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DOTand Region 12 tourist arrivals reaches 3.1-M

KORONODAL CITY –
The Department of Tourism 12 today reported that more than three million
tourists have visited the region, more known as SOCCSKSARGEN, in 2915.

Nelly Nita
Dillera, DOT-12 regional director said last year’s 3.157 million tourists was
20 percent higher as compared to 2.576 million visitors in the region.

Gen. Santos has
the highest tourist arrivals record of 1.2 million.She attributed Gen. Santos City’s plenty of accommodation
facilities and convention centers.

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SoCot lady town councilors' brod runs amok, kills 1, hurts 1

KORONADAL CITY -– A 67-year-old armed man, brother of a town councilor,irked by
shutting down of road network in Banga, South Cotabato because of town foundation
anniversary ran amok and fired at two men Friday night, killing a teenager, policesaid.

Chief Inspector Marvin Duadua, Banga town police, identified the
suspect as Norberto Javellana, a resident of Barangay Benitez, Banga town, about
15 kilometers south of here.

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Tacurong exec shares poverty reduction action plan in a national forum

TACURONG
CITY -- The chief executive of this city has shared Tacurong
City’s successful community based monitoring system that led to the successful
anti-poverty action plan and bottoms up budgeting program. We
count to make our people feel that they really count,” Tacurong City Mayor Lina
Montilla said in a statement here.
It
was the summary of her speech presented during the 12th Community-Based
Monitoring System (CBMS) National Conference at the Crown Plaza Manila Galleria
in Quezon City Thursday.
Montilla

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Friday of the Third Week of Lent (March 4, 2016)

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/hosea/14:2 HOS 14:2-10 Thus says the LORDandReturn, O Israel, to the LORD, your Godyou have collapsed through your guilt.Take with you words,and return to the LORDSay to him, Forgive all iniquity,and receive what is good, that we may renderas offerings the bullocks from our stalls.Assyria will not save us,nor shall we have horses to mountWe shall say no more, ‘Our god,’to the work of our handsfor in you the orphan finds compassion.”I will heal their defection, says the LORD,I will love them freelyfor my wrath is turned away from them.I will be like th

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Mine action groups condemn BIFF’s use of improvised explosive devices

MANILA (PNA) -- Local and international mine action groups have expressed grave concern and strongly condemned the recent use of victim-activated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by the armed group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), particularly at Barangay Tee, Datu Salibo, Maguindanao.In a statement on Thursday, The Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines (PCBL) and its international partner, the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) called on the BIFF to cease from using these indiscriminate weapons, which can cause ravaging consequences to civilians and hinder ongoing developm

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Maguindanao relief workers survive BIFF-Army crossfire

DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao- Relief workers of the Maguindanao provincial government were trapped in Wednesday’s firefight in Datu Salibo town between bandits and soldiers, but all survived unscathed via a witty escape folks who witnessed the incident keep talking about.Provincial budget officer Lynette Estandarte, in-charge of the People’s Medical Team (PMT), said they were winding up with their relief services to 747 people when bursts of automatic gunfire reverberated through the surroundings, bullets whizzing through their location.It was not the first time volunteers of the PMT, operating

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Thursday of the Third Week of Lent (March 3, 2016)

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/jeremiah/7:23 JER 7:23-28 Thus says the LORDandThis is what I commanded my peopleandListen to my voicethen I will be your God and you shall be my people.Walk in all the ways that I command you,so that you may prosper.But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed.They walked in the hardness of their evil heartsand turned their backs, not their faces, to me.From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day,I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets.Yet they have not

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NGCP tower bombed anew in North Cotabato

ALEOSAN, North Cotabato --Unidentified armed men, for still unknown motive, tried but failed to topple a steel tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) early on Wednesday morning, police said today. According to Supt. Bernard Tayong, speaking for North Cotabato police office, said three improvised explosive devices were attached to three posts of NGCP tower No. 63 in Purok 4, Barangay Pagangan. He said the same tower was bombed by still unidentified men on January 14 but it was not toppled. Tayong saidtwo IEDs exploded at about 12:20 a.m.

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NDBC BIDA BALITA Feb. 29. 2016

NEWSCAST

FEBRUARY 29,
2016 (MON)
7and00 AM

HEADLINESand

1. APAT KATAO, kabilang ang dalawang
mga bata, patay sa pamamaril sa Cotabato city

2. Satellite office ng NBI sa Kidapawan
City, magbubukas na ngayong Biyernes

3. PASYENTE, tumalon sa ikatlong
palapag ng South Cotabato provincial hospital, patay

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Man with TB leaps to death in So. Cotabato hospital

KORONADAL CITY - Officials of a government hospital here are investigating the alleged leaping off of a male patient from the third floor of the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital on Friday.Crisanto Saldua, 53 of Tampakan, South Cotabato was confined to the government hospital on Feb. 26 due Tuberculosis. But for still unknown reason, Saldua who was confined at the pay-wing section of the hospital, rushed to the third floor and leaped to death.Puzzled by his unusual behavior, the wife, Annable, tried to stop Crisanto from leaving his room, to no avail.

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