AFP assures peaceful, orderly plebiscite
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Misor corners lion’s share of investments in Normin in 2018 By MIKE BAÑOS Editor-at-Large
Visioning workshop for Sulu and Tawi-tawi delegates held in Zamboanga City on 5 November 2018. MindaNews file photo by Bobby Timonera
Economic hardships fuel violent extremism – report By H. MARCOS C. MORDENO MindaNews
DAVAO City--Unemployment and other economic difficulties are pushing Moro youth into joining extremist groups, a consolidated report based on visioning workshop sessions attended by various groups and sectors in the Bangsamoro said. The workshops, facilitated by the UNDP-backed Insider Mediators, aimed to come up with a unified vision for the emerging political entity that will replace the Autonomous
THE province of Misamis Oriental garnered three-fourths of Northern Mindanao’s (Region 10) record-shattering investments registered with the Board of Investments (BOI) in 2018. With three of the five big ticket investments locating in its eastern towns, the province accounted for P172.3-Billion (B) of Region 10s P228.8-Billion (B) total for the period. Better still was the dispersal of two other big ticket projects to Bukidnon and Iligan City/Lanao del Norte with one each. Another positive develolment for the region: manufacturing accounted for 82.5 percent of the P188.7-B sectoral investtment and 97.2 percent of estimated total employment. Basic metals manufacturing bannered this sector with the AFP Group Hold-
Since
1923
ings Corp. P158.4-B facility at Partk 5, Villanueva, Phividec Industrial Estate as the largest. The 70% Filipino, 30% China joint venture will manufacture slabs and hot rolled coils, and is expected to generate an estimated 10,000 new jobs. Also in the same sub-sector is Steel Asia Villanueva Works P12.15-B expansion in Sitio Kirahon, Bgy. San Martin, Villanueva. The 100% Filipino venture will produce concrete reinforcing steel bars and wire rods, and generate 1,200 new jobs. Rounding out the Big 3 of big-ticket investments in Misamis Oriental is the P1.8-B 100% Filipino project of Bio Renewable Energy Ventures, Inc. which would produce coco methyl ester (CME) and glycerin, to generate 33 new jobs. The two ventures listed in the Non-Metallic Mineral See SHARE, page 11
Region in Muslim Mindanao once the Bangsamoro Law is ratified in a plebiscite slated on January 21 and February 6. The visioning workshops were held in November last year. The participants came from areas covered by the Bangsamoro and those outside the region with sizeable Moro populations. “Even graduates who are unemployed would join extremist groups. Many MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front) combatants who were not integrated into the Armed Forces of
the Philippines and the Philippine National Police joined the extremists, too,” the report said. The 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the Philippine government and MNLF provides for the integration of a certain number of former Moro rebels into the AFP and PNP. The report said educating the youth will help prevent violent extremism. “Education and employment are intertwined, as quality education is needed Hundreds of families, displaced by war in Marawi City last year, attended the ceremonial turn-over of temporary housing units in Barangay Boganga, here, Thursday (January for employment,” it said.
dawn on Friday, the military said. Military and police reports said that after burning the truck in Barangay Lilingayon at about 3 a.m., the rebels robbed the driver
and a civilian security escort of their cellular phones. Police said charges will be filed against the rebels. The military said the incident has been reported to the Commission on Hu-
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Army slams NPA for torching civilian truck in B’non By MEL MADERA
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- At least 20 members of the New People’s Army (NPA) burned down a truck in Valencia City, Bukidnon at
man Rights (CHR) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as proof of NPA violation of the International Humanitarian Law. Col. Edgardo de Leon,
commander of the 403rd Brigade, condemned the incident as nothing but an act of terror by the NPA, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European
Union. “We strongly condemn the CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines) - NPA terrorists for its blatant disregard of International See SLAMS, page 11
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