According to the host organizer, the Mindanao Business Council, the first to sign up for the trade exhibit is the Philippine Mining Development Corporation (PMDC) which is looking for joint venture partners for the development of its mining projects in Davao del Norte and Diwalwal in Compostela Valley Province.
Efforts to integrate peace subject in the education mainstream are gaining grounds in Mindanao as government, academe, civil society and ODA groups here have recently converged to strongly advocate for Mindanao peace education institutionalization.
Accounts from the staff of the publication showed that while the staff meeting was ongoing, they were interrupted by hasty knocks on the door. The professor entered and uttered words of defamation and insult to the editors.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines expresses utmost concern over moves by senators to cite a reporter in contempt for refusing to reveal her sources, have a newspaper investigated and, worst, amend or repeal the law protecting confidential news sources.
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National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Southern Mindanao
Press Statement
October 5, 2007
Plunderous NBN deal a hallmark of bureaucrat capitalism under the Arroyo regime— NDF Southern Mindanao
The scandalous 329 million-dollar National Broadband Network scam that has now become daily primetime fare further exposes the Arroyo regime’s inherent rotten character in plundering the nation’s wealth and resources. The Filipino people are repulsed by the shameless plunder being committed in broad daylight by Arroyo through her own husband Mike Arroyo and other minions. This deal, while scrapped by Arroyo for political expediency in the face of the people’s ire, is a hallmark of the insidiousness of bureaucrat capitalism in the Philippines.
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