Archive for December, 2007

Lifestyle: Welcome 2008!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

“THE merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn,” penned Hartley Coleridge. Anne De Lencios contributes: “Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.”

Business: Marine support facilities project proposed

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THE Davao Integrated and Development Program (DIDP), a local government initiative chaired by Governor Rodolfo del Rosario, has been studying the possibility of having the Marine Fisheries Support Facilities Improvement Project estimated at P300 million.

News: Cloudy skies to welcome New Year

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THE unpredictable weather that is currently affecting Southern Mindanao is due to the presence of an Inter Tropical Convergent Zone (ITCZ).

Sports: Divers to train in China

Monday, December 31st, 2007

FIVE members of the Philippine diving team, who are all from Davao City, will fly to China early next year to begin their six-month training and preparation for the last Olympic qualifying event.

News: ‘Batman’ buried Sunday

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Hard-hitting broadcaster and columnist Fernando “Batman” Lintuan was put to rest at 12:45 p.m. Sunday at the Buhangin Memorial Park.

Business: Traders see 7-7.5% GDP for 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

MANILA — Business executives expect gross domestic product (GDP) growing by 7 to 7.5 percent in 2008 depending on the country’s ability to make the economy competitive, particularly in the area of energy, infrastructure and reduced cost of doing business.

News: NTC still doesn’t have tapes of Batman programs

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) still has to hand over to the police tapes of the programs of slain broadcaster Fernando “Batman” Lintuan.

Opinion: Ledesma: Some 2007 bits and pieces

Monday, December 31st, 2007

DESPITE the grumbling and sour-graping of the opposition and the usual griping from the militant groups, 2007 is good year. And with Despite our congressmen and other external factors that impede the full throttle of our economy, 2007 serves as our springboard for the more challenging and fruitful 2008.

Sports: Emar captures football title

Monday, December 31st, 2007

DARWIN Salavia showed the form that made him a real standout of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-15 but it was Roelfred Napuran’s hat trick that gave Emar Learning Center the championship with a 4-3 win over the Ateneo de Davao White Team in the finals of the Mayor’s Cup-Holcim Philippines Inter-High School Football Tournament Saturday at the DFA-Tionko field in Davao City.

News: CIDG hopes broadcasters cooperate in probe

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THE Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Southern Mindanao hopes it will have the cooperation of two radio announcers who were in the vehicle of Fernando “Batman” Lintuan when he was killed last December 24.

The two still have to talk to CIDG operatives.

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