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Philippines: Probe on $6 Million DENR Air Monitoring Network Project Sought

KALIKASAN-PNE
KALIKASAN? PEOPLES NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
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PRESS RELEASE
April 14, 2007

Probe on $6 million DENR Air Monitoring Network Project sought
Re-electionist administration solon among those in hot water

Environmental activists today urged a government probe on a $6 million air pollution monitoring project between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and a private joint venture, expressing grave concern over highly-questionable transactions and suspicious actions of senior government officials, including DENR Secretary Angelo Reyes and a prominent administration congressman.

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Philippines: More Microfinancing Access for Mindanao’s Poorest Provinces Urged

The government has asked the microfinance sector to widen the access the marginalized sector to credit windows by expanding their operations in the 10 poorest provinces of Mindanao.

Secretary Domingo F. Panganiban, lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) has urged the nation?s microfinance institution to help reduce poverty in Mindanao by expanding their operations in the countryside.

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SM City Davao to Open IT Park

DAVAO CITY — With many investors on information and communication technology (ICT) scouting for space to locate, the coming in of SM City to develop an IT park is very timely.

Davao City council committee chair on trade, commerce and industry Peter Lavina in an interview said several interested locators wanting to come to Davao but could not find the right place.

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Philippines: Bird Flu Is a Children?s Concern, Says Unicef

DAVAO CITY — Bird Flu is a children?s concern, which has prompted the United Nations Children?s Fund to join the information drive to keep the Philippines free from the pandemic and save the Filipino children.

Nilo Yacat, an information officer from UNICEF Philippines in a seminar workshop with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) information officers, bared the extent of harm that the Avian Influenza (AI) had done to children population.

He said one-half of the reported cases and one-third of the reported deaths worldwide due to AI, were children.

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