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SunStar Photo by Ace June Rell Perez Photo by Ace June Rell Perez Photo by Ace June Rell Perez Photo by Ace June Rell Perez + February 17, 2021 IF YOURE thinking of elevating your game on food preparation, wooden pieces on your dining table can be the answer. While I was browsing through Facebook, RJ, our EIC, shared a post on our group chat about this local business selling interesting wooden pieces and other aesthetic items. I decided to visit them at Central Park, Bangkal, Davao...

Locsin wants ‘visa-less’ travel in Asean stopped Bernadette E. Tamayo © Provided by The Manila Times FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. wants “visa less” travel within Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) stopped since syndicates use this scheme to traffic Filipinas abroad as sex slaves. “A lot of girls from Cotabato are trafficked to war zones to be sex slaves through visa less Asean. Stop visa less travel,” Locsin tweeted on Wednesday. Citizen...

Published February 16, 2021, 7:00 AM Mindanao is planning to boost its Wagyu meat production as part of the efforts to improve the region’s food self-sufficiency, a government official said. Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Chair Emmanuel Piñol said five provinces in Mindanao will be identified to serve as pilot areas for the implementation of a cattle production program being initiated by his agency. Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Chair Emmanuel Piñol (MARK BALMORES / MANILA...

Published February 14, 2021, 10:42 AM   COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Farmers and local officials of two upland farming communities in Sultan Kudarat province lauded Friday the government for providing them a 7.48-kilometer farm-to-market road (FMR) through the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). PHOTO FROM PNA/ MANILA BULLETIN About 5,000 residents, almost 2,000 of whom were agrarian reform beneficiaries, are enjoying the benefits of the PHP37-million concrete FMR project that connects Barangays ...

"Everything is affected... Your work, income, social status, identity, mental health, satisfaction with yourself, your life, your place in society, your independence.... And as a woman its even harder to remain patient and endure, in a society so opposed to women and femininity, though crying out for them both." — Iranian Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi, articleeighteen.com, January 21, 2021; Iran. "The killing of Abida and Sajida in such a merciless way is not an isolated case, ...

(BARMM / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, MOH Minister Amirel Usman stressed the need to extend assistance to the PWDs and senior citizens being part of what he described as vulnerable members of society. “Hindi natin sila pwedeng pabayaan (We cannot leave them alone),” Usman said, adding that their special needs do not hamper their contribution as productive and functioning members of society. The regional health ministry said a total of 31 PWDs and senior citizens from the towns of South ...

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(photo from PNA) Engr. Godofredo B. Homez, Cotelco general manager, said that victim Kier Selebio, a Cotelco field technician, was released at Don Carlos town in the adjacent Bukidnon province around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Based on Don Carlos police records, Selebio was abandoned by his abductors at the secluded village and sought assistance from a nearby house where he was able to call his wife through a mobile phone. “He was left behind and heard nothing, so he tried to crawl and untied his hand...

Published on: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 By: PNA Text Size: The firearms and improvised explosive devices recovered by government forces from the three slain NPA leaders. COTABATO: A suspected high-ranking regional leader and two other sub-commanders of the communist New Peoples’ Army (NPA) operating in North Cotabato were killed in a clash against joint police and military operatives in remote Sitio Matangao, Barangay Sarayan  Monday. Maj. Judgie Barotas, town police chief, identified the...

Published on: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 By: PNA Text Size: The firearms and improvised explosive devices recovered by government forces from the three slain NPA leaders. COTABATO: A suspected high-ranking regional leader and two other sub-commanders of the communist New Peoples’ Army (NPA) operating in North Cotabato were killed in a clash against joint police and military operatives in remote Sitio Matangao, Barangay Sarayan  Monday. Maj. Judgie Barotas, town police chief, identified the...