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THREE villages in Malitbog, Bukidnon will soon have paved roads and livelihood projects under the Local Government Support Fund–Support to Barangay Development Program (LGSF-SBDP). Kiabo, San Luis, and Siloo are among the 71 SBDP beneficiaries and will receive PHP20 million each. The Philippine Army's 58th Infantry Battalion (58IB), a partner of the project, said in a statement on Sunday that three local access roads with a projected length of 1.3 kilometers each will be constructed.

Personal growth THE Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) in Aloran, Misamis Occidental has joined an international organization that can help its members achieve personal growth in their community. In the CORDS-10 (Cabinet Officers for Regional Development and Security) podcast with Communications Secretary Jose Ruperto Martin Andanar on Saturday, SK Federation president Ace John Mutia said the International Association of Youth and Students for Peace-Philippines (IAYSP) assists young people become peace advocates even during the pandemic. He said it provides more opportunities to the youths to improve themselves through public speaking, peacemaking projects, and other programs.

COFFEE VENDING ON PEDAL. The Pedal Bean along Jamille St. in Barangay San Miguel, Iligan City, right outside Mic-mic Fuentes Morales’s apartment. mindanews photo by bobby timonera

Small, medium traders get help for e-commerce shift THE Department of Trade and Industry in Northern Mindanao (DTI-10) has introduced various interventions for nearly 2,000 micro, small, and medium

enter prises (MSME) to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic since last year. Under the government's "We Heal As One" initiative,

OTABATO City — Thirty months after the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was inaugurated — 18 months of these under a pandemic — direct foreign investments are still coming in trickles in the region that has been enjoying relative peace after decades of bloody armed conflicts. Local investors, however, are boosting the economy of the fledgling region with P6.5 billion worth of investments: P4.1 billion in 2019, P14 million in 2020 and P2.4 billion as of September 20, 2021, generating, according to their applications for registration, jobs for at least 6,700 workers. The Bangsamoro region is a product of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the peace agreement signed by the Philippine government and the INVESTMENT/PAGE 11

DTI-10 focused on aiding M S M E ’s t r a n s i t i o n t o electronic commerce through training, webinars, and virtual trade fairs. HELP/PAGE 11

BOC burns P13.5M worth of smuggled onions from China By GERRY LEE GORIT, Reporter

HOT CHINESE ONIONS. The P13.5 million imported onions from China were destroyed by the Bureau of Customs at a facility in Manolo Fortich recently. photo by bureau of customs cdo

THE Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao has destroyed P13.5 million onions from China which were wrongfully declared as food stuff by the importer. The shipment was declared as “cream cheese” and “frozen puff pastries” but turned out to be onions upon inspection

by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) Oliver Valiente, CIIS head in Northern Mindanao, said they received intelligence report that a shipment will arrive at the Mindanao Container Terminal subONION/PAGE 11

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AMIGUIN—In accommodating some of the issues raised by some personnel of certain national government agencies, the Provincial Government

of Camiguin issued the Executive Order No. 102A or the order amending section 2 of EO No. 102. During the Serbisyong PPR radio program, Gov. Jurdin Jesus Romualdo

said the provincial government issued the said EO as they repeatedly receive complaints on the revised entry protocols under EO No. 102, “claiming that they

Personnel of Camiguin Provincial Mobile Force Platoon aid in monitoring compliance of the minimum public health standards at Benoni Port, Mahinog, Camiguin. (CPMFP)

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Gov't Comms Academy breaks ground in Bukidnon

10,000-square-meter land that would also be open to media workers in the private sector who also want to take part in the training programs. With a budget of P79.4 million, the project includes a two-storey main building, a parking lot, as well as the general landscaping of the surrounding open area which will be fulfilled in phases. "The conduct of the first-ever National Information Convention in Davao City in 2018 made a lot of headway in revolutionizing the way we report the news about the government and how we respond to concerns such as capacitating our public information officers," Andanar said. He added that the GCA also aims to be a financially sustainable institution by engaging ACADEMY/PAGE 11

should be exempted from COVID-19 testing requirements.” Under EO 102-A, fully vaccinated authorized persons outside of residence (APORs) shall undergo COVID-19 rapid antigen testing upon entry to the province. The testing shall be provided free of charge to APORs who are government personnel on official business. For unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated APORS, they must present the negative result of their COVID-19 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test taken within 24 hours by a licensed testing facility upon entry to the PROTOCOL/PAGE 11

MANOLO Fortich, Bukidnon - The first stateof-the-art training facility for government media workers and information officers located within the compound of the Northern Bukidnon State College (NBSC) here broke ground on Monday. The Government Communications Academy (GCA), a Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)-led project, will focus on teaching communication to information officers assigned in barangays and national government agencies. In his message, PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar represented by Asec. Ryan Vincent Uy said the construction of the GCA will finally begin following its groundbreaking ceremony. He added the GCA facility will be built on a

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COTABATO City – Some 10,000 additional food packs have been sent to Wao, Lanao del Sur over the weekend due to a surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases that have spread to 24 of 26

villages of the town, the Rapid Emergency Action for Disaster IncidenceBangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (READiBARMM) said Monday. Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, BARMM local government minister and concurrent READiBARMM head, said the additional relief packs were successively sent Saturday and Sunday upon the request of Wao Mayor Elvino B. Balicao Jr. as contained in a communique. “We immediately acted on the mayor’s request since the Covid virus has spread to almost all the villages of the town,” Sinarimbo said, adding that they also sent medical provisions such as personal protective equipment, face masks, face shields, and alcohol for the town’s health workers. Balicao, in his letter dated September 22 to Sinarimbo, noted that 70 percent or 16 out of 26 villages remain under granular lockdown since September 5 due to the Covid-19 surge. The mayor said the virus surge is “alarming and very economically exhausting” especially since the villages’ lockdown is expected to last up to the end of this month or even longer. On September 6, the READi-BARMM sent an AID/PAGE 11

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When he was campaigning for US Presidency, a popular line stated then by candidate Bill Clinton won him the presidency when he said, “it’s the economy, stupid!” While other candidates zeroed-in on so many issues, candidate Clinton became the winning candidate because he brought to the fore essential issues on the economy. As our country is facing so much disarray due to Covid-19, but such is only “a tip of the iceberg.” That pandemic which began in China can be traced to the killings of bats or “paniki”

to satisfy man’s appetite where the bats’ virus was transferred to the homo sapiens. That was also true to the HIV disease when human beings (Africans) began eating “chimpanzees” or monkeys, thus the monkeys’ virus infected the homo sapiens. Thus, in the same breath that we now say, “it is not Covid-19 but the environment, Stupid!” Please reflect that whatever be the form, all life is sacred as creation is a manifestation of the Creator, each one carrying a sense of divinity. Thus, every time you eat meat – be red or white – please reflect for a while that that meat came from a life form that once did breathe, having experienced in its own right pleasures and pains, exposed to the wonders of life, having felt the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the wind, the brightness of the moon and the stars at night, and finally,

had to succumb to the pains of shedding blood as its throat had to be cut – all because you must eat and live. Seen in the context of the oneness and divinity of life, it is the contention that the most flawed species of all of God’s creation is the homo sapiens. Don’t you know that in 19th century alone, the homo sapiens had killed its own kind at the tune of more than one hundred fifty-million out of two world wars, the cleansing of Pol Pot and Hitler and the ongoing war in the Middle East and Mindanao. But the killings were not just limited to its own kind; the homo sapiens had erased from the face of the earth billions of life forms – flora and fauna – that had been created billions of years even prior to creation of the homo sapiens. Climate change and the annihilation of billions of life forms is called as Anthropocene, with

the Greek roots meaning “human-made” (anthropo) and “ne w” (cene). The Anthropocene is our current, unprecedented epoch of the Earth in which the Earth’s physical change – climate, biodiversity, chemistry – is mainly driven by human a c t iv it y. Mot he r E ar t h (GAIA) has been sacrificed to the altar of greed and profit by the contemporaneous development paradigm called corporate globalization. In fact, humanity is now “two minutes before midnight” as we are now facing the 6th extinction but nothing is being done to counter climate change which is a crime against God, against hu m a n i t y a n d a g a i n s t the Earth. Why? The 19 Fossil Companies mostly Americans cannot moderate their greed. Out of the use of fossil fuels and coals, these companies are earning 19 trillion dollars annually or 10 million dollars every AWAKE/PAGE 9

Years ago, I was still a freshman, when it came to the Internet and blogging. When I started my first blog as a German expatriate living in the Philippines, a very special social network came across my path: Facebook! I started chatting with some media friends from all over the Philippines. Actually I started with "Friendster". Friends from the whole globe! Facebook was introduced to me as a new site for college kids. Nowadays, we're e x p e r i e n c i n g d i f f e re nt headlines, when it comes to social media networks. Despite scandals over fake news and data privacy, one thing is for sure: the social network Facebook is unlikely to disappear any time soon. Actually, during the first

year, I found Facebook’s e volut i on and s o c i e t a l f u n c t i on b o t h e q u a l l y fascinating and disturbing. The biggest question of all that gnaws at the back of my mind is whether there is any stopping Facebook in the future? It looks increasingly like the answer is no. “Friendster failed for simple reasons: the time wasn’t right,” says Bernie Hogan, senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Inst itute. “Not on ly is it about the readiness of people to participate in a social networking site, but it’s also just about the nuts and bolts.” Friendster and MySpace helped blaze the trail for Facebook's global popularity, but they failed to achieve even close to the same success as their successor.

The kind of engineering that allows Facebook to function every day simply w a s n’t a v a i l a b l e b a c k in the early days of the new millennium. But by 2004, internet speeds had increased and the coding that underpins websites had become more sophisticated. The technical limitations of earlier social networking sites like Friendster and Friends Reunited cleared the runway for Facebook. But despite technical barriers, those other sites paved the way for Facebook at a time when people were still a little wary of putting too much of themselves out on the internet. In the 1990s, internet users were warned against even sharing their first name online, but now words like “oversharing” and

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Imponderables JHAN TIAFAU HURST to their house, walked in with a gun, and killed his brother. And for what? A little more money! We n e e d r e g u l a r reminding that family and friends are worth much more than fortune. Remember, money can never give you what family and friends can: love. You can always tell how happy a person is not by how much money he has, but by how close his relationships are with his family members; and by how many close, caring friends he has. A man who lost his best friend over a business disagreement shared the painful lesson he had learned. He said: FORTUNE/PAGE 9

“IT ain't over till the fat lady sings". It simply means that one should not rush to judgment or presume to know what is ahead on an ongoing event. This saying aptly applies to the many changes obtaining in plans and organizations that pertain to the regular elections in 2022. The announcement of Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte that she is no longer running for a national post following the declaration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte that he has accepted the nomination of the ruling party for him to run for vice president is just one of the many announcements that are still subject to change. The present political atmosphere is pregnant with imponderables. Boxer Manny Pacquiao w ho not to o l ong ago appeared to be stoically supportive of fellow Senator Koko Pimentel announced

shortly after losing a boxing match that he will be with VP and Liberal Party presidential timber Leni Robredo. Then we see him in talks with Partido Reporma President Bebot Alvarez. Knowing that Pacquiao is wanting nothing less than the presidential post we saw a radical twist. Hardly had the event saw print Pacquiao announced he is running for president. Did I see Koko and a certain Munsayac smiling ear-to-ear? Ex-Speaker Bebot Alvarez, who in 2019 posed himself as the poor man’s candidate against his erstwhile bosom friend Tony Floirendo and the Del Rosarios and won, was seen last week on the tarmac of Ormoc City airport. He came on a private jet. Lucy Torres who is No. 1 in the list of the eight senatorial slates of Cusi’s PDP personally welcomed Alvarez. Was it just a matter of courtesy? Human rights lawyer Che Diokno, who everybody

t hou g ht has l e ar ne d a lesson from an ignoble defeat surfaced last week to announce that he is running solo for the senate. In Davao del Norte, the bastion of Alvarez Reporma party may yet be the next graveyard of the moribund p olit ica l p ar ty t hat he resurrected. He has lost so many allies as quickly as he won them over in the 2019 elections. With Davao City Mayor Inday Sara bowing out of the Presidential race, the political stock of Bongbong Marcos suddenly become a viable option. But President Duterte who is the chief political tutor of Sara and had molded her to be a strongwilled leader, intelligent and with the true grit of a Duterte brand might suddenly wake up in the middle of his sleep and realize that his daughter is indeed ready to take up the reins of the government. I can imagine him picking up

KLAUS DORING “selfie” are so common they are recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. Facebook - bone or ban? Fact is, Facebook is becoming that de facto, online identity provider. I am on Twitter and LinkedIn. But bear with me, most of the time, I spend being online on Facebook. Once the mid-2000s rolled around, Facebook REST/PAGE 9

LETTERS FROM DAVAO

JUN LEDESMA the phone, tells Spox Harry Roque that it’s time for him to go home to Davao City where his mosquito net still hanging in his bed awaits. We Dabawenyos would love to see Inday taking up the biggest challenge of the presidency and for President Duterte to come back as mayor of Davao City. So we see how change can come ab out. S ome politicians have developed a hide as thick as the rhino and wouldn’t mind sleeping with the enemies. Some are LEDESMA/PAGE 9

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CorporateWorld PH e-vehicle industry growth hinges on government measures WED-THU|SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2021

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HE Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) is still optimistic with the growth of the industry as long as key government policies will be in place. During the two-day 9th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit from Thursday to Friday, EVAP president Edmund Araga said the pandemic has further slowed down the growth of the local EV industry. Araga said EV registration in the country dropped 35 percent to 1,015 units from 1,570 units in 2019. For the past decade, total EV registration in the country reached 12,965 comprising of e-trikes, e-motorcycles, e-jeepneys, and e-cars among others. “We are hopeful about the passing of the Senate Bill No.

1382 or the Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations Act last May. At the same time, the House Bill 4075, the Lower House’s version of the Electric Vehicle and Charging Stations Act has already passed the second reading,” Araga said. He added that the issuance of the charging infrastructure guidelines and policy by the Department of Energy (DOE) will help in motivating businesses to put up and adopt EV charging stations by providing fiscal incentives. Low-cost charging for EV is one of the top three factors for consumers to motivate them in purchasing EV, a recent study by Frost & Sullivan said. Araga said the administrative order of the Land Transportation Office consolidating guidelines on the classification, registration, and operations of types of EV paves

the way for further guidance for consumers’ purchase decisions and for local manufacturers to plan out their strategies. DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi also echoed that government support will help the local EV industry thrive even amid the pandemic. “…(P)olicies and guidelines for all stakeholders must be in place to attract the necessary investment and effectively integrate EVs and EV charging stations in a robust and sustainable energy system,” Cusi said. The energy chief added that the DOE is pursuing the project of deploying 20,000 imported EVs and putting up 5,000 EV charging station for the next five years. Cusi said this project cut fuel use by over 145 million liters or equivalent to nearly P8 billion fuel costs. (PNA)

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Japan’s JERA, Aboitiz partnership to boost PH power sector THE investment and partnership of Japan’s largest power generation company with AboitizPower Corp. is expected to support the development of the country’s power sector. In a press conference Tuesday, Aboitiz Group president and chief executive officer, Sabin Aboitiz, announced that JERA bought a 27-percent stake of Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) in AboitizPower Corp. “It effectively unlocks (a) significant amount of capital that can be used to finance Aboitiz Group’s ambition. More

importantly, we welcome JERA’s trust and expertise and commitment to help the Aboitiz Group drive change for a better world by accelerating the Philippine economic growth and promoting the development of clean energy,” Aboitiz said. Aside from being the largest power generation firm in Japan, JERA is also the largest single buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide. Aboitiz said that on top of providing capital for the group, Aboitiz Group’s partnership with JERA will allow technology transfer that

would help the company in transforming into a modern business. The strategic partnership with JERA is also expected to help the Aboitiz Group to take business opportunities arising from the pandemic, he said. “Let this partnership mark another important milestone in our company’s history and demonstrate the confidence in our government’s policies and regulation,” he added. AboitizPower president and chief executive officer Emmanuel Rubio has

welcomed the investment of JERA, adding its expertise will help the company in achieving a goal of increasing clean energy share in its portfolio. This also supports the Philippine government’s vision towards a decarbonized future, Rubio added. “Our new partnership with JERA will be a key enabler in this journey,” he said. AboitizPower eyes clean energy share in its power portfolio to reach 50 percent or 4,600 megawatts by 2030. (PNA)

GLOBE Telecom, Inc. on Tuesday said it would soon be bringing its standalone 5G (fifth generation) technology to its customers. “5G SA (standalone) goes beyond speed. With its network slicing capabilities, low latency, always-on connectivity, and integration with edge computing, the

technology allows the adoption of new concepts and mission critical digital services such as industrial automation, remote surgery, and autonomous vehicles to name a few,” Globe said in an e-mailed statement. “5G SA on-site testing started in May this year. Today, Globe achieved a new milestone by testing

this latest technology in a live setup in its facility in Valero,” it added. Globe’s current 5G network is deployed via 5G non-standalone (NSA) architecture, which is reliant on the 4G (fourth generation) network. Globe President and Chief Executive Officer Ernest L. Cu said the 5G SA will allow the

company to do more services for multiple industries with new business models. The technology is seen to become the standard for connectivity across a wide range of industry sectors. “Globe will soon be bringing this technology to its customers as it embarks upon extending this from the location in Valero to other parts of Metro Manila and beyond,” the company said. “With network slicing, Globe can tailor fit 5G services to the dynamic requirements of consumers and businesses. Instead of sharing one extensive network, each group can have its own customizable virtual network with its own policies running at the same time without disturbing one another,” the company added.

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Lifestyle Celebrate chocolate around the world with SM snack exchange

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Explore the world with chocolate as The SM Store’s Snack Exchange celebrates Chocolate Around the World.

HOCOLATE was long considered as “Food of the gods”, a delicacy of the elite and believed in both mythical and medicinal as an aphrodisiac and energy booster around the world. The world’s love affair for chocolates started 5,000 years ago and has evolved from being a chocolate drink to chocolate bar. This love affair continues today at The SM Store Snack Exchange, your one-stop shop for all your snack essentials. Here you can find a wide-variety of your favorite chocolates around the world - creamfilled bonbon to praline; from signature melt-inyour-mouth chocolates to single-source dark chocolate bar; and from colorful chocolate candies to fruit- dipped chocolate. Take a chocoholic’s tour of the world through the Snack Exchange’s chocolate selection, and discover the different delightful and innovative

The value of education By ELVIRA L. PULPUL

Education is ver y vital to ever y human being. Education sets ever y aspect of every individual. Education is a treasure to every human development a n d g r ow t h . Wi t h o u t education, life is colorless; without education, life is dark; and most of all, without education everything will seem to be nothing, no worth, definitely no value. We must value education. Education should be valued. A popular saying that goes, “Education is the only thing that our parents can guarantee our bright future ahead” implies a lot. Many said that we must do our best in school so that we can land a good job someday;

probably a bright future awaits us. Many said that attaining good education is our vessel and instrument to success. Definitely, it is true. Young ones, we must value education from the time we see the beauty of this world. We should take every single day as a single learning process f o r o u r p ro g re s s a n d advancement. We should not stop learning. You should value all your parents’ effort in sending you to good schools for you to learn all things life offers. You should value every single centavo your parents have spent for you. You should value your teachers’

effort in educating you. Every single thing, you must value it for it is very significant to our everyday struggles in this world. Thus, value education as much as you value life, for education teaches as life’s insights and experiences which could be useful to our own personal development. Value education as you value your parents and l ove d on e s an d v a lu e education as you value God, that you can’t live without it. When you value education sincerely and passionately, you will reap success. Young ones, good luck in your studies!

ways each country celebrates chocolates. · Switzerland is known for its cheese, mountains and its smooth and creamy milk chocolate. In 1887, after many attempts. Swiss chocolatier Daniel Peter created the original formula of what was to become the first successful milk chocolate. Before this, chocolate was not considered a delicacy, but was more of a nourishing a medicinal food. Two ingredients, milk and cocoa butter, which makes the chocolate melt at body temperature, are a big part of the reason why Swiss chocolate is so famous. One can find premium Swiss chocolate brands at Snack Exchange - Lindt, which started in 1845 and has 370 shops around the globe; and Toblerone, the unique triangular shaped chocolate bar inspired by the Matterhorn, with its heavenly taste of Swiss milk, filled with natural honey, finest cocoa and almond nougat. · Belgium has been called the “Chocolate Capital of the World '', and you can’t go to Belgium and not go to a chocolate shop. There are more than 2,000 around the country. Belgian chocolates are known to have a higher cocoa content, and filled Belgian chocolates such as truffles and molded pralines are very often in a fanciful shape and filled with butter creams and ganache. · Italy is passionate about its cuisine as it is for its art and culture. What makes Italian chocolate so good is that Italians care so much about the purity of ingredients, and have amazingly combined the sophistication of dark chocolate and all

Created in 1908, Swiss chocolate Toblerone is known for its unique peak shaped bar made with honey and almond nougat.

Share life’s golden pleasure with Ferrero Rocher’s delicious creamy hazelnut filling with crisp wafer shell covered with chocolate and gently roasted pieces.

the decadence of milk chocolate. Discover this with the Ferrero and Nutella lines at Snack Exchange founded in 1942 by Pietro Ferrero, a Turinese milkman. He created the famous Ferrero Rocher, crunchy chocolate with hazelnuts on the outside of a wafer and a chocolate and hazelnut filling, wrapped in a gold paper. · Britain has been a nation of chocoholics since the 19th century, considered the golden-age for cocoa-based creativity in the UK. It was during this time that Fry & Sons produced the first solid chocolate bar in 1847, and Cream Sticks, the first filled chocolate sweet in 1853; and Cadbury introduced Dairy Milk

This is Opulence, a virtual fashion presentation featuring luxurious clothes created by 17 of the Philippines' best designers courtesy of Cate Figueroa Productions. Represented in this photo are the designs of Northern Mindanao's prince of haute couture Gil Macaibay III.

in 1905 using a higher proportion of milk. Soon, other brands like the Mars bar in 1933; Milky Way and KitKat in 1935, Maltesers in 1936, and Aero and Smarties in 1937, made the UK a chocolate lover’s haven. · American chocolates are sweet and delectable, and in the US, are a way of saying “I Love You”. Chocolates were even considered comfort food for the masses, when Milton Hershey produced large-masses of chocolate milk bars known as Hershey’s Milk Chocolate or “The Great American Chocolate Bar” at an affordable price. during the World War, chocolates were being rationed with the soldiers. · The Philippines was the landing point for cacao in Asia, making consummate Filipinos chocolate lovers. For generations, they enjoyed a piping hot chocolate drink with the tableya is a small chocolate tablet. Through the years, the government’s initiative to rehabilitate the cacao industry started in the emergence of smallscale chocolate makers like Auro Chocolate who created world-class bean to bar chocolate rooted in Filipino Heritage and traditions, and can be found at SM Snack Exchange. Other Asian countries have since developed their own chocolate treats Japan has Meiji, with its bean to bar and organic chocolates for the health conscious; while Korea has Lotte’s CHOCOLATE/PAGE 9

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PH's ODA hits $30.7B in 2020

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HE Philippines' active official development assistance (ODA) portfolio reached USD30.7 billion last year, a 46.6 percent increase from the previous $20.9 billion in 2019, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) reported Monday. Based on NEDA’s recently released ODA Portfolio Review Report for CY 2020, the active ODA portfolio consisted of 30 program loans, 76 project loans,

and 251 grants. Among these, 59 loans and grants were signed in 2020, consisting of 20 program loans ($8.2 billion), 14 project loans ($2.9 billion), and 25 grants ($140 million). The governance and institutions development sector recorded the highest share in last year’s ODA portfolio, amounting to $5 billion (45 percent). This was followed by the social reform and community development sector (31 percent).

Meanwhile, the infrastructure development sector, which historically accounted for the largest share, only came third (16 percent). The report said ODA was secured to augment the government’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) response, such as the procurement and delivery of vaccines, support for the emergency cash assistance program, provision of medical supplies and equipment, construction of isolation and

quarantine facilities, and strengthening the capacity of existing health facilities. “Because of our strong fiscal position, we were able to procure a total of 195 million vaccine doses from both the government and private sector, provide emergency cash transfers for those affected by the quarantines, and strengthen our overall response to address the pandemic,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said.

Bangko Sentral official cites improvement in bank lending PANDEMIC-related factors continue to drive the weaker growth in bank lending, but a ranking Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) official said an improvement has been noted on business-related loans since last July. In a virtual briefing on Friday, BSP Senior Assistant Governor

Illuminda T. Sicat said bank lending data as of last July showed that amount of loans remains weak “but the contraction is diminishing.” “In other words, there are already increases in the volume of loans being borrowed by the business sector,” she said. BSP data show that

Mga hamong kinakaharap ng mga mag-aaral sa pagkatuto gamit ang modyular distance learning CHARINA A. CUIZON Head Teacher 1 Diwat National High School

Halos dalawang taon na ang pandemya dulot ng Covid-19 virus. Dahil sa pandemya nag-iba ang systema nga edukasyon sa ating bansa. Dati ang edukasyon ay kadalasan makikita sa paaralan na magkasama ang guro at mga estudyante na nagaaral. Ngunit ngayon naging ‘Blended Learning’ na ayon sa Kagawaran ng Eduksayon kailangang magpatuloy ang pag-aaral ng mga kabataan kahit sa gitna ng pandemya. Sa ‘Blended Learning’, nasasakop dito ang Modyular distance learning kung saan binibigyan ang mga estudyante nga mga m o d y u l . Na k a p a l o o b dito ang mga leksyon na kailangang malamaan at maintindihan ng mga estudyante. Kasama din sa mudyul ang mga tanong na kailangang sagutan at

basihan ng kanilang grado. Sa kasalukuyan, halos lahat ng pampublikong paaralan lalo na sa elementary at hayskul ay gumagamit ng mudyular distance learning. Hindi rin natin maipagkakaila na may mga suliranin ang mga estudyante sa pagsagot ng kanilang mga mudyol. Kaya, kailangan talaga ng gabay ang mga esudyante para sa pagsagot ng kanilang mudyol. Sa hamon ng pag-aaral sa ginta ng pandemya, kailangan talaga ang pagtutulungan ng bawat isa para sa edukasyon ng ating mga anak. Dahil wala ang mga guro sa tabi ng mga estudyante para direktang turoan ang mga ito, kinakailangan talaga ang partisipasyon ng mga magulang para sa pag-aaral ng kanilang mga anak.

R.A 9048/RA 10172 Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines Province of Misamis Oriental Municipality of Manticao -o0oOFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR PUBLICATION NOTICE R.A. 10172 CCE-0027-2021

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC DATE: SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A No. 9048/RA 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that MARY LOUNGIE GRACE P. PASILAN has filed with this Office a petition for correction of GENDER from MALE to FEMALE in the birth Certificate of MARY LOUNGIE GRACE P. PASILAN who was born on 06 MAY 1984 at Argayoso, Manticao, Misamis Oriental and whose parents are REGINO BALABAT PASILAN, JR. and ESMERALDA JABAGAT PAJO. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 26 OCTOBER 2021. BWM: Sept. 29, Oct. 6 & 13, 2021

(SGD) DOROTHEO O. LACBAIN, JR. Municipal civil Registrar

outstanding loans of universal and commercial banks (U/KBs), excluding placements in the central bank’s reverse repurchase (RRP) facility last July declined by 0.7 percent year-on-year from a 2 percent decline in the previous month. On a month-on-month basis, U/KBs’ outstanding loans inched up by 0.5 percent. During the same period, consumer loans dropped by 8.2 percent last July from a month ago’s 8.7 percent. Sicat said the drop

in bank lending is understandable given the impact of the pandemic both on businesses and households. “But if you look at the data on the amount of loans granted by commercial banks, it remains to be negative although at decelerating pace,” she added. Relatively, the pandemic continues to impact sentiments, with results of the 2021 third-quarter business expectations survey (BES) turning negative at -5.6 LENDING/PAGE 9

As of 2020, Japan remained as the country’s overall top provider of ODA with $11.2 billion (36.4 percent) worth of loans and grants, followed by the Asian Development Bank with $8.8 billion (28.5 percent), and the World Bank with $6.4 billion (21 percent). NEDA conducts the ODA portfolio review annually, pursuant to Republic Act (RA) No. 8182 or the ODA Act of 1996, as amended by RA 8555. (PR)

BAP supports greater mobility for fully vaxxed individuals

BANK executives have backed the move to grant fully vaccinated individuals greater mobility, citing its contribution to the domestic economy’s recovery from the pandemic. “With more than 50 percent of the population vaccinated in the metropolitan and adjacent areas where most business activities are situated, spurring economic activity can be best achieved,” the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) said in a statement issued on Monday.

The BAP said the mobility of Filipinos who have received full doses of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) “will encourage spending on various goods and services.” It said this will especially boost recovery bids for the affected sectors like tourism, hospitality, and transportation. “Domestic consumption is a good first step in the road towards the country’s recovery. Our fellow Filipinos protected by MOBILITY/PAGE 9

Employing workplace flexibility By ELVIRA L. PULPUL

Workplace flexibility is a strategy of responding to changing circumstances and expectations. Employees who approach their job with a flexible mindset are typically more highly valued by employers. Similarly, employers who cultivate a flexible work environment are attractive to employees. Wo r k p l a c e f l e x i b i l i t y emphasizes the willingness and ability to adapt to change, particularly regarding how Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING & REGULATORY BOARD Regional Office No.10, Apovel, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City WESTERN BUKIDNON VAN TRANSPORT COOPERATIVE (WBVTC) Rep. by: ALDRIN B. CUBAR Applicant/Petitioner CASE NO. R10-EV-CC-UV 2021-09-2454

NOTICE OF HEARING APPLICANT/ PETITIONER requests the authority for the Extension of Validity of Certificate of Public Convenience to operate UV EXPRESS SERVICE on the route: CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY- KALILANGAN BUKIDNON AND VICE VERSA and with the use of SIX (06) unit/s. This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on October 12, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. at this Board on which date Applicant/Petitioner shall formally submit his/her/its evidence. The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least FIVE (05) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation. Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s). WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of September 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ATTY. MOHAMAD FAHDEL S. PIMPING HEARING OFFICER BWM: Sep 29, 2021

and when work gets done. The word “flexibility” technically means the ability to bend without breaking. However, people often use it to describe the ability to adjust to changes in your life without creating stress or drama. Being flexible in life means that you can change your plans and adapt to new situations easily. Pe opl e of te n w ant flexibility in their careers as well. Schools and training programs typically fixate on a defined career path, but most people’s careers do not follow such predictable paths. The EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late EULOGIO DIMDIM, being the latter’s surviving spouse and legitimate children; that the aforesaid decedent died leaving without any will and, to the best knowledge and information of the parties hereto, left no debts; that the said decedent, at the time of his death, left a parcel of land with ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 25230 (Patent no. 101320-94-4957) situated in the Barrio of Lantud, Municipality of Talakag, Province of Bukidnon, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of FORTY THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN (40,367) SQUARE METERS, And has been the subject of an EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of EULOGIO DIMDIM, in favor of GESSINE BAYLIN SALIK and JEFFREY PEÑAMANTE SALIK, per DOC #120; PAGE #23; BOOK #1; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. RHEO RINGO P. LAURE. BWM: Sep. 29, Oct 6 & 13, 2021

ability to be more flexible in a career means that you can learn new skills and assume responsibilities outside of your original position. This can lead to promotions and greater possibilities in your career. Work flexibility is a twostep process. First, it considers the ability to perceive changes that happen in the workplace. Second, it involves the skill of quickly coming up with an appropriate response. Flexibility is essential as it helps companies become more resilient towards change while allowing them to take more considerable advantage DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

of changing conditions. We can't always predict when changes like these are going to happen. That's why flexibility is so important. When you're flexible, you're vers at i le, resi lient and responsive to change. You can adapt to unexpected demands in the workplace – sudden surges in work, urgent problems, or an unpredictable event , such as a cyber security breach or financial crash, for instance. A flexible work environment has many benefits. It helps workers achieve greater work-life balance, leading to i nc re as e d e mpl oye e satisfaction and improved morale. That in turn means employee turnover is reduced, as is the cost to recruit and train new hires. EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

That the late ALEJANDRO N. NANAY died of February 1, 2010 at Natumolan, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, that said decedent mentioned in the immediately preceding paragraph at the time of his death left certain real property with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-46023 situated of Barangay of Natumolan, Municipality of Tagoloan, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT (6,288) Square Meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY, filed by the heirs of ALEJANDRO N. NANAY, per DOC #44; PAGE #09; BOOK #23; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. JOHANNE EMMANUEL G. AGUSTIN.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

BWM: Sep. 29, Oct 6 & 13, 2021

BWM: Sep. 29, Oct 6 & 13, 2021

That the late GIL B. TANGCALAGAN, SR. died intestate at Cagayan de Oro City on July 14, 2021, leaving a Savings Bank Account No. 3141-0796-29 and three Joint-Account Nos. 00003149003095, 0000314079629, 00003144001922, all in Landbank of the Philippines, Cagayan de Oro City, the decedent Gil B. Tangcalagan, Sr. left no debts and the parties herein are her sole legal heirs, they being his wife and children, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT, filed by the heirs of GIL B. TANGCALAGAN, SR., per DOC #123; PAGE #25; BOOK #39; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. REYNALDO A. VITORILLO.

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Cebu Pacific launches special 25th-anniversary credit card Apply now for the fastest way to fly for free

CEBU Pacific surprises everyJuan on its 25th anniversary with the launch of the new Cebu Pacific Gold and Platinum Credit Cards, in partnership with Go Rewards, UnionBank of the Philippines, and Visa. Using this card will enable everyJuan to earn Go Rewards points to fly faster as cardholders will get one point for every PHP 100 spent with Cebu Pacific. If used anywhere else, one point will be earned for every PHP 200 spent. As a valued cardholder you are eligible to be a Black Card member of Go Rewards. When flying as a Black card member, you can get the preferential earn rate of 1 Go Rewards point for every PHP20 spent (for the base fare and some ancillaries) when flying with Cebu Pacific. Cardholders will also get early alerts for CEB promo fares, and other Go Rewards, UnionBank and Visa exclusive offers. Platinum cardholders will also gain exclusive access to Pacific Club Lounge at NAIA Terminal 3 on top of a worryfree travel insurance of up to P10 million. “We are very happy to announce this partnership with Go Rewards, UnionBank, and Visa. Through this, everyJuan will now have easy access to endless value-for-money deals and rewards – whether for booking those much-awaited trips, or just buying day-to-day needs,” said Candice Iyog, vice president for marketing and customer experience at Cebu

Pacific. To make it even more special, those who sign up for a card starting today, September 27, 2021 until December 31, 2021, will receive Go Rewards bonus points which can be used to book a CEB flight online conveniently. A Gold cardholder will receive 5,000 points, while a Platinum

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF THE LATE AMIRUL HASAN DURAN WITH SALE Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late DATU AMIRUL HASAN DURAN consisting of real or property identified as Lot No. 125 C-5 containing an area of 284 square meters covered by Tax Declaration No. G-104226 located at Durian St., Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, was extrajudicially settled and distributed among his heirs by means of a public document entitled “EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF THE LATE DATU AMIRUL DURAN WITH SALE” executed on February 15, 2021 and ratified before Atty. Ian Sol C. Llego , Notary Public in and for Cagayan de Oro City as per Doc. No. 366, Page No. 74, Book No. 7, Series of 2021 of his Notarial Register, whereby a portion thereof consisting of Sixty Two (62) square meters was sold by said heirs in favor of ANDY ORONG BITOON.

cardholder will get 10,000 points. All these points can be redeemed not just for your dream flight, but even to purchase those essentials you’ll want to take with you. These credit cards are also accepted worldwide through the accredited merchants of Visa. CEB continues to offer the lowest fares on flights across its widest domestic network. To date, it operates regular flights to 32 domestic destinations which include Boracay, Bohol, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu,

Davao, Iloilo, and Siargao. CEB has been rated 7/7 stars by airlineratings.com for its COVID-19 compliance as it continues to implement a multi-layered approach to safety, in accordance with global aviation standards. These include daily extensive cleaning and disinfection protocols for all aircraft and facilities, antigen testing before duty for all frontliners and crew members, and contactless flight procedures. Its jet fleet are equipped with hospital grade HEPA air filters, keeping viruses at bay.

Students’ ordeal on technology’s access during pandemic time By CINDY JANE T. SEJAS Teacher II Diwat National High School

We’re in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic now but it appears that with a vaccine, we can see light at the end of the tunnel. In our full time distance learning environment, I quickly concluded that I was going to need help to make my classes successful. I identified students who clearly had leadership potential. They would compete a weekly selfassessment on how they were doing as leaders. It’s definitely one I’ll be using when we return to face to face instruction. Distance learning is going to be a central part of education for the foreseeable future. I do not believe that the world

will return to pre-Covid teaching without some online component. With that in mind, I do think we have learned quite a bit since Covid-19 that we will continue to incorporate in the Philippines. We l e a r n e d t h a t differentiation and student engagement are vital to student learning outcomes in the online space. Traditionally, teachers create lessons that can be modified for students at various contest mastery levels. In the in-person classroom, this would look like students moving ahead or getting direct teacher time based on their experience and understanding of the material.

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Awake... from page 4

minute. A part of these massive raking go es to the mainstream media to continue their gospel of lies and disinformation, burying humanity deeply i nt o c ons u m e r i s m an d materialism. Wala pong nag ig ising! If you are the Creator, how will you awaken mankind? No other way but through this on-going pandemic! My contention is that unless man is awakened, the virus will continue. All the dear animals, plants, fish and what have you, have lived and giving their lives so that human beings may live to fulfill God’s mandate as God’s stewards, such truism has made life so meaningful, dramatic and worth living – All for God’s glory. Oh my God, that wasn’t the case. All of them have been sacrificed to the altar PARTITION AGREEMENT OF LOT 3-D AND LOT 3-E KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: This Agreement, made and executed in Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, by and among, 1. RIZALINA S. ZALDIVAR, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro city, herein referred as COOWNER, 2. DAISY S. SUYMAN, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as CO-OWNER, 3. MARLYN S. LIM, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as CO-OWNERS, 4. SUSAN S. GANNABAN, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as COOWNER, 5. CLETO G. SABANAL, I, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as COOWNER, 6. LOWELA S. ZAMORA, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as COOWNER, 7. Heirs of Arnel G. Sabanal represented by LOVELYN S. SABANAL and LILIAN SABANAL, all of legal age, and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as CO-OWNER, 8. CLETO G. SABANAL, II, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as COOWNER, 9. EDWIN SABANAL, of legal age, married and residing at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, herein referred as CO-OWNER,

of greed and prof it for self-aggrandizement of a few powerful oligarchs to dominate the world making human beings just brutes and beasts in a world that has been characterized with so much unbridled materialism and consumerism. Life has ceased to be sacred but diabolical! Let the awakening process now begins. To quote Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world is not broken down by narrow domestic walls. In that Heaven of Freedom my Fat h e r, L e t my p e op l e awake!” The awakening process has now begun because of the pandemic. The truth is, the time of the homo sapiens is now over. The homo sapiens created in the image and likeness of God must now realize that he/she is not just form but connected to the Formless Being, the Unmanifested, the Eternal Being and must realize that he/she is more than form but CONCIOUSNESS, the awareness presence and must realize the oneness and sacredness of life. By doing so, he/she becomes SP I R I T U S LUM I N U S ( e n l i g hte ne d spi r it ) or HOMO PACEM (men and women for peace). Yes, we are not just ripples of the ocean but the ocean itself. When you know and feel that, you have awakened. A pure consciousness has loomed. EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late PORFERIO AZCUNA and IRENE A. AZCUNA, who died intestate on January 7, 1999 and October 7, 1999 at Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines, that at time of their death they left certain parcel of land with Tax Declaration No. 0812001606210 situated at Panampawan, Claveria, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR (139,664 SQ.M.) more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF SALE, filed by the heirs of PORFERIO AZCUNA and IRENE A. AZCUNA, in favor of JANET L. RAMOS, per DOC #379; PAGE #76; BOOK #LXXI; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. JOHN REY A. TOMINES. BWM: Sept. 22, 29 & Oct. 6, 2021

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

The parties are equal co-owners of two (2) parcels of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-142045 situated in the Barrio of Kauswagan, City of Cagayan de Oro City, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR (324) square meters, more or less, and Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-142046 situated in the Barrio of Kauswagan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO (182) square meters, more or less and has been the subject of an PARTITION AGREEMENT OF LOT 3-D AND LOT 3-E, per DOC #99; PAGE #20; BOOK #39; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. REYNALDO A. VITORILLO.

That the late AMALDO LEGASPI died intestate on June 12, 1994 at Tumpagon, Cagayan de Oro City, leaving an estate 5,000 square meters, of that land known Lot 20994 situated in Tumpagon, Cagayan de Oro City, with Technical Description containing an area of 9,075 square meters, which was acquired by a written Deed of Sale executed by Cadastral claimant Urbano Saligumba dated January 25, 1970, WHEREAS, the decedent left no debts and the parties herein are their sole surviving legal heirs, they being his wife and children, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT , filed by the heirs of AMALDO LEGASPI, per DOC #104; PAGE #21; BOOK #39; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of REYNALDO A. VITORILLO.

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Fortune... from page 4

“Money is like a glove and friendship is like your hand. You can live happily without your glove, but not without your hand.” How happy and close are your family relationships? How many close, caring friends do you have? Jesus said: “I call you friends if you have my kind of heart and way of living.” So won’t you ask Him to forgive you for all your wrong living? Then, as you become His friend, you can start enjoying the new life and love He wants to give you. He will not only help you rebuild your broken relationships, but He will help you build a “fortune of friends” who also are His true friends. Just think a minute.

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was also able to hire a lot of talented engineers from Silicon Valley, which helped it put together the kind of website infrastructure that could scale-up with an exponentially growing user base. Your Newsfeed doesn’t curate and customise itself – its launch needed engineers to cook up algorithms that picked the most valuable updates from your friends’ updates. But Hwang points to another serendipitous factor in Facebook’s global rise: mobile phones. In a lot of developing countries, people only have cheap mobiles to access the internet. In fact, a lot of these users think Facebook is the internet. “We can’t discount the p ower of mobile,” says Hwang. It’s made “social networks much, much more pervasive. You have social media at all times in your pocket, which makes it this powerful platform for news and conversation that operated in a slower way in the desktop-only era.” For starters, it has become so ingrained and intertwined in the digital ecosystem of the 21st Century that it is hard to now untangle it. Oxford’s Hogan points to a concept he calls “interoperability.” This is where a Facebook login is often required to use and operate other online services. “Just today I went out to buy concert tickets,” Hogan says. “I had to log into Facebook. I don’t use Facebook, but I had to dust

off my login. Facebook is becoming that de facto, online identity provider.” I am sure you experienced the same, my dear readers. Facebook also taps into basic human needs, according to psychologists. Even with social media movements like #DeleteFacebook, mass privacy concerns or even just calls to leave the site on the back of pedestrian design tweaks, people just can’t stay away. “A l m o s t e v e r y b o d y comes back,” says Catalina Toma, associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin. “Social networking sites tap into what makes us human: we like to connect with others.” Yes, we don't go out and meet friends somewhere for a chat or a beer or coffee. We are connected with them via Facebook. Especially since the pandemic didn't allow us to go out and meet people personally. But there are tangible benefits beyond those that keep people hooked. “Lots of studies show the more people use Facebook, the more social capital they derive – resources that we get from just being connected to other people,” says Toma. “There’s emotional support, asking for advice, asking for recommendations.” For m any Fa c e b o ok users, the pros outweigh the cons: tracking down long-lost friends, getting leads to a job, expanding their business. They can deal with the glamorized glimpses. All this keeps people coming back for more, despite the onslaught of what Toma calls “glamorized glimpses”. These are the carefully curated peeks into the lives of everyone else, who all seem to be doing better than you. “They feel worse, but they cannot stop,” Toma says. I strongly have to agree! Facebook is bound to have a grip on our lives. “Social media companies seek to exploit one’s attention for profit,” Hogan says. “It’s not even ambiguous. It’s exactly what Zuckerberg said in Congress: ‘Where do you get your money?’ ‘We get it from ads.’” Right place, right time: the rise of internet-connected mobile devices in turn fueled the rise of Facebook. “Facebook’s business is still going to accelerate,” says Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York

University who wrote The Big Four, a book about how powerful a tiny handful of technology companies are becoming. “Consumers talk a big game but where is the first place they go to express their rage? Facebook and Instagram. And with 2.2 billion monthly active users, advertisers have no choice but to be on Facebook.” That could change, though, as advertising dollars follow young users who abandon the platform. Still, there’s plenty of stability with older people – even among senior citizens. The site’s true future could boil down to what world governments decide to do, if anything, about Facebook’s growing influence. “I don’t think the question is [what is] ‘killing Facebook’,” says Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I think the question is what would get people to an appropriate use of Facebook. To the extent that we ‘knew’ about it before, we found ways to put it out of mind. Now, we can no longer do this.” We’re now all too familiar with the dangers of data leaks and fake news. Let's face it: there’s also the simple fact that Facebook has a monopoly. “Facebook’s sheer size and cash on hand means that they can either acquire or effectively shut down any competition,” says Galloway, pointing to examples like WhatsApp and Instagram, which were eventually absorbed into the Facebook behemoth. For now, Facebook is still so entrenched in our daily lives, there’s not going to be an immediate escape.“What’s more likely to happen is that people start to realize the markets and economy might be better off – by stimulating innovation, creating new jobs – if we were to break it up and have multiple firms instead of just one,” Galloway says. That’s the more likely outcome than Facebook just crashing, burning and disappearing altogether, according to the experts. Rest in peace, Facebook? Surely a big NO! +++ Email: dor ingklau s@ gmail.com or follow me on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www.klausdoringsclassicalmusic.blogspot.com.

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salivating for the highest post in the totem pole when they have nothing but brawn. Ever ything is still volatile in the Philippines 2022 elections. While the filing of the certificates of candidacy is drawing near, there is still another time allowed to make substitutions too. Out today in tomorrow. in the case of Inday Sara, my last count was that at least five political parties have come to an agreement to support her candidacy. I have not seen any changes in that arena so far. “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”, that’s how the English colloquial would describe our present political and electoral situation. We guys from the boondocks have our own way of saying it: “you cannot be sure of the man under the mango tree”. Such are the imponderables in Philippines politics.

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the vaccine are key to surpassing this health crisis,” it added. This, as experts weigh the easing of the granular lockdown system being pilot tested in Metro Manila, among others. Thegovernmentstartedtopilot test the alert level system in Metro Manila this month after placing thecountry’snationalcapitalunder Alert Level 4 following its shift to general community quarantine (GCQ). Under the new quarantine system that is still being assessed, there will only be two levels: enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and GCQ. However, restrictions will have different levels depending on the situation in a specific area. (PNA)

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IDC's CEO to discuss opportunities in Central Visayas Business Conference Architect Romolo Nati has been asked to join a panel at the Central Visayas Business Conference 2021 to discuss about “Opportunities in the Region and the Philippines”. The event is a digital conference that will be held of Thursday September 30th and is presented by Olacon Events, co-presented by FedEx and Opascor, in partnership with Cebu Chamber, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in

the Philippines, the German Chamber of Commerce, the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, the French Chamber of Commerce and Advantage Austria. Speakers include, among others, Cebu City Acting Mayor Mike Rama, Bohol Governor Arthur Yap, European Delegation Head for Trade Maurizio Cellini and Cebu Chamber President Felix Taguiam. Cebu City, the Philippine's first capital

and definitely the country's creative hub with it's various manufacturing facilities for furniture, home accessories and jewelery, has been feeling the pinch of the pandemic, and is preparing for it's bounce back to the limelight where it belongs. The speakers will speak about the current situation, examine existing scenarios and especially highlight potential opportunities. The panel discussion will shed

the light on some sectors like tourism and real estate which hold the biggest potential for the post covid era. Together with other enlightened business leaders, Architect Nati, Chairman and CEO of Italpinas Development Corporation, will share his experience about how he was able to set up his company in the Philippines and how he invested in the provinces to build sustainable green developments

and how this phylosophy has now played out very well in light of the past 18 months and the trends that developed and accelerated as a consequence of the economic and personal restrictions of the lockdowns. The event will be held on zoom and registrations can be made through Cebu Chamber of Commerce, the Italian Chamber of Commerce as well as through the links on the "Focus Philippines" Facebook page.

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Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014 after 17 years of negotiations, its enabling law, Republic Act 11054 ratified in a plebiscite in January 2019. When the BARMM was inaugurated on March 29, 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte told members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), the body tasked to govern the BARMM until June 30, 2022: “the power to chart the course of your region’s future is now in your hands. I trust that you will wield this power with utmost care, the future of succeeding generations of Filipinos, especially the Moro of Mindanao, depends on it.” The two houses of Congress have passed bills extending the transition period in the BARMM from June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2025 by resetting the first election of the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament from May 2022 to May 2025. The Bicameral Conference Committee approved earlier this week a reconciled version which the House has ratified. The Senate has yet to ratify it before it is sent to the President for signing into law. The extension of the transition period until 2025 gives the BARMM enough time to pass the priority bills and other aspects of the political track of the peace agreement and complete the decommissioning of the MILF’s 40,000 combatants and weapons and other aspects of the normalization track. But how the region will entice investors given the economic problems brought about by COVID-19, is yet another challenge. Off to a good start “Mahina pa rin ang BARMM in terms of uptick sa investment (BARMM is still slow in term of investment uptick), lawyer Ishak Mastura, chair of the Regional Board of Investments (RBOI). Mastura noted that in 2020, the lone investor accredited by the RBOI-BARMM was the Community Wireless and Power Corporation, with P14 million investment for its internet service project i n L an a o d e l Su r an d Maguindanao provinces. The region was actually off to a good start in 2019, Year One of the BARMM. T h e R B O I - BA R M M targeted 2.3 billion pesos w o r t h o f i nv e s t m e n t s then but by yearend, it recorded 4.12 billion: P1.4 billion from JMI Sand and Gravel Truck Services, P1.8 billion from Lamitan AgriBusiness Corp., P515 million from Maguindanao Corn Development DSA–I Corp., P306 million from Wao Development Corp and P100 million from Hong Kong Feng Sheng Heritage Philippines, Inc. In their applications, these firms projected a total of 2,724 direct and indirect employment. Wao Development Corp.,

a pineapple packing plant, is owned by multinational firm Dole Philippines, Inc. while the rest are Filipino owned companies. Filipino companies have always been boosting the investment climate in the region, said Mastura, who also served as the area’s investment ambassador in the Autonomous Region i n Mu s l i m M i n d a n a o (ARMM). The ARMM, which recorded 1.3 billion pesos in investments in 2018, was abolished upon the ratification of the Organic Law for the BARMM in 2019.

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Mindanao despite the health crisis because of such feats, along with the from page 2 growth in information and initial five truckloads of relief communications technology, goods containing 10,000 food f inancia l s er vices, and packs for Wao. agriculture, In a separate interview, To jumpstart growth and Francis Garcia, Wao disaster stimulate economic activities management officer, said they in rural areas, Cariño said have a recorded an average of the Regional Government one to two Covid-19 fatalities Center was established to daily since the Covid-19 surge centralize all regional line earlier this month. agencies and offices. Garcia added that from 16 T h e R e g i o n 1 0 villages, the virus has spread D e v e l o p m e n t C o u n c i l to eight more barangays in likewise created the Special Wao. “Only two villages have Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag- remained [with] no record asa (BP2) Committee that so far of Covid infection,” shall work on empowerment he said. of local industries, food He said most of the security and agricultural Covid-19 fatalities are quickly p r o d u c t i v i t y, h o u s i n g , buried at a separate graveyard s o c i a l we l f are , h e a lt h , in Barangay Katotongan of the employment and human town. “Only a few (fatalities) resource development, and were cremated,” Garcia said. infrastructure development. He said Wao currently has “In terms of project 233 active Covid-19 cases. implementation, the Bagong The Ministry of Health– Pag-Asa Organic Village, a BARMM is also set to send BP2 pilot project located in more help to Wao this week. Barangay Tacub, Kauswagan, (PNA) Lanao del Norte already has a physical accomplishment of 71.32 percent as of Aug. 31, from page 2 2021,” Cariño said. (PNA) into partnerships with the private sector under lease agreements or joint ventures. from page 1 "We are now realizing one port in Tagoloan, Misamis of the greatest goals we have Oriental on Aug. 10, 2021. envisioned in the past five The cargo, Valiente said, years of President Rodrigo was consigned to JDFallar Roa Duterte's administration. Consumer Goods Trading. Not long after this, we will He s a i d t h e on i on s be able to witness the actual was burned at a facility physical manifestation of in Barangay Mantibugao, the administration's allManolo Fortich, Bukidnon encompassing Tapang at on Sept. 18. Malasakit," he said. Valiente said the onions In a previous media were condemned due to interview, Andanar said: h e a l t h r e a s o n s a s t h e “ Tr a i n i n g p r o g r a m s shipment has no sanitary include broadcasting and permit. writing, among others. This Upon issuance of an alert profession is a vocation. It’s order by lawyer Elvira Cruz, really something that you do BOC-10 district collector, the because you believe in public shipment was then subjected service, in informing the to a physical examination people through development resulting to the discovery communication.” of onions, a violation under Me a nw h i l e , Jov e l y n Section 1400 of Republic Delosa, NBSC Vice-President Act10863 or the Customs for Academic Affairs, said Modernization and Tariff Act since the project is within (CMTA) for misdeclaration. the school's premises, their Misdeclaration of goods personnel, students and defrauds the government of stakeholders will benefit a its rightful revenues, Cruz lot from the training, and said. networking activities to be A case for violation of done at the GCA. the CMTA will be filed "The project has already against the consignee of made a lot of headway for the smuggled goods, the us in terms of planning for collector said. the future direction of our In a separate interview, college in consonance with Elizabeth delas Llagas, BOC- its mission, the true benefits 10 deputy district collector of which will be seen in the for operations, said they are always on alert for smuggled good that enter the local ports.

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province. If the RT-PCR result of the unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated APOR is not released within 24 hours from the time the test was taken, the APOR who travels to the province within 12 hours from the time the test was taken must undergo isolation. The place is determined by the appropriate local health authority until the negative RT-PCR test result is released. B as ed on t he InterAgency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases Resolution No. 124-B, an APOR is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 when at least two have passed since he or she received the second dose of a twodose vaccine or since he or she received a single-dose vaccine. To verify the APOR’s vaccination status, he or she must present his or her original COVID-19 vaccination card or the National Digital Vaccine

Certificate (VaxCertPH). Thos e w ho are unable to present such shall be considered unvaccinated. APORs are also required t o pre s e nt t h e i r v a l i d identification card (ID) or document, original or certified true copy of their travel authority or order, and they should pass the symptom screening at the port of entry. The order takes effect September 16, 2021. (RTP/ PIA-10)

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percent from the 1.4 percent in the previous quarter. Respondents cited as factors for their pessimism the impact of the pandemic; the re-imposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) last August; the drop in sales, orders, and income; concerns on government p o l i c i e s re g ard i ng t h e pandemic; and higher prices of raw materials. They also expect the peso to become weaker against the US dollar during the quarter and for inflation to rise until end-2021. On t he ot her hand, consumer confidence remained negative but the index improved from -30.9 percent in the second quarter of this year to -19.3 percent. This development was attributed to the increase in the number of family members who have jobs; additional/higher income, and effective government policies and programs on the pandemic. (PNA)

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