Politics

?Mega-Region? Concept Excites Execs

TAGUM CITY ? Clustering provinces into a ?mega-region? enables one to support the other and could prove beneficial to Mindanao, officials said this week.

Davao del Norte Vice Governor Antonio Rafael ?Anthony? del Rosario praised the plan of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to lump provinces and regions into mega- or? supra-regions as an economic and development strategy,? a concept which the province of Davao del Norte implemented during the time of former Rodolfo del Rosario.

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NPA Denies Killing Kidapawan Couple; Pi?ol Disagrees with ?All-Out War?

By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY — The New People’s Army (NPA) in Southern Mindanao has denied the accusation made by the police that it was behind the murders this week of George and Maricel Vigo, development workers and former journalists in Kidapawan City.

Instead, the NPA pointed to North Cotabato governor Emmanuel Pi?ol and officials of the military as the perpetrators.

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Southern Mindanao Cited as Nation?s Safest Region

By Grace S. Uddin
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY ? This city?s notoriety as the ?salvage? capital of the Philippines did not prevent the Southern Mindanao region, where other cities also emulate Davao in dealing with suspected criminals, from getting the award for the ?Best in Regional Peace and Order Council? for the year 2004.

?Salvage? is a term widely used by Filipinos to refer to a summary execution, often by people suspected to be authorities, mainly the police. ?Salvaging,? in fact, has been widely supported and endorsed by Davao City officials, among them Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the chairman of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC).

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As Bomb Goes Off in Maguindanao, Diarrhea Forces Arroyo to Cancel Davao Visit

By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY — A bomb exploded in Shariff Aguak, a town in Maguindanao, yesterday, June 23, the day President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was supposed to set foot on Mindanao.

The president was scheduled to arrive in this city and travel to some parts of the Southern Mindanao region on Friday but the trip was canceled after she was rushed to the hospital for severe diarrhea.

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