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MSMEs: Major driver of economy
YESTERDAY, the Association of Negros Occidental Food Processors, in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – Negros...
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Catching tourists
ACCORDING to award-winning international travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler, three famous tourist destinations in the country were some of the world’s best islands...
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Protect, conserve fishery resources
AS AN island nation, the Philippines necessarily depends on its fishery resources for its food. Fish used to be among the...
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Never forget
IT IS heartening to see that many of those who joined yesterday’s Black Friday protests across the country against the burial of dictator...
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Adding insult to injury
“ADDING insult to deep injuries” – this is how the still unresolved Maguindanao massacre is being characterized. In 2010 during his...
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Impunity reigns
SEVEN years after the wholesale slaughter of media personnel and other civilians in the infamous Maguindanao / Ampatuan massacre in 2009, impunity still...
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Resurrecting the ‘pork’
THE pork barrel may still be alive despite the Supreme Court ruling on the unconstitutionality of the Priority Development Assistance Fund. The...
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It starts in the barangay
THE WAR against drugs is being brought to the barangays, the smallest administrative division in the country. Good grassroots governance...
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Closed season
FROM Nov. 15, 2016 to Feb. 15, 2017 it is prohibited to catch sardines, herrings and mackerels in the Visayan Sea – a...
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The right to safe products
CONSUMERS must always exercise their right to product safety. As popular Christmas decorations such as holiday lights enjoy brisk sales...