GoldStar Daily 17 May 2012 REPRESENTATIVES from the business, civil society, and government agencies met Tuesday in Cagayan de Oro to draft a road map for the economic future of Mindanao by 2020. Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Secretary Luwalhati Antonino said during the Mindanao Economic Policy forum that many of the issues confronting Mindanao today [...]

Manila Bulletin JC BELLO RUIZ March 28, 2012 MANILA, Philippines — Starting this July, state-run Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF or Pag-IBIG) will double its current maximum loanable amount for members to P6 million from the current P3 million, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay disclosed. Binay, concurrent chairman of the Pag-IBIG board of trustees made [...]

The Philippine Star Updated Jan 22, 2012 MANILA, Philippines – The issue of poor land use planning is being left out in the current discussions on why disasters keep happening in the Philippines. According to Dr. Walter Salzer, director and principal advisor of the ?Environment and Rural Development Program (ERDP) of the ?Deutsche Gesellschaft für [...]

BusinessWeek Mindanao Post Published: 27 February 2012 POWER shortage continued to stall businesses in several provinces in Mindanao as the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) started imposing load curtailment in 33 electric cooperatives as power supply has fallen due to alleged generation deficiency. NGCP, the private sector operator of the state-owned transmission grid, [...]

March 17, 2012 By Charlie V. Manalo The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a bill authorizing the Land Management Bureau (LMB) to conduct a nationwide cadastral survey to curb the proliferation of fake land titles. House Bill 5870 authored by San Juan Rep. Joseph Victor Ejercito aims to restore the integrity of [...]