7 million kilos, up 17% from year-ago levels. Refined sugar output rose to 297.9 million kilos from 207.75 million VICTORIAS/PAGE 11

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City Branch 22 2012-236 OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE File No. 2012-165 Upon Extra-Judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND or PAG-IBIG FUND, mortgagee, with office address at Pag-ibig Building, J.R. Borja St., Cagayan de Oro City, against JANE S. VILLALOBOS, single, mortgagor/s, of legal age, Filipino/s with postal address at Block 4 Lot 13 PN Roa Subdivision, Barra, Opol, Misamis Oriental to satisfy the mortgaged indebtedness which was as of April 10, 2012 amounts to THREE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY PESOS AND 80/100 (P320,350.80) Philippine Currency excluding interest, penalty charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned sheriff will sell at public auction on August 20, 2012, at 9:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the RTC Branch 22, office, Arch Hayes St., Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the herein described property and all improvements thereon to wit; TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-36706 A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 13, Block 4, Psd-10-020903, being Portion of Lot 5237, Cad-237, Cagayan Cadastre), situated in the Barrio of Barra, Municipality of Opol, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED (100) SQUARE METERS more or less.

Prospective buyers/bidders may investigate for themselves the title of the herein described property and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be on the next working day without further notice.

Cagayan de Oro City, July 5, 2012.

FOR THE PROVINCIAL EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF:

BWM: JULY 13, 20, & 27, 2012

(Sgd.) JOEL LYDVEL G. PAKINO Sheriff IV

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Are you a “yes man” or woman? Do you always say yes to every body who asks you for a favor and help?

Some of us just can’t say no to others. The problem is our ‘yes’ often means stress—to us and our family. Many times saying yes to one person means saying no to someone else like your own mate and children.

Of course, we need to care about others and try our best to help those who need it. But we must also know our limits and that we cannot always say yes to everybody who asks us for help. Learning to sometimes say no to others will mean yes to your own family and responsibilities, which will help lower the stress in your

warrant the extension of voter registration. “We want to ensure a more significant participation especially from those who are finding it difficult to reach registration sites due to the clustering of registration precincts resulting from inadequate number of voting machines at only 928 for 2,490 barangays.”

Given this difficulty in access, registrants have been heavily burdened by the cost of transportation to registration precincts and the significant lack of public transportation.

Media reports on sporadic violence and irregularities characteristic of ARMM elections have also discouraged many registrants who chose to forgo registration. A few of these incidents include the following: 1. A 17-year old was killed in Lumbac Unayan town, Lanao del Sur obviously from a registrationrelated matter; 2.The entire team of election officers in one town in Lanao left their post after gunshots were exchanged between supporters of rival politicians; 3. Periodic blackouts and the delay in the

life and home. Remember, you’re the only father or mother your children have; if you don’t do your job of loving and teaching them, then no one will. Then our family life at home becomes a tense, angry mess instead of a peaceful and happy place.

So each time someone asks us for a favor and help, we must look carefully at their request and decide if doing this for them is actually helping them. You see, if we never let others take responsibility for themselves and their own problems, then we’re not really helping them to become responsible and successful, since we’re always doing their job for them. So just being a “yes man” or woman is not always the kindest thing, nor is it

being a true friend.

Other times, when someone asks you to do them a favor, you don’t need to answer them right away. You can tell them that you’re not sure and you’ll answer them later. This way you have time to think about it and check your own schedule and responsibilities first.

Maybe you can help this other person, but at a different time then they asked.

Or, you can help them if they’ll take care of the job or errand you won’t be able to do because you’re helping them. Often, people will still be thankful for your help.

So have you been stressed because you’re always saying yes? You realize you’re giving too much time and energy to helping everyone who asks

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JHAN TIAFAU HURST you for a favor or help, and your family’s been hurting since you’re neglecting your responsibilities to them. Just ask Jesus Christ to forgive you. Jesus will help you learn how to wisely choose when to say yes and when to say no.

Just think a minute…

Rural Banks THE recent anniversary celebration of the Rural Bankers of the Philippines–Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP–MABS) showcased how the concept and importance of microfinance has evolved in the last 15 years.

Microfinance today is a far cry from what it was in 1997: products are no longer just loans for microenterprise, but have expanded to micro-deposits, microinsurance, micro-agri, housing microfinance, and microfinance plus for growing enterprises.

Deliver y mechanisms for microfinance are not only done through group disbursements, but are also accomplished through simple text messages powered by

Should we extend voter registration in ARMM? THE Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) called for an extension and an extended setting of voters’ registration outside the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

PCID spokesperson Amina Rasul cited the democratic right of Muslims to participate in the electoral process which warrants both the extension of time and place of the voter registration. PCID is engaged in electoral reform work and has worked with other election watchgroups such as Legal Network for Truthful Elections and the Paris Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting in past elections.

According to Rasul, a credible elections starts with credible voters.

“Bangsamoro have spread themselves in different parts of the archipelago. While they are outside AR MM for school, work and trade and to avoid conflict, they deserve the right to vote,” Rasul added.

PCID partners who monitored the 10-day registration reported incidents that would

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electronic money.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), as the country’s central monetary authority and “bank of banks,” has taken deliberate steps to ensure that such positive developments can take place.

The BSP’s main objective in its approach to bank-based microfinance is to enable the delivery of commercially sustainable microfinance to its intended beneficiaries (i.e., micro, small, and medium enterprises or MSMEs)— with the government only providing a supportive role through policy, regulation, and capacity building.

In accomplishing this, the BSP studied the success of microfinance practices around the world. It then set in place regulations that

recognized and accepted best practices such as the use of group support or liability arrangements, cash flow based lending, and high frequency amortizations.

The Bangko Sentral also liberalized entry into the banking system, encouraging microfinance non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that wanted to transform into formal financial institutions.

It has likewise liberalized branching regulations, allowing for the establishment of micro-banking offices and paving the way for innovations.

While the BSP allowed for these improvements in the banking system, it also instituted prudent standards for the conduct of microfinance operations. It did so

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IGNACIO BUNYE by prescribing the use of “portfolio-at-risk” to monitor and measure portfolio quality, in the context of risk-based supervision.

This approach has allowed bank supervisors to fully understand the risk profile of microfinance, and not lead BUNYE/PAGE 7

Let’s get personal WHAT I mean here is that we should rid ourselves of formalistic ways, long in theories and big ideas but short in personal and direct dealings with people, or long in words and good intentions but short in deeds, or long in justice but short in charity, patience, understanding and affection.

Lately, I’ve been reading several in-depth situationers of different aspects of Church life—search for priestly vocations, seminary formation, lay apostolate, liturgical concerns, etc.

They have been written by eminent Cardinals and Bishops, and other Church officials and experts with vast pastoral experience, extensive training and formation, and with palpable level of spirituality.

They are truly a source of good information that can drastically raise the level of knowledge of the general public who otherwise would hardly know the subtle and intricate forces at play in the world and in the Church today.

Still I have a two cents worth to say about the whole thing. And that is, that while we are highly appreciative of

all these brilliant analyses, we should never forget that what matters in the end is to get personal in our dealings with everyone.

We have to be wary when we fall to formalistic ways.

That’s when we prefer to stick only to the externals and appearances in our dealings with others, to what is officially defined and bureaucratic, without any effort to enter into their mind and heart, considering their personal feelings and their other peculiar ways.

Obviously, these formalistic ways have their part to play. Specially in offices, schools and in other formal and public situations, we cannot help but get into formal mode.

But we have to understand that these formalistic ways should never replace, much less suppress the direct, personal dealings with others, marked by a certain intimacy and delicacy, which is but proper to us since we are persons, not things, and subjects, not mere objects.

However we may be placed in our human way of ranking ourselves, whether we are on top or at the bottom, in front or at the back, every-

HINTS AND TRACES

FR. ROY CIMAGALA one of us as a person needs to be motivated by what is objectively true, good and beautiful. We just cannot be pushed around, lectured about abstract theories. We need to be dealt with very personally.

Besides, we have different characters, temperaments, sensitivities that need to be respected and, in fact, also to be appreciated, regardless of their defects, precisely because we have to love each person the way he o she is, and each one has a unique way of contributing to the common good.

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from local politicians wanting to control the registration.

With only two days to go into the completion of the 10-day ARMM voters’ registration, little has been done to address old yet persisting fraudulent practices despite calls from the national government to curb such irregularities.

COMELEC should seriously consider extending the registration in the region for another three days so as to avoid disenfranchisement

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the banks to simply avoid exposure to this market.

MABS, a USAID-funded, technical assistance program that enables rural banks to provide microfinance in a sound and sustainable manner, has been the BSP’s partner in ensuring that its policies remain responsive to the changing needs of the market.

MABS has over 90 partner rural banks that have

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12TH Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte In re: Petition for correction/cancellation SPL. PROC. NO. 267-07-2012 of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of JOHN MICHAEL ABE MATA under the entry of Mother’s first name and middle name from MENCHIE ANCIS to MENCHI ANCHES and correction/cancellation of entry of Date and Place of marriage of parents from June 27, 1994 Tubod, Lanao del Norte to Not Married.

Correction/Cancellation of Entry Likewise for correction of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of JEAN MICHELLE ABE MATA under the entry of Mother’s first name and the middle name from MENCHIE ANCIS to MENCHI ANCES and correction of entry of Date and Place of of Marriage of Parents from June 28, 1994 Tubod, Lanao del Norte to Not Married.

JERRY L. MATA,

cumulatively disbursed more than P41 billion to microentrepreneurs through the years. Since the start of the program, MABS partner banks have been able to provide viable microfinance services in the countryside, as well as pioneer various innovations in terms of product and service deliveries.

MABS partner banks are among the providers of housing microfinance, micro-agri loans and microinsurance.

They also implement mobile banking for microfinance services.

In line with the BSP’s larger goal of building an inclusive financial system, RBAP–MABS has laid the groundwork in institutionalizing the dynamic approach to delivering much needed financial services to the underserved market.

It is indeed heartening to know that the cooperation and collaborations between the public and private sector have allowed microfinance to flourish in a sound and sustainable manner.

With this type of PublicPrivate Partnerships, we can all look forward to the eventual attainment of true

LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF BAROY, LANAO DEL NORTE. Respondent.

X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -/ ORDER A verified petition for correction/cancellation of entry in the Certificates of Live Birth of JOHN MICHAEL ABE MATA and JEAN MICHELLE ABE MATA was filed before this Court on July 02, 2012 by the herein petitioner praying among others that after notice and hearing, an Order be issued directing the Respondent to effect the corrections sought for.

Petitioner alleges that he is of legal age, single, and resident of Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Respondent is sued in his capacity as such. Petitioner is the father of JOHN MICHAELL ABE MATA born on January 11, 1995 and JEAN MICHELLE ABE MATA born on August 2, 1996, whose facts of birth were duly registered at the Respondent’s office. However, the Certificates of Live Birth of his children contain erroneous entries as to the FIRST NAME and MIDDLE NAME of their mother was misspelled as MENCHIE ANCIS instead of MENCHI ANCES. Likewise, in the same birth certificate the DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE OF PARENTS should have been indicated – NOT MARRIED – in view of the fact that PETITIONER was never legally married to the mother of his children MENCHI ANCES ABE. That the mother of his children died on October 9, 2011. During the lifetime of MENCHI ANCES ABE, she acknowledged the fact that she and petitioner were not legally married as can be shown in the Certificate of Live Birth of their third child JULLIANE MAE ABE MATA born on June 23, 2009, indicated in Item No. 18 –“ Date and Place of Marriage of Parents” - Not Married and Petitioner signed the Affidavit of Acknowledgement/Admission of Paternity on the second page. Petitioner is of good moral character and has never been convicted of any crime especially those involving moral turpitude. The Petition is filed in good faith and is not intended to conceal the commission of a crime and/or defeat the investigation and prosecution of the same. He is also desirous of correcting entries so as to avoid confusion and future inconvenience.

Set the initial hearing of this case to August 31 , 2012 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Any person/s interested to the petition may come to Court on said date and time to show cause why said petition should not be granted. Furnish copy of the Order to the Office of the Solicitor General at Makati City, Office of the Public Prosecutor in Tubod , Lanao del Norte, Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Atty. Dorothea S. Basalo, petitioner’s counsel and to Jerry L. Mata, the petitioner, whose residence is at Poblacion, Tubod , Lanao del Norte.

The petitioner is hereby directed to publish copy of this Order to Business Week Mindanao, a newspaper of general circulation for three consecutive weeks, at his expense, to comply with the jurisdictional requirements of the Rule.

SO ORDERED. Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

July 9, 2012

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some punishment out of justice, our charity should never falter. And for that charity to be genuine charity, it has to be the charity of Christ, who commanded us to love one another as he loved us.

This charity of Christ means that we have to learn and to be ready to love even our enemies or at least those who consider themselves our enemies, since we should not have enemies as far as we as Christians are concerned.

Christian charity can also mean that like Christ, we are willing to assume and bear the sinfulness of others. This is the true test of a Christian.

In short, we have to be real friends and brothers and sisters with everyone, and not stop in the level of considering others only as

In re: Petition for correction/cancellation SPL. PROC. NO. 268-07-2012 of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of GENEVIEVE BUCTUAN MATA under the entry of Date and Place of marriage of parents from February 6, 1995 Tubod, Lanao del Norte to Not Married.

Correction/Cancellation of Entry Likewise for correction/cancellation of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of SHERWIN DAVE BOCTUAN MATA under the entry of Date and Place of of Marriage of Parents From February 6, 1995 Tubod, Lanao del Norte to Not Married.

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A verified petition for correction/cancellation of entry in the Certificates of Live Birth of GENEVIEVE BUCTUAN MATA and SHERWIN DAVE BOCTUAN MATA was filed before this Court on July 02, 2012 by the herein petitioner praying among others that after notice and hearing, an Order be issued directing the Respondent to effect the corrections sought for.

Petitioner alleges that he is of legal age, single, and resident of Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Respondent is sued in his official capacity as such.

Petitioner is the father of GENEVIEVE BUCTUAN MATA born on August 5, 1995 and SHERWIN DAVE BUCTUAN MATA born on December 9, 1996, whose facts of birth were duly registered at the Respondent’s office. However, the Certificates of Live Birth of his children contain erroneous entries as to the DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE OF PARENTS should have been indicated – NOT MARRIED – in view of the fact that PETITIONER was never legally married to the mother of his children ERLINDA LIMOT BUCTUAN. Petitioner is of good moral character and has never been convicted of any crime especially those involving moral turpitude. The Petition is filed in good faith and is not intended to conceal the commission of a crime and/or defeat the investigation and prosecution of the same. He is also desirous of correcting entries so as to avoid confusion and future inconvenience.

Set the initial hearing of this case to August 31, 2012 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Any person/s interested to the petition may come to Court on said date and time to show cause why said petition should not be granted. Furnish copy of the Order to the Office of the Solicitor General at Makati City, Office of the Public Prosecutor in Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Atty.

Dorothea S. Basalo, the petitioner’s counsel and to petitioner, Ruben L. Mata, whose residence is at Poblacion, Tubod , Lanao del Norte.

The petitioner is hereby directed to publish copy of this Order to Business Week, a newspaper of general circulation for three consecutive weeks, at his expense, to comply with the jurisdictional requirements of the Rule.

SO ORDERED. Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

July 10, 2012 ALAN L. FLORES Presiding Judge

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NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that a summary hearing on the petitions for Notarial Commission of the following Notaries Public shall be held on JULY 30, 2012, at 2:00 in the afternoon at the Office of the Executive Judge. Any person who has any cause or reason to object to the grant of the petition may file a verified written opposition thereto, received by the undersigned before the date of the summary hearing.

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ally yet.

One time he visited a sick priest. In the course of the visit, another visitor, an old and rather gossipy old man, came and accidentally revealed to him that the sick priest actually did not look with favor at the group to which the visiting priest belonged.

The visiting priest said that was no problem and gave the sick priest a brotherly hug and some nice words. That changed the whole situation.

From the time on, the two priests became very close friends.

Charity, not big ideas, really does wonders.

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I believe that if we truly strive to achieve this kind of dealings with others, there would be no problem or obstacle that would be too big not to be resolved one way or another. This is the charity that conquers all, as St. Paul once said.

I remember a story of a priest who, as part of his personal apostolate with fellow priests, would visit sick priests in hospitals even if he did not know them person-

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Ilocano farmers asked to plant alternative cash crop to Virginia tobaccos DEEP in the Virginia tobacco farms of northern Philippines, Leonardo Bernardo sits pensively beside his earthen flue-curing barn, only weeks away from the last harvest of the top leaves of his crop of Virginia tobaccos.

As the monsoon began to bring in nimbus, in time for the planting of rice in his rice land in Pinili in far northwest Ilocos Norte, he wonders whether the fluecuring barn will still have any use in the future.

Pinili, sandwiched by the normally placid Luzon Bay on the west and the imposing Ilocos mountain ranges due east, has been chosen as the garlic center for the province of Ilocos Norte under the government’s One Town One Product program.

Other towns have been given their respective assigned products, which interestingly does not include tobacco, the cash crop of the region since American business tycoon Harry Stonehill introduced Virginia tobacco to the area in the 1950s.

Many Ilocano farmers were able to send their offspring to the better colleges and universities in the metropolis – many thanks to the family income from Virginia tobaccos.

Leonardo Bernardos’s story might well be the story of many Ilocano farmers, particularly those who have used the ordinary steel plows despite the inroads of technology in the generally loamy soil of the Ilocos provinces.

Many of today’s generation of professionals from the northwest of the country earned their bachelor’s degree through the income from Virginia tobacco leaves.

Leonardo Bernardo owns only a few hectares of land planted with either rice or tobacco.

Now he has been asked to risk his livelihood and experiment with a crop that could spell more money.

There is also a suggestion from the Bureau of Plant Industry to try cotton, which has been achieved in the country in recent years and might be worthwhile to plant it instead of tobacco.

Observers say this would revolutionize agricultural pattern of the Ilocos provinces, familiar with the aroma of Virginia tobaccos flue-cured in scorching summer.

Sitting beside his barn, Leonardo Bernardo must now be convinced that cotton planting and even garlic planting would yield for him and his family higher profits, apart from maintaining the good health of members of his family by isolating them from the harmful effects of tobacco.

Along with a dozen other provinces throughout this Southeast Asian archipelago, the Ilocos provinces – Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte – have been identified as ideal for cotton planting after extensive testing of their soil.

Nearly 300,000 hectares could be used, according to officials – more than enough to turn the Philippines from a cotton importer to an exporter.

In recent past the government-owned Philippine Cotton Corp. embarked on an ambitious cotton-growing program aimed at self-sufficiency in cotton production.

The long-range goal was to produce all of Southeast Asia’s raw cotton demands.

Of f icia ls said in one harvest in the past, plant industry authorities said they harvested 2.5 tons of cotton per hectare in their pilot farms in the Ilocos.

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Agri dept to assist veggie farmers in market linkage THE Department of Agriculture (DA) assured vegetable farmers of assisting them open up market linkages of their produce in a bid to resolve oversupply of vegetables.

Agriculture Assistant Secretary Dante S. Delima met with vegetable traders Manila’s Divisoria district on Tuesday to discuss industry issues.

“This is the first time that traders have opened up to us about the demand-and-supply

situation in the local market,” said Delima.

Traders, led by members of the Vegetable Importers, Exporters and Vendors Association of the Philippines, cited excess production of vegetables such as tomatoes and garlic, but shortage in

other agricultural produce.

The leader of the tomato vendors said Cagayan de Oro alone supplies 35,000 boxes of tomatoes daily while Batangas and Laguna also come in bulk. ”We do not know what to do with the excess tomatoes so we seek the help of DA on where to bring them,” ”Hindi namin alam kung saan ilalagay ang (mga) sumusobra (We do not know what to do with the excess

tomatoes),” she added.

Delima, in response, assured the vegetable vendors that they would find ways and means in disposing their surplus products by opening up new markets for their produce.

“We will take note of the traders’ concerns so we can identify the industry’s issues per commodity, and see what we can do to extend our help to both farmers and traders,” he said.

Saluyot, an express way to help PHL fill up its coffers

By HONOR BLANCO CABIE Contributor

SALUYOT, a lowly but nutritious leafy vegetable that grows almost anywhere in the Philippines, may yet give muscle to the country’s financial frame before too long.

Scientifically named “Cochorus olitorius,” saluyot, as it is called in the Ilocos, the Cordilleras and Cagayan Valley, responds particularly to warm, humid weather and grows abundantly in river banks and uplands including nearly barren patches.

Called “tugabang” in the Visayas, bush okra in some English-speaking areas, “famine food” in the land of Africans, saluyot or jute mallow leaves hold great potential for export and can help boost the country’s economy if government commitment is not wanting.

Named molok heya in Egypt where it is known to have originated, it is widely cultivated in the Sub-Sahara wet regions and North Africa’s drier areas.

With the ratification in recent years of the Japan-

Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), many farmers, particularly those in the north where saluyot is near a staple as rice in the monsoon, have believed the pact will open up new markets for the agribusiness sector.

And this is particularly true for saluyot or for jute producers, according to some farm hands who need a cash crop to replace the decadesold Virginia tobacco.

Parallel to the JPEPA signing, a study was released by the state-run University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) researchers

which showed an enterprising farmer can easily earn a fortune from the erstwhile “lowly saluyot.”

Agriculture experts say this adaptable plant responds best to warm, humid weather –- perfect in the north of the Philippines -- and is often grown in backyards, flower pots for those with limited earth space in the metropolis, or in ribs of earthen dikes in the rustic countryside.

Cold weather and extreme months of drought can kill the crop.

But a loam or silty-loam soil, which makes up much of the north of the country,

and plenty of organic matter is said to be ideal.

Experts and researchers say saluyot tolerates soil pH of 4.5 to 8.0, but more extreme pH conditions will reduce the availability of iron in the soil.

Soil pH is a measurement of the alkalinity or acidity of soil. pH is measured on a scale of 1-14, with 7 as the neutral mark, anything below 7 considered acidic soil and anything above 7 considered alkaline soil.

Most plants prefer a somewhat neutral pH, anything from 6.2 to 7.0 – good enough for saluyot.

UPLB researchers Dr. Rodel Maghirang, Ma. Luisa Guevara, and Gloria Rodulfo have raised a ledger that in one regular season or up to seven months, a saluyot grower can earn a net income of around P411,349 per hectare.

T he cost a nd retu rn ana lysis assumed that a one-hectare saluyot farm needs an initial investment of P228,651 to cover labor cost, materials needed, and fixed costs.

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9 PH asking Korea for $13.28-M loan THE Philippines is asking t he Korea n government for a $13.29-million loan to improve the navigation system at the Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental province.

Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Mar Roxas said the fund, which will come in the form of a loan from the Economic Cooperation Development Fund of the Republic of Korea, will be coursed through the Export-Import Bank of Korea.

Among the items needed to upgrade the airport’s navigation system are the instrument landing system,

a Doppler radar, a communications system, an automated weather observation system, electrical works for the air navigation system and aeronautical ground lighting system.

Roxas said that the entire Laguindingan airport development project is almost finished.

He said that about 90 percent of its civil works have been completed by the South Korea-based Yooshin Engineering Corp., the SCHEMA Konsult, Inc., and the Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. Ltd. He said that economic activity in the region is projected to soar to as the airport

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here celebrated the World Day Against Child Labor through a gift giving held last June 26.

Thirty-one child laborers were brought in for an afternoon gift giving inside the WODP Hall in the regional office of DOLE in Northern Mindanao.

DOLE-Western Misamis Oriental OIC-Director Rodrigo A. Deloso and City Social Welfare Officer of Ergen Abregana shared stories on the troubles of said children on abandonment, physical abuses, separation from family caused by natural tragedies and forced labor, among others.

A case in point is a boy who was exposed to early cruelty and was rescued by the city social welfare office.

Begging was also a way of life for children like him, sometimes even forced by parents to beg in the streets.

Forced mendicancy is a barrier to the development of a child.

At present, these children are living under the protection of the Cagayan de Oro Center.

The history of child labor in Asia showed that the smallest children are employed to stand in for the adult workers. This is apparent in stevedoring and in the mining industry.

In the Bukidnon province, a special program for a child labor-free sugar industry was launched by a tripartite body supported by the International Labor Organization last May 1. The labor day launching was preceded by a “Walk for a Cause: for Child-Labor Free Bukidnon,” which netted some P68,000.

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AMONG all regions in the country, Northern Mindanao ranked first in the updating of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries.

This, after the Pantawid Pamilya partner, the civil society organizations (CSOs), updated 24,147 grantees through the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service

Data-Beneficiary Update System (USSD-BUS), a technology that will enable the immediate updating of beneficiaries being monitored by the compliance verification cystem (CVS) especially on school facilities.

USSD-BUS will fast track the updating process of beneficiaries’ profiles as it af-

fects their compliance and the cash grants that they will receive. Using an active cellular phone, certain steps are followed to easily update profiles of beneficiaries anywhere, avoiding the tedious process and resulting to paperless transactions.

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resources in Davao Oriental stood at 12.7 million metric tons (MMT), with 59.3 MMT in total remaining potential deposits.

Zamboanga Sibugay’s total coal resources, meanwhile, amounted to 3.5 MMT, while total remaining potential deposits there equalled 47.6 MMT. In addition, the company will also construct additional support structures for mine development.

These include mine access infrastructure, port facilities, stockyard facilities, a stock farm, blasting operation facilities, campsite facilities, supplemental infrastructure for power and water, treatment plants and facilities, as well as an in-house laboratory.

On Monday, Coal Asia had bared its bid to list 800 mi l lion common shares priced a P1 apiece on the Philippine Stock Exchange’s first board sometime in the fourth quarter.

The amount to be offered to the public represents 20% of the company’s total issued and outstanding capital stock.

Brokerage Abacus Capital and Investment Corp. will serve as issue manager and underwriter for the planned public offering.

Coal Asia is an investment holding firm primarily engaged in coal investments and energ y-related businesses.

It is the parent of Titan Mining and Energy Corp., which currently owns coal

operating contract (COC) 159 in Davao Oriental, as well as COCs 166 and 167 in Zamboanga Sibugay.

Coal Asia, citing an initial feasibility study dated last month, said a 214-hectare portion of the 7,000-hectare COC 159 site contained reserves of some 28,000 tons per hectare, equivalent to an approximate market value of P23.8 billion.

The company reported a first semester net income of P2.03 million, with sales of P13.41 million and sales costs of P6.73 million.

Comparative year-on-year figures were not immediately available.

If Coal Asia’s IPO pushes through, the company will be the fourth firm to go public this year.

agriculture, said former Sen. Agapito “Butz” Aquino.

Aquino, acknowledged as the “father of cooperativism” in the Philippines for always championing cooperatives in the Senate and now chairperson emeritus of the Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC), said that “the kind of activity (we are doing here today) should be emulated all over the country.”

He explained that cooperativism, like Israel’s kibbutzim, is an alternative economic system now recognized by the United Nations and even the Vatican as a “strategy to overcome mass poverty in our country and we are in the right track.”

“If we can produce communities that are sustainable, when people get together we can make something out of the cooperation with each other,” he said, adding: “We have no choice but to succeed here in order to prove to everybody that our country,

in cooperation, we can solve mass poverty.”

To ensure that Sendong survivors who will be relocated at the Coop Ville have access to the main road, Rep. Isidro Lico of the Ating Koop partylist, pledged to use part of his PDAF to pave and cement the access road connecting the village to the main road.

“As representative of the cooperative sector in Congress, I have no other recourse but be obligated to help this village through infrastructure,” he said.

Ma. Melinda Bernardino, national president of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, said that Coop Ville is the cooperative sector and its collaborative partners’ way of “providing not only shelter but a home to the survivors/victims as part of rehabilitating them.”

She, like Ravanera, also stressed that Coop Ville will be a model sustainable com-

munity. “This village will be a source of livelihood, light and love for the survivors,” she added.

Ravanera, a staunch environmentalist and chair of the environment group Task Force Macajalar, said that as executive director of the CDA he will not allow any of trees abundant in the relocation site be cut just to make way for the housing units.

“The contractor should learn to use the existing environment and the trees abundant here to good use without cutting them down as I will not allow it,” he said in a short chat.

He said that the trees, some of them fruit-bearing, will eventually be a source of livelihood for those who will be relocated to Coop Ville by end of September.

“We are targeting that the survivor-beneficiaries of Coop Ville will be spending their Christmas here,” Tusalem said.

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debut will be allotted for additional exploration in Davao Oriental and Zamboanga Sibugay, mine development in Davao Oriental, and for working capital purposes, an IPO registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed.

In terms of exploration activities, Coal Asia intends to allot its IPO proceeds for further sub-surface exploration to increase the company’s estimated coal resources within the firm’s specified areas in Davao Oriental and Zamboanga Sibugay.

According to a company report dated April, total coal

Sendong... from page 1

and transforming this mountain place into something more sustainable, creating this particular community into a liveable place,” he said.

Acting CDA executive director Orlando Ravanera, who is also concurrent CDA10 regional director, said that the “cooperatives can do no less” than providing permanent shelter to coop members victimized

by Sendong especially since one of the main principle of cooperativism is to be concern about society.

Ravanera admitted that the task of rehabilitating Sendong’s victims is gargantuan. “But the cooperatives are equal to the task.”

The Coop Ville, where 311 housing units, with a floor area of 25 sq.m., which become like a kibbutz, a collective community in Israel traditionally centered around

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is envisioned to be a major trunkline air facility.

“This will be a major trading and tourism hub.

Its operation would have a multiplier effect in the region, and this would mean more jobs for the people,” he noted.

The Laguindingan airport is being eyed to become the main airport of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities in

northern Mindanao, as a counterpart of the Davao internationa l airpor t in Southern Mindanao.

The government is expecting the airport’s operation to boost Mindanao’s potential as a national food basket being an exporter of the country’s major agricultural exports such as banana and coconut.

Power...

percent, and Pulangui 4 HEP in Barangay Kiuntod, Camp 1, Maramag Bukdnon from 203.33 to 221.67 MW or 9.02 percent.

However, other HEPs posted declines in their dependable capacities: Agus 4 HEP in Barangay Nangka, Balo-I, Lanao del Norte, from 145 to 143.67 MW, down by 0.92 percent, Agus 5 HEP in Barangay Ditucalan, Iligan City from 53 to 52 MW, down by 0.38 percent, and Agus 6 HEP in Barangay Maria Cristina, also in Iligan City, from 140.67 to 134.67 MW, down by 4.27 percent.

The dependable capacity of the Mindanao coal fire plant in Barangay Balacanas, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental also declined, from 214 to 210 MW or down by 1.87 percent, Dacanay added.

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installed capacity means the number of MW that a power plant can produce, while dependable capacity is the number of MW produced during peak hours.

The total dependable power source of the region had a power generation mix of five hydroelectric power (HEP) plants and one coalfired plant only, as no solar and diesel power plants were operational during the period.

The region’s HEP plant sources also increased its dependable capacity from 568 to 585.81 MW or 3.14 percent during the period.

Agus 7 HEP in Barangay Fuentes, Iligan City increased from 26 to 33 MW, or 26.92

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BPI expands Expresslink mobile enrolment in Mindanao DAVAO City – The Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI) brought popularity of online banking to another rung with its BPI Expresslink Mobile, allowing bank transactions to happen at the flick of mobile phones even when corporate finance point persons and owners are on the road or outside the country.

“You only need to have your mobile and internet connections and you can approve and consummate bank transactions, like payroll and regular payments, from your mobile device,” Ma. Corazon S. Remo, senior vice president and head of BPI Centralized Operations Group, told a briefing with partner clients and members of the press at the Marco Polo Hotel here late last month.

The BPI said this newest method of Internet banking through mobile devices like cellular phones was secure and efficient and had so far already attracted 600 existing corporate and value clients of the bank within four months since it was launched in October last year in Manila.

A bank statement said the bank’s expresslink mobile program “allows clients to collect from customers, subscribers or distributors through an automatic debit arrangement.”

“Viewing and downloading of collection reports can also be done online to help them reconcile and accurately post payments,” it said. “Our account and liquidity management products allow customers to monitor their deposit account balances, warehouse postdated checks and transfer funds to and from enrolled deposit accounts online, real-time.”

“They can also view non-deposit transactions such as commercial loans, and trade and money market transactions. And they need not wait for bank statements to be delivered since they can download their bank statements with just a few clicks of a button,” it said.

The technology, designed by BPI and its refined software with security features developed by an Australian computer company, would also allow BPI clients “to pay their employees, utility providers and suppliers without leaving the comfort of their offices.”

BPI has also partnered with the government’s Bureau of Internal Revenue, Social Security System, Pag-IBIG Fund, Bureau of Customs, and PhilHealth

for the electronic payments of regulatory dues.

The software is an application “that can be accessed through your android phones, Blackberry, Nokia and IPhones,” the bank said.

Corporate clients presented by BPI during its Davao City launch said they were elated “that there is already this process that helps us ease our office transactions.”

Jocelyn de Vera, president of plastics manufacturing firm Davao Toplas, and Marjorie May U. Teh, operations manager of the business outsourcing Focusinc Group, said the new technology “has been wonderful, allowing us to approve payroll and releasing them on time while we are out traveling.”

Nieves Basa, vice president and head of the BPI transaction banking division, said the 600 corporate clients that had enrolled immediately after they knew of the technology was “only five percent of the corporate and other business clientele of BPI.” “The main reason why many of our clients have yet to use this technology is that they still don’t know that we have this technology,” she said.

BPI spent close to P20 million to design the software and to get the service of the Australian company to imbed the industry-accepted security features.

Only BPI has offered this technology in the country, although this has been practiced in North America, Europe and other developed economies.

“Our clients can enroll with us to access this technology at no cost to them. We will prioritize our existing clients,” Remo said.

“I assume that the other banks are trying to catch up with us,” she said.

DBP targets Al-Amanah sale in fourth quarter

STATE-RUN Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) targets to divest all its shares in Al-Amanah Islamic Bank of the Philippines (Al-Amanah) in the fourth quarter, a bank official said.

“We are targeting the last quarter of this year [to sell our stake in Al-Amanah],” said DBP Head of the Corporate Banking Sector Lilia G. Baun in a phone interview last Tuesday.

“We originally targeted to sell the bank in October, but with how things are progressing it might be extended,” she added.

Al-Amanah currently has P2 million worth of issued authorized capital, of which DBP owns 99.88% and the remaining 0.12% by various retail investors.

Ms. Baun said the sale of DBP’s stake in the Islamic Bank is pending the approvals of both the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Government Commission for GOCCs (GCG).

DBP is regulated by the BSP as a bank and also by the GCG, which oversees state fi rms, as it is a governmentowned and -controlled corporation.

“We are awaiting for the regulatory approvals of the BSP and the GCG. When we have those approvals, we

will have a clearer timetable for the sale of the bank,” Ms. Baun said.

After the necessary regulatory approvals are secured, Al-Amanah would have to get the nod of its stakeholders, which are composed of DBP and more than 2,000 individual investors.

Asked how many investors have shown interest in Al-Amanah, DBP President Francisco F. del Rosario, Jr., in a text message on Tuesday said: “We are talking with three to four investors interested in the bank.”

Interested parties, he said, are a mix of foreign and local investors.

DBP wanted to divest its stake in Al-Amanah in 2010, but the plan was stalled as it wanted to make sure that sale or rehabilitation would be successful.

Al-Amanah, the fi rst and only Islamic bank in the country, whose mandate is to serve the banking needs of the Muslim community in the country, was formed by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 264 issued by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

An Islamic bank adheres to the laws of the Koran, and as such, does not charge interest to its clients but instead earns by acting like an equity investor to its borrowers by forging partnerships, lease-to-own deals and similar arrangements.

The government fi rst attempted to privatize the Islamic bank sometime in 2000 after it started incurring losses in 1990.

From 1990 to 2007, Al-Amanah was managed by the Bureau of the Treasury.

Its management was turned over to DBP in 2008, after the BSP approved DBP’s acquisition of Al-Amanah.

The acquisition of the bank allowed DBP to extend financial assistance to micro, small and medium entrepreneurs in Mindanao and likewise serve as the main remittance outlet for Muslims and Mindanao-based overseas Filipino workers.

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in the first quarter to 1.097 million from a year ago.

The Gokongwei-led carrier is looking to carry 14 million passengers this year, up 16.6% from 2011.

The company plans to mount long-haul flights by the third quarter of next year, to destinations in the Middle East, Australia, United States and Europe.

ZestAir, for its part, said it served 68,991 passenger for January to March, up by 72.52% from year-ago levels.

The carrier, formerly called Asian Spirit, aims to serve 3.5 million passengers this year, a 53.17% improvement.

The company will be launching its Manila-Shanghai f lights on July 25 and Manila-Kuala Lumpur flight in October after launching Manila-Incheon flights last month.

Tiger... from page 4

economies of scale in its regional network and to leverage on the strength and size of the company’s base in Singapore, the company had said.

For its part, SEAir regarded the investment as a vehicle for its domestic and regional expansion, Mr. Tan previously said.

Prior to this, the two carriers already had existing marketing agreements that allow for the booking flights through each others’ Web sites.

Following the share purchase agreement, SEAir announced the following week that it would be launching three daily flights to Cebu starting July 31 out of Manila.

It would also launch two daily flights to Davao, and once-aday flights to Tacloban, Iloilo, Puerto Princesa, Kalibo and Bacolod next month.

The company will also be leasing additional three aircraft by the end of this year to be added to the existing two in its fleet.

For this year, the airline is looking to double its 2011 passenger traffic of 335,000 passengers, of which 210,670 were passengers on international flights and 124,468 on domestic flights.

Victorias... from page 4

kilos the previous period.

The sugar miller also attributed its better performance to fewer breakdowns in its equipment and machineries this year, which led to decreased expenses.

Continued upgrading of equipment and machineries also led to improved production efficiencies, it said.

Training... from page 2

Lawyer Jone Fung of the OIM said illegal recruitment shall mean any act of canvassing, enlisting, transporting, contracting, hring, utilizing, procuring of workers, referrals, contact services, promising and advertising for employment

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abroad, and Atty. Fung has elaborated all those acts in actual experience they have while enforcing the laws on against illegal recruitment.

“Before we trust anybody when we apply for work abroad, we have to see to it that the representative or agent can show us that the person or entity that he is representing has a valid license or holder of authority.

We must also make sure that the agent or the representative transacting with us has been duly appointed by the license or holder of the authority and that the agent’s appointment was previously authorized by the POEA,” Fung said.

Glad of the training being conducted, Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza asked the POEA, , the DOLE and other government agencies to encourage legal and stable recruitment agencies to conduct recruitment in Agusan del Sur because according to him, the provincial government has set aside funds to help the applicants in processing the necessary requirements in order that they can work abroad. Gov. Plaza added that the provincial government is doing this because they want the families of Agusanons to have a better life, and the money that they will send to their families will only revolve in the province, while foreseeing that business and stability will follow.

The whole day activity ended up with training of the PNP and the prosecutors on criminal investigation and entrapment procedures and the discussion on the law on anti-trafficking in person.

(DMS/PIA-Agusan del Sur)

Farmers... from page 8

But even as Leonardo Bernardo sits beside his barn, wondering about the future, cotton proponents may have to go through a major hump in politicians who see tobaccos as a source of livelihood for many of their constituents.

He knows, given the unpredictable surges of the local market, that even cotton would perhaps bring in some problems. (PNA)

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The UPLB research paper also disclosed that in a season, the farmer can harvest an average of 80,000 bundles of saluyot per hectare.

At a cost of P8 per bundle, that translates to a gross income of P640,000.

With high potential to earn income for Filipino farmers and to promote production of this green leafy vegetable, the Los Bañosbased Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCARRD) and DOST Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) has also published a “Saluyot Production Guide.”

Data from the Guide shows that in 2006, the 692 hectares of land planted

with saluyot throughout the Philippines produced a total of 1,949 tons.

Accordingly, the major producers were Ilocos (particularly Pangasinan) (213 ha) and Western Visayas (154 ha).

The Bureau of Agricultural Research, however, says “market gardens around the national capital Metro Manila are increasing and are more productive.”

Various research studies have shown that saluyot can be harvested 30 days after transplanting by cutting the crop at 20-25 centimeters from the ground.

The plants are harvested at one to two weeks interval for up to seven months.

To date, the most common outlets of saluyot harvest are local markets – those with paid stalls or the ambulant vendors on city pavements.

But, as a result of increasing commercial uses of the crop, more markets are opening up.

Almost 20 years ago, saluyot became a “food fad” in Japan after Japanese health buffs found that it was a low-calorie food and rich in Vitamin A and minerals like iron, calcium, and protein.

They used dried saluyot powder as an ingredient in meals and soups.

Filipino scientist Lydia Marero also once said: “Sa luyot leaves are rich in beta carotene for good eyesight, iron for healthy red blood cells, calcium fro strong bones and teeth, and vitamin C for smooth, clean skin, strong immune cells, and fast wound-healing.”

With increasing Filipino communities abroad, agribusiness observers say the government can shift the gear to encourage Filipino farmers plant the now widely accepted saluyot and export these to where Filipinos live overseas.

They point out that powdered dry saluyot had been produced mainly to cater to expatriate Filipinos, particularly Ilocanos, in the United States, the Middle East and later a comparatively large market in Japan.

The Filipino farmers, according to observers, are waiting for the green light for this green leafy vegetable. (PNA)

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IBP meets to set rules for short list of CJ candidates LEGAL luminaries are expected to gather on Monday in a forum arranged by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to come up with proposed criteria and standards for consideration by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) of a short list of nominees for the Chief Justice post left vacant by the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona.

IBP National President Roan Libarios said expected to participate in the highlevel forum are retired justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, as well as deans of different law schools.

The consultation will be held at the JBL Reyes Hall, IBP Building in Ortigas, Pasig City.

Libarios said the results of the meeting will be submitted to the eight-man JBC and will be disclosed to the media.

“This is the first time the IBP will hold a highlevel forum to define the criteria to guide the JBC and the Press in the choice of the next Chief Justice,” said Libarios.

He said the IBP’s decision to conduct a consultation among the stakeholders in the judiciary is primarily to help the JBC choose the best-qualified person to

replace Corona.

“We need to hear the voices of the stakeholders,” he said.

The IBP is the mandatory organization of lawyers in the country with the purpose created in 1970 “to elevate the standards of the legal profession, to improve the administration of justice, and to enable the bar discharge its public responsibility more effectively.”

The JBC is currently screening all nominees and applicants who have been able to meet the initial requirements for candidates.

It is also requiring candidates to submit a waiver on the confidentiality of their foreign and bank deposits in order for them to qualify for the position.

The JBC held on Friday a dialogue with media executives for the implementation of the live coverage of the oral interview of the 22 aspirants from July 24 to 27.

Based on the panel’s new guidelines released last week, only one reporter per media outfit will be allowed to cover the interviews to be held inside the division hearing room of the Supreme Court building.

“Any member of the media and the public may be asked to leave the Division Hearing Room at any time

for inappropriate behavior or conduct,” it added.

The JBC had already published the names of the official candidates for Chief Justice last week.

Included on the list are Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio and five other justices of the High Court: Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Arturo Brion, Roberto Abad and Ma. Lourdes Sereno; Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza, former University of the Philippines law dean Raul Pangalangan, De La Salle University law founding dean Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno, University of the East law dean Amado Valdez and former Ateneo law dean Cesar Villanueva.

Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, Presidential Commission on Good Governance Chairman Andres Bautista, Commission on Elections Commissioner Rene Sarmiento and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Teresita Herbosa also accepted their nomination.

Other candidates are Ret. Judge Manuel Siayngco Jr., former executive secretary Ronaldo Zamora and lawyers Katrina Legarda, Soledad Cagampang-De Castro, Rafael Morales and Vicente Velasquez.

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based on the May-June 2012 CVS monitoring, hitting to 60,317 update as of July 10.

Alcoran explained that the increase of updated date of beneficiaries was due to the transfer of residence and double entries.

He also said the number of updated individuals will still increase because some of the villages were not visited

by CSO validators during the validation period due

to armed conf lict.

A mong t he a f fe c te d towns of the armed conflict as reported by the validators and municipal links are Claveria in Misamis Oriental province and in Kibawe town, Buk idnon province.

However, updating of beneficiaries will continue as soon as internal security in these areas are be put in place.

through trainings and they will be given start-up capital and livelihood starter kits.

Deloso expressed hope that the reshaping of lives of the children can still be done with their families with the help of all concerned

agencies.

He said the provision of schools supplies and scholarships for the deserving children, and extending livelihood assistance to parents can responsibly steer the future of the children.

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Region 12 with 19,830 updated beneficiaries while Region 4B occupies third place with 18,405 updated grantees.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-10 BUS focal person Francis Alcoran said that Northern Mindanao exceeds its target of 59,040

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be assisted through a livelihood program of the Department. Specifically, the livelihood starters of the parents will be advanced

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