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• Mindanao Processors Venture into Non-Traditional Fruit Products

  DAVAO CITY—Mindanao fruit processors are diversifying into non-traditional products, in order to expand their domestic and foreign market reach. “The market is looking for good [alternative] fruit products, and processors are always on the lookout ...

• Major Buyer to Sign Deal at Minfruit Market Encounter

  DAVAO CITY—A major institutional supplier of fresh fruit and vegetables in Metro Manila and an exporter of carabao variety mangoes recently agreed to purchase a 50-hectare yield of mangoes in North Cotabato province for export. The signing of the buy...

• Spirit of Peace Swims Free in Zamboanga

  Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney and Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat release a 12-year old male green sea turtle into the waters off Paseo del Mar in the city. Ambassador Kenney named the turtle “Espiritu de Paz de Zamboanga,” or “Spirit of Peace...

• Peace Secretary, U.S. Ambassador Turn Over USAID Projects in Basilan, Zamboanga

  LAMITAN, BASILAN—U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney and Sec. Hermogenes Esperon, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, yesterday [10 July 2008] inaugurated a bridge built here by the U.S. government in partnership with the provincial and municipa...

• Waan School Greets Visitors from Washington

  Students of Waan High School cluster around U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Farrell during their visit to Davao City. Beside them are principal Evelyn Ogang ...

• A "CLIC" Away from Cyberspace

  U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri is given a tour of the internet by a student of the Waan National High School in Davao City. The school’s computers and high-speed internet connection were provided throu...

• Scientific Solutions

  Students of Waan National High School in Davao City explain their science experiment to visiting U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri. Khalid Lintangi, president of the school’s parent-teacher-community a...

• Ally from the Insect World

  Roger Gualberto, vice chairman of the Maharlika Farmers Cooperative in Davao Del Sur, shows off cabbages grown naturally, with protection from the diadegma wasp (inset), which feeds on the diamond black moth that destroys crops. The use of diadegma as an ...

• Trading Hub

  There’s almost constant flow of goods and passengers at this boat landing in Barangay Kampurnah, Isabela City, Basilan, one of 65 constructed across the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and conflict-affected areas in Mindanao by USAID’s Gro...