Mindanao

SMART, SuperFerry Tie Up for Mobile Payments

MANILA — Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) has inched closer towards creating the trailblazing Smart Mobility Loop, the country?s first mobile-based, universal transport payment system designed for more than 25 million cellphone users.

The company has forged a partnership with SuperFerry, which operates 12 domestic passenger ships, to jointly develop a passenger travel fare collection system using the award-winning Smart Money electronic financial services platform. This will enable passengers to pay for their tickets with just a few clicks on their mobile phones.

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DBP Sets Aside P5.2 Billion for Mindanao Projects

By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY—The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has set aside 5.2 billion pesos this year to finance both pipeline and newly proposed projects in Mindanao, an official of the bank said.

Rey Magno Teves, DBP director, said the bank has the funds to finance critical infrastructures that he hoped would spur economic activities in Mindanao.

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The Right to Self-determination (a Primer)

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, presents this primer about the right to self-determination. “The essence of the Bangsamoro struggle for self-determination is the realization of their right to freely determine their political status vis-?-vis the Republic of the Philippines,” he writes. Lingga’s institute is a Cotabato-based think tank on Moro politics, history and culture.

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