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Briefly Waste-to-energy NIPPON STEEL & Sumikin Engineering Technology is looking into the use of a Japanese waste-to-energy technology for Davao City’s solid waste management, Japan’s aid agency said. The potential project is based on a feasibility study supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under its Collaboration Program with the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technology. In a statement issued yesterday, JICA said the study “showed Davao City’s potential as location for a waste to energy facility that can hel p p ro m o t e s o u n d environment management in the area.”
Free wi-fi in ARMM COTABATO City -- Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said the regional government will provide free internet connection to public places to improve residents’ access to opportunities. The first of its kind in the region and probably in Mindanao, the free internet access will be funded by the ARMM’s Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-ARMM. According to Abdenul Campong, chief of information and communications technology of the ARMM governor’s office, PAMANA will initially provide internet connection to public places in five identified local government units -- one site in each province under the ARMM.
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By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
HE Department of Public Works and Highway (DPWH) central office in Manila will use as criteria for project identification the five development corridors that will strategically connect the key areas of production in Mindanao to industrial centers where seaports and airports are located, the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said.
FOOD BAG. A Higaonon elderly in Claveria, Misamis Oriental clutches his food bag given by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the municipal government last week as aid for tribesmen and farmers who are complaining they are going hungry because they could no longer grow anything from their farmers because of the prolonged dry spell. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo
Japan, PHL reiterates cooperation for peace THE Philippines and Japan will continue to collaborate closely as strategic partners in promoting the peace process in Mindanao and in pushing major infrastructure projects to attain inclusive,
long-term economic growth and development, Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr., said. Secretary Coloma made the statement after Japan peace/PAGE 11
Customs short of P666-M revenue collection in 2015 IT was a “red flag” for the regional Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Cagayan de Oro City after falling short of P666 million of its targeted revenue of P9.672 billion in 2015.
Lawyer Roswald Joseph Pague, deputy customs collector, blamed the slump in oil prices in the world market because imported customs/PAGE 11
“Before, the identification of areas was done based on population. Now, it is more strategic and rational,” Maria Vilma Belches, Development Management Office 4 and OIC for Planning and Research Decision told reporters in Davao over the weekend. The development corridors, a strategy aimed at making Mindanao “become self-reliant and internally
dependable,” has five clusters – industrial trade, mariculture and trade, biodiveristy and eco-tourism, food basket, and food, agribusiness and logistics. She said that there are 13 road projects under pre-feasibility studies enrolled under the Asian Development Bank-assisted Improving National Roads road/PAGE 11
Mindanao’s vote-richest:
Davao City, Bukidnon, SouthCot By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS MindaNews
DAVAO City – Davao City, home to the lone Mindanawon Presidential candidate, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, is the vote-richest among Mindanao’s 27 provinces and 33 cities, with nearly a million voters, followed by Bukidnon and South Cotabato, records from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) show. Mindanao has12.63 million registered voters out of the country’s 54.36
million, according to the C omelec’s “Philippine 2016 Voters Profile” as of November 2015. The vote-richest are Davao City which has
873,670 voters or over a hundred thousand more than Bukidnon’s 765,898 and South Cotabato’s 724,325. It is also more than Bohol’s richest/PAGE 10
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