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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Escudero extends financial aid to North Cotabato tricycle groupKIDAPAWAN CITY, May 15 (PNA) - Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero has shelled out P50,000 from his socio-economic fund to help members of the 2,000-strong Kidapawan Integrated Tricycle Association (KITA) here cope with the recent increase in petroleum prices. Councilor Joseph Evangelista, city transportation and communications committee...
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
KORONADAL CITY, May 13 (PNA) -– Proponents of the proposed South Cotabato environment code expects the passage before the end of the month of the controversial provincial ordinance, including its provision banning open-pit mining in the province.
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
COTABATO CITY, May 15 (PNA) - Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) chair Dante Jimenez has urged the national government to resume its peace venture with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to sustain the relative peace enjoyed in most parts of Mindanao.
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General Santos, Philippines (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... 256 barangays are highly prone to flooding. Sixty-three of these Region 12 barangays are in South Cotabato, 104 in North Cotabato, 61 in Sultan Kudarat, and 28 in Sarangani. Continuous rainfall swelled the Allah River and its tributaries, leaving eight villages in Surallah, South Cotabato flooded yesterday. – by Ramil Bajo PhilStar
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General Santos, Philippines (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... cooperatives, one (1) distribution utility and one (1) non-utility. District 6 serves South Cotabato Electric Cooperative (SOCOTECO I), South Cotabato Electric Cooperative (SOCOTECO 2), Cotabato Electric Cooperative (COTELCO), Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (MAGELCO), Sultan Kudarat Electric Cooperative (SUKELCO), Cotabato Light and Power Company (COLIGHT) and Dole...
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
KIDAPAWAN CITY, May 14 (PNA) -– The Mindanao Press Corps, in coordination with various government-line agencies in North Cotabato, will spearhead on May 15 a province-wide circumcision and milk supplementation program.
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Forbes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Xstrata is focused on Indophil Resources' interest in Tampakan, the Philippines' largest mining project, located in South Cotabato province on the island of Mindanao. The $2 billion mine is currently 62.5% owned by Xstrata and 34.2% held by Indophil Resources, while the latter has conducted negotiations to secure the remaining 3.3%.
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
COTABATO CITY- Decades old clan wars in the troubled southern Philippines are making security forces more nervous than a potential break in a fragile truce with Muslim rebels, said a senior army general. Maj. Gen. Raymundo Ferrer, the most senior army commander in the Cotabato area on southern Mindanao island, said the scaled down presence of the 60-member Malaysian-led peace monitors...
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Fox Guarding the Henhouse Alert: sure, says the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Libya would be a great choice as a mediator! "Philippines: Rebels welcome Libya's offer to head peace monitoring mission," from AKI (thanks to Sr. Soph): Cotabato City, 12...
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General Santos, Philippines (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato — Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. spent a total of P780 million last year as it advances exploration activities straddling three Mindanao provinces, the company said in its first sustainability report Sun.Star obtained on Thursday. Mark Williams, Sagittarius general manager, noted the bright prospects of the Tampakan copper and gold project under the management...
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Global Geopolitics News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... by signing a peace pact with Moro Malaysia begins pullout of Philippine monitors - Boston Globe COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Malaysian peacekeepers began a phased withdrawal from the Philippines’ troubled south on Saturday, raising worries that decades of Muslim rebellion in the mainly Catholic nation may resume. Twenty-eight of 41 PRESS DIGEST - Philippine newspapers - May 13...
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... Bicol; Bacolod; Iloilo; Cebu; Zamboanga City; Cagayan de Oro City; Davao City; Pikit, North Cotabato; Surigao City; and in the Muslim Autonomous Region in Mindanao (ARMM). Among the government's programs and projects that will be showcased as part of the Independence Day celebrations are livelihood assistance projects, housing projects, healthcare programs, feeding programs for school children,...
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General Santos, Philippines (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... director for region 12. Mr. Isidro G. Abrenica Jr. of barangay Bual Norte in Midsayap town in Cotabato province was chosen to assume for this month of May 2008, the role and task of BFAR 12 Regional Director Sani Macabalang, who for a month shall engage in an immersion in coastal villages here in the region in an effort to maximize aquatic resources and attain the action plan of the fishery...
