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GENERAL SANTOS CITY—The conservation of marine resources on which the expanding tuna and aquaculture industries depend is the focus of the 10th National Tuna Congress opening here next week .[September 3-4]Investment opportunities in tuna processing, fi...
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DIPOLOG CITY—The opening of 17th annual Mindanao Business Conference here yesterday [August 28, 2008] was a strong display of private sector confidence in the face of upheavals which have taken place in parts of the region recently. The Zamboanga del No...
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DAVAO CITY—Despite the armed clashes that have taken place in parts of Mindanao in recent days, business activity continues across the region, say private sector leaders. “Obviously, businesspeople are concerned and are closely monitoring events, but ...
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CAGAYAN DE ORO—When Marcelino Remotigue got word that his growers’ association was highlighted in the World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report, in “Agriculture for Development,” he couldn’t help musing over how far they’d come.Just a few y...
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At the 17th Mindanao Business Conference in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Mission Director Jon Lindborg (left) said that strong public-private sector partnerships are crucial to the success of Mindanao’s eco...
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Agri-Nurture, Inc. (ANI), a leading institutional fruit supplier, signed agreements at the 1st Minfruit Market Encounter, to purchase a total of 500 tons of carabao mango and 260 tons of lacatan banana from growers in North Cotabato province and in the Au...
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Doing business is easier for Tausug and Sama entrepreneurs of Panglima Sugala, Tawi-Tawi, following construction of a trading center in Barangay Batu-Batu by USAID's Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, in partnership with the municipal governmen...
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Barangay Bawing teachers and students are spared from the daily ordeal of crossing a creek to school with an 18-meter concrete footbridge that now connects Bawing National High School to the rest of the barangay. The facility was constructed by USAID’s ...
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OLUTANGA, ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY—Mario Calipes has been a geometry teacher at the high school here for 16 years, but until recently his knowledge of computers and the internet was close to zero. “I hesitated to even touch a computer because I was afraid I ...
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What looks like a resort platform located off an idyllic white sand beach in Tobangkaw, an island-village in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, is actually a solar drier for the seaweed harvests of local farmers. The platform was built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in ...
