As in Iraq, American Oil Giant Exxon Follows U.S. Troops in Sulu
This week, Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest oil company, announced that it would explore the deep waters of Sulu for oil. Is there a parallel between the US war in…
Davao Activists to Join 20,000 Others in Cebu for Anti-Asean Protests
Activists from Bayan, Bayan Muna and other left-wing groups in the city will meet up with fellow activists in Cebu to denounce the 12th Asean Summit because, according to them, it benefits only ?the imperialist countries? like the US. Davao Today?s Cheryll D. Fiel reports.
Why Call Centers Are NOT Investing in Davao
The Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry has decried the practice of call-center companies to recruit call-center agents from Davao City for their branches in Cebu or elsewhere. The chamber’s Andre Fornier had a mouthful to say about the matter:
“Cebu is bragging that they have enough call center agents, but most of their agents and also Manila-based call center agents came from Davao. We will not support call centers which are only making Davao City as a recruitment ground. Of course we cannot stop them from doing so, we have no law for that, but we will not encourage our people to be a call center agent in Manila or in Cebu,” he said.
But are these call-center companies really the problem?
Protect Diwalwal’s Small Miners from Foreign Firms, Pimentel Urges Gov’t
Mindanaoan senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today warned the Arroyo government not to neglect the rights of small-scale miners as the government opens the Diwalwal gold-rush site to big mining companies, among them foreign-owned.
Pimentel said small-scale miners ?want an assurance that their means of livelihood and their welfare will be protected with the entry of mining firms and their foreign partners.?
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