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Month: July 2008

Asia-Pacific women bear mining woes

3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Participants to the Seminar on Women and Mining at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) at Camp John Hay, here, concluded that mining’s adverse impacts fall hardest on women among the world’s poorest...

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Benguet gov heads Cordi peace council

< 1 MIN READBANAWE, Ifugao — Benguet Gov. Nestor Fongwan presided over a regional body for the first time Friday after Ifugao Gov. Teddy Baguilat sworn him in as the new chair of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC)....

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Maryknoll commemorates killer quake

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary here, commemorated the 18th anniversary of the July 16 killer earthquake Wednesday. HEALING THE EARTH. Bamboo poles serve as acupuncture needles to “heal the earth.”...

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Rice cards issued soon

< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The National Food Authority (NFA) today announced it would be issuing family access cards to ensure that only the poorest of the poor get a steady supply of the staple. The Department of Social...

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Satur urges House to probe oil firm

2 MIN READMANILA — Militant legislators in the House of Representatives are pushing for a full-blown investigation into “the oil companies’ alleged engagement in overpricing, profiteering, transfer pricing and other forms of...

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Baguio Roundup: 27 July 2008

< 1 MIN READBan drinking, gambling at funeral parlors – Aliping BAGUIO CITY—Councilor Nicasio Aliping Jr. last week filed a proposed ordinance prohibiting drinking of liquor and gambling activities within the premises of...

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NL at a glance: 27 July 2008

< 1 MIN READVizcaya officials move to create env’t code BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—Environment officials here are conducting consultations and workshops with non-government organizations for the crafting of the environment code...

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Editorial: Traditional knowledge

2 MIN READOver the week there were too valuable forums held in the city. One on bio-fuels and the other on traditional knowledge. Both discussions stem from the growing global concern for sustaining nature, sustaining earth,...

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Youth Speak: Understand misunderstood

2 MIN READBy MIRIAM U. GUILLERMO* From the dictionary the word misunderstand means “to take a wrong meaning; to define wrongly; or to take in a wrong sense.” As the word grew to its existence, it evolved in this meaning. But...

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Burburtia Krokis: 27 July 2008 (Puzzle)

2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 1 probinsya sa Mindanao (2 salita) 12 obserbasyon (abbrev) 13 _____ Baskets: koponan sa basketbol ng Hamburg 14 tulong, alalay (Eng) 15 loro ng New Zealand 16 lutong Bikol na ginataang dahon...

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September to remember

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — With the camera as a potent tool for any documentation be it historical, news or simple family portraitures, a day-in-a-life kind of pictorial project is being readied as an added feature of Baguio’s...

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Makan a la Pinoy: Bola-bola a nateng

3 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Sawsawan a ketchup ti inluto tayo idi napan a lawas. Kurang daytoy kinuna ti editor mi ta awan met ti isawsaw. Agpayso dayta. Ania ngay ti isiwsiw, tammudo samonto silamutan? Ay na, kasta unayen ti...

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Another Cordilleran elected to UN

< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Another Cordilleran has been elected last July 15, 2008 into one of the indigenous peoples’ positions in the United Nations system. Secretary Eugenio A. Insigne, chairman of the National Commission...

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Itogon miners still “illegal”

2 MIN READITOGON, Benguet – This mining town’s small scale miners find it hard to comply with the law regulating their trade, making them unable to register as miners. Top town officials here admit small scale miners may be...

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City stinks anew

3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Its hauling trucks full and the collapse of the Irisan dump site that ensued made the city literally stink since July 13 when barricading residents denied the entry of garbage. COLLECTOR’S ITEM....

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GMA camp prepares for 2010

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Professing their support to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration, local elective officials belonging to the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (CMD) and Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino (Kampi) in the...

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Ilocos prosecutor denies UNP’s motion

2 MIN READVIGAN CITY — The City Prosecutor’s Office of Vigan City denied the Motion for Reconsideration filed by Nolito Ragunjan, University of Northern Philippines’ (UNP) coordinator for Student Publication, stating there is no...

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Baguio roundup: 20 July 2008

2 MIN READMayor wants city to take over market dev’t from Uniwide BAGUIO CITY—Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. would rather that the city government takes over the Uniwide Sales Realty and Resources Corporation (Uniwide) in...

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Cordillera this week: 20 July 2008

2 MIN READSocial workers lobby for additional benefits TABUK CITY, Kalinga—Social workers employed with the provincial and municipal governments in the province are lobbying for additional benefits mandated under RA 94331 or the...

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Editorial: In search of a dumpsite

2 MIN READBaguio’s garbage used to be incinerated until it was discovered how bad incinerating the garbage can be to the atmosphere and eventually how bad its effect was against the wholeness of our environment. So the Baguio...

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Youth Speak: Television invasion

2 MIN READBy RONALD B. DULAY* “The influence of world TV culture on the perceptions of foreign costumers is enormous.” — Trends Symbols, and Brand Power in Global Markets: the Business Anthropology Approach by Jeanne van Rij...

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Burburtia Krokis: 20 July 2008 (Puzzle)

2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 1 suot (Ilok) 4 agos (Ivatan) 7 pagkamuhi, pagkasuklam (Ilok) 11 “is” kung iisa, ___ kung mahigit sa isa (Eng) 12 halaman na pinagmumulan ng hibla’t sinulid (Pil) 14 kumikiling (Eng) 15 sa...

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Getting Lost: Tale of a lighthouse

5 MIN READBy CHEN REYES-MENCIAS It was a cloudy morning and the wind was howling from the northeast when I drove north. Sheets of rain drowned the windshield as I approached Burgos, a town approximately 35 kilometers from Laoag...

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Ilocos judge “scolds” fiscal

2 MIN READOrders fiscal to reinvestigate rebellion case vs. NDF consultant CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur — A Regional Trial Court judge here today, July 7, scolded the provincial prosecutor and ordered him to reinvestigate the...

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Filipinos in chronic crisis

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — “Manhid na tayo sa krisis,” (We have grown numb with crisis) was how Carol Araullo, Bayan chairperson, described the Filipino masses continue to face one crisis after another – political crisis, social...

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Four Cordi provinces, food-poor

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Four out of six Cordillera provinces are among the country’s poorest with three towns in two other provinces belonging to the poorest 100 towns in the Philippines. The National Statistics Coordination...

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Students protest vs. economic crisis

3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — A thousand students marched the streets of Baguio last Thursday, July 10, airing one grievance after another under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, promising that this will mark the...

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Concessionaire sues top CJH officials

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Key officials of the Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) including its senior vice President, OIC, legal officer and four more middle level managers were sued for robbery, malicious mischief,...

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Swift action nails Abra hitmen

< 1 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Surprisingly in record time, barely 9 hours after the “hit”, Abra policemen nailed the look-out and has lodged murder raps against the hitman and mastermind.   In the same breathe,...

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Mankayan hosts youth assembly

2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Mankayan town hosted Friday 11 July, a youth gathering that tackled major issues as child abuse, teenage pregnancy and early marriage, drug addiction, Internet abuse, preparing for gainful...

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Baguio Roundup: 13 July 2008

2 MIN READSession rd, partially car-less BAGUIO CITY—Session road, the city’s main road shall be partially car-less during Sundays starting July 13 as stated in Administrative Order 99, dated July 7 as issued by Mayor Reinaldo...

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NL at a glance: 13 July 2008

< 1 MIN READLate rainy season threatens corn producers ILAGAN, Isabela—While the rest of the country is still reeling from the floodwaters brought by typhoon Frank, some corn producing towns in Isabela’s first district are...

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Art Exhibit

< 1 MIN READThe Baguio City First United Methodist Church With the BCFUMC Scholarship Committee and The United Methodist Young Adults Fellowship Invites you to a Visual Art Exhibit by Tito B. Sanqui for the benefit of its...

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Publisher's Note: Errata

< 1 MIN READMayoyao rice farms, largely organic (July 6, 2008 issue) In our organic rice story entitled “Organic agriculture persists in Ifugao town,” we said “only a portion of only two of Mayoyao’s 27 barangays are using...

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Fight for Our Fatherland and Mother Earth

3 MIN READFilipinos can contribute to the arrest of global warming by stopping forest denudation, significantly reducing or eliminating carbon exhausts, shifting to lifestyles that exert less pressure on resources, promoting recycling rather than resource extraction, and adopting production, packaging, transport, and consumption technologies that are environmentally friendly or that significantly reduce carbon emissions.

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Burburtia Krokis: 13 July 2008 (Puzzle)

2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 2 lubhang pagod (Eng) 11 nasugatan ng kutsilyo (Tag) 13 kargado (Eng) 15 gamit panggadgad, hal. para sa papaya o keso (Eng) 16 asyenda, plantasyon (Eng) 17 kahit na, pantay (matulaing Eng) 18...

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BenCab’s Book of Nudes

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Benedicto Reyes Cabrera – or BenCab, as he is more popularly known – launched his 3rd book and an exhibit of his paintings of nudes here at the Café by the Ruins last Tuesday, July 8. Photo by Brenda S....

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Lawmaker slams GMA’s agri plan

2 MIN READFood crisis reflects governance woes BAGUIO CITY — The present food crisis Filipinos are suffering from is but a reflection of a bigger crisis of our country, a visiting Liberal Party official told barangay captains...

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Baguio residents form new co-op

< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Residents are inviting the Baguio populace to join the Baguio Electric Consumers Cooperative (Baelco), a recently formed electric cooperative, seeing to compete with the Benguet Electric Cooperative...

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Baguio City to study 2-storey market

< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The city council Monday sought the conduct of a feasibility study on the adoption of a design concept for a two-storey market building to be built at the area affected recently by a fire. The body...

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Tañada assails rice importation

3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Rep. Lorenzo Tañada, in a meeting with the Liberal party, here said the government’s rice importations to solve the food crisis is but a stop gap measure and evidence of sheer neglect of the country’s...

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Biking for new trees in Cordillera up

2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Three mountain bikers are going on a 24-hour non-stop off-road biking in November not only for the thrill, neither for any feat to outdo anyone but for a “green” dream to help revive the already...

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Baguio dads pursue night market plan

2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The city council last Monday requested Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. to pursue an experimental night market to determine the feasibility of said venture seen to help remedy the worsening problem on illegal...

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