Malaria cases up in General Santos City
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
General Santos City - City health officials expressed alarm over the rise in the number of malaria cases here.
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Mining firm to stay despite rebel attacks
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 July) – Mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) yesterday said it has remained unfazed by mounting pressures on its operations ...
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Jatropha farming booms in SoCSKSarGen
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, July 23 (PNA) -- With guaranteed market for jatropha seeds, more farmers in the SoCSKSarGen (South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Saranggani, and General Santos) are into jatropha farming.
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Petron assures GenSan of continued fuel supply despite impending closure of Bula depot
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
MANILA, July 21(PNA) -- Petron Corporation, the country’s leading oil refiner on Sunday announced that it is closing before the year end its depot in Bula, General Santos City.
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Farmers beginning to gain additional income from jatropha plantations
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, July 21 (PNA) -– The government’s alternative fuel program is on track with farmers here now reaping additional income from their jatropha plantations.
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PGMA stumbles upon promising rubber farming industry as she visits North Cotabato
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... province as a whole. Immediately after her chopper touched down at Makilala Elementary School from General Santos City, the President motored to the PRDI plantation at Sitio Del Asuncion in Barangay Poblacion here. At the plantation site, Sandique briefed the President on how the rubber industry in Makilala changed the lives of the townsfolk for the better. Sandique told the President that...
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Armed gang attacks Tampakan mine rig
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... source added that the attack may have been timed to coincide with a visit by Arroyo to nearby General Santos City on Mindanao island.Discovered in 1991, the mine has never left the drawing board, dogged by environmental and economic problems, political instability and laws restricting foreign ownership.The Philippines has seen only $1 billion flowing into the mining sector since 2004 --...
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PGMA shifts into high gear alternative fuel energy program
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... 500 hectares in Fort Magsasay, Nueva Ecija, 200 hectares in Camarines Sur, 100 hectares in General Santos City, 60 hectares in Ara, Palawan, 40 hectares in Cagayan de Oro City, 14 hectares in Bohol, and five hectares in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. The President said that because of the energy efficiency programs initiated by her administration, the country is now 56 percent energy self-sufficient,...
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Communist rebels fail in prison attack
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Manila - Communist rebels attacked a provincial jail in the southern Philippines in a bid to free a detained comrade, but the attempt was foiled by security forces, the country's military said Thursday. The guerrillas on Wednesday fired three mortar rounds at the jail in General Santos City in Sarangani province, 1,050 kilometres south of Manila. Major Armand Rico, a regional military spokesman,...
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