BusinessWeek MINDANAO CREDIBLE
Volume VII, No. 154
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Briefly Press Freedom Week THE Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental joins with the members of the FourthState in celebrating the 35th Press Freedom Week on May 22-27, 2017. Gov. Bambi Emano on Monday extended his congratulations to all the media practitioners in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental who are the center of the celebration. “I congratulate all the active or inactive media personalities in Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro. May you have a good week in celebrating the 35 years of upholding and defending your freedom as journalists for change,” Governor Emano said. The governor added he is pro-media and that all the privileges and benefits due them “must be given unto them especially their freedom of speech.” “But every member of the media, whether in newspapers, radio, television and social media, should act in conformity to law and that they should be responsible and accountable of all their actions like we all should be,” the governor said.
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THE number of persons afflicted with the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cagayan de Oro City continues to rise year by year. Yet a city health official doesn’t see this as alarming and even chided the media for bloating the situation. “Di man g’yud na manaog ang kaso sa HIV. Ang importante daghan na ang nag-heed sa ato call pagpa-test,” city health epidemiologist Joey Retuya said in an interview last Sunday, which marked the observance of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day. -- MARK FRANCISCO cmyk
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Chinese investors eyed for Surigao Sur ecozone www.businessweekmindanao.com
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AVAO City — Chinese investors are being eyed for a proposed ecozone in Bislig, Surigao del Sur.
FATHER AND SON. Hadji Uto Karim Misuari, eldest son of MNLF founding chair Nur Misuari, kisses the forehead of his father to welcome him to a forum at the Royal Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Sunday where the elder Misuari delivered a lecture on Bangsamoro and Federalism. The younger Misuari is vice chair of the MNLF faction chaired by his father whose temporary liberty has been extended until November 16. mindanews photo by manman dejeto
AIIB funding for VisMin grid link-up sought By MYRNA M. VELASCO, Contributor
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THE government through the Department of Energy and National Transmission Corporation (TransCo), had started exploring financing options with the Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB) for the VisayasMindanao transmission line interconnection. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi noted “there are already initial talks” on probable access to AIIB
funding, although he qualified that they are not limiting their option to that. Another multilateral lending agency the government has had preliminary talks with is the World Bank, according funding/PAGE 11
12,000 malnourished schoolchildren in Cag. de Oro public schools noted By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff Writer
MORE than 12,000 children enrolled in public schools in Cagayan de Oro City are malnourished. Mar y Ann Allera of the Cagayan de Oro City Schools Division disclosed this Tuesday in the Gawad
Kalinga-initiated End Hunger Summit held at Xavier University, prompting Sen. Paolo Benigno Aquino IV to urge city councilors to pass a resolutions or ordinances institutionalizing a city-wide feeding program.
Rep. Johnny Pimentel of the 2nd district of Surigao del Sur, principal author of House Bill 2672 filed in August last year, said the creation of the Special Economic Zone in Bislig City will “drive employment and consumption growth and overall economic expansion” in Mindanao in general and Caraga region in particular. “We are hoping to attract Chinese investors to build factories in the economic zone, considering our government-togovernment as well as people-to-people relations with China have warmed up owing to President Duterte’s independent foreign policy track,” Pimentel, chair of the Committee on good government and public accountability, said in a press release. “We need new investors, especially in highly labor-intensive industries, to provide thousands of good-paying jobs and raise the living standards of a greater number of families in Mindanao,” he said. The bill, however, is still pending at the House Committee on Economic Affairs. ecozone/PAGE 11
Allera said the figure represents 12 percent of the total population of students enrolled in the 107 public elementary schools in the city which is around 98,000. Aquino, who was guest speaker in the one-day event, said highly urbanized cities malnourished/PAGE 11
LAST DAYS OF SUMMER. Girl builds sand castle in Cagwait, Surigao del Sur, in the last days of summer. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo
DMCI Homes plans new Davao City condo project By CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO, Correspondent
DAVAO Cit y -- DMCI Homes, the Consunji group’s condominium development arm, is now planning for its next project in the city
as it recently started the turnover of units for its first condominium development. Alfredo R. Austria, DMCI condo/PAGE 11
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