BusinessWeek MINDANAO CREDIBLE
Volume VIII, No. 9
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Briefly No cholera outbreak ILIGAN City -- There was no cholera outbreak among internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are staying in evacuation centers or with relatives (home-based) in Iligan City. The fear of an outbreak occurred when two confirmed cases of cholera was reported on May 30 and June 2 that affected a oneyear old and a six-year old children, respectively. The first kid was staying in Sta. Elena evacuation center (EC) while the latter is home-based. The Department of Health in Northern Mindanao (DOH-X) reported that both victims experienced diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. They had undergone rectal swab testing and found positive of vibrio cholera ogawa, the bacteria that causes cholera.
Aids for coops TWO cooperatives in Misamis Oriental will get a cash assistance of P50,000 each as additional capital for their retail and consumer stores, Elizalda S. Palanan, of the provincial cooperative office, said Friday. Palanan said that the cooperatives are the Aromohon Multi-Purpose Cooperative based in the municipal town of Laguindingan in the west coast of Misamis Oriental and the Consuelo Fisherfolks Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Magsaysay, the last municipal town east of Misamis Oriental in the borders of Agusan Del Norte. “The assistance is part of provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano’s continuing assistance project to help the people of Misamis Oriental who belonged to the marginalize sector alleviate their present economic status,” Palanan said.
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ASEAN rolling out next wave of ‘low emissions’ technologies M By MYRNA M. VELASCO Contributor
E M B E R countries of the Southeast Asian region are now giving sharp focus on more massive deployment of high efficiency, low emissions (HELE) technologies, especially for nations that can still not totally get out from the clutches of coal-fired electricity generation on aims of economic advancements.
This had been thrown into the core of discussions during the 14th Energy Security Forum (ESF) hosted by the Philippines that engaged all ASEAN countries plus the region’s three strategic partner-countries of China, Japan, and South Korea. The more developed countrypeers are already moving headway into installations of ‘emissions lowering technologies,” but this is a pace yet to make progress in many ASEAN countries, including the asean/PAGE 11
SALT PRODUCTION. Siblings Agapito and Aida Pontiveros tend to the plastic beds called as “flats” where filtered seawater are left in the sun to dry and form salt crystals in Barangay Sinaloc, El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental. The harvested salt are then sold to traders at P30 to P40 per gallon. A gallon is about 2.5 kilograms. photo by gerry lee gorit
Department of Education still tracking whereabouts of 140 Marawi teachers By MALU CADELINA-MANAR, MindaNews
KIDAPAWAN City -- At least 140 public school teachers who fled Marawi City after fighting erupted there have remained unaccounted for, an education official said.
The Marawi City schools division has 1,413 teachers, and around 90 percent of them have already been accounted for, said Ana Zenaida Unte, assistant schools division
superintendent of Marawi. She said the remaining 10 percent might have gone to areas outside the Lanao provinces. Since May 23 when the fighting started these teachers tracking/PAGE 11
UCPB claims ownership of seized P32-M in Oro By JOANN SANTIAGO, PNA
‘BAKWIT’ BABY: Anisa Bongcarawan, 39, an evacuee from Marawi City, holds her infant daughter Asmira at the evacuation center in Barangay Maria Cristina, Iligan City. Asmira, her eight child, was born on Independence Day, June 12, 2017. mindanews photo by manman dejeto
UNITED Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) on Tuesday said the manual transfer of millions-worth of cash within its branches is a
normal process, thus, there is nothing unusual on the P32 million funds that were intercepted by the police at the Cagayan de Oro port
Sunday evening. In a statement, the bank said it was “aware of the transfer”, citing that “it is part of the normal procedure to move excess cash from one ucpb/PAGE 11
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