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'Make it Davao, Now!' - Airlines, hotels, restos cut rates
Tourism players in Davao such as hotels, restaurants, resorts and the airlines serving the area are now preparing tour packages offering rates with discounts of up to 50 percent in a promotional blitzkrieg called “Make It Davao, Now.” The unprecedented campaign will be presented formally during the February 4-7 Philippine MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) Conference in Subic Bay, Olongapo City, Zambales, where Davao tourism’s united front will make a bid to host the MICE conference in 2012...
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- 2,360 jobs generated by new firms
- Residential consumers hardest hit by DLPC’s proposed rate increase
- ONB posts P232-M net income in ‘09
- Monkey Business
- Davao to lose free trade battle due to ban on aerial spraying
- Even playing field to help aggie sector compete in ASEAN-China Free Trade
- The best business stories of 2009
- ASEAN-China Free Trade Area: Painful, but will benefit Davao
- Monkey Business
- Rural banks among SMEs’ top partners
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- Thingking Allowed - The commendable achievements
- Editorial - The other face of politics
- Sense or Sans - Malicious mischief
- Trading Post - ‘Shivering’ from the cold weather
- Bar None - The Day of Infamy in the Senate
- Editorial Cartoon
- Current - In defense of legislators vs excommunication
- Editorial - Profiteering by cement traders
- Sense or Sans - Posible
- Trading Post - Are banana firms abandoning Davao?
Camella’s posts 65% record growth
Top property developer Camella Communities posted a record growth of 65% in its sales force last year, a trend that shows all indications of spilling ...- The Gospel of Hope - From pride to peace
- Franchising - Transfer of a franchise
- Camella fast tracks condo development
- Starting 2010 light with Holiday Gym
- SM Supermalls bares free Global Pinoy registration
- The Gospel of Hope - What the ‘presidentiables’ have to offer
- Words can destroy everything...
- Solar car SIKAT at SM Davao
- Concentrix Institute opens training center in Davao
- Ernesto R. Aboitiz, 77
Jazmin Middleton: Finding perfect paradise in BlueJaz
by Lovely A. CarilloOnly a few women, regardless of their age, can claim ownership to paradise. Jazmin Middleton is one of the lucky few.
Jazmin wakes ...
- Entrepreneurship program ready for registered nurses
- Pearls and jewelries: A family’s legacy
- Julie’s business secret: Innovation
- Entrepreneurship: The best way out of poverty
- Pink and Gold Salon: From banking to the beauty business
- Most inspiring Davao entrepreneurs honored
- Hair Zone: Professionalizing the business of beauty
- Globe lauds entrepreneurial skills of 2009 SIPAG Awardees
- Anicandles for life
- Rancheros, Pablo’s Steaks & Crabs: Born of one man’s love for ranching
Davao developers shifting to medium, high-end units
The world’s economy may have been affected by the recession, but this has not stopped Dabawenyos from changing their demands from socialized housing t...- Homebuyers flock to housing fair, eye affordable Pag-IBIG package
- Crisis or none, Filipinos are still buying homes
- Maasim resort owner to build luxury cottages
- Filinvest: Dream beyond your pocket
- Landco exceeds sales target by 11% in 1H ‘09
- Alsons Properties and its comrel projects
- The different faces of leisure
- Davao developers eye child-friendly villages
- Housing fair set in October
- HUDCC conducts inventory of country’s housing needs
Golfer of the Week - Joe Tesado
Joe Tesado came from a humble beginning.And just like any other struggling businessman, he experienced all the pain and hardship before eventually enj...
- Sports Shorts
- Anflocor favored to beat Mahipus Firm in MV Cup
- Clean Slate - A tennis wonder, Kapuso boxing and Otosan
- Que wrests 2-shot lead, Davao’s Salvador trails
- Blacks, Reds make playoffs
- Golfer of the Week - Meloy Mercado
- Clean Slate - Jr.NBA in Davao, finally
- Murakami eyes back-to-back TCC plum; Davao’s Salvador among the challengers
- Davao kids discover Jr. NBA basketball
- Davao Horse Club marks 14th year
Davao always in Noynoy’s heart
Liberal Party congressional bet Anthony G. Del Rosario allayed concerns of some business sectors that south-eastern Mindanao will have no access in Ma...- Davao del Norte Credit Surety Fund totals P11.7-Million
- LGU-Kapalong’s tax collection surpasses the target by 31.9 %
- Dolfo presents key accomplishments
- DavNor government hyperactive in 2010
- DavNor advances housing program
- RDR sees brighter prospect for DavNor economy
- Stay away from politics, Capitol employees told
- AGR urges voters to use right to suffrage wisely
- Monetization of education fund mulled
- AGR launches new movement
Banana producers laud passage of MEDA bill
The distinctively Mindanoan enterprise that is the Philippine export banana industry, yesterday lauded the priority attention extended by both houses ...- House to ratify VAT exemption for elderly Pinoys
- The RH Bill and the Totality of Truth (1): Anathema and Anguish
- Election training among teachers to be intensified
- Re-align GMA PR budget to CAFTA info drive: Ople
- NP ‘senatoriables’ top SWS survey
- NGOs, media push for info freedom law
- PDIC pushes for bridge banking
- Noynoy presents economic stand
- NGOs in drive vs aerial spraying not accredited
- Villar’s anchor’s campaign on anti-poverty platform
The Gospel of Hope - Hope for the needy and poor
by Rev. Dr. Mariano C. ApiladoJesus Christ’s first sermon as recorded in Luke 4: 18-19 was decidedly addressed to give hope for the needy and poor.
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- Of ambulances, funeral cars, and – romance
- Globe Bangon Pinoy keeps alive the spirit of volunteerism
- SAKTO services for communities
- Philamlife donates to typhoon victims
- Sarangani women form rural improvement clubs
- Lasang community gets electricity
- Braga asks for deferment of RFID implementation
- Do you know what RFID is all about?
- Gov’t issues rules implementing tax-free retirement plan schemes
- Household of Faith serves the people
Regulate, but do not ban aerial spray, says expert
A foreign expert on aerial spraying drift has supported to the call to continue the farm practice, saying it is better to regulate it than outrightly ...- Minda businessmen eye miniature cattle growing
- Micro loan eyed for small farmers
- NFA sets palay buying target
- Weather problem hikes prices of local veggies
- Water catchment system eyed against El Niño
- NFA Davao eyeing higher rice import
- LGUs urged to support utilization of hybrid rice
- Research: Herbicide controls soil erosion
- Raking in profits from coco sap enterprise
- Fruit producers need more technical know-how
Apple’s Jobs unveils new tablet computer, the iPad
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs last Wednesday revealed the culture-changing company’s latest must-have device, a touchscreen tablet computer annoint...- Web regulator approves Arabic online addresses
- Microsoft profit beats on strong Windows 7 sales
- Facebook may get ‘lock in’ its Net dominance
- Bill Gates joins Twitter, gets 100K fans in 8 hrs.
- Nearly half of Google News users just read the headlines
- Users spurn traditional calls for Skype
- Nokia to offer free navigation
- Microsoft, HP plans product partnership on cloud computing
- Google’s threat is a rare show defiance in China
- Facebook teams with McAfee to tighten security
Under My Umbrella - Libido and sexual energy
by Maria Teresa L. UngsonSex is definitely good for you! Numerous studies have shown that regular sex increases immunity from viruses, relieves stres...
- Confessions of a Partyphile - V-day fun day
- My Kitchen - Barbecue secrets redux
- Urbanisimo - A 3-in-1 bang for the New Year
- Under My Umbrella - Brain power boost
- Confessions of a Partyphile - Single? Throw a non-Valentines party
- My Kitchen - Barbecue secrets
- Bigby’s Café invades General Santos City!
- Hong Kong still fantastic
- Style Scribe - Taking style to bed
- Urbanisimo - Toto’s return
Mango trees and the Big Dipper
by Melissa Peñaflor and Maya Vandenbroeck
A BUS RIDE along the General Santos-Davao highway shows on one side of the road the grand spread of mountains...
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