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Siquijor Guv lauds gov’t info officers
LARENA, Siquijor (PIA) -Siquijor Governor Zaldy Villa challenged the public information officers in the province to exercise their role as information disseminators especially since Siquijor is among of the top five best provinces in the country. This he said in his message during the oathtaking ceremony of the newly-elected officers and new members
Governor Zaldy S. Villa (above) in an Oathtaking ceremony of the newly elected officers of the Siquijor Association of Information Disseminators (SAID)
of the Siqujor Association of Information Disseminators (SAID). Villa stressed in his message the importance of the association for the promotion of Siquijor as his administration is eyeing to put Siquijor on the top rank in terms of tourism destination. The new set of officers are Lydith Tan of Larena town as President, PNP Police Superintendent Enrique Belcina as Vice-President, and Jessie Buctolan of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as Secretary. The other officers are, namely: Cyd Sarmiento of the Siquijor State College, Treasurer; Engr. Reinhold Jek Abing of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Auditor; and Zylbeth Cortes of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Mary Louise Macalino of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), and Pinky Dianne Llorente of the provincial government as Press Relations Officers (PROs) SAID was organized by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Siquijor Information Center. It will that will soon mark its 30th year in December this year. (rac/PIA7Siquijor)
Pinoy Aquaman hurdles grueling Dgte-Siquijor swim Endurance swimmer and environmental lawyer Ingemar “Pinoy Aquaman” Macarine did another first in his Dumaguete City-to-Siquijor swim, breaking his longest personal record in his open-water swimming career. Bucking off strong currents, Macarine crossed Tañon Strait from Silliman Beach in Dumaguete City to Barangay Tambisan in the town of San
Juan, Siquijor Province covering a total distance of 24.65-kilometer stretch in 11 hours and 21 minutes. Macarine’s swim today is the longest since he began into open-water swimming sports on December 31, 2013 breaking his longest personal record during the Visayas-Mindanao swim in May 2014 which was 23 kilometers. “We endured strong currents midway and big waves too,” Macarine
said on Wednesday. Macarine, 40, a marine conservation advocate, embarked on his swims to raise awareness on marine environment, climate change and tourism. In this Dumaguete-Siquijor swim, his 27th open-water swim, he is hoping to help in the campaign to urge voters to go out and register. (Roel Catoto/Manila
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Science & Technology
M’s Place partners with DOST Siquijor in making veggie bread, noodles Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing
SIQUIJOR (PIA) -- Veggiebased breads and noodles are becoming a fad nowadays. Health and nutrition go hand in hand, especially when it comes to the foods we eat. This was the basis for the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) here and the M’s Place to collaborate for veggie bread and noodles making for Siquijor province. DOST cited that the common pan de sal has been upgraded to become more nutritious by mixing basic ingredients like malunggay, touted as a miracle tree due to its many health benefits. Malunggay is rich in vitamins and minerals and grows commonly in most backyards in the Philippines. Vegetable-based breads and noodles, on one hand, were developed by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of DOST to answer the need of nutrition gap and nutrient deficiency among most Filipinos.
Here in the province, M’s Place will try to bring that product to the plates of most Siquijodnons by producing malunggay pan de sal, squash pan de sal, malunggay noodles and squash noodles, Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) Information Officer-designate Reinhold Jek Y. Abing said in a press release. Breads have long been a staple food in the province with many consuming it as part of their breakfast or snacks. With this idea in mind, M’s Place will try to capitalize on this opportunity to turn its vision into a profitable venture, he said. Recently, Senior SRS Josie F. Elli of DOST 7 and Assistant Provincial Dir. Marichu Baclay of PSTC Cebu conducted skills training on the production of vegetable-based noodles and breads at the processing area of M’s Place in Poblacion, Siquijor, Siquijor. M’s Place is noted for its food catering business, snack bar and
restaurant in the capital town. The firm is a beneficiary of the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) of DOST and availed a technological assistance worth P429,500 for the project “Technology Introduction for the Production of Vegetable-based Breads and Noodles of M’s Place in Siquijor, Siquijor”. Provincial Science and Technology Director Mario E. de la Peña identified the training as important in the transfer of needed technology and skills for the production of the squash-malunggay-based canton noodles and squash-malunggay-based breads. With the project underway, he is hopeful that the firm would contribute to government’s effort to provide healthy foods to its constituents and hopefully help indirectly in reducing incidence of malnutrition in the province. (rmn/rac/PIA7-Siquijor/ Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing, DOST Siquijor PSTC IO-designate Tr i a t h l e t e a n d environmental lawyer Ingemar “Pinoy Aquaman” Macarine breaks his longest personal record yesterday on his Dumaguete City to Siquijor covering a total distance of 24.6 kilometers in 11 h o u r s a n d 21 minutes on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (credit Roel N. Catoto | Manila Bulletin)
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C is for Connectivity
In 2015, a power interconnection project linked Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province and Malaysia’s Sarawak state. By 2020,theSingaporeKunming Rail Link (SKRL) will run through Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnamand Myanmar. Connections like the above are the arteries of building an ASEAN Communitybothin the form of hard infrastructure and‘softer’ linkages through people-to-people, cultural or trade ties.They play a crucial part in strengthening andfostering ASEAN as a vibrant region for doing business, connectingits 10 Member States and their peoples. Many of these intra-ASEAN links have been put in place under the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity, which ASEAN Leaders adopted as a plan of action from 2011 to 2015 for a closer and more integrated ASEAN. The MasterPlanidentifies three types of connectivity - through the enhanced development of physical infrastructure (physical connectivity), effective institutions, mechanisms and processes (institutional connectivity), and empowered people for expanded opportunities(people-to-people connectivity). Synergistic efforts under sub-regional arrangements such as Brunei-Indonesia-MalaysiaPhilippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), Indonesia-MalaysiaThailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) and Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) could also play critical roles in catalyzing the building of ASEAN Community. The physical connectivity projects cover a mix of initiatives to ease the flow of goods, services,and peoplein the region. These include the ASEAN Highway Network, 47 designated maritime ports, anASEAN Broadband Corridor and ASEAN Power Grid,flagship infrastructure projects that seek to bring connectivity across borders and bring benefits such as improved competitiveness of regional production networks, better
trade, services, investment flows and reductions in development gaps. Three transport facilitation agreements also contribute to physical connectivity– the ASEAN framework agreements on the facilitation of goods in transit, facilitation on interstate transport, and on multimodal transport –aim to reduce costs and boost the movement of vehicles, goods, services across borders. For example, Lao PDR and Vietnam had officially launched a single-stop inspection system at the Lao BaoDansavanh border checkpoint in 2015 to facilitate trade between the two countries and along the East-West Economic Corridor. ASEAN Member States are making it easier to move goods at, within and acrossnational borders, including through each Member State’s National Single Window. By early 2016, the ASEAN Single Window will be implemented among exchangeready Member States. ASEAN is also pursuing an ASEAN Single Aviation Market and an ASEAN Single Shipping Market as part of realising its goals of becoming a single market and production base, and to further open up progressively to investments from within and beyond the region. Institutional connectivity measures include those that facilitate trade, such as the ASEAN Trade Repository and National Trade
Repositories. ASEAN also continues to address non-tariff barriers to boost intra-ASEAN trade and investment and to harmonise standards and conformity assessment procedures across Member States. Improving connections that make ASEAN a people-oriented and people-centered community includes initiatives and opportunities that bring its people together on a cultural and individual level, allowing them to get to know one another better. These range from initiatives that promote greater mobility through the progressive relaxation of visa requirements, the multilateral agreement on the liberalisation of air services, as well as mutual recognition arrangements, to educational initiatives like student exchanges, the ASEAN International Mobility of Students Program, and ASEAN studies courses that focus on forging an ASEAN regional identity. For instance, ASEAN Member States are promoting the use of the Curriculum Sourcebook for primary and secondary schools to complement their existing supplementary materials on ASEAN. ASEAN has now embarked on the journey to formulate the Post-2015 Agenda for ASEAN Connectivity. It will analyse and address, among others, resource mobilisation, including new financing vehicles; and the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, including the alignment and coordination of stakeholders as well as engaging businesses, nongovernment organisations and civil society. Overall, physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity will promote economic growth, narrow the development gap, enhance regional competitiveness and promote deeper ties among ASEAN peoples and between ASEAN and the rest of the world. Strong and vibrant connectivity is essential toASEAN’s drive towards becoming a more competitive and resilient region that is firmly integratedin the global economy.
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FDA, may DOH, nipasidaan batok sa rabies pahinumdom sa mga karong panahon sa ting-init A p r i l 2 1 ( P I A ) - - D u n g a n s a sa pagduwa sa ilang mga binuhing ginikanan pagbakasyong sa mga kabataan karong iro tungod kay posible kining summer season nga panahon sa ting- masakitan ug manakit o mama-ak. karong init, nagpagawas og pasidaan ang Giingong angay usab nga kanunay Department of Health (DOH) sa publiko p a i m n o n o g t u b i g a n g m g a summer kalabot sa pinaakan sa iro o rabies. binuhing iro ug kanunay kining
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Matud pa ni DOH Kalihim Paulyn Jean Ubial, karong panahon sa bakasyon, mas daku ang tsansa nga mapaakan og iro ang mga bata tungod kay mas taas ang ilang panahon nga makauban ang ilang mga binuhing iro. Mao nga tambag sa kalihim, angay siguradohong may bakuna ang mga binuhing iro aron masiguro ang kahilwasan sa mga kauban sa panimalay ilabi na ang mga bata. Gipahinumdoman usab niini nga angay dili pasagdan sa mga ginikanan ang ilang mga anak nga magpalabi
presko aron dili mahimong iritable tungod kay sama sa tawo, mabati usab niini ang kainit sa panahon. Samtang sa higayong mapaakan og iro, importanteng hugasan og limpyong tubig ang samad ug sabonan kini sa dili pa tabunan ug moadto dayon sa mga animal bite centers alang sa rabies shots. Nipasidaan pa si Ubial nga dili gayud butangan og bisan unsang ointment ang napaakan sa iro ug modiretso lang gyud sa pinakaduol nga animal bite center. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
(PIA)--Palapdan pa ang National Greening Program (NGP) ilabi na sa mga tanum pamugong sa pagkahunlak sa yuta ug mga tanum nga maghatag og pagkaon ug dugang kita sa katawhan. Kini maoy apil sa mga nahauna nga programa nga gilatid sa bag-o nga Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) nga si Eusalem Quiwag. Didto sa Kapihan sa PIA sa pagsaulog sa Earth Day sa miaging semana, si PENRO Quiwag mibutyag nga gawas sa iyang prayoridad nga sundon ang mga kalihukan nga gikinahanglang himoon sa iyang buhatan, iyang iwahing ngadto na sa mas dali nga mga magamit sa pagkaon, produkto ug makatabang sa kalikopan. Ang tumong, mao nga matabangan ang kalikopan nga maghatag og mga magamit sa tawo, pasabut niya. Subay usab sa direksyon nga gisagop ni Kalihim Gina Lopez, matud ni Quiwag nga ang Department of Environment and Natural Resources dili lamang manalipod sa mga importante nga kahinguhaan apan pagseguro nga ang mga kalihukan ug programa makahatag og
dugang kita sa katawhan ug komunidad. Partikular nga tutokan unya sa DENR mao ang kalikopan alang sa kalihukang ecotourism, saysay niya. Niini, gipasabut niya nga mahimong madugangan ang kita ug dili na magsakripisyo pa sa kalikopan o sa kahinguhaan. A l a n g s a N G P, k a n s a n g tumong mao ang pagpuno sa mga bakante ug umaw nga yuta, gawas nga himoong mas produktibo pinaagi sa pagpananum, kadtong mga klase sa tanum nga magbunga og makaon, o kadtong mahimong dali nga ikabaligya, dugang sa kanhi CENRO sa Tagbilaran. Mogamit gihapon sa mga pamaagi sa programa sama sa pagpakunhod sa kalisud ug kawad-on, mangontrata gihapon ang DENR sa mga komunidad sa pagpananum, apan ang produkto nga gitanaw mao ang kape, mga kahoy nga mamunga. Hinuon, gidason sa PENRO nga dili nila talikdan ang ilang mandu sa pagpatuman sa mga balaod nga magabag alang sa maayong pagdumala sa kalikopan. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
NGP mananum sa makaon, magtunhay sa kalikopan
(PIA) -- Gipahinumdoman sa Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) ang mga ginikanan nga susihon og maayo ang palitong mga inflatable aquatic toys o mga salbabida alang sa ilang mga anak. Gipagawas sa ahensiya ang pahinumdom tungod sa gipaabot nga pagdagsa sa publiko sa mga beach ug pool resorts karong panahon sa tinginit. Matud pa sa FDA nga dili makunsiderar nga luwas gayud ang mga inflatables tungod kay mahimong aksidenteng mabuslot ug mohiyos ang hangin niini ug mabutang sa peligro ang bata. Giingong kinahanglang may nakabantay gihapon sa mga bata nga nigamit og inflatable toys o mga salbabida. Kinahanglang tukma usab ang mga dulaan sa edad ug gibag-aton sa mogamit sa mga inflatable toys o mga salbabida. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
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