A DTI official said the investment climate this year remains bright considering that many businesses are into expansion projects. ?The fact that these businesses are into opening up of new branches is an indication that the business climate is favorable,? he said.
The Department of Labor and Employment said it invite companies, organizations and individuals who can become a ?donor, sponsor, friend, or a supporter? to provide services -- food, clothing, shelter, mentoring, livelihood, educational, medical assistance, work and training opportunities -- for Southern Mindanao's child laborers.
This city once again made history when a graduate from John Paul II College of Davao topped this year?s Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Geodetic Engineering in Manila last September. Alfredo Cahiles Gaborne Jr., from Calinan, said he did not expect to get the highest rating and that all he wanted was to be in the top 20 list.
Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).
This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
(more…)
DAVAO CITY ? Human rights group Karapatan- Southern Mindanao sharply rebuked President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo’s speech delivered at the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York last Friday. The president, in her address said that Philippines is the most democratic country in Asia-Pacific Region and did not even tolerate human rights violations in the country.
(more…)