Economy

‘Biodynamic’ Products Now in Davao

DAVAO CITY — A store selling 100 percent pesticide-free food products will be finally opened here today, a move considered as a breakthrough in the growing world of alternative food production and consumption.

Opening the niche to the public is the Don Bosco Foundation for Sustainable Development or Don Bosco, a prime-mover in the science of biodynamics, an agricultural approach which recognizes ?the basic principles at work with nature and takes these principles to bring about balance and healing.?

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?A Cause for Alarm?: RP World?s Most Dependent on Overseas Remittances ? Ibon

MANILA — Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have become the country’s biggest source of dollars, and this has made the country among the most dependent on such inflows in the world. This was revealed during independent think-tank IBON Foundation’s Birdtalk, the organization’s year-end economic and political briefing.

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Ex-Entertainer from Davao Shines as English Teacher in Japan

DAVAO CITY — Sometime in the ?80s, Annie Yanagida went to Japan to work as an entertainer, one of the thousands who go to that country each year to seek greener pasture.

But unlike most Filipina entertainers in Japan, Annie, who graduated from the Holy Cross of Davao College, saw other opportunities. After marrying a Japanese, she put up Annie?s English School, which she has been nurturing for the past 20years.

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Mindanao Doctor Who Topped Board Exams Remains Unapologetic for Becoming Nurse in NY

The story of Elmer Jacinto, the Basilan native who topped the 2004 medical board exams but ended up as a nurse in New York, continues to fascinate people. In this story, by the AP’s Adam Geller, Jacinto makes no apologies for his decision that stunned people.

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