Mindanao Daily NEWS
Volume II, No. 136
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November 22, 2013
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Capitol workers call off party for Yolanda victims
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Regional Editor-Caraga
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur–– Government workers of the provincial capitol will sacrifice their traditional yearly festive Christmas party celebration to instead use the fund intended for the event for relief assistance to victims of super typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Samar. SEE FULL STORY/p.4A
PH thanks China for typhoon aid THE Philippines on Thursday thanked China’s assistance to the victims of Typhoon Yolanda and accepted Beijing’s offer to send a naval hospital to treat injured survivors from the storm-ravaged Visayas region. China, the world’s second largest economy, was among the several countries that provided aid to the Philippines, but its paltry US$ 100,000 initial donation came under heavy criticisms from international media and personalities. As calls mount for China to provide more aid, Beijing increased its assistance to P 73 million and pledge more help, a move that may thaw several months of acrimony SEE CHINA/p.A11
GK-Shell houses.
Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno (second from left) and Gawad Kalinga Provincial Head Dr. Alfonso del Fiero (third from left) formally received from Shell top officials a miniature copy of the GK-Shell houses as a gesture of symbolic turn-over for the newly-constructed multipurpose building and additional 72 housing units at the GK Village relocation site for Sendong victims in Calaanan, Canitoan. Photo courtesy of City Information Office
Gov Emano boosts Promotion of NGF T he P rov i ncial N u t r i t i o n Committee (PNC) chaired by Honorable Yevgeny Vincente B. Ema no, P rov i ncial Governor, is leading the promotion of the 10 New Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos (NGF) in the Province of Misamis Oriental. The 10 messages being promoted in the new NGF are simple statements that give advice on the consumption of foods and food components for which there are public health concerns. In 2012, the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of t h e D e p a r t m e n t of
Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST) initiated the revision of the NGF to keep up with the changes in the nutrition situation in the country as well as new information on nutrition and related interventions
to address nutrition related health problems. These 10 messages which Governor Emano personally recited together with the Provincial Nut r it ion Com m it t e e (PNC) in a simple but momentous gathering at
the Provincial Governors Conference Room last October 14, 2013, are as follows: 1. Eat a variety of foods everyday to get the nutrients needed SEE emano/p.A11
Governor Yevgeny Vincente “Bambi” B. Emano, together with Ms. Girly O. Barcenas, Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (3rd and 4th from Left), and Dr. Patricia Lim, Provincial Health Officer (right) and together with the reconstituted Provincial Nutrition Committee of Misamis Oriental leads in the Promotion of 10 NGF in the Province.
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Pantukan small-scale miners protest US-owned mining anew By MART D. SAMBALUD of Davao Today
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley Province— Agitated after learning that drilling explorations have resumed last week, some 1,000 smallscale miners and farmers staged a protest rally Monday morning to reiterate their position against the joint mining operations of US-based St. Augustine Gold and Copper Limited (SAGCL), formerly Russell Mining and Minerals Inc., and its local partner, the Nationwide Development Corp. (Nadecor). Spearheaded by Save Pantukan Movement, protesters marched from Pantukan Public Market to the office of SAGCL, stopping over at the municipal hall to submit their position paper and to seek dialog with the mayor. The miners and farmers have staged crippling barricades at the national highway last year to dramatize their opposition against the $2-billion open-pit mining. The NADECOR owns a Mineral Production Sharing Agreement covering 1,656 hectares of mineral-rich area in Pantukan. SEE PROTEST/p.A11
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