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                    [ArticleID] => 2063157
                    [Title] => Drug dealer todas sa shootout
                    [Summary] => Isang sinasabing drug dealer ang patay habang apat pa ang nahuli sa isinagawang buy-bust operation ng mga otoridad sa Ma­guindanao kamakalawa ng gabi.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-12-12 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1282223
                    [AuthorName] => Doris Franche
                    [SectionName] => Probinsiya
                    [SectionUrl] => probinsiya
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2020/12/11/aj_2020-12-11_22-50-37611_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 598196
                    [Title] => SPDA ventures into pangasius production
                    [Summary] => 

The Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA), a government-owned and controlled corporation, has re-established its corporate presence in the Southern Philippines by investing in the production and processing of Pangasius catfish (otherwise known as cream dory) into high-quality fillet initially for the domestic, and eventually, the export markets.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 66732 [Title] => SPDA employees fear possible setbacks [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 57004 [Title] => DAR goes to SPDA [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 56755 [Title] => DAR finally relocating central office to Davao [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361935 [Title] => Revived SPDA needs P1.5 B [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — The newly reactivated Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) needs an initial grant of P1.5 billion to chart new growth blueprints for impoverished communities in Mindanao.

Zamzamin Ampatuan, SPDA executive director, said the agency needs the funds since it was removed from the list of government agencies funded under the General Appropriations Act when it was abolished two years ago.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242597 [Title] => MPDF replaces SPDA [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Finally, a new agency is taking over the functions of the defunct Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) which, since the 1970s, had been extending financial assistance to beneficiaries in depressed areas in Mindanao.

The Mindanao Peace and Development Fund (MPDF) was activated here last Friday with the oath-taking of its members, led by Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process Teresita Deles, who chairs its board.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189848 [Title] => SPDA lawyer shot by 3 men [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Unidentified men shot and wounded a lawyer of the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) here yesterday morning, police said.

Lawyer Abundio Marapao, 43, was reportedly alighting from his Mitsubishi Pajero in front of the SPDA office along Davao Medical School Drive when three men, aboard two motorcycles, appeared and shot him.

Marapao sustained four gunshot wounds — two in the chest and two in the legs, police said.

Police still had no clues on the shooting.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186518 [Title] => MNLF vows to bring issue over SPDA abolition to OIC [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A "mockery" of the Sept. 2, 1996 peace agreement.

This was how the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) branded yesterday President Arroyo’s deactivation of the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA), which has been implementing socio-economic projects in areas covered by the peace accord.

The MNLF vowed to elevate the issue to the influential Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which brokered the peace pact forged during the term of former President Fidel Ramos.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186241 [Title] => Peace advocates worried about SPDA scrapping [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Peace advocates in many parts of Mindanao are apprehensive of an "irreversible backlash" in the peace process as a result of Malacañang’s deactivation of the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA), which has many socio-economic projects in war-torn areas in the South.

Last Thursday, President Arroyo issued Executive Order 149 deactivating the SPDA, citing duplication and overlapping of functions of the agency with other government bodies.
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