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Farah Pandith (far left), U.S. State Department Special Representative to Muslim Communities, listens as Jamairah Macabanding (far right) describes the knowledge of national policy formulation she gained as a participant in the Congressional Internship Pr...
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Farah Pandith (center, 6th from left), , met at the American Chamber of Commerce office in Manila with young Mindanaoans participating in the Productive Internships in Dynamic Enterprises (PRIDE) project, which places interns in private corporations, and ...
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Interns Farah Pandith (far right), U.S. State Department Special Representative to Muslim Communities, listens as Raihanie Abbas (far left) describes the skills she developed as a USAID-sponsored management intern at KFC Philippines. Ms. Pandith met at th...
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney (center) cut the ribbon formally inaugurating the new Jolo Airport Runway Improvement Project [on December 14, 2009] implemented with assistance from USAID’s Growth with Equity in M...
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JOLO, SULU—Water system improvements in the provincial capital provided through a U.S.-Philippines partnership have been completed by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program and the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA).The water sy...
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Business leaders and government officials in Sulu expect the Jolo Airport runway expansion recently completed through a Philippines-U.S. partnership to lead to increased trade and investment in the province. The old airport runway (left photo) was extende...
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JOLO, SULU—Business leaders and government officials here expect the Jolo Airport runway expansion recently completed through a Philippines-U.S. partnership to lead to increased trade and investment in the province.The runway was extended from 1,200 met...
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A container holding eight metric tons of squash produced by the 350-member Central Mindanao Vegetable Industry Development Council (CEMVIDEC) is readied for shipping to Manila. In the wake of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, the Department of Agriculture called...
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—As Mindanao agricultural exports and domestic out-shipments continue to rise despite the weakened global economy, the region’s private sector is calling for the development of a logistics corridor which would integrate key producti...
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The gantry crane at the Mindanao International Container Terminal is one of five such cranes in the country. As Mindanao agricultural exports and domestic out-shipments continue to rise, the private sector is calling for the development of a logistics cor...
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Mariam Donding (wearing white tandong at left) was one of the participants in the Congressional Internship Program for Young Muslim Leaders (CIPYML) who attended the forum with U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton (center) at the University of Sto. Toma...
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MANILA—Among the groups of young Filipinos who attended the student forum with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the University of Santo Tomas recently were twenty-five Muslims from Mindanao, who are participating in the Congressional Internshi...
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CAGAYAN DE ORO—Three growers’ associations in northern, southern and central Mindanao have reported a 75-percent increase from 2007 to 2009 in shipments of vegetables to Cebu and other markets in Visayas and Luzon.The annual aggregate vegetable out-sh...
