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PHL EXPORTS YIELD GROWTH IN DECEMBER 2016
The Department of Trade and Industry sees sustained growth for exports in 2017 as Philippine exported goods yielded a 4.5% growth in December 2016 with a total of $4.71 billion in export revenues from $4.660 billion in the same period in 2015. “As we implement new strategies in diversifying our markets and upscaling our products and services amidst the slowdown in global trade, we hope that our exports will continue to improve in the next quarters” said DTI Industry Promotion Group Undersecretary Nora K. Terrado. In a report released by Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), increase in the top five (5) major export commodities contributed to the growth which include coconut oil (crude and refined; 146.5%), other mineral products (104.5%), metal components (66.4%), chemicals (42.1%), and other manufactures (35.8%). While electronic products experienced a 2.8% decrease in total receipts as compared to 2015 data, these remained to be the top export product of the country with total receipts of $2.451 billion, accounting for 50.3% of the total exports revenue in December 2016. Other Manufactures ranked second with 7.2% share to the total export receipts. It recorded an increase of 35.8% from December 2015 value of $257.32 million. It is followed by Machinery and Transport Equipment with export revenue of $227.05 million, Woodcrafts and Furniture with total sales of $202.14 million, and Ignition Wiring Set and Other Wiring Sets Used in Vehicles, Aircraft and Ships with $153.72 million export sales. “ Notable 67.5% increase in the exports of our Agro-Based Products in December 2016 is a good indication that our agrisector will be up in the coming months. We hope to... read morePH CHAMPIONS MSMES, YOUTH AND WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ASEAN 2017 BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Philippines, through the Department of Trade and Industry, unveils business programs that champion the promotion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), youth and women entrepreneurship at the ASEAN 2017 Business and Investment Program (ABIP) Launch at the at the Rizal Ceremonial Hall in Malacañang last month. The development of MSMEs is among the priority areas in terms of ASEAN’s policy focus and resources. ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2025 Pillar 4 (“Resilient, Inclusive, People-Oriented, and People-Centered ASEAN”) reinforces the MSME-oriented mandate and supports the significant work of ASEAN in providing an enabling environment for MSME development and internationalization. “Philippines, through DTI, wants to highlight business programs and events that will complement the ASEAN efforts to champion the inclusion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the international trade, and the strengthened promotion of youth and women entrepreneurship,” said DTI Secretary Ramon M. Lopez. During the ASEAN Business and Investment Program launch, DTI Secretary Lopez shared programs developed which provides the business component of the priority themes and policies that the Philippines is advocating under the AEC pillar with an ASEAN perspective. The following programs were developed by DTI as chair for the ASEAN 2017 Committee on Business and Investment Promotion: ASEAN MSMEs-Mentors Conference 2017; ASEAN Creative Cities Forum and Exhibit ; ASEAN at International Food Exposition Philippines 2017; ASEAN Women’s Business Conference; Inclusive Business Summit; 2nd ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Carnival; Creative Marketplace; Slingshot ASEAN; and ASEAN MSME Summit. Further to this, through the priority agenda of “inclusive, innovation-led growth”, the Philippines is poised to champion the MSME mandate in the ASEAN through the following strategic measures: (1)... read more
Panglao kids start Energy revolution
PANGLAO, Bohol, August 7 (PIA) –Clean energy revolution in small amperage light rolls off from here and it is a wolf in sheep’s cloak. An ordinary dirty energy kerosene lantern which otherwise would have given a warm flickering incandescent glow now gets a new light source: clean Light Emitting Diode (LED) powered by solar energy. “Thanks to Liter of Light and MyShelter Foundation who taught us how to do it,” confesses Jane Heberly Bompat, Grade VI pupil at Lourdes Elementary School (LES) in Panglao. Assembled by LES kids, the repackaged lantern would soon be among the innovations the Liter of Light and its 34 Bohol children ambassadors would be using to spread light into the country’s communities still darkened by energy poverty. “How could we help 20 million Filipinos without access to light? Do we give them light from patented sources which is expensive and hard to repair or do we think of innovations?” asked Liter of Light and MyShelter founder Ilac Diaz. Asked how his mission came about, Diaz was more willing to share. It all started with one bottle, one carpenter, one inspiration and an empty liter bottle of soda. Diaz said they had to come up with a solution in providing light to help communities wiped out by Haiyan, and Filipino bayanihan was a good concept to start with. Liter of Light filled the PET bottle with water and bleach and stuck it in house roofs to produce refracted illumination indoors. But for Haiyan victims, “buying was an option but shipping cost would eat up about 70% of our budget, we need to come up with...Clottey still overweight; Pacquiao ready at 146
Grapevine, Texas — Ghanaian challenger Joshua Clottey is still overweight. The suspicion that Clottey was still overweight two days before the fight was confirmed when the Ghanaian fighter was spotted by Team Pacquiao member Roger Fernandez jogging at the convention hall while wearing a thermal suit for 45 minutes and then skipping rope. Clottey was at that time accompanied by four other team mates. Roger narrated, “Masama ang tingin nila sa akin, pero hindi ako umalis (They threw dagger looks at me, but i didn’t leave.)”. However, at the final press conference Wednesday, Clottey’s Chief trainer Lenny DeJesus claimed that Clottey had made the weight in his bid for Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization welterweight crown. Click here for full article from...Local News/ Bohol Balita
PIA Bohol may lend “Climate change” DVD
TO aid Boholano communities prepare appropriate mitigations and adaptations in life in these times of climate changes, the local information office lends a 63-minute video on the topic. The video documentary in digital video disk format (DVD) is entitled Panahon na: ang Pinoy at ang Hamon ng Climate Change is a government produced documentary hosted by Filipino television hosts and available at the Philippine Information Agency in Bohol. The documentary details the recent calamities hitting the country and the climate changes that have been noticed in the last decade. It follows the trends and presents models to predict what would possibly happen to the country in the next few years. Documentary topics include global warming effects, the rising tides and the calamities that have started to hit various places in the country. The documentary also details how agricultural and low lying communities in the country have started to realize that they could do no more than take adaptations measures. The documentary is ideal for schools and organizations, who are currently scouting for ideas on mitigating the effects of climate change, remarked somebody who has seen the documentary. It is so simple, so easy to digest that the documentary, which is done in mixed Tagalog-English could be seen and understood by grade five pupils to college students. Interested groups can go to the Philippine Information Agency at the LMP Building, K of C Drive in Tagbilaran City, or call 412-22-02 or 503-9148. Or email at piabohol171@yahoo.com for inquiries. Lending could be done on a first come-first served basis....PGMA bares plan to set up weather forecast assets
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo revealed in Bohol the government plan to equip itself with weather forecasting assets, during her recent one-one one interview with a local media representative in Loboc. This as she stresses that weather forecasting is one very important things, at a meeting with the press prior to a cabinet meeting on disaster preparedness set in Bohol two weeks ago. “What is most important is that we have to be ready,” the president told Bohol Chronicle chief Peter Dejaresco. Dejaresco, the son of the paper’s founder and the current chief executive officer of the Bohol Chronicle Radio Broadcasting Corporation asked the President, is the Philippines ready for disasters with all the preparations. Over that, Mrs Arroyo cited America and her advanced technology, “and they were still proven to be not ready”. Mrs. Arroyo pointed out that weather forecasting is one important thing, and so we are improving our capabilities to track rainfall amount. She was talking about a system of Doppler radars installed all over strategic locations in the country. A doppler radar makes use of the doppler effect to produce data about objects at a distance, by beaming a microwave signal towards a desired target and listening for its reflection. It also includes analyzing how the original signal has been altered by the object that reflected it. Variations in the frequency of the signal give direct and highly accurate measurements of a target’s velocity relative to the radar source and the direction of the microwave beam, according to wikepedia. President Arroyo told the media in Bohol that the country has already installed radar in Baler Quezon, Tagaytay,...Catigbian hosts BACS Meet 09; completes hosting meets slate
WANTING to leave an imprint as a town serious in its bid to churn out the best athletes, Catigbian hosts the private schools association athletic meet, the last kind of sports meet to complete its hosting record for sports events. Opening its arms again to host the Bohol Association of Catholic Schools (BACS) Meet this year, the town has spread the green welcome carpet to 20 catholic secondary schools participating in the meet. Meet participating delegations are from the two catholic schools of Tubigon, two schools of Loon, Maribojoc, Antequera, Cortes, Balilihan, 2 schools of host Catigbian, Sagbayan, Panglao, Baclayon, Lila, Dimiao, Garcia Hernandez, 3 schools of Jagna and Batuan. The recent hosting of the games, starting November 25-28 completes the slate of hosting the town has done for major sports meets in Bohol, a feat not all towns in Bohol may be too privileged. After hosting sub-congressional to Congressional meets, Catigbian earned the confidence by inviting the Provincial Meet organizers to consider the towns sports grounds as venue to the hostilities two years back. After gaining the nod, mayor Roberto Salinas and his performance team started a complex sequence of coordination and preparation to transform its often-waterlogged sports center into a standard tournament venue complete with a carpet of Bermuda grass, in record time, revealed municipal information officer designate Ardissa Estavilla. With the arena aid out, next was to make sure that the hallowed grounds of the sports venue becomes consecrated by a roster of great athletes from the town. Himself personally seeing who his town athletes representing District I were routed during the provincial meet, he initiated...Ombudsman launches Visayas anti-corruption council in Cebu
The Ombudsman launched the multi-sectoral anti-corruption council (MSACC) – Visayas chapter in Cebu According to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, the organization of the Multi-sectoral Anti-Corruption Council is a convergence of opinion, comments and ideas on how to solve corruption. The MSACC was launched in Manila, Davao and now in Cebu as a mechanism and monitoring body that will pursue anti-corruption measures and it will serve as the coordinating body of the National Anti-Corruption Program of Action (NACPA) in the country. To seal the members’ commitment against corruption they signed a covenant supporting the NACPA-MSACC Visayas chapter. (PIA-7) Click here for full...PAGASA SAYS: ‘Urduja’ nears Leyte; Signal no. 1 up over 23 provinces
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) were prompted to raise storm signal number 1 over a large part of the Visayas, as Tropical Depression “Urduja” nears Leyte. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour near the center and moving west northwest at 15 kilometers per hour. It is expected to be 30 kilometers west northwest of Roxas City by Wednesday morning. Pagasa expects “Urduja” to cut through the Visayas in a northwest direction exiting near the Mindoro islands. Storm signal number 1 is up over Masbate, Romblon, Eastern Samar, Western Samar, Biliran, Leyte and Southern Leyte, Cebu, Camotes Island, Bohol, the Negros provinces, Aklan, Capiz, Antique, Iloilo, Guimaras, Camiguin, Agusan del Norte, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, Dinagat and Siargao Island. Click here for full...National News
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