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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 NegOr LGUs get P134M funding Customs
to investigate Larena rice smuggling PHL, MILF upbeat against peace hurdle
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NegOr LGUs get P134M funding
BY RENE GENOVE
Several cities and towns of Negros Oriental received more than P134 million worth of projects from the Department of Interior and Local Government, under its Seal of Good Housekeeping program.
DILG provincial OIC director Farah Gentuya said these are Canlaon City, P20 million; Dumaguete City - P15M; Ayungon, Sibulan and Sta. Catalina, P1M each; Bindoy, P900,000; Vallehermoso, La Libertad and Tayasan, P800,000 each; Jimalalud, Valencia, Dauin and Basay, P700,000 each; Amlan, Bacong and Zamboanguita, P600,000; and San Jose, P500,000.
The allocation was sourced from the Local Government Support Fund of the agency, she added.
| NORECO 2 sets Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative 2 general manager Eunora Sameon yesterday issued an advisory for a scheduled power service interruption, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on January 26. Sameon said the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will conduct an annual preventive maintenance of its Amlan-Siaton 69-kilovolt transmission power line, and this will affect Dumaguete City, Sibulan, San Jose, Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita, Siaton, and Tampi and Tandayag in Amlan, the advisory added.*RG |
| PHL, MILF upbeat MANILA – The Philippine government and Muslim rebels said yesterday they were optimistic of clearing the final hurdle to ending a deadly decades-old rebellion, ahead of a fresh round of talks in Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur negotiations on Wednesday will tackle a "normalization" deal detailing how the rebels will hand over their weapons, and the creation of a security force to police what would be a Muslim self-rule area, they said. “We are optimistic...we know that the (rebels are) also optimistic and we're happy that we're moving faster and moving forward to a final resolution," Jose Lorena, a junior minister who advises President Benigno Aquino on the talks, told AFP. |
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