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                    [Title] => International culinary school rises in Davao
                    [Summary] => 

A Filipino-owned international culinary and hospitality school will open this June, not in Manila, but in Davao City.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 363297 [Title] => Davao-based e-academy blazes trail in BPO skills development [Summary] => A popular business and tourism school in Davao City is blazing a new trail in business process outsourcing (BPO).

The Joji Ilagan Bian (JIB) Foundation College of Business and Tourism, which has been around since 1980, has branched out into the BPO industry by putting up the JIB e-Academy and Solutions, a language school by day and a call center by night.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221791 [Title] => Davao priest to head probe on Davao bombings [Summary] => These were the exact words of Fr. Peter Maniwang, vice vicar-general of the Sta. Ana Parish here after his appointment by President Arroyo as head of the five-man commission that would investigate the twin bombings that struck the city this year. [DatePublished] => 2003-09-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161679 [Title] => Assistant for North Luzon scored for bland remarks on M’danao [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Political and business leaders in Mindanao are unhappy about the effort of Presidential Assistant for North Luzon Renato Diaz to promote investments in their area at the expense of Mindanao.

Diaz was quoted in a recent national newspaper supplement urging investors to go north and forget Mindanao for a while because of the peace and order problems besetting certain parts of the island.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151703 [Title] => Cory prefers Abu Sayyaf beheading footage blurred [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — If former President Corazon Aquino had her way, she would rather that the beheading scenes in the controversial Abu Sayyaf footage be "blurred."

"I could have preferred it that way," she told reporters during the dinner tendered in her honor at the Eden Nature Park here Friday night.

However, Mrs. Aquino, here for the 16th anniversary celebration of People Power 1, was quick to add that she is not one who would give an unsolicited advice to President Arroyo.
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"The business community and other Mindanao stakeholders are seeing the fruits of their advocacy efforts," said Joji Ilagan Bian, chair of the Mindanao Business Council (MBC).
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 92483 [Title] => Mindanao meat industry poised to join world mart [Summary] => DAVAO CITY – It is final and uncontestable. The Office Internationale des Epizootes (OIE) has officially declared Mindanao a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) free zone, enabling livestock growers here to compete in the world market.

The OIE is a Paris-based private international organization that monitors the incidence of animal diseases worldwide. It is recognized by the World Trade Organization (WTO), of which the Philippines is a member, to inform governments of the occurrence and cause of animal diseases throughout the world, and of ways to control the diseases.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 95692 [Title] => Mindanao meat industry poised to join world mart [Summary] => DAVAO CITY – It is final and uncontestable. The Office Internationale des Epizootes (OIE) has officially declared Mindanao a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) free zone, enabling livestock growers here to compete in the world market.

The OIE is a Paris-based private international organization that monitors the incidence of animal diseases worldwide. It is recognized by the World Trade Organization (WTO), of which the Philippines is a member, to inform governments of the occurrence and cause of animal diseases throughout the world, and of ways to control the diseases.
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The Mindanao Business Council (MBC) said the truce was a positive step toward the creation of the right environment for local businesses to recover.
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