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newly-paved Anabu-Malagasang NIA Road, Imus

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feel of the countryside along Aguinaldo Highway, Imus

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There are still some open canal along Aguinaldo Highway. Sana maayos na to.

ALI unit books P15-B sales over six years (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=200807233&type=2)

By Mary Ann Ll. Reyes
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Community Innovations, a unit of real estate developer Ayala Land Inc. (ALI), earned P15 billion in sales revenues over six years since its inception in 2002, about P4.8 billion or a third was earned last year, officials said yesterday.

Company president Dante Abando revealed yesterday that Community Innovations likewise registered a compounded annual growth rate of 36 percent over the same period, compared to a 17-percent CAGR for the entire Philippine real estate sector.

Community Innovations has been relaunched as Alveo Land. “In Latin, Alveo means ‘to be well.’ As a company, we don’t just find the means to provide you with the most innovative homes, we look for ways to give you the life you deserve,” Abando said.

From 2002, the company’s sales value soared by a whopping 360 percent while sales volume increased 250 percent, he emphasized.

Last year, Community Innovations posted its highest earnings in its six-year history at P4.8 billion, translating to a 53- percent growth from its 2006 earnings of P3.1 billion.

“We are very pleased that our business grew significantly. Our developments are always centered on people’s needs and the market responded well to our offerings,” Abando pointed out.

He attributed this growth to the substantial contribution of new projects such as The Aston, the family and kids-oriented high-rise section at Two Serendra in Bonifacio Global City; Marquee Place, the first ALI development in Northern Philippines that is integrated with an Ayala mall located in Angeles City; and Treveia found at Nuvali, ALI’s new metropolis in the Canlubang, Laguna area.

He emphasized that more recent projects are also boosting the company’s portfolio. Senta, Community Innovations’ recent condominium development in Legazpi Village, registered P1 billion in sales in the first five weeks of selling. Meanwhile, The Red Oak, the second high-rise section in the third phase of Two Serendra, drew in P455 million on the first day of selling.

From the start, company officials stressed that Community Innovations has made a gleaming track record when it comes to sales. Its maiden project, Verdana Homes in Bacoor, Cavite, sold out in seven months.

“Every time we conceptualize a new community, we think about what is lacking in our market’s lifestyle. From here, we roll up our sleeves and think of something new to offer them. This propensity to innovate has propelled the company to where it is right now,” Abando explained.

At present, the company’s completed and ongoing developments have been and will be home to almost 4,000 families.

Summed up by its new name, Alveo concerns itself with so-called life ecosystems, or the deliberate and all-encompassing approach with takes into account the familial, social, physical, mental and emotional well-being of the market, Abando said.

4 foreign chambers identify 5 cities as retirement havens (http://www.mb.com.ph/BSNS20080725130646.html)

Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat

Four foreign chambers of commerce comprising of Japan, Korea, European and US have identified five areas – Manila, Subic, Tagaytay, Cebu and Dumaguete – as ideal retirement havens in the country that can really provide full service to foreign retirees.


Henry Schumacher, executive vice president of the European Chamber in the Philippines, said the four foreign chambers have already formed the International Chamber of Commerce, Retirement and Healthcare Coalition primarily to promote the Philippines as a retirement market.

"We have to see to it that they will be provided the required amenities and an end-to-end service – from the time they arrive at the airport to caretaker down to undertaker," Schumacher said.

"We believe the retirement market is an exciting market for the Philippines and if we want to be known as a retirement haven then we have to move now," Schumacher said.

According to Schumacher, the five cities have been chosen as priority areas as the country’s retirement sites largely due to their excellent medical facilities to serve the medical needs of foreign retirees, who may decide to make the Philippines their second home.

The five cities have excellent medical facilities and have the right environment for retirees to stay longer in the country.

^ I wonder what excellent medical facility does Tagaytay City has. :sly:

^^ Doc, what's the best healthcare facility in Cavite? DLSU-D?

I didn't realize flickr reduces the sizes of pics to a width of 1024. I'll try to use another image host & repost the panorama close to its original size. Ito na lang muna for now. :)

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^ Lemme guess. Photo was taken at Leslie's?

^^ Exactly what the title suggests. :)

^ Oh gosh, how embarrassing, I missed the title. Anyway, I guessed it right. :lol: I had taken a pano shot from that exact same angle years ago, I hope I can still recover it. :)

Thanks for posting it tracy, your post is very special for me. It brings back memories.

^^ Doc, what's the best healthcare facility in Cavite? DLSU-D?
Currently, the DLSU Medical Center at the De La Salle-Health Sciences Institute (formerly DLSU-Health Sciences Campus) is the biggest and the best medical facility in Cavite (& in the whole Region 4 perhaps). DLSU-D is the campus for non-health/medical courses. :)

However, a smaller hospital will be built in Tagaytay City and it will be called Tagaytay Hospital. It aims to have new approach in health care by integrating wellness into modern medicine. Aside from the medical center, they will also have a medical spa and wellness center.

From their website (http://www.tagaytayhospital.com/index.html):

The Medical Center

A 100-bed hospital and medical center will start construction in 2005. However, plans are afoot start an OPD (out-patient department) with doctors offices complete with laboratory and diagnostic facilities and pharmacy as an existing building is available. This will be staffed with medical specialists from Metro Manila major hospitals and teaching institutions and nearby areas who will provide the backbone and attract other specialists to practice in the area. The Medical Center will also house state-of-the art medical equipment and facilities providing tertiary care. The influx of transient medical tourists is also another eventuality that the Medical Center will prepare for.This is because of rising costs of medical care abroad and medical tourists have been coming to Southeast Asia for medical care tourism package.

Tie-up with the various hotels and half-way houses is also being considered by the corporation as we envision quality time for the client and the family. The construction of suite rooms will serve as an added feature for clients who wish check-up and recuperation together with their family.

Spa and Wellness Center

The corporation has envisioned the setting up of a Medical Spa and Wellness Center that will exist as a separate structure to cater to clients who desire to get well and maintain wellness in a cozy, homey spa setting while enjoying the fresh and organic produce of the area. The Medical Spa will provide facilities and staff for aesthetics ( plastic surgery, dermatology and state-of-the-art skin care treatment), conventional and alternative anti-aging medicine including dentistry, and disease detection. The ambience of a non-threatening environment with a minimum of white uniforms coupled with a casual spa lifestlye will attract the wellness market (95% of the population) which is currently experiencing a worldwide boom. Various approaches to health nutritional, holistic, spiritual, etc.) are also being looked at by the corporation as this will improve the total health care and profile of the client.

Experience nature’s way to better health and longer life through ORGANIC foods produced by ecological balance of nature…food free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides, artificial growth hormones
and antibiotics.

Altogether, the importance of having a medical center in a top international tourist destination and building the 1st medical spa in the country transforms a quiet and leisure day destination into a serious and long-term attraction for homeowners and retirees.

P200-M Modern Medical Tourism Center to Rise in Tagaytay City

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CONSTRUCTION starts for a P200- million tertiary hospital and wellness center equipped with modern medical facilities in Tagaytay City, one of the country’s premier tourist destinations, which has joined the growing medical tourism industry in the country.

The Tagaytay Hospital Systems Inc. (THSI) is a corporation formed by physicians and businessmen engaged in hospital construction and management with members that belong to a highly specialized and experienced group coming from various established health-care facilities.

THSI president and CEO Dr. Amado Manuel Enriquez Jr. said in a statement that Tagaytay hospital will directly provide benefits to host-communities by way of first-class facilities, contribution to economic development through job generation and assurance of satisfying the increasing need for health-care service in medical tourism.

Enriquez added that the hospital will be manned by Filipino specialists in all fields of medicine and health care using state-of-the-art equipment to be able to deliver optimum quality medical services.

THSI chairman of the board Geronimo David said that the Tagaytay Hospital is the latest project among several other medical tourism facilities of the company such as the Las Piñas Doctors Hospital, Metro South Medical Center and the recently opened Parañaque Doctor’s Hospital.

Other health-care facility projects currently under construction are Sta. Rosa Hospital and Medical Center and Baypointe Hospital and Medical Center in the Subic Bay Free Port Zone.

“Tagaytay hospital is offering a unique blend of medical facilities combined with first-class hotel rooms for its medical tourism patients creating a more relax ambience rather than the usual uncomfortable and awkward hospital room settings,” Enriquez added.

The project launching was highlighted with the contract signing between THSI and general contractor D.L. Cervantes Construction represented by its president Diosdado Cervantes for the construction of the hospital expected to be completed within the next 15 months.

“Tagaytay Hospital was designed to accommodate medical and wellness tourism featuring lobby and front desk area similar to a first-class hotel with coffee shops, organic restaurant, boutique and souvenir stores,” Cervantes said.
Cervantes added that the 100-bed six-story hospital with a total floor area of 11,680 square meters, will be built in a prime lot along Tagaytay Rotonda (circumferential) road with view decks in the upper level offering panoramic picturesque view of the famous Taal Volcano lake.

On the same occasion, Department of Tourism Assistant Secretary for sports and wellness Cynthia Carreon entered into a memorandum of agreement with THSI to become “working partners” and jointly promote the Philippines as a medical tourism destination in Asia providing best health-care services and facilities.

Carreon noted that the country would soon be the “Mecca destination for medical and wellness tourism in Asia.”
Carreon added that the Philippines, even if it is far behind in medical tourism industry from other countries such as Thailand, India, Malaysia, Singapore, among others, is fast developing to become the Asia’s best site for medical and wellness tourism with the help of the government and the entry of private investors including medical practitioners themselves.

The hospital will also provide out-patient and emergency medical services to the growing number of city residents and nearby communities.

from Phil. Retirement Inc. (http://www.philippineretirement.org/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=113&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=216&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1581&hn=philippineretirement&he=.org)

Currently, the DLSU Medical Center at the De La Salle-Health Sciences Institute (formerly DLSU-Health Sciences Campus) is the biggest and the best medical facility in Cavite (& in the whole Region 4 perhaps). DLSU-D is the campus for non-health/medical courses. :)


Haha. Hirap tandaan. Basta yung hospital sa may DLSU-D. :D

P200-M Modern Medical Tourism Center to Rise in Tagaytay City

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This is on its finishing touches right? Is this the one in the Olivares/Rotonda area?

^ I don't know if its already on its finishing touches. Yup, it's located at Rotonda area. :)

^^Yeah, I think I saw that the last time I went to Tagaytay. Looked like the exterior was almost done but of course there could still be a lot of work to be done on the interior.

Thanks for posting it tracy, your post is very special for me. It brings back memories.

You're welcome. It's good to know that this pic brought back good memories to others. :)

^ Oh gosh, how embarrassing, I missed the title. Anyway, I guessed it right. :lol: I had taken a pano shot from that exact same angle years ago, I hope I can still recover it. :)

I hope you do recover your pic. I'm pretty sure it's much better than the one I took. :)

There’s something brewing in Tagaytay (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=2008072861&type=2)
By Leah C. Salterio
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
When Richard Merk and his wife, bank executive Roni Tapia, ventured into a restaurant business with Merk’s Bar and Bistro nearly six years ago, they probably didn’t envision a business expansion that will take them to one of the favorite destinations of Filipinos — Tagaytay.

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Merk’s Bar and Bistro in Makati City has turned out to be a successful investment of the couple. One of the original establishments that opened in the Greenbelt 3 area, it remains a popular venue for food and entertainment in that cluster where mortality rate for restaurants is rather high.

Recently, Merk’s Bar and Bistro opened its first out-of-town branch in Tagaytay, with the Merk’s Café at the 8 Suites in The Ridge, overlooking the scenic Taal Lake. The Tagaytay property is owned by Roni’s family and the lot was bought by 8 Suites, managed by the father and son tandem of Jimmy and David Gomez. The family owns the 16-room tourist vacation house in Boracay called Fat Jimmy’s (obviously named after its patriarch), which has been operational for more than five years now.

“8 Suites is the latest addition to the bed and breakfast concept that Tagaytay is famous for,” grants Roni. “A lot of people go to Tagaytay for vacation and they always look for an ideal place to stay.”

The Gomez family approached Richard and Roni to manage the restaurant of the hotel. Realizing that a branch in Tagaytay will be a good venture for Merk’s, the couple relented. “We moved some of our staff from Makati to Tagaytay and rented a place for them to stay,” Richard offers. “We built the kitchen and worked on the menu.”

A new destination for local and foreign tourist, Merk’s Café at 8 Suites is nestled at Barangay Iruhin Central. The restaurant does not only offer a feast for the palate, but also a serene and relaxing view of nature. It serves breakfast delights, as well as lunch and dinner favorites.

Richard himself worked hands-on for the menu, bringing the excellent Filipino country cuisine courtesy of LJC’s Bistro Remedios, to a different level. “We offer a different breakfast, lunch, dinner and merienda menu,” he discloses. “We want to give guests a variety on the food. We included some of the bestsellers at Merk’s and we are introducing several new specialties.”

Guests can savor reasonably priced breakfast meals with local flavor such as crispy tawilis and sinaing na tulingan, while enjoying the breathtaking view of Taal Lake. Among the house specialties are pochero ng Cebu (bulalo), crispy tadyang, kare-kare, picnic adobo (wrapped in banana leaves), gising-gising, tuna panga, embotido, sisig, lumpiang bangus, adobong kambing and sinigang na bangus belly.

Hot from the pan are triple layered pancakes with crispy bacon and various omelette which are offered as breakfast treats, with pan de sal combo, tocino, tapa, longganisa, Spanish sardines, freshly-baked bread, cheese, kapeng barako and Batangas tsokolate. Rohini’s healthy lacto-vegetarian meals are also part of the menu. Lunch and dinner include appetizers, soups and salads, pasta and desserts.

Fortunately, with the successful brand that Merk’s has become, a branch in Tagaytay will not be hard to push. “We are out to bring the Merk’s experience to Tagaytay, from the food to the service to the entertainment,” Richard says. “We make it a point to visit the restaurant every weekend to personally oversee the operations.”

The suites, meanwhile, come with a balcony overlooking the Taal Lake and Volcano. Guests can eat their meals in the veranda while enjoying the breathtaking view and cool weather. Room service is from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., same hours as the restaurant. “Aside from the good food, the big come-on is the ambiance, weather, comfort and serenity of nature,” Roni points out.

The restaurant seats 60 people and will also accommodate functions such as weddings, birthdays, reunions, conventions and seminars. “We can cater for as much as 150 to 200 people for events,” Roni says. “The place has a garden which is ideal for wedding receptions and parties. Merk’s Café is flexible to meet client’s needs and requirement. We want to go beyond the bed and breakfast concept.”

Merk’s Café, however, is not only exclusive to the hotel guests. Richard informs it is also open to the public who considers Tagaytay a great stop-over and vacation place. “The public can try everything that Merk’s Café has to offer,” Richard says. “Occasionally on weekends, we will even give added treat to guests by bringing entertainment to Tagaytay, since Merk’s is known for that.”

Visit Merk’s Café at 8 Suites at Barangay Iruhin Central, after Crosswinds. For details, call 0929-2697083.

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Reducing dependence on oil (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=20080729148&type=2)
COMMONSENSE By Marichu A. Villanueva
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

While I am ready to concede to the global oil crunch as the cause of the weekly increases here in the pump prices of refined oil products, it still came as a shock to me when Pilipinas Shell and Total Philippines jacked up their diesel prices by another P1.50 last Saturday. This was when the world market price of crude oil has tumbled already to much lower levels.

The two oil firms did it a few days after they joined the others in partial rollback of their P3 per liter increase in diesel and kerosene prices last week, purportedly in response to the appeal of President Arroyo. Fortunately, the semi-government owned Petron, Chevron, and the rest of the small oil players did not follow suit but have held off from raising their prices so far.

We, as consumers, now have the chance to wield our power of choice. Boycott Shell and Total. Patronize Petron, Chevron and other small oil players that offer cheaper diesel and kerosene products. In the meantime, the search for alternative fuel and renewable energy sources must intensify right here, right now.

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in the seminar hosted by the United States Embassy on “Renewables: Energy for the 21st Century” held at Taal Vista in Tagaytay. In his keynote address, former Department of Energy Secretary Vicente Perez Jr. noted wryly that the price of crude oil in the world market had gone up cruelly to $140 per barrel from only $22 per barrel in 2001. That was more than seven years ago when he first became a Cabinet member of President Arroyo. He left the Arroyo Cabinet in 2005.

Perez could only express relief he is no longer the government’s energy chief. For sure, he quipped, the media in particular would pillory him each time there are increases in the prices of gasoline and other refined oil products. Now in the private sector, Perez is actively involved in the business of looking for cheaper yet environment-friendly energy sources. He is the president and chief executive officer of Alternergy and director of Meritt Partners. The Alternergy is currently involved in a partnership with Northwind that operates the windmill farm in Bangui, Ilocos Norte. It is the first wind farm in Southeast Asia that is currently generating 25-megawatts (MW) of electricity out of this renewable energy source using the wind power. And for his “green” energy endeavor, Perez was recently elected to chair the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines.

With his Wharton School of Business degree tucked in his belt, he went on sabbatical study when he left the Cabinet in 2005 and got a fellowship at Yale University. While “doodling” his time away from his ivory tower at Yale, Perez came up with his own study which he aptly entitled: “A Business Case for Investing in Renewable Power in Emerging Countries.” And obviously, he focused his study on the Philippines.

In his case study, the ex-energy chief identified the key factors for RE growth in the country. Of course, the foremost factor is our God-given RE resources that we certainly have in abundance. However, he cited, “man-made tools” are also needed to fully tap the potentials of RE resources such as government policy-support that should be embedded in the laws of the land.

In a very enlightening talk at the seminar, Perez cited the “time is ripe” for RE in the Philippines. This is because, he pointed out, RE could insulate the Philippine economy from such sharp and wild swings of the crude oil prices in the world market. Economies of oil-dependent countries like us are susceptible to such violent upswings in the global market. He noted, though, with optimism our country’s energy self-sufficiency has gone up by as much as 56 percent as of last year.

At the sidelines of the seminar, Perez estimated to us that as much as $850-million worth of investments in RE projects in the country are in the pipeline awaiting the passage into law of the RE bill in Congress. The proposed legislation seeks, among other things, to promote the use of RE resources in power generation, transportation, and other energy-intensive industry. These are pending investments on RE projects that involve tapping the country’s vast resources in geothermal, solar, wind, and ocean energy. Foreign investors are in a wait-and-see mode for the passage of the RE bill in Congress. The RE bill is said to be languishing in Congress for the last 19 years since it was first filed and re-filed in the previous Congresses.

Among the important features of the RE bill is the package of fiscal incentives for investors and consumers of RE sources such as exemption from the value added tax (VAT). The House version of this bill was already approved on third reading last June. Its counterpart version at the Senate is still in the period of interpellation. The pending RE bill in Congress is expected to accelerate growth in the RE field.

Investments on RE projects in the country are foreseen to possibly even double if lawmakers will approve the proposed RE bill and the President signs it into law immediately. Perez believes these pending investments on RE projects would get the much needed push once the bill becomes Renewable Energy Act of 2008. “These investments are in anticipation of the (passage) of the RE bill. These projects could perhaps be made in the next five years,” Perez said.

The good news is, there are so many interested local and foreign investors in RE projects. In fact, no less than the Ayala company is investing soon into RE project. This I learned from Fernando Zobel de Ayala when I bumped into him at the lobby of Taal Vista still wearing his motorbike gears. More than being affected by the gasoline price hikes, the sportsman in Mr. Ayala obviously was the reason why he came to Tagaytay using his racing motorbike.

Studies showed that the Philippines has a total of nearly 80,000-MW wind, biomass, and mini-hydro and solar energy potentials. The Philippines is second to the US as largest producers of geothermal energy in the world. We can really reduce our country’s dependence on oil if the national leadership wields the political will to do so. What’s stopping our Senators from approving the RE bill? I wonder why.
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Inquirer Southern Luzon
Cavite road project stirs poor villages

By Erika Sauler
Southern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 01:12:00 07/31/2008

BACOOR, Cavite – As shaky as the many shanties on stilts and lean-tos on the edges of the Manila Bay in Bacoor town in Cavite are the dwellers’ thoughts of what lies ahead for them when the government pursues a road reclamation project that will lead to an international logistical hub at historic Sangley Point.

“We were just told [by Mayor Strike Revilla] to be prepared,” says Asuncion Boyon, president of the Samahang Nagkaisa ng Coastal Road Inc. “But it hardly clears things up. We might just wake up one morning scooped up by their dumping trucks.”

The seven-kilometer reclaimed road will connect the Manila-Cavite Coastal Road to Kawit town in Cavite under the R-1 Expressway Extension Project of the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) and UEM-Mara Philippine Corp. It will continue inland up to Noveleta town, for a total of 11 km.

Executive Order No. 629, which was signed by President Macapagal-Arroyo on June 21, 2007, directs the PRA to develop Sangley Point in Cavite City into a logistical hub with a modern seaport and an airport, citing the R-1 extension as an enabling component.

Groundbreaking rites were held as early as February 2004, with the President even reminding her audience that she had conceived the project in 1989 when she was assistant secretary of the Department of Trade.

“We are not against their projects as long as they don’t neglect us,” Boyon said. “We would be relocated [to places] where there is no electricity, no water, no school and too far from our jobs. What would happen to us there?”

Relocation underway

According to her, some 1,000 families will be uprooted by the reclamation project. Bacoor officials who conducted a community survey refuse to disclose to the Inquirer how many people will actually be affected.

The Department of Public Works and Highways had promised P15,000 to each family who were already relocated to Tanza town. But some have complained that they were not yet paid the full amount.

In September last year, the provincial Urban Poor Affairs Office issued an order to demolish the slum community, but it was not carried out because of the people’s resistance.

Mayor Revilla said no such order was sent to his office at that time. But his chief of staff, Hector Loyola, said: “The question is not whether there will be a demolition order. The issue here is that they are informal settlers. So whether there is a project there or not, they should be prepared.”

The R-1 Expressway Extension Project will “enhance development and investment because it will ease the traffic,” Loyola said. “Certainly, there would be repercussions or ill effects. But we are acting reactively here because we are not privy to the data.”


40 percent complete

Reclamation activities have already started in some portions of the stretch. The project is close to 40 percent complete, according to the PRA’s deputy general manager, Theron V. Lacson.

Lorenzo Badilla Jr., barangay councilor of Talaba 2, rues that the reclamation has turned the water muddy and damaged their clam farms. “The fishes have been driven away, too, so we have to sail farther to be assured of a catch,” he said.

Some 100 to 150 people were paid P20,000 by the DPWH for their damaged clam farms. But 23 members, including Badilla of the Samahan ng Maliit na Mangingisda, have yet to receive payment.

Although viaducts are available for boats to pass through the reclaimed road, the fishermen complain that when the seawater rises, the inward current makes it cumbersome for them to navigate the boat outward and vice versa.

Badilla said the people would still like to be relocated on-site. “If they would transfer us to just any place, what will happen to our livelihood?”

Flooding woes

Villagers also blame the road project for the flooding in the area, Badilla said. But, Loyola said: “There are no data to show the water level before so we couldn’t establish that. Is it a matter of reality or a matter of perception? It could be due to the reclaimed road or the global climate change.”

Consolacion Tuibeo, 50, has no problem being relocated so long as the place is near the sea. “Even if we are poor, we can just catch fish and we will have something to eat,” she said.

“Look at other countries, a fisherman does not necessarily live near the sea,” Loyola said. “Employment factors include qualification and willingness to work. If you try hard enough, there would always be a source of income. Did anyone look for a job?”

Revilla ‘connection’

On the other hand, Catalina Rosit, 58, says she will accept financial assistance to go back to her hometown.

Loyola is skeptical. “We have a Balik Probinsya program, but nobody wants to take it.”

The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya ) recently denounced the “well-established connection of the Revillas” in the widespread reclamation activities along Cavite’s coastal areas.

It also said this “P8-billion pet project of the Revilla clan, in collaboration with Malacañang, would affect the livelihood of 26,000 fishing families.” The PRA’s Lacson, however, estimated the project at P4 billion.

Loyola dismissed the accusation as “clannish.”

“If they have documented evidence, then they should take the proper action,” he said.

“When Mayor Revilla assumed office, the project is already under implementation. He didn’t design the project, he didn’t conduct the consultations and he didn’t package the social cost,” he said.

Bacoor municipal planning officer Sylvia Castro says her office was still requesting a copy of the project literature from the contractor, UEM-Mara Philippines Corp. “It’s a national project. They just informed us for courtesy,” she says.

BOT project

Felix Pontilla, DPWH maintenance engineer in Trece Martirez City, says he has taken the initiative to inquire about the project at PEA Tollway Corp. But, he adds that the staffers were hesitant to divulge project details because they report directly to the Office of the President.

“It’s a build-operate-transfer project, so we are not in charge of it,” Pontilla says.

“We should be a facilitating party, but our role is not clearly defined.” Loyola says. “By policy, we can’t intervene. We could only appeal for the affected families.”

A municipal-based Urban Poor Planning and Housing Affairs Council was created to conduct a census of the community. Loyola says housing projects in General Trias were still being discussed with the provincial Urban Poor Affairs Office.

“We are organizing the community and orienting them with their rights and possible course of actions,” Loyola says. “[The urban poor problem] takes a deeper study, not just by the solver but by those who feel the problem.”

“In 2009, there will be a municipal budget for housing, until then we can’t say if there will be a relocation.” With a report from Niña Catherine Calleja

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Tuloy-tuloy pa po ba ang improvement ng Governor's Drive from Gen. Tri to Carmona?

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Amazing Tagaytay City photos pepe! :applause:

Highlands Prime sets P2.2-B capex this year (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=2008080420&type=2)
By Zinnia B. Dela Peña
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Highlands Prime, Inc. (HPI), an upscale leisure development firm controlled by the SM Group of retail tycoon Henry Sy, is settting aside P2.2 billion this year and next for the development of new projects including a condotel within the exclusive Tagaytay Highlands.
In a statement, HPI said the condotel will be located at one of the highest locations of Tagaytay Highlands with a 360-degree view of Taal Lake, Mt. Makiling, Laguna de Bay and Palace in the Sky.

The condotel will showcase fully-furnished studio type rooms up to three-bedroom units. Owners who will not use their units may leverage the management to rent and manage their property as it would any other hotel room.

The focal point for this destination lodging will be a community plaza boasting of shops, cafes, food and beverage outlets and weekend bazaars.

In the pipeline is Pueblo Real, which will feature Mexican-themed homes.

HPI aims to enhance its developments in both the Highlands and Midlands complexes in the next five years by building homes that will answer the varied needs of Tagaytay Highlands’ distinguished clientele.

Among the projects that are almost ready for turnover this year are The Woodridge Park, a medium-density, Colorado resort-inspired condominiums and The Hillside, the first residential lot development featuring owner-designed log homes both located at the Highlands complex.

The Hillside, overlooking the Canlubang Estates, is the first residential lot development at the Highlands complex.

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Cavite road project, bubusisiin ni Sen. Revilla

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Bilang tugon sa hinaing ng publiko, nagsasagawa ang Senate inquiry ni Sen. Bong Revilla kaugnay sa makupad na konstruksyon ng R1 Expressway Extension Project sa Cavite. Naka*takdang ipatawag sa Sena*do ang mga opisyal ng UEM-Mara Phils. Corp. na tuma*tayong contracting firm ng proyekto, para matukoy kung mayroon pa ring pinan*syal na kapabi*lidad para tapusin ang imprastraktura. Nag-ugat ang Senate inquiry mata*pos magreklamo ang mga mangingisda na nahi*hira*pan magmaniobra ng mga bangka tuwing high tide partikular na sa viaduct na nagsisilbing lagusan pa*tungo at palabas ng laot. Napaulat din na karamihan sa mga apektadong pa*milya ng konstruksyon ay hindi pa rin nababayaran gaya ng ipi*nangako ng DPWH. Tiniyak naman ng Senate Committee on Public Works sa pa*mumuno ni Sen. Revilla na gagawa siya ng paraan para masi*gurong maayos ang relo*kasyon at kompensas*yon ng mga pamilyang na*apektuhan ng proyekto. Gayon pa man, umapela si Sen. Revilla sa mga resi*dente na huwag maligaw sa tunay na layunin ng pama*halaan sa pagtatayo ng pro*yekto at ito ay ang makapag*hatid ng lalo pang progreso hindi lamang sa isang lung*sod o bayan kundi sa buong Cavite. Sa*mantala, ipinaha*yag naman ni Bacoor Mayor Strike Revilla na nag-alok na ang lokal na pamahalaan ng Bacoor na aakuin ang pag*babayad ng right-of-way para sa mga apektadong pamilya. “Ilang buwan na ang nakali*pas, nagpadala na kami ng pormal na liham sa DPWH kaugnay sa pag*babayad ng lokal na pa*ma*halaan ng Bacoor na baya*ran ang right-of-way subalit hanggang sa kasa*lukuyan ay hinihintay pa rin naming ang kanilang sa*got,” paha*yag pa ni Mayor Revilla.

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http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=20080805104&type=2

We went to GMA, Cavite from Imus passing through Buhay na Tubig, Molino, Salawag and Paliparan...these places during my childhood days were one of the most notorious places...Its a backwater, cogon-dominated and salvage-graveyard.

But despite of its past image, the progress here is dramatic. Ayala has their own gated community here, the Avida. And also the rise of commercial interests in this untapped and yet less crowded portion of Cavite.

Buhay na Tubig, Imus Cavite
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Some gated communities in Buhay na Tubig, Imus, Cavite
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Buhay na Tubig's Commercial Area
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More of gated communities
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Daang Hari portion of Bacoor and Imus
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SM SuperCenter Molino
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The New Molino Road
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Avida
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Salawag, Dasmariñas
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Salawag as a Savannah-Cogonal
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Another Avida Community
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Paliparan's Commercial Area
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Access to Area-C/DLSU-Dasmarinas
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Mercury Drug and other commercial establishments in Paliparan
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Governor's Drive @ General Mariano Alvarez
There is an ongoing construction for widening the old bridges of GMA.
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Dasma TechnoPark
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General Mariano Alvarez
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Governor's Drive @ General Mariano Alvarez
There is an ongoing construction for widening the old bridges of GMA.

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General Mariano Alvarez
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Thanks for the pics of Governor's Drive! I believe there is another bridge of this type on the other side of GMA towards Carmona. I hope they will be able to expedite the completion of the adjacent 2 lane bridge to enable rehab of this bridge and help ease traffic in the future.

I hope you guys brought a lot of patience with you on this trip. The traffic at GMA is notorious due to the unruly behavior of motorists, especially those jeepney and tricycle drivers!

nice photos!!! :) grabe ang transformation ng mga lugar na yan lalo na ang Salawag na dating liblib na lugar-ngayon marami ng establishments. Bilib din ako sa GMA, dating resettlement area, isa na sa pinakabusy na commercial area sa Cavite. :applause:

^^Yup, it could be noted that the town of GMA has taken big strides since its conception and birth in the 70's.

Being sandwiched by industrial and residential towns, it might not be too long until GMA could catch up with the towns of Carmona and Dasmarinas in terms of income.

I hope Silang will be next! :)

Tagaytay cited as one of RP’s top retirement havens



TAGAYTAY CITY -- Tagaytay City was recently cited as one of the top five retirement havens in the Philippines by four foreign trade chambers – European, American, Japan and Korean Chamber of Commerce.



It joins Manila, Subic, Cebu, and Dumaguete in the list of the most preferred choices of local and foreign retirees.

The citation is a testament of Tagaytay’s unique characteristic and comparative advantage over other places in the country, Tagaytay Mayor Bambol Tolentino said.

Its advantages as a retirement haven include its peace and order, cool climate, scenic view of the Taal Volcano, proximity to Metro Manila, and abundance of housing facilities, recreational and leisure sites, religious institutions, and retreat houses.

Mayor Tolentino lauded the citation by the foreign chambers and vowed to work in partnership with them, as well as the Philippine Retirement Authority, in the efforts to promote the entire country as a retirment destination.

The recognition, he said, inspires the people of Tagaytay to continue efforts aimed at preserving the "rural charm" of the city. This would ensure that it is truly a retirement haven, he also said.

The retirement industry has been growing over the years due to changes in global demographics with the rapid aging of the world’s population, the mayor noted. (Del Villanueva)

This demographic trend offers an opportunity for the Philippines as it offers a comprehensive retirement program to serve the needs of foreign retirees. (Del Villanueva)


http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV20080807131832.html

^ Congratulations to Tagaytay! :applause:

Aguinaldo Highway on a Friday Afternoon (August 08,2008)

I'm not exaggerating. It is indeed true that I stayed for an hour and a half in 4 kilometers stretch of Aguinaldo Highway from Imus to Niog, Bacoor! :bash::ohno:

Boundary Imus-Bacoor (Imus Sports Complex)
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Near Justinville Subdivision in Bacoor Cavite.

This is the same situation all the way to Niog Bacoor. There were no accidents nor any construction works. Its just the sheer volume of traffic during that day, a Friday!

Aguinaldo Highway on a Friday Afternoon (August 08,2008)

I'm not exaggerating. It is indeed true that I stayed for an hour and a half in 4 kilometers stretch of Aguinaldo Highway from Imus to Niog, Bacoor! :bash::ohno:

Boundary Imus-Bacoor (Imus Sports Complex)
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Near Justinville Subdivision in Bacoor Cavite.

This is the same situation all the way to Niog Bacoor. There were no accidents nor any construction works. Its just the sheer volume of traffic during that day, a Friday!

grabe ang traffic sa coastal road!

Kahapon, and weird. 1 hour lang travel time ko from Makati to Dasma,Cavite. 5-6pm! ang galing ng buhos system. :lol:

Look out for Tagaytay somewhere in the middle of this video.

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YouTube Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY)

^ Fun video! sayang di man lang pinakita yung view ng Tagaytay. :lol:

Oo nga. No landmark whatsoever to show that it's really in Tagaytay. It can be anywhere in the Phils. Sana doon sya nagsayaw sa may Taal Vista overlooking the volcano.

Kahapon, and weird. 1 hour lang travel time ko from Makati to Dasma,Cavite. 5-6pm! ang galing ng buhos system. :lol:

Good thing, nagkataon ikaw ang nasa flowing-side ng buhos. Imagine if you were on the waiting-end. Baka nadagdagan ng 1hr ang total travel time mo. :)

MANILA, Philippines — A fisherfolk group alliance threatened to file a separate class suit against Environment Secretary Joselito Atienza if he refused to stop government reclamation activities along Manila Bay.

The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said unbridled reclamation activities contributes to the destruction of the bay.

“We are not happy with the way the national government is treating Manila Bay. We are being blamed for its deterioration. Why us? We are not destroyers of natural resources and marine environment," Pamalakaya chairman Fernando Hicap said in a statement.

“We cannot destroy our main source of livelihood. It is impossible for us to do that, because destroying Manila Bay is like destroying our basis for existence. In fact, we are victims here," he said.

Hicap said his group will discuss the planned class suit with their legal counsel and leaders and members in Bataan, Bulacan, Navotas, Cavite and allies in Parañaque and Las Piñas.

“The real culprits in the destruction of Manila Bay are the national government and its corporate clients performing anti-environment and anti-people businesses along the bay," Hicap said.

He said the government is at fault not just for allowing factories and commercial establishments to discharge toxic wastes in Pasig River and Manila Bay, but also for its baywide reclamation projects.

The militant group said about 20,000 hectares of Manila Bay waters have been subjected to reclamation to pave way for the construction of special economic zones in Bataan and Cavite, the commercial spaces presently occupied by Manila Film Center, the GSIS Building in Pasay City, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Folk Arts Theater in Manila, and the SM Mall of Asia and other commercial companies in Pasay City.

Pamalakaya said Secretary Atienza has given the state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) the environmental clearance certificate to develop the 90-hectare reclaimed casino and resort complex in Manila Bay that will begin in the third quarter of the year.

Pagcor said companies with approved proposals must invest at least US$1 billion for their projects, with initial $400 million investments in the first two years

On top of the $15 billion casino project to be constructed along Manila Bay, Pamalakaya said Secretary Atienza had granted ECC to the ambitious Cavite Coastal Road Project II that would involve reclamation of more than 8,000 hectares of coastal waters along Manila Bay from Bacoor to Cavite City.

Reports said aside from coastal road that would link Manila to Cavite, an international seaport will be constructed and will be annexed to the revive Sangley Point, a former US military base.

Pamalakaya said close to 3 million coastal people in Metro Manila and Cavite are still dependent on fishing as principal source of livelihood, and any move to transform or convert Manila Bay for other purposes like the $15-billion casino project and the Cavite Phase II Coastal Road project will have a killing impact on the livelihood of small fishermen, aside from the fact that they would be demolished from their communities, once construction of support structures and establishments begins.

“From 1992 to 1995, the demolitions of coastal shanties became an everyday ordeal in Pasay Reclamation area. Houses were uprooted on almost day-to-day basis. Small and big time bribery to divide the communities were conducted to facilitate the demolition of coastal communities," Pamalakaya said.

The setting up of casino and resorts, including SM’sMall of Asia was all in the master plan of the government known as Manila Bay Master Development Plan that officially started during the time of President Ramos and projected to end between 2020 and 2025.

Hicap recalled that 3,500 small fisherfolk in the Pasay Reclamation Area, and another 3,000 coastal and urban poor families along the coastal shores of Parañaque, were evicted by the government of former President Ramos to pave way for the construction of the proposed casino that would make the Philippines the Las Vegas of Asia

The militant group said 60 percent of pollution entering Manila Bay comes through the Pasig River, and 80 percent of the pollution comes from industries and commercial establishments situated along the country’s major river system in the National Capital Region. Another 15 percent of the pollution that gets into Manila Bay comes from Pampanga River, which the group said, is colonized by big and small polluting factories.

“The government is blaming overfishing as a major factor in the degradation of Manila Bay. That is a flimsy and ridiculous excuse. The massive privatization and conversion of public lands and coastal communities along the bay since the Marcos dictatorship up to present administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is the principal reason why Manila Bay is under the Intensive Care Unit, and suffering from environmental comatose," Pamalakaya said. - GMANews.TV (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/113985/Environment-chief-threatened-with-class-suit-over-Manila-Bay-reclamations)

^^ Well, as what they say in their Leninist-Maoist terms:
"There would be counter-revolutionary forces that would be against the revolutionary forces of the society." This time, its the opposite. :D

Tagaytay Mixed-Use Development Study

http://www.palafoxassociates.com/images/tagaytay.jpg

That is from Palafox website. I hope they would give more info on that one.

Lyceum University of the Philippines
General Trias, Cavite Campus

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from LUP-C Website (http://www.lyceumphil.edu.ph/lpucavite/index.htm) and lordlance of flickr
(http://flickr.com/photos/29118263@N03/)

Lyceum University of the Philippines
General Trias, Cavite Campus

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from LUP-C Website (http://www.lyceumphil.edu.ph/lpucavite/index.htm) and lordlance of flickr
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^^Love the campus :):):)

Robinsons' developments in Tagaytay

MALL
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HOTEL
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August 17, 2008

Cavite Aerials...

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Photos by: AJM (http://www.pbase.com/image/80639109)

^^ I can't determine where the first and second photo is but I suppose the third one would be at Bacoor.

Robinsons' developments in Tagaytay

MALL
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August 17, 2008
thanks for the photos! :D
kaya pala di na sasama sa Tagaytay sa next meet. :lol:

^^ I can't determine where the first and second photo is but I suppose the third one would be at Bacoor.

Bernie says the first one must be Naic. Follow the river upstream and you'd see a portion where it seems to surround an island.

Cyber Bay plans residential subdivision along Mla Bay (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=200808313)

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña
Monday, September 1, 2008

Cyber Bay Corp., a company headed by San Miguel Corp. president Ramon S. Ang, is planning to transform a property along Manila Bay into a residential subdivision and district for small and medium enterprises.

Ang said that once the issues involving the controversial Manila Bay reclamation project have been resolved, Cyber Bay will move to convert the 750-hectare property along Manila-Cavite coastal road within the cities of Paranaque, Las Piñas and the municipality of Bacoor, Cavite into an integrated and comprehensive urban township .

The project was pursuant to a joint venture agreement entered into by CyberBay with the Philippine Reclamation Authority involving the reclamation of land along Manila Bay.  It was put on hold after Central Bay got into a legal tussle with the government involving the ownership of the reclaimed land.

In 2002, the Supreme Court declared the JVA illegal, saying the transfer of ownership of land to CyberBay subsidiary Central Bay Amari Coastal Development Corp. was unconstitutional because private corporations cannot own reclaimed lands.

Ang, said the Supreme Court ruling was unfair as it exempted other companies that acquired reclaimed lands.

He said Cyber Bay is pursuing its claims with the PRA for reimbursement of all costs related to the project amounting to P10.23 billion. 

CyberBay has spent a considerable amount on the project which continues to be charged with interests. 

Due to the cessation of the project, CyberBay failed to honor its loan commitments and incurred significant losses from accumulating interests and penalties.  Last year, the company had accumulated deficit of  P9.4 billion.

In documents filed with the SEC, CyberBay said it still intends to continue its operations and utilize reimbursements that it may obtain from the PRA to fund other business and development ventures.

“The ability of the company to continue as a going concern will depend on the recoverability of the claims for reimbursement and on the success of any business that it may undertake,” CyberBay said.

In Cavite, a vehicular accident at Longos-Talaba Junction and its immediate vicinity would create a monstrous traffic jam which stretches all the way to Imus in the south and Las Piñas City-Cavite border in the north...This just goes to show "the blocking cavity in the main arterty of Cavite's beating heart." Longos Junction-Coastal Road is a fine example of a bottleneck situation.

If the vehicles would go to Manila via Zapote-Las Piñas, they'll be also encountering major congestion since market places are located within the old Manila-Cavite Road (Quirino Avenue).

This was taken this morning:
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And here is the vehicular accident
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^^Cavite need (well lighted) roads badly. With the on-going rehab of SLEx, it doesn't help either. Maybe they should impose number coding on several districts to help ease the volume of vehicles.


thanks for the photos! :D
kaya pala di na sasama sa Tagaytay sa next meet. :lol:

I hope Robinson's would plan this Tagaytay mall more carefully this time... I hope they learned their lessons in Dasma!

LGU CARMONA bags 2008 MABINI AWARDS

The Local Government Unit of Carmona is recognized in the 2008 Apolinario Mabini Awards as Local Government Unit of the Year. The National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP) sought the recognition of Carmona.

This is the first time Carmona received the national award in recognition for its untiring service and protection to the welfare of exceptional individuals through its Persons with Disabilities Coordinating Office (PWDCO).

The most significant achievement of the Local Government Unit of Carmona is to encourage parents to bring their special children out into the open, allow them to be educated and be fully functional within their individual capacities. The Persons with Disability Coordinating Office (PWDCO) has today evolved into a Center for an ever growing number of learners with various disabilities.

Mayor Roy M. Loyola personally received the plaque of recognition presented by Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, during the awards rites held at Heroes Hall, Malacañang Palace on August 6, 2008.

Aside from Carmona, two other LGUs received the award namely, the city government of Makati and the provincial government of Nueva Vizcaya.
The Philippine Foundation for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Inc. (PFRD) launched the Apolinario Mabini Awards in 1974 to recognize individual, groups, and agencies who have made outstanding contributions in the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.

Source (http://carmonagov.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307&Itemid=99)

:applause:

Bacoor

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Bautista's (Revilla's) residence

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Angelus Eternal Garden

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School of St. Mark

BOI grants tax perks to 2 power plant projects (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=2008090414&type=2)
By Ma. Elisa P. Osorio
Friday, September 5, 2008


Two power generation projects with a combined investment of over P37 billion has received tax breaks from the Board of Investments (BOI).

Documents released by BOI show that it has approved the P36.82 billion power generation project of Emerald Energy Corp. (EEC) and the P385.86-million waste water power generation project of Hacienda Bio-energy Corp.

EEC, formerly known as the Calaca Holdco Inc. is in the business of managing energy generating projects. It has bought the 600-megawatt Calaca Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant in 2007 from the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM).

The government has given EEC a pioneer status for being the operator of assets acquired from the government.

According to the BOI, this project is consistent with the government’s policy to encourage private investments on power generation activities to support wide industrial development.

The plant will be operational in October and is expected to employ 479 people at full capacity.

Once in place, the plant will ensure stable and affordable power in the Calabarzon area or Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon.

The Calaca plant is on a 167-hectare power complex in Barangay San Rafael Calaca Batangas It spans the shorelines of Balayan Bay.

According to EEC, most of the power produced from the plant will be traded in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). The remaining will be offered for bilateral contracts with electric cooperatives and other electricity off takers whose power supply agreements have been attached to EEC by PSALM under the power supply contracts.

Meanwhile, the Bioenergy project of Hacienda Bio-Energy Corp. has likewise been given pioneer status by BOI as it is expected to turn waste into energy.

The company is an example of the heightened level if ecological consciousness among private businesses in the country as it manages waste to energy activities and applies biogas technologies for energy utilization.

The project is aligned with the thrust of the government to increase energy self-sufficiency through the use of inexpensive, renewable and indigenous resources. Te project is expected to decrease dependence on imported fossil fuel.

Hacienda Corp. will build a power plant that will collect and convert manure from 25 different farm sites to biogas through “Anaerobic Digestion Swine Wastewater Treatment.”

Participating farms are in Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, Cebu and Davao.

The electricity produced will be distributed to the farms in the area.

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MetroPac pulls out of biofuels project (http://www.bworldonline.com/BW090608/content.php?id=041)
Listed Metro Pacific Investments Corp. has put a plan to go into alternative fuels on hold temporarily.

In a disclosure to the stock exchange, Metro Pacific, the Philippine holding firm of Hongkong’s First Pacific Co. Ltd., said it has terminated a deal with Basic Energy Corp. and Basic Biofuels Corp. for a bioethanol project.

Dennis Lucindo, Metro Pacific assistant vice-president for investor relations, said the firm decided to pull out as financial models presented by Basic Energy, while profitable, did not meet expectations.

Mr. Lucindo, however, said Metro Pacific was still interested in getting into the biofuels business with Basic Energy or with other groups, and proposals for possible partnerships were still being accepted.

Basic Energy’s Jose Reyes said the project would push through without Metro Pacific.

The deal gave Metro Pacific exclusivity in negotiating with Basic Energy. With Metro Pacific out, Basic Energy would be able to resume talks with foreign firms that had expressed interest in the project, he said.

In the meantime, Basic Energy would focus on a cassava project in Zamboanga with Ecomarketfarms Inc., Mr. Reyes said. The cassava project initially intends to sell output to food manufacturers and eventually become a source of feedstock for bioethanol plants.

In July, Basic Energy invited Metro Pacific to put up two plants, worth P3 billion each, to produce ethanol and other alternative fuels. The plants were estimated to produce between 150,000 to 200,000 liters of bioethanol. One of the plants was to be built in Zamboanga del Norte.

Demand for bioethanol has gone up after the passage of the Biofuels Act in 2006, which requires gasoline to have a 5% ethanol mix by January 2009.

Cavite Plant

Meanwhile, Cavite Biofuels Producers, Inc., in partnership with the Cavite Sugarcane Planters Multi-Purpose Cooperative, will develop a 125,000-liter-per-day bioethanol distillery in Cavite’s Magallanes town.

The two parties will open a sugarcane nursery on Monday as part of a "sugarcane expansion program" to supplement existing sugarcane plantations in the third district of Cavite.

The P3.3-billion bioethanol distillery, which will start operations in 2010, will be located in Barangay Caluangan. The plant will be "fully integrated" and designed to "ensure optimum energy efficiency," with a cane mill, distillery, cogeneration plant, carbon dioxide recovery plant, anaerobic digestion plant, and fuel ethanol storage and loading facilities.

Cane will come from about 6,000 hectares of plantations in Magallanes and Maragondon towns.

The ethanol facility, which will be the nearest to Metro Manila and close to oil refineries in Batangas and Pandacan, will help make ethanol supply accessible to the capital and Southern Luzon, which account for nearly 60% of the total ethanol demand of the Philippines.

Project proponents said the facility’s ethanoil output would displace more than 40 million liters of gasoline per year, reducing the country’s dependence on imported fuel.

Because the Philippines is almost totally dependent on imported petroleum, the recent surge in world oil prices had a huge impact on the local pump prices of gasoline and diesel, Cavite Biofuels president Antonio Lopa noted. — Don Gil K. Carreon and A.K.K. Austria

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It was suggested sometime earlier that we should have separate threads for Tagaytay City and for the province of Cavite. Since this thread will reach its limit soon, I was wondering if this is still the case and we'll have to make two threads after this current one closes. Comments and opinions are welcomed. :colgate:

Business
P3.3-B bioethanol distillery to rise in Cavite (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=200809054)

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Cavite Biofuels Producers Inc. (CBPI), in partnership with the Cavite Sugarcane Planters Multi-Purpose Cooperative (CSPMPC), will invest P3.3 billion to develop a 125,000 liter-per-day bioethanol distillery in Magallanes town.

Scheduled for commercial operations in 2010, the plant will become the nearest bioethanol production facility to Metro Manila.

On Sept. 8, CBPI and CSPMPC will be launching a joint sugarcane nursery as part of a sugarcane expansion program the group has undertaken to supplement the existing sugarcane plantations in the Third District of Cavite.

CBPI is a special purpose company formed in January 2008 to develop, construct, own and operate an integrated ethanol distillery and power cogeneration plant with a capacity of 125,000 liters of ethanol per day and a daily electrical output of approximately five megawatts for internal energy requirements.

The bioethanol distillery will be located in Bgy. Caluangan in Magallanes, Cavite, a province South of Metro Manila.

The plant is afully integrated and designed to ensure optimum energy efficiency. It includes a cane mill, distillery, cogeneration plant, carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plant, anaerobic digestion (AD) plant and fuel ethanol storage and loading facilities.

Its by-products include electricity for internal use; food grade CO2; fertilizer produced from the liquid effluent and solid waste, which is given back to the cane suppliers.

Cane will be sourced from a maximum area of about 6,000 hectares primarily from the towns of Magallanes and Maragondon.

The ethanol facility is situated close to the oil refineries in Batangas and Pandacan, Manila and to the demand centers of Metro Manila and South Luzon, which comprise nearly 60 percent of the total ethanol demand of the Philippines.

While transport cost has been a prime concern of most commodity movements, the ethanol facility’s proximity to the processing sites and the car-using public addresses this issue.

Antonio Lopa, CBPI president, said one of the benefits of the CBPI bioethanol project will be its contribution to the country’s fuel security.

With its output of locally-produced fuel ethanol, the facility will be able to displace more than 40 million liters of gasoline per year, which lessens the country’s dependence on imported fuel.

Because the Philippines is almost totally dependent on imported petroleum, the recent upsurge in world oil prices had a huge impact on the local pump prices of gasoline and diesel.

CSPMPC chairman Filomeno Maligaya also expressed enthusiasm over the project, saying the project will inject new life to the people of Cavite by spurring capital investment, improving infrastructure, creating new employment opportunities and increasing the income of farmers.

Cavite farmers have been plagued for years by high production costs, lack of farm-to-market roads, vulnerability to storms and flooding, and a prohibitive distance to the nearest sugar mill, which is more than 70 kilometers away.

It was suggested sometime earlier that we should have separate threads for Tagaytay City and for the province of Cavite. Since this thread will reach its limit soon, I was wondering if this is still the case and we'll have to make two threads after this current one closes. Comments and opinions are welcomed. :colgate:

It would be best if we don't separate the threads. :cheers:

^^Yup a verdict was reached sometime ago... so please keep the title as is. :)

Tagaytay City and Cavite pa rin. :D

Link to Thread 2 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=508918)

Mabuhay! - Bienvenidos! - Welcome!

~ C A V I T E ~

Cavite is steeped in history and blessed with natural beauty. One of the most progressive provinces
in the country, it is host to some of the country's highly urdustrialized export processing zones.

historic
The region abounds with historic sites, museums and landmarks. It is the birthplace of many Filipino heroes.
Visitors can follow an interesting trail of sites associated with the Philippine Revolution. The residence of the
first president of the Philippine Republic, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, is in Cavite. It was here that Philippine
Independence from Spain was proclaimed on June 12, 1898.

highly industrializedCavite has indeed transformed into an industrial and commercial hub not only in CALABARZON
but in the whole country as well. As of 2003, there are thirty-one (31) industrial estates in the
province. A total of 973 investors have poured their investments in the 718 existing industrial
establishments. Most of the investors have established partnership with
their Filipino counterparts in varying levels of equity participation.

populous
The largest population in the country which hit the two million mark was counted
in Cavite with 2,856,765. The tremendous increase can be observed in the year
1990 when industrialization was introduced in the province. Among the cities and municipalities
in Cavite, the municipality of Dasmariñas has the biggest population with 556,330 persons while
the municipality of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo has registered the smallest population with 17,818 persons.

highly urbanized
Cavite is classified as predominantly urban having 90.69 percent or 1,871,245 of the
population are concentrated in the urban areas, while 9.21 percent or 191,916 of the
population reside in rural areas.

captivating
Cavite teems with natural resources, breathtaking landscapes, world-class courses and leisure facilities.
Tagaytay City serves as the main tourist center.

the future is here!
Various infrastructure facilies are being constructed and planned. The Manila-Cavite Costal Road
Extension and the Molino Boulevard will ease the traffic problem. Planning for LRT-1 Extension to
Cavite is on-going. Other road project proposals are CALA-NS Highway, CALA-EW Highway and Daang-Hari
Extension. "Telepolis" will be developed in the future "Picar City" in General Trias. It would be an exclusive
gated and guarded township development which is a translation of the information technology
in built space. Aqua-Park, an Amusement Center and a Theme Park in Coastal City is planned to be
developed in Naic. There is also a planned construction of a light-rail transit or the monorail type or “trambia” which will connect
Carmona to the outlying towns of Canlubang, Silang and Biñan. The future "Centennial City" on a reclaimed land
in Manila Bay is extended up to Bacoor. The most exciting news is that COSCO plans to develop Sangley Point,
Cavite City as international airport, seaport, logistics hub.

source: cavite.gov.ph, cavite.info, wikipedia

TAGAYTAY CITY

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The city of Tagaytay is a tourist attraction for local and foreign visitors. It is an excellent vantage point of Taal Lake and Volcano. Tagaytay offers a breathtaking sight of the famous Taal Lake - a lake within an island within a lake.

Tagaytay City has vast resources and possesses tremendous potentials for development in tourism and agriculture. It is envisioned to become a city that is enriched and comfortable to live in and visit, with flowers in bloom along roadsides, ridges and mountains swathed in green, pure and unpolluted air and climate always invigorating. Tagaytay is a perfect getaway for people seeking respite from the daily pressures of life in the metropolis. It is home to more than 60 convents and congregations and numerous hotels, resorts, and convention centers. Lush forests, open grasslands and gentle slopes make up a calm scene that pleases and refreshes the eye - conducive for meditation and concentration needed during training, conventions and retreats.

Tagaytay’s three anchors of growth are tourism, agriculture and the development of the City’s institutions. The City’s inherent environmental splendor and unique rustic atmosphere, made possible by Tagaytay’s Nature-given endowments and fresh cool air, has fueled it to its present state of growth. Careful implementation of land use policies is being undertaken to protect the city’s agricultural sector. The community aims to sustain a strong ecological-tourism base with ample physical and social infrastructure system support. Tagaytay is a city in transition. There is a fundamental shift occurring in the City’s economic structure from an agro-based to a service-oriented community. The current business trend in Tagaytay is the construction of exclusive weekend residential and recreational activities.

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All the best to Cavite!!!

:cheers1:

:lock:

P3.3-B bioethanol distillery to rise in Cavite (http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=200809054&type=2)
By Donnabelle L. Gatdula
Saturday, September 6, 2008


Cavite Biofuels Producers Inc. (CBPI), in partnership with the Cavite Sugarcane Planters Multi-Purpose Cooperative (CSPMPC), will invest P3.3 billion to develop a 125,000 liter-per-day bioethanol distillery in Magallanes town.

Scheduled for commercial operations in 2010, the plant will become the nearest bioethanol production facility to Metro Manila.

On Sept. 8, CBPI and CSPMPC will be launching a joint sugarcane nursery as part of a sugarcane expansion program the group has undertaken to supplement the existing sugarcane plantations in the Third District of Cavite.

CBPI is a special purpose company formed in January 2008 to develop, construct, own and operate an integrated ethanol distillery and power cogeneration plant with a capacity of 125,000 liters of ethanol per day and a daily electrical output of approximately five megawatts for internal energy requirements.

The bioethanol distillery will be located in Bgy. Caluangan in Magallanes, Cavite, a province South of Metro Manila.

The plant is afully integrated and designed to ensure optimum energy efficiency. It includes a cane mill, distillery, cogeneration plant, carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plant, anaerobic digestion (AD) plant and fuel ethanol storage and loading facilities.

Its by-products include electricity for internal use; food grade CO2; fertilizer produced from the liquid effluent and solid waste, which is given back to the cane suppliers.

Cane will be sourced from a maximum area of about 6,000 hectares primarily from the towns of Magallanes and Maragondon.

The ethanol facility is situated close to the oil refineries in Batangas and Pandacan, Manila and to the demand centers of Metro Manila and South Luzon, which comprise nearly 60 percent of the total ethanol demand of the Philippines.

While transport cost has been a prime concern of most commodity movements, the ethanol facility’s proximity to the processing sites and the car-using public addresses this issue.

Antonio Lopa, CBPI president, said one of the benefits of the CBPI bioethanol project will be its contribution to the country’s fuel security.

With its output of locally-produced fuel ethanol, the facility will be able to displace more than 40 million liters of gasoline per year, which lessens the country’s dependence on imported fuel.

Because the Philippines is almost totally dependent on imported petroleum, the recent upsurge in world oil prices had a huge impact on the local pump prices of gasoline and diesel.

CSPMPC chairman Filomeno Maligaya also expressed enthusiasm over the project, saying the project will inject new life to the people of Cavite by spurring capital investment, improving infrastructure, creating new employment opportunities and increasing the income of farmers.

Cavite farmers have been plagued for years by high production costs, lack of farm-to-market roads, vulnerability to storms and flooding, and a prohibitive distance to the nearest sugar mill, which is more than 70 kilometers away.

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Wow! New Thread!

Tagaytay City and Cavite Province | Thread 3!!! :)

Weee!!! Thread 3!!! :)

from Naik here... :)

Cavite-based integrated ethanol plant (http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/09082008/economy07.html)
set for commercial operation in 2010

By Paul Anthony A. Isla
Reporter


LOOKING at joining the ethanol bandwagon, the Cavite Biofuels Producers Inc. (CBPI) said it partnered with the Cavite Sugarcane Planters Multipurpose Cooperative (CSPMPC) in developing a 125,000-liter-per-day bioethanol distillery in the municipality of Magallanes, Cavite.

In a statement, CBPI said the distillery is scheduled for commercial operations in 2010 and will be the nearest bioethanol production facility to Metro Manila.

On September 8, CBPI and CSPMPC will be launching the joint sugar-cane nursery as part of the sugar-cane expansion program that the group has undertaken to supplement the existing sugar-cane plantations in the Third District of Cavite.

CBPI is a special-purpose company that was incorporated in January 2008 to develop, construct, own and operate an integrated ethanol distillery and power cogeneration plant with a capacity of 125,000 liters of ethanol per day and a daily electrical output of approximately 5 megawatts for internal energy requirements.

The bioethanol distillery will be located in barangay Caluangan in the municipality of Magallanes, Cavite, in the Southern Luzon region of the Philippines.

CBPI said the plant is fully integrated and designed to ensure optimum energy efficiency. It includes a cane mill, distillery, cogeneration plant, carbon-dioxide recovery plant, anaerobic digestion plant and fuel ethanol storage and loading facilities.

Byproducts, according to CBPI, will include electricity for internal use, food-grade carbon dioxide which is captured for sale and fertilizer produced from the liquid effluent and solid waste, which is given back to the cane suppliers.

CBPI said the cane will be sourced from a maximum area of about 6,000 hectares primarily from the towns of Magallanes and Maragondon. Scheduled for commercial operations in November 2010, CBPI’s ethanol facility will be the nearest ethanol production facility to Metro Manila considering that the oil refineries in Batangas and Bataan and oil-storage facilities in Pandacan, Manila and to the demand centers of Metro Manila and South Luzon.

CBPI said the ethanol facility’s proximity to the processing sites and the car-using public addresses this issue while transport cost has been a prime concern of most commodity movements.

Antonio Lopa, CBPI president, said one of the benefits of the CBPI bioethanol project will be its contribution to the fuel security of the country.

“With its output of locally produced fuel ethanol, the facility will be able to displace more than 40 million liters of gasoline per year, which lessens the country’s dependence on imported fuel,” he added.

With the Philippines almost totally dependent on imported petroleum, Lopa said the recent upsurge of world oil prices had a huge impact on the local pump prices of gasoline and diesel.

CSPMPC chairman Filomeno Maligaya has also expressed enthusiasm over the project, saying it will inject new life to the people of Cavite by spurring capital investment, improving infrastructure, creating new employment opportunities and increasing the income of farmers.

“Cavite farmers have been plagued for years by high production costs, lack of farm-to-market roads, vulnerability to storms and flooding and a prohibitive distance to the nearest sugar mill, which is more than 70 kilometers away,” Maligaya said.

kudos to Cavite's agro-industrial modernization! :applause:

PGMA’s 3-day HK working visit worth it: US$2-B investment portfolio in bag

HONG KONG (via PLDT) – "It was all worth it."

She not only pressed flesh with overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong whose concerns she listened to and solved right in her hotel suite on the very first night following her arrival here Sunday (March 30).

She was not only the very first speaker at the much-awaited 11th Credit Suisse’ Asian Investment Conference (AIC) and then had a tea-time meeting with fund managers in portfolio investments Monday (March 31).

On the same day, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also clinched for the Philippines the latest addition to the Billion-Dollar Club of foreign investment locators – the HK-based Shimao Property Holdings which may yet bring first-world development to the eastern seaboard of the Visayas, particularly in Eastern Samar.

This, aside from the 42-hectare property development that Shimao plans to set up in Fort Bonifacio.

“It was all worth it,” the President enthused after announcing the US$2-billion investment to the Philippine media delegation over coffee and cocktails at the presidential suite of the Grand Hyatt Hotel last night (Monday, March 31).

But that is not all. The President also had a business meeting this morning (Tuesday, April 1) with the Hopewell Group whose chairman of the board paid a courtesy call on the Chief Executive at her hotel suite before flying back to Manila at 6 p.m. this evening.

The President received Mr. Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, chairman of the board of Hopewell Holdings which had earlier completed three power-station infrastructure projects in the Philippines, including the 2x367.5 megawatt or 735-mw Pagbilao power station in Quezon which is the Philippines’ largest coal-fired power plant.

The Hopewell group is hoping to develop an area around Sangley Point in Cavite.

And so, as she flies back to Manila after her brief working stay in this prosperous Chinese peninsula, President Arroyo has under her sleeve not only the soon-to-rise projects of the Shimao Group, and that of the Hopewell Group, plus possible investments from the fund managers she had met through Credit Suisse.

She will also be flying back home with a heart-warming consolidated Statement of Support from five OFW groups here that recognize the “single-mindedness of the President (Arroyo) in focusing on the economy.”

The statement of support echoes the President’s belief that political noise need not interfere with the administration’s focus on alleviating the lives of Filipinos.

“The economic facts and figures are indisputable – notwithstanding the unceasing political noise, the country’s economy grew (by) unprecedented levels, largely as a result of the single-mindedness of the President in focusing on the economy.

“By and large, the overwhelming majority of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) all over the world – except for the noisy few that are influenced by extremist and oppositionist groups – are supportive of the programs and initiatives of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in bringing our country to the threshold of development and progress,” the OFW statement said.

The supportive OFWs admitted being bothered by the “stunts of vested political interests who either could not wait for the next elections or are bent on destabilizing our democratic institutions.”

“We are bothered and concerned as much as our families and loved ones are in the country, mainly because the political disturbances caused by these groups are undermining the larger interests of our country and people,” they said.

For the supportive Filipino community in Hong Kong whom she had dubbed as “precious” when she treated them to a cocktail reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel Sunday evening (March 30), the President has ordered the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to work with the HK government for the possible return of the pre-2003 monthly minimum salary of HK$3,670 for foreign domestic helpers.

released 4/1/2008
Source: Office of the President
(http://www.op.gov.ph/news.asp?newsid=20483)

:cheers2:

Crosswinds Tagaytay
Taken 14-Sept-08

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Beautiful Tagaytay!!!

Thread 3 tapos biglang bumagal ang usad?

Wala ba tayong updates dyan? Yung sa gilid ng St. Dominic ba "road to no where" din? Kasi di pa ata ito open hanggang ngayun... :lol: :ohno:

Aguinaldo Highway as of 09-15-08 at 1PM
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north bound

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South Bound

Robinsons' Place Imus
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De La Salle University - Health Sciences Campus & University Medical Center
Dasmariñas, Cavite

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PGMA thanks Intel for P80-M cash grants to 31 public schools in Gen. Trias (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=reader&rp=1&fi=p080916.htm&no=8&date=)

Manila (16 September) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed yesterday her gratitude to Intel Technology Philippines, Inc. for the P80 million cash grants to 31 public schools in General Trias, Cavite.

The President witnessed the turnover of the cash grant to build classrooms in Gen. Trias after the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) meeting in Malacanang this afternoon.

"Let me start by thanking Intel Philippines for the generous donation that will build 30 classrooms, provide a brighter future to thousands of school children, and contribute to our global competitiveness," the President said.

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus received the check from Intel Philippines Managing Director Michael Wentling.

The cash grants were from the Intel Foundation generated through the Intel Involved Volunteer Matching Grant Program (IIMGP), an innovative corporate responsibility initiative of Intel that is now on its fourth year.

The program aims to recognize and motivate Intel employees, globally, to engage in outreach and volunteerism to make the communities where Intel facilities are located better places to live, work and play.

"Thank you for your donation," the President told some 10 Intel workers who were present during the ceremony.

Every hour of volunteer work rendered by Intel Involved, Intel corps of employee volunteers, is matched by Intel Foundation with a cash grant equivalent to around P180.

For the school year 2007 to 2008, Intel Philippines employees logged some 480,742 volunteer hours, approximately equivalent to P80 million.

Intel, a world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance people work and live. (PIA) [top]

i hope i got this right. again, kindly pm me if im wrong.

Taal Vista eyes 100% growth after expansion (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=2008091630)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008


Taal Vista Hotel, which is owned by SM Hotels Corp., hopes to double its business volume with the completion by November this year of a P650-million expansion plan.

In an interview, Taal Vista Hotel general manager Ikuo Itoi said the hotel’s occupancy dipped slightly starting last July following the jump in fuel prices and the ongoing rehabilitation of the South Luzon Expressway.

He is confident, however, that the trend will be reversed once the hotel’s expansion program is completed in November, in time for the seasonal peak in December.

The expansion will add 133 guest rooms to the existing 128 rooms, many of the new rooms will provide a spectacular view of Taal lake and volcano.

The new rooms will have balconies.
The expansion also includes a new 1,359-square meter grand ballroom to accommodate more conventions and special events. The new ballroom has a seating capacity of 1,200 for banquet set-up and 1,500 for cocktails.

Itoi said they will be targetting the “MICE” market. MICE stands for meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions.

“We will have the biggest convention facility in the area,” Itoi said, adding that with its cool weather, and proximity to Metro Manila, Tagaytay is a favored destination for company conventions, and increasingly for destination weddings.

SM Hotels is a subsidiary of the Sy Family’s SM Investments Corp. (SMIC).

SMIC recently reported a 14 percent increase in net income in the first half of the year to P6.5 billion.

The group’s property arm alone, earned P700 million from January to June 2008, 113 percent higher than the P300 million earned in the same period last year.

SM Hotels Corp. accounted for two percent of SMIC’s first half’s 2008 profit.

Itoi said the hotel is now being actively marketed to regional Asian travelers, especially in Singapore, Malaysia, and Korea.

Taal Vista Hotel, formerly known as Taal Vista Lodge, was built in 1937 with 12 cabañas, managed by the Manila Hotel Corp. It was a favored venue for the Cabinet meetings during the forum of President Manuel L. Quezon.

It has been owned or managed by different companies through the years, like the Resorts Hotels Corp. (1975-1984); the Development Bank of the Philippines’ subsidiary Hotel Development Corp. (1984-1988); the SM Group with Epiticio Borcelis Jr. as manager (1988-1991); and Southern Breeze Realty Development Corp. (1991-1999). — Marianne Go

RP eyes huge spending for infra program (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/121007/RP-eyes-huge-spending-for-infra-program)
09/17/2008 | 07:45 PM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us MANILA, Philippines - The government is looking to invest trillions of pesos for infrastructure projects in a bid to perk up the economy amid global uncertainties.

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto on Wednesday said that under the updated 2008 to 2010 Comprehensive and Integrated Infrastructure Program (CIIP), the government is seeking P2 trillion from this year to 2010 to finance these projects.

He noted that for the first half of the year, the Philippine economy posted a 4.6-percent expansion, a far cry from its above 7-percent improvement in the same period in 2007, at a time when public construction also slowed.

"What if public construction posted the same growth as in 2007, at 43.4 percent? Our GDP growth in the first half of 2008 would have been 6.9 percent. Our GDP growth targets are achievable so long as our infrastructure programs deliver," he said.

The government’s official economic target for this year is a growth between 5.5 percent and 6.4 percent and 6.1 percent to 6.7 percent in 2009.

Of the total fund requirements, the transportation sector has the highest share at 38 percent or P755 billion, and followed by power electrification, P611 million.

Water resources will get P347.53 million; social infrastructure, P167.91 million; communication, P56.49 million and relending program, P36.69 million.

Recto added that the government is eyeing to finance P1.5 trillion of the total amount, while the private sector is seen to shoulder P613 billion of the investment requirement.

The P94 billion will be funded by the government owned and controlled corporations; P26 billion from government Financial Institutions; P10 billion from local government units and P118 billion through other sources.

Of the whole transport sector, Recto said roads and bridges and rail transport with shares of 44 percent and 39 percent respectively, comprise the biggest investment requirement

"Road and bridge projects are being pursued in support of the government’s thrust of linking the entire country through an effective transport network that would open up new economic opportunities, reduce logistic costs and increase access to social services. Roads are being linked to RORO ports," Recto said.

He said that owing to the huge investments needed for transport projects, the government will continue to tap the private sector in the development of priority projects under the BOT law.

The Tarlac-La Union Toll Expressway, Panguil Bay Bridge, Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway Extension, Daang Hari- SLEX Link Road, South Luzon Expressway Extension Project, and Southern Tagalog Arterial Road Project, among others, are being proposed for private sector financing.

Recto added that the government plans to implement an integrated urban rail-based mass
transport system through projects such as the LRT Line 1 North Extension (Closing the Loop).

To further provide efficient mass transportation, the capacities of existing railway lines will be increased through projects like MRT3 Capacity Expansion, and existing rail facilities will be extended through LRT Line 2 East Extension to Masinag and Line 1 South Extension Project.

"Metro Manila is already crowded. It will be more congested in a decade, as more people flow in from the provinces. Clearly, we don’t want to see EDSA turned into a giant parking lot," Recto said.

In line with decongesting Metro Manila and spreading development in the countryside, other projects lined up are the Northrail-Southrail Linkage Project, Phase 1 (Caloocan to Alabang) and Phase 2 (Alabang – Calamba), North Rail Project Phase 1, Section 1 (Caloocan-Malolos) & Section 2 (Malolos-Clark), Mainline South Railway Project (Southrail) Phase IA (Calamba- Lucena), Phase 1B (Lucena-Legaspi) & Phase II (Extension to Sorsogon). GMANews.TV

Drive for new Cavite image launched (http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/09/17/PROV20080917135425.html)



Mandy Francisco

TRECE MARTIRES CITY — The Cavite provincial government has launched a program aimed at promoting a new image for the province.


The new image is intended to reflect the province’s distinct identity and aspiration.

The program was launched last Monday at simple rites held in the provincial gymnasium at the capitol complex here.

Cavite Gov. Ayong S. Maliksi led the launching of the new Cavite image with the battle cry, "Cavite: Be a Part of the Revolution." The governor was assisted by members of the provincial board headed by Vice Gov. Dencito "Osboy" Campaña, the mayors of the province’s 20 towns and three cities led by Cavite League of Mayors president (Carmona) Mayor Roy Loyola and leaders of the business community.

Also in attendance were barangay officials and representatives of civic and non-government organizations.

Maliksi likewise led the unveiling of the Cavite logo that reflects five distinct personalities of Cavite. These are historical, progressive, globally competitive, service-oriented, and visionary.

In a speech, the governor said the adoption of Cavite logo, which was based on the province’s history, will "effectively promote Cavite’s conducive business environment and will ultimately lead to international partnership and collaboration for socio-economic development.

Cavite is known worldwide as the cradle of the Philippine Revolution and the birthplace of Philippine Independence.

It was recalled that the Philippine flag sewn by Marcela Agoncillo was first unfurled by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo in Imus, Cavite on May 28, 1898. This signaled the start of the uprising against Spanish colonization in what is historically known as the Battle of Alapan.

^^I was gonna visit this place last summer but unfortunately it did not push thru.. I hope this coming summer, it will be realized....

Cavite urban poor groups appeal for moratorium on demolitions

MANILA, Philippines — Urban poor groups in Cavite province appealed to the government on Thursday to declare a moratorium on demolitions in view of the economic crisis.

They issued the appeal after two of their leaders were arrested Thursday morning as they tried to prevent a scheduled demolition at Barangay Bitong Dalig, in the town of Kawit.

Wilfredo Bonga, together with Raul Moring of Samahang Nagkakaisa ng Cavite (Sanagca) were arrested as police ordered the dispersal of some 600 residents who marched and formed a barricade around the target area of demolition.

In a statement, Romy Cabugnason, chairman of the Partido ng Manggagawa chapter in Cavite, said police used a water cannon to break the protesters who tried to secure their place against the advancing demolition crew.

“When the crowd resisted using their bodies as shields, policemen accosted and dragged the two leaders and brought them to the nearby Kawit municipal hall. The protesters proceeded to the municipal hall and vowed not to leave the place until their leaders are freed," said Cabugnason.

The protesters are said they were only asking for a moratorium on demolitions while relocation sites are not yet available for families that will be displaced. After dispersing the protesters, the demolition crew proceeded with the demolition, tearing down at least 50 shanties in just an hour, said the statement.

The Alyansa ng Maralitang Pilipino said the government should declare a moratorium on demolitions especially during these times of acute economic crisis which makes life even harsher for the poor.

Tonette Fajanilan of Sanagca chair cried foul on the government’s use of force during the demolition and vowed to pursue their cause not only in the streets but also in courts.

She said that even in cases where valid court orders are issued by the court, demolition cannot be implemented until relocation sites for affected families are already secured. The intent of this ruling is to avoid an abrupt dislocation of urban poor people.

“Kahit kami mahirap, may karapatan pa rin naman kami sa makataong pagtrato. Kung ang mga rebelde ay kinakausap ng gubyerno, bakit kami ay hindi gayung ang tanging kasalanan lang naman namin ay ang maging mahirap (Even if we are so poor, we also have the right to be treated humanely. If the government talks with rebels, why don’t our officials also talk to us when our only fault is to be poor," said Fajanilan.

“Ang kailangan namin ngayon ay tulong, hindi pwersa at dahas (what we need now is help, not force or violence," Fajanilan said.

Threats of demolition is haunting Cavite residents along the coastal lines of Bacoor, Kawit, Noveleta and Cavite City because of the R-1 expressway extension project and the conversion of the Sangley Point into a major port and logistics hub. - GMANews.TV (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/121191/Cavite-urban-poor-groups-appeal-for-moratorium-on-demolitions)

^^ wow, thanks for the photos @Rene Ybardolaza.. i forgot how beautifully haunting that island is.. i will visit the island again this year because of your photos. thanks. :applause:

Thanks for sharing. That place looks very much eerie (specially the tunnel and ruins).

Only goes to show how important RP was to the Americans during that time. If only we held on to the Commonwealth...

Aguinaldo Highway as of 09-15-08 at 1PM
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north bound

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Dapat hindi na pinapayagan ang tricycles sa Aguinaldo Hi-way! :ohno:

Villar distances self from C-5 road extension project

MANILA, Philippines - Residents of Cavite, Parañaque and Las Pinas who want the C-5 road project extension to be finished would have to follow up the release of the fund by themselves as the project's main proponent - Senate President Manuel Villar - backed out from pursuing it.

In a radio interview Friday, Villar said his pushing for the release of the funds might add to the problem he is already facing in the Senate.

"Sa ngayon, parang ayoko na munang maki-ano. Sinasabi ko nga sa mga taga-Cavite, Paranaque at Las Pinas, sila naman ang mag-follow up dito kung gusto nilang matapos dahil marami nang problema ang Senado, baka makadagdag pa (At present, I don't want to get involved. I told those in Cavite, Paranaque and Las Pinas that they should be the one doing the follow up now if they want the project to be finished as it might add to the problems in the Senate)," Villar said when asked if he would request Malacañang for the release of the fund.

Villar said that as much as he wanted to push for the project, he needs to distance himself because of the allegations hurled against him.

Opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson had linked Villar to the double insertion of P200 million allocation for the C5 project in the 2008 national budget.

"Kasi inaakusahan tayo ng hindi maganda (We are wrongly accused)," Villar said.

He added he wanted to focus on the more pressing issues first such as the effect of meltdown of foreign economies to the Philippines.

"Ako ay nahihiya na nagbabangayan pa kami e ang dapat gawin ng Pilipinas ay maghanda sa posibilidad na tayo ay maapektuhan nitong global meltdown (I am ashamed that we are bickering when what we should be doing is preparing for the possible effect of the global meltdown)," Villar said.

Asked what would happen in the resumption of the session on Monday, Villar said he expects the Senate to continue with its work as they have to discuss pending bills such as the renewable energy, Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, 2009 proposed budget, among others.

Villar said he also expects the exchange of words between his and Lacson's camp will cease after the resolution calling for the investigation of the issues raised has been referred to the appropriate committee. - GMANews.TV (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/121495/Villar-distances-self-from-C-5-road-extension-project)

Dasmariñas

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Emilio Aguinaldo College and Villa Isabel
Brgy. Burol (Hills)

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Pedestrian Footbridge w/4 elevators

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Mangubat Avenue

miss ko na cavite ah

sorry puro Dasmariñas

Pedestrian overpass
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Mangubat Avenue
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Aguinaldo Highway
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Poblacion
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Elevator at Pedestrian footbridge
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DLSU's Health Sciences Campus/Institute
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St. John Baptist de La Salle

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DLSU Medical Center Building 1

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DLSU's College of Medicine

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DLSU-Angelo King Medical Research Center

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left: gymnasium & foodcourt under construction, Twin Hearts of Mary & Joseph University Chapel. right: Wang Building. back: Dormbuilt

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DLSU Medical Center, Building 3

a restaurant in Tagaytay

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Manila Southwoods Golf & Country Club
Carmona, Cavite


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Mga igan, kumusta ang Traffic este Bakood Festival? Tinulugan ko lang to sa amin sa bahay eh :lol: ni hindi man lang to napag-uusapan dito sa forums...hehehe

Eto ang isa sa mga write-ups na nasagap ko sa Net lalo sa blgo community tungkol sa Bakood Festival:

Traffic Festival (http://masterbetong.net/traffic-festival/)

Wow, Dasma looks more metropolitanish now that it was over 10 years ago. I remember when I was very little, there is practically nothing in that area and i remember mostly just fields with tall grass around. Isn't it that thats where marcos use to relocate the squatters from Manila?

Wow, Dasma looks more metropolitanish now that it was over 10 years ago. I remember when I was very little, there is practically nothing in that area and i remember mostly just fields with tall grass around. Isn't it that thats where marcos use to relocate the squatters from Manila?

Yup.

And Dasma is actually the richest municipality in the Philippines...

the molino bacoor area is now linked to ayala alabang via daang-hari. my cousin is disposing a lot in town & country molino bacoor. 0917-6008061 :bash:

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Wow, Dasma looks more metropolitanish now that it was over 10 years ago. I remember when I was very little, there is practically nothing in that area and i remember mostly just fields with tall grass around. Isn't it that thats where marcos use to relocate the squatters from Manila?

Yeah. And we remember our own TvT (town versus town) bashings then between our classmates in high school who lives at Dasma. We Imus people have more malls then, we said...and Dasmarinas is tapunan of uhmm...ehhmmm...and we weren't expecting a mall being constructed there....

...Pero kinain namin yung mga pinag-aasar namin sa kanila...now they are the most progressive town so far in Cavite.

Yeah. And we remember our own TvT (town versus town) bashings then between our classmates in high school who lives at Dasma. We Imus people have more malls then, we said...and Dasmarinas is tapunan of uhmm...ehhmmm...and we weren't expecting a mall being constructed there....

...Pero kinain namin yung mga pinag-aasar namin sa kanila...now they are the most progressive town so far in Cavite.

Yup, Dasma has it all! From economic parks, malls, golf-course, well-known educational institutions, hospitals, restaurants, resorts (open na ba un malapit sa SM?), plush communities, relocation sites, gangsters, heavy traffic, and what-have-you! Dasma is vibrant... I just hope the current and future leaders will be able to keep Dasma at the top spot, and not let the distinction slip away!

I hope Carmona will be next in development. It has the makings of a complete city.

Mga igan, kumusta ang Traffic este Bakood Festival? Tinulugan ko lang to sa amin sa bahay eh :lol: ni hindi man lang to napag-uusapan dito sa forums...hehehe
Eto ang isa sa mga write-ups na nasagap ko sa Net lalo sa blgo community tungkol sa Bakood Festival:
Traffic Festival (http://masterbetong.net/traffic-festival/)
yeah, there was the 1st Bakood Festival in Bacoor from Sept. 21-29, 2008. I can't see any details of the festival online that's why i forgot to post it. Sorry for what happened. I agree, closing portions of Aguinaldo just for a festival is totally stupid! kawawa ang mga na-late sa work and school.

Wow, Dasma looks more metropolitanish now that it was over 10 years ago. I remember when I was very little, there is practically nothing in that area and i remember mostly just fields with tall grass around. Isn't it that thats where marcos use to relocate the squatters from Manila?
yes, big parts of Dasmariñas were used to relocation of the squatters... Bagong Bayan and Paliparan. From what I know, this is already closed. When you see the area now, it is already progressive. So many businesses. Not the usual relocation sites still stricken with poverty.

Dasma. is not 100% urbanized though. There are still so many unused lands and we're so happy about that. Cavite dreaming of a CBD? Dasma-Gentri. savanna areas are my top choice for location.

Yup.
And Dasma is actually the richest municipality in the Philippines...
true. richest municipality based on income. (sorry, i just based it on the speech of the governor) also, the biggest municipality in the Philippines based on population.

Yeah. And we remember our own TvT (town versus town) bashings then between our classmates in high school who lives at Dasma. We Imus people have more malls then, we said...and Dasmarinas is tapunan of uhmm...ehhmmm...and we weren't expecting a mall being constructed there....
...Pero kinain namin yung mga pinag-aasar namin sa kanila...now they are the most progressive town so far in Cavite.
tapunan? yes, tapunan ng mga sinasalvage during the 90's and tapunan ng squatters. swerte dasma kasi magaling yung 2 past mayors: Cantimbuhan and Barzaga.

Yup, Dasma has it all! From economic parks, malls, golf-course, well-known educational institutions, hospitals, restaurants, resorts (open na ba un malapit sa SM?), plush communities, relocation sites, gangsters, heavy traffic, and what-have-you! Dasma is vibrant... I just hope the current and future leaders will be able to keep Dasma at the top spot, and not let the distinction slip away!
I hope Carmona will be next in development. It has the makings of a complete city.
I agree, it almost has everything.
Imus has the worst traffic condition now. So many bottleneck areas.. Worse than Bacoor. :ohno:
I agree with Carmona-the industrial corridor of Cavite. Also good for next development would be General Trias. It has a very big potential.

^^GenTri is nice, but I like Carmona more. It is easily accessible, thru Daang Hari/Coastal Road/Molino/Gov. Drive/SLEx. And a railway can easily be extended here. Products can be exported thru Manila Port (by SLEx) or Batangas Port (by STAR).

Anyway, nice pics of Dasma 'tol Jeff, especially Mangubat Ave. --- it looks much better in pictures!

Watch out Caviteños SM Hypermarket Rosario is comming to town ...

^^musta yung SM Tagaytay, parang hypermarket din daw?

sorry for posting this late...

from Manila Bulletin Online (http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/09/24/TOUR20080924136080.html)

Celebrating Bamboos with a Blast
Bacoor launches its first Bakood Festival

Ayra Mae P. de Ocampo

People often build fences around their houses to mark property boundaries, increase one’s privacy, and serve as barriers against unwanted entries. But for the people of Bacoor, Cavite, an even deeper meaning lies underneath this seemingly ordinary mindset.

(photo by Rudy Liwanag)
The town of Bacoor, considered as Cavite’s Gateway to the Metropolis, derived its name from the Tagalog term "Bakood," which refers to a bamboo species dotting the town with which old folks used to surround their homes during the early days. However, beyond its literal implication, it also signifies the tough barricade constructed by the people of Bacoor during the Spanish colonial period to serve as protection against foreign intruders; hence, the significance of the word.

And because Filipinos, with our innate penchant for merrymaking, are known all over the world for putting up grandiose celebrations and festivities, what better way to pay homage to a valuable contribution than to come up with one that would remind the people of the town’s glorious past and unite them towards a common goal – an even brighter future.

For that reason, Cavite’s first-class urban municipality mounts its very first Bakood Festival. The celebration aims to bring the Bacoorians together and boost their awareness of the town’s rich cultural heritage being the site of many historical events that molded the country to what it is at present. The week-long event, which began on the 22nd of September and will last until the 29th, includes several activities not just for locals to enjoy but for visiting tourists as well.

As a preview of what lies ahead for the celebration, marching bands, folk dancers, and a feast of Bacoor delicacies welcomed the media during the press launching of the eight-day festival. The entire festivity is packed with a truly enjoyable lineup of activities beginning with an event similar to the religious rite held every Easter Sunday of the same name – Salubong. Adhering to the theme "Bacoor: Tungo sa Pagkakaisa," it signals the commencement of the festival with the participation of local officials, sector leaders, and representatives marching along the Zapote–Kalinisan Intersection Road, coming from opposite directions and meeting right in the middle to officially launch the highly anticipated festival.

Among the major events is the Bacoor Food Festival, which will highlight one of the local products that the town is best known for – mussels or tahong. Local cooks and food aficionados reveal over a hundred ways to cook this famed seafood that has been among the main sources of employment to many of the town’s residents. A trade fair exhibit showcasing some of the town’s most well-known food products such as tahong chips and the original Digman halo-halo will also take place.

To add more life and color to the lackluster walls situated along Aguinaldo Highway, some of the town’s budding artists lent their creativity and transformed these from mere walls into endearing sights filled with vibrant murals that reflect the theme "Bacoor: Noon, Ngayon at Bukas."

At the same time, to coincide with the Bacoorians’ pursuit to uphold cleanliness, there will be an art exhibit featuring tahong shells and trash cans turned into art pieces which aim not only to demonstrate the people’s ingenuity but their utmost concern for the environment’s preservation as well.

The splendor of Bacoor goes beyond its rich history, customs, and traditions spanning several decades, as it also takes pride in its women who possess wit, grace, and charm; thus, the staging of Mutya ng Bacoor 2008. Festivals never run out of reigning beauties, and Bakood is no different. Many young women vie for the title not only because of the prestige that goes with the crown, but more importantly, it gives them an opportunity to actively partake in various programs of the local government to further encourage goodwill, development, and empowerment among the people of Bacoor.

For many years, Bacoorians have proven themselves worthy of people’s admiration for their abilities, and surely, these gifts did not go unnoticed, as many of them managed to carve a niche for themselves in various fields. And to honor these outstanding residents of the town, the Dangal ng Bacoor Award will be launched. Bacoorians who have become paragons of excellence in many areas of expertise including visual arts, designs and crafts, contemporary cinema and music, and judiciary will be given this award for their remarkable contributions.

But aside from these highlights, participants will also be treated to other activities such as cultural extravaganzas involving the youth and the senior citizens of Bacoor, interschool street dancing competitions, sports fest, mobile services for a more hassle-free distribution of basic government services, medical and dental missions, round-table discussions with the local officials, job fairs, thanksgiving mass, and many more.

Undeniably, these festivities mirror the local government’s vision of a better, more progressive town of Bacoor. Furthermore, it is also a perfect venue for Bacoorians to enjoy themselves and have a good time while gaining a better appreciation of their homeland.

Walang pasok ngayon sa Imus. Holiday. Araw ng Imus.

Holiday din ang trapik kaya hay ang sarap mag-drive sa Aguinaldo Highway sa ngayon.

But anyway, I just noticed that along Aguinaldo Highway, Imus seems to be the most problematic area with regard to the traffic situation. Bacoor effectively implements its buhos system while Dasma has its own traffic light system and management. Imus, somehow is very chaotic starting from Perpetual Village in Barangay Real all the way to Robinsons Place Imus and Patindig Araw near Bayan Luma and Anabu.

^ Yes. So many bottleneck areas now. I'm not sure about the cause but from what i noticed, it started when center islands were constructed along Aguinaldo Highway.

^^ One problem is the loading unloading areas around Imus are so disorganized. There are so many junctions there...I'll enumerate them here:

1. Perpetual Village
2. Aguinaldo High/CavSu Imus Campus/LTO
3. MCI-Palico
4. Palico-PureGold
5. 7-11 Toll Bridge
6. PCI/BDO
7. Robinsons Place
8. Patindig Araw

All that is enumerated in bold are only a block apart from each other...

And here's the situation at around 9PM south bound at Imus:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/berniemacksouthcentral/PA065490.jpg

I miss Cavite :(

^^ One problem is the loading unloading areas around Imus are so disorganized. There are so many junctions there...I'll enumerate them here:
1. Perpetual Village
2. Aguinaldo High/CavSu Imus Campus/LTO
3. MCI-Palico
4. Palico-PureGold
5. 7-11 Toll Bridge
6. PCI/BDO
7. Robinsons Place
8. Patindig Araw

All that is enumerated in bold are only a block apart from each other...

it's really weird. this just started to worsen 1-2 years ago. Bacoor, on the other hand, has improving traffic situation IMO.
additional bottleneck areas:
EMI-Yazaki (understandable)
Kostal
Pallas Athena area (sometimes)

i hope Imus gov't & CTMO will also get assistance from the MMDA. but of course, don't depend on them too much.
I miss Cavite :(
where are you mygz?

it's really weird. this just started to worsen 1-2 years ago. Bacoor, on the other hand, has improving traffic situation IMO.
additional bottleneck areas:
EMI-Yazaki (understandable)
Kostal
Pallas Athena area (sometimes)

i hope Imus gov't & CTMO will also get assistance from the MMDA. but of course, don't depend on them too much.


Uhmmm....May mga pictures ako dito na aanga-anga na mga traffic enforcer sa Imus....Hay kakabwisit talaga dito. I have no idea how Mayor Manny Malicsi or the governor himself would not improve the traffic situation in their hometown....this already goes beyond just discipline from pedestrians and motorists. Imus is loosing prestige and competitiveness against his neigboring towns like Dasma and Bacoor (especially Molino) because of the traffic congestion in the said area.

where are you mygz?

I"m working at Eastwood and I also reside here. I go home twice a week but to our home at Paranaque. I think I only go home to Cavite once every two to three weeks so it really makes me home sick.

^^ And I go home everyday from Quezon City to Imus, hehe!! :D...the traffic pisses me off but our neighborhood here in Buhay na Tubig is a sanctuary.

I hope they open the Molino Boulevard now...Ilang sections na lang naman ang di pa natatapos like the disputed land somewhere in Niog.

De La Salle University - Health Sciences Campus & University Medical Center
Dasmariñas, Cavite

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I miss my alma mater! :pet: My children will definitley study in La Salle Dasma. No other La Salle for me.

Go la salle bukid!!!!:lol:

Anyone from La Salle Bukid here?

I went home last year during holy week and went to La Salle Dasma, but dognabit! It was closed!!! The guards didnt let me go in even when I flashed my very cool alumni card...They dont seem to know what an alumni card was...hahahaha...The guard called his superior to show him my alumni card because I think he never saw an ID like it...bodohlah!!!

I'm curious to see what it looks like. I'm sure it has changed alot. Naabutan ko pa ung La Salle Dasma ang tawag La Salle EAC. Ung main road nagpuputik pag umulan ng malakas tapos ung college of criminology building (buiding raw) dungeon ang tawag namin, kasi mukhang underground prison sa bilibid!!!:lol: La Salle kuno...I'm sure ngayon it looks befitting it's name na...May pics po ba tayo dyn ng main campus? Ung paglampas lang sa Kadiwa...mabantot pa rin ba Kadiwa? :lol::lol::lol:

I miss my alma mater! :pet: My children will definitley study in La Salle Dasma. No other La Salle for me.

Go la salle bukid!!!!:lol:

Anyone from La Salle Bukid here?

I went home last year during holy week and went to La Salle Dasma, but dognabit! It was closed!!! The guards didnt let me go in even when I flashed my very cool alumni card...They dont seem to know what an alumni card was...hahahaha...The guard called his superior to show him my alumni card because I think he never saw an ID like it...bodohlah!!!

I'm curious to see what it looks like. I'm sure it has changed alot. Naabutan ko pa ung La Salle Dasma ang tawag La Salle EAC. Ung main road nagpuputik pag umulan ng malakas tapos ung college of criminology building (buiding raw) dungeon ang tawag namin, kasi mukhang underground prison sa bilibid!!!:lol: La Salle kuno...I'm sure ngayon it looks befitting it's name na...May pics po ba tayo dyn ng main campus? Ung paglampas lang sa Kadiwa...mabantot pa rin ba Kadiwa? :lol::lol::lol:
The pics you quoted were from De La Salle-Health Sciences Institute or the UMC. DLSU-D Human Bio & DLSU-Med almunus here... La Salle Bukid or even Taft of the Mountain is so 80's-90's. The term La Salle kuno is degrading. If you know the history of the university, the campus was bought from EAC. Developments poured in since Bro. Dizon became the president of the system. "It is now the most beautiful La Salle campus"-quoted from former pres. Bro. Donato.

It has changed a lot since then. I bet you would hardly recognize it now. I don't think the College of Criminology building is still there. From what I know, it is where the hi-tech College of Engineering and Technology building now stands. The CBA building looks great too. The main avenue or the Lake Avenue leading to La Salle rotonda (near the main gate) is now a concrete road. And if you really went to DLSU-D last year, you should have seen the improvements in Kadiwa and the nearby areas of the university.

I'll post photos later.

The pics you quoted were from De La Salle-Health Sciences Institute or the UMC. DLSU-D Human Bio & DLSU-Med almunus here... La Salle Bukid or even Taft of the Mountain is so 80's-90's. The term La Salle kuno is degrading. If you know the history of the university, the campus was bought from EAC. Developments poured in since Bro. Dizon became the president of the system. "It is now the most beautiful La Salle campus"-quoted from former pres. Bro. Donato.

I'll post photos later.

Whoah!!! :eek: hold your horses!

My comments were not meant to insult anyone as an alumni or MY UNIVERSITY. If I did, I'd be insulting myself now would I? I wouldnt send my kid there if I thought it was a piece of you know what. If you were from my batch or even a few years after my batch you would understand what these statements meant and Im sure it might produce atleast a smile in your face. I used those words because I'm not insecure about my school. I was in La Salle for 5 long years (go figure) and it was already starting to be pretty when I left it...:ohno:

But I do think the statement "if you know the history..." is insulting. Do you even know what organizations I was in or what I was in those organizations? And yes I do know the the history of my school. You can quiz me on it too, if you like.

From what I saw outside the campus it seemed beautiful and I believe you when you said it is. The mini park by what used to be the deep gorge beside the gym where there are bayawaks crawling around, and the fountains that go with it, looks absolutely stunning. But like I said I DIDNT SEE THE INSIDE...

Don't I have the right to crack jokes about my school which the tuition my parents and I paid for to help build? Which by the way
the curents students are benefiting from or maybe even you...Don't take it personally, it's not an attack on you or my alma mater.

Maybe I should have used more smileys to express what I really meant by what I said...

And Yesss, for pete's sake, I do know that the pictures were the health and sciences campus...I pass by it every dang day of school...:doh:

tsk tsk tsk...:ohno:

Ok nuff said...deep breath...so sorry...me gots emotional...ok back to my usually calm self :nocrook:

So...any pics of the main campus?

^ sorry if i insulted you higen. :) i'm not saying that you're degrading the university. thanks for clearing those things up.

i'm cool with these stuff. i can't argue with a fellow la sallian, a caviteño and of course, to a good sscer since i'm the organizer of the monthly meets. and for that, i personally invite you to attend the meet on october 18. :colgate: :cheers:

^ sorry if i insulted you higen. :) i'm not saying that you're degrading the university. thanks for clearing those things up.

i'm cool with these stuff. i can't argue with a fellow la sallian, a caviteño and of course, to a good sscer since i'm the organizer of the monthly meets. and for that, i personally invite you to attend the meet on october 18. :colgate: :cheers:

Coolness! :banana2:

And I would like to apologize in public for that outburst of energy...:lol:

No harm done...

These meets must be very interesting. Can't make this year but definitely in the future...

Thanks buddy :drunk:

^^ And I go home everyday from Quezon City to Imus, hehe!! :D...the traffic pisses me off but our neighborhood here in Buhay na Tubig is a sanctuary.

I hope they open the Molino Boulevard now...Ilang sections na lang naman ang di pa natatapos like the disputed land somewhere in Niog.

I would have want to unfortunately, my work either ends at 9PM or 1AM. So it's dangerous and there are only few Saulog buses plying along EDSA.

^^ Oh...nga pala. I wouldn't even dare going home by that time already. Mahirap na sa jeep kasi, ang dilim pa naman ng Aguinaldo Highway.

Which is isa nanaman sa nirereklamo ko...bakit from SM Bacoor hanggang Imus boundary lang ang Pailaw ng Pang(g)ulo?

^^ One problem is the loading unloading areas around Imus are so disorganized. There are so many junctions there...I'll enumerate them here:

1. Perpetual Village
2. Aguinaldo High/CavSu Imus Campus/LTO
3. MCI-Palico
4. Palico-PureGold
5. 7-11 Toll Bridge
6. PCI/BDO
7. Robinsons Place
8. Patindig Araw

All that is enumerated in bold are only a block apart from each other... [/IMG]

it's really weird. this just started to worsen 1-2 years ago. Bacoor, on the other hand, has improving traffic situation IMO.
additional bottleneck areas:
EMI-Yazaki (understandable)
Kostal
Pallas Athena area (sometimes)

i hope Imus gov't & CTMO will also get assistance from the MMDA. but of course, don't depend on them too much.

What more if the LRT extension to Dasma is started? Oh man I can't imagine the horrendous traffic jams along this major artery. :ohno:

I guess the heavy traffic was caused by the sheer volume of vehicles. Number Coding anyone? :)

'tol Jeff I think you are forgetting something --- STI bldg-Dasma pics please! :lol:

*edit*

since i'm the organizer of the monthly meets.

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Wala bang meet sa Dasma brother? Sked natin sa December... c u 2 higen!:)

What more if the LRT extension to Dasma is started? Oh man I can't imagine the horrendous traffic jams along this major artery. :ohno:

I guess the heavy traffic was caused by the sheer volume of vehicles. Number Coding anyone? :)

'tol Jeff I think you are forgetting something --- STI bldg-Dasma pics please! :lol:

Pero parang ganoon din eh...Some rich people have 2 vehicles with different plate numbers. The buhos system is more of a short to medium term solution to the achilles heel of Cavite. And some portions of Aguinaldo Highway is also being handled by MMDA in cooperation with CTMO.

The opening of Molino Boulevard would diminish the travel time to Molino and Imus by as much as 5-10 minutes from Saint Dominic Hospital junction as compared to 30 minutes to sometimes an hour from the said junction to Robinson's Imus.

I wish the Remullas have anticiapated the overwhelming growth of Cavite, being near to Manila, a long time ago...nakagawa na sana tayo ng Expressway (CaLa Expressway plus Coastal Road extention).

I wonder what happened to the truck ban?

^^Truck ban will hurt the businesses and Eco-zones. But I hope trucks will have their own lane in the future... Most truck drivers plying Agunaldo Hwy. are un-disciplined.... Problem is, there is no available provision for expansion of Aguinaldo hwy. --- the govt. needs to buy ROW along the sides just in case!

Another problem road is Governor's Drive (Gen.Tri-Dasma-GMA-Carmona).

I think the govt. (NEDA) has anticipated the growth of Cavite --- reason why CALA & Coastal Road Ext. were conceptualized. Both these projects could solve most of the problems I mentioned above... But now comes another problem: implementation.

Got to go, I am just raising problems here... :lol:

What more if the LRT extension to Dasma is started? Oh man I can't imagine the horrendous traffic jams along this major artery. :ohno:

I guess the heavy traffic was caused by the sheer volume of vehicles. Number Coding anyone? :)

'tol Jeff I think you are forgetting something --- STI bldg-Dasma pics please! :lol:
sti pics.. sige hehe, try ko pag uwi ko :)

Wala bang meet sa Dasma brother? Sked natin sa December... c u 2 higen!:)
sige ssc cavite meet tayo sa december. :banana:

It has changed a lot since then. I bet you would hardly recognize it now. I don't think the College of Criminology building is still there. From what I know, it is where the hi-tech College of Engineering and Technology building now stands. The CBA building looks great too. The main avenue or the Lake Avenue leading to La Salle rotonda (near the main gate) is now a concrete road. And if you really went to DLSU-D last year, you should have seen the improvements in Kadiwa and the nearby areas of the university.

I'll post photos later.

Jeff, no rush but got any? Just one? :D

Wala bang meet sa Dasma brother? Sked natin sa December... c u 2 higen!:)

Ok sana, Caviteño meet...but cant this year...you guys enjoy :nocrook:

sti pics.. sige hehe, try ko pag uwi ko :)


sige ssc cavite meet tayo sa december. :banana:

Nice! c u!

Ok sana, Caviteño meet...but cant this year...you guys enjoy :nocrook:

Too bad... anyway c u sometime soon!

MJCI Investments gets green light to operate a casino (http://www.bworldonline.com/BW101108/content.php?id=043)
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) has approved listed MJCI Investments, Inc.’s proposal to operate a casino.

In a disclosure yesterday, MJCI said the proposed casino would have an initial 200 slot machines and 10 gaming tables.

Peter Francis Zagala, MJCI corporate secretary, however, declined to give more details, saying the firm would disclose other plans at the proper time.

Mr. Zagala said this would be the firm’s first venture under the MJCI name after it becomes a majority-owned subsidiary of the Manila Jockey Club, Inc. early next year.

The company obtained the approval of its stockholders last June for a property-for-share swap with the Manila Jockey Club, which would own 90% of MJCI.

"Aside from the casino business, the company will also be into real estate ventures," Mr. Zagala said.

MJCI used to be Aries Prime Resources, Inc. that was incorporated on June 15, 1955 to engage in mining. Aries then became an investment holding company on February 12, 1997.

After the change in its primary purpose, Aries explored various business and investment opportunities, acquiring 52,000 square meters of land in Tanza, Cavite and entering into a joint venture with Sta. Lucia Realty & Development Inc. for development of the said property into a residential, commercial and golf course complex to be called Saddle and Clubs.

Shares of the company yesterday did not move at P2.95 per share. — Kristine Jane R. Liu

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'tol Jeff I think you are forgetting something --- STI bldg-Dasma pics please! :lol:

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm209/waldenstrom/Picture235.jpg

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STI College Building
Guevarra St., Dasmariñas

Sorry di ko makunan ng ayos. mas malaki sya tingnan sa personal. :D Sunod ko na lang yung sa DLSU-D hehe.

^^Thanks for the pics brother! I can say I'm not too impressed with the building, I was expecting a much better looking facade (I thought the rendering posted during construction looked different)... Haven't been to that area for quite some time, but I think the STI space here is a bit crammed.

I wonder where exactly in Rosario will SM build their mall. Same goes to Tagaytay.

WB offers funding for RP projects (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081019154)
By Paolo Romero
Monday, October 20, 2008

The World Bank (WB) has offered to finance some of the Philippines’ social programs and big-ticket infrastructure projects as a sign of confidence in the country’s economy, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto said yesterday.

Recto said the offer was made during meetings last week in Washington that were also attended by finance officials from Southeast Asia and heads of international financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank.

“They (WB officials) are very much interested in funding public-private sectors projects, BOT (build-operate-transfer) projects and our conditional cash transfer programs for the poor for social protection,” Recto said in a telephone interview.

“They are very bullish on our economy so they think their investments in the country would be viable and (they can) make money out of it,” he said, adding that part of the WB’s mandate is to extend development loans.

He said among the big-ticket projects the WB wanted to fund was the LRT-1 Extension project that was previously estimated to cost at least $700 million or over P40 billion.

The extension, which is a priority project of the Arroyo administration, would run from Monumento in Caloocan to Dasmariñas, Cavite.

As far as the conditional cash transfer program is concerned, the WB could assist in terms of grants, Recto said.

“If these (offers) would push through, we could free up our resources for education and infrastructure,” he said, adding the loans would not be tied.

However, he said that the matter would still have to be discussed in detail in the Cabinet.

The government last year resorted to implementing a conditional cash transfer program, basically giving cash to poor families with certain social conditions, as fuel and food prices soared.

The “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino” program would get a dramatic increase under the proposed P1.415-trillion national budget for next year, officials earlier said.

Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. earlier said that under the proposed 2009 budget, the program would have a funding of P5 billion, from a mere P300 million this year.

The increase in the allocation will fund the full implementation of the program, which targets around 300,000 poor families all over the country.

“This program will focus on chronically poor families whose education, health and nutrition indicators are among the worst of the population,” Andaya said.

“The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program is a continuing program, and it should not be confused with the one-time cash we earlier gave out for poor consumers of electricity,” he said.

He said conditional cash transfer programs have also been adopted in other countries and have proven to be effective in uplifting the lives of the poor.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development said the program was not a dole out, as beneficiaries must meet certain conditions before they could avail of a maximum of P1,400 a month.

The conditions specify that pregnant women must get proper medical care before and after childbirth; parents must attend family planning and parental care seminars; children 0 to five years old must get regular medical check ups and vaccines; five-year-old children must attend pre-school classes 85 percent of the time, with the same requirement imposed on children in elementary and high schools.

MJCI Investments gets green light to operate a casino (http://www.bworldonline.com/BW101108/content.php?id=043)

After the change in its primary purpose, Aries explored various business and investment opportunities, acquiring 52,000 square meters of land in Tanza, Cavite and entering into a joint venture with Sta. Lucia Realty & Development Inc. for development of the said property into a residential, commercial and golf course complex to be called Saddle and Clubs.


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San po ito sa tanza?

I wonder where exactly in Rosario will SM build their mall. Same goes to Tagaytay.

There's a rumor also that another SM Mall will be built in Tanza area. It was said that this project was already final but the construction date is still unknown.

Sabi din ng iba, kaya nadedelay ang construction nito ay dahil ayaw ng mga vendors sa tanza public market na magkaroon ng SM Mall. dDahil kung magkakaroon ng SM in that area maaapektuhan yung negosyo nila since tiyak magkakaroon din ng SM Supermarket inside the mall.

Yung location ng SM City Tanza daw ay sa vacant lot in front of the munipical hall (di ko lang alam kung kasama yung lot na inoocuppied ng mga squatters area).

guys narinig ko din na magkakaroon din ng Robinson's Mall sa Tejero-Bacao Road. Sabi nila before ka makarating sa Epza yung location, pero di ko pa din alam kung san dun.

haha, last na guys...

pansin ko lang yung pinagbago sa Bacao Road... before the end of this year siguro, tapos na yung ginagawang hotel sa gahak part ng bacao, tapos my isa pang hotel na itatayo malapit malapit sa centennial homes, sa ngayon nagtatambak na sila ng lupa.

sa malapit naman sa epza, may commercial building din na by the end of the year or before christmas siguro magbukas na. Tapos malapit na din matapos yung Urashima Restaurant malapit sa gate 3.

meron ding road widening ngayon sa buong Bacao road, tingin ko para magcomplement siya sa ginagawang manila-cavite coastal road extension. (kanina nga natrafick ako for almost 1 1/2 hour dahil ginagawa na nila yung bridge)

wala na rin yung mga squatters sa Covelandia sa left side yung nasa tubig talaga yung mga house, nademolished na ata.

ps. xenxa na po mxado madami.. pis po tau...

Crosswinds Tagaytay...

vInAoj4_kCA


Another interesting Tagaytay project...
Sonoma Condotel - they plan to build a 20 to 25- storey observation tower...

Island Cove: Living up to ‘something-for-everyone’ offer (http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=828:island-cove-living-up-to-something-for-everyone-offer&catid=47:properties)
Properties
Written by Rizal Raoul Reyes / Correspondent
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:00
ISLAND Cove Hotel and Leisure Park will take the opportunity offered by the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) current all-out campaign by offering new products to discriminating tourists, both foreign and local, and making “significant” investments to put up the necessary infrastructure.

In an interview with the BusinessMirror, Gilbert Remulla, managing director of Island Cove, said the campaign of Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano to make the Philippines an adventure tourism destination has given Island Cove the right opportunity and timing to offer new products.

“Our paintball and airsoft fields are among the largest in the country and are steadily attracting enthusiasts due to their size, location and overall potential. Currently on the planning stage is our mountain-bike technical course and being considered is a target-shooting range,” said Remulla.

To launch the Global Gutz Paintball Arena, Island Cove recently held the Target Hope tournament pitting media against members of the House of Representatives; the contest was won by members of the media.

Target Hope is a benefit tournament organized by Island Cove to help raise funds and donations for Gawad Kalinga. Through this initiative, Island Cove will either build a shelter or help sustain and develop the food-productivity program in one of Gawad Kalinga’s sites in Cavite.

Mediamen and politicians, who were both teamed up with Gawad Kalinga representatives, played the “Last Man Standing” game. The participants played the best of three games, with the Media team winning.

Mediamen who played and won against the politicians were Rudy Liwanag of Manila Bulletin; Ferdie Pajarillo, Ann Corvera, and Fernan Nebres of Philippine Star; Rissa Camongol of The Philippine Daily Inquirer; Rizal Raoul Reyes of BusinessMirror; and Yushin Chuang of Newscentral.

The politicians’ team was composed of Reps. Sonny Angara, Mujiv Hataman, Miles Roces, Gilbert Remulla, Joel Villanueva, Ben Noel, Timmy Chipeco and Danilo Fernandez.

Gawad Kalinga members Edgar Purificacion, Durick Pichay, Mandy Orallo, Felix Doydora, Emilio Oquinena, Patrick Amoyot, Marc Sebastian and Norman Dumdum also played in the exciting tournament.

“Paintball is an ideal team activity because it fosters cooperation and strategic thinking. It’s not every day that you get an opportunity to witness such an interesting group of people compete in a team sport like paintball and for such a good cause,” says Remulla. He adds, “We are very grateful for the support that our media friends and politicians gave to this project.”

Because of the size and numerous facilities of Island Cove, Remulla said the resort and leisure complex has developed a mantra of “something for everyone” because it is also fully aware that the local and international leisure market is extremely varied and continuously evolving.

“That’s why Island Cove has to periodically offer new products to our existing and potential clients. We conceptualize these products according to the needs of both the corporate and leisure markets that often are not treated separately,” Remulla pointed out.

The 36-hectare resort is an ISO 9001:2000- certified and an “AAA”-accredited resort by the DOT.

Remulla said Island Cove is continuing to develop facilities for family members and companions not into these activities—such as swimming pools with giant slides, fishing, mini zoo and wildlife sanctuary; Filipino and casual cuisine restaurants; nighttime entertainment outlets like the live music lounge and KTV, spa, gym, meandering walkways and open spaces.

“Island Cove aims to be a premier business-and-leisure destination and is working toward establishing brand awareness in this regard. Our latest offerings that cater to the adventure seeker further reinforce our mission to have something for everyone,” said Remulla.

He says visitors will see pathways lined with fragrant and colorful flowers inside the Butterfly Farm. Regular visitors will experience how butterflies are bred and grown from birth to adulthood. For plant aficionados, there is a nursery where varied greenery are grown and sold.

Remulla added that the introduction of the wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) service will be a big boost to the road warriors because it will allow them to relax and, at the same time, check with business colleagues on updates in their business, if necessary.

“The Wi-Fi service will provide the mobile workers, specifically the executives working in the special economic zones, a chance to work while relaxing at the resort at the same time,” said Remulla.

Island Cove: boring IMO. :)

Island Cove: boring IMO. :)

Too wholesome? :lol::nocrook:

^^ hehe. yeah, but don't get me wrong here. it's still a very nice place for the whole family to enjoy. :okay:

SM expects to hit income target (http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1062:sm-expects-to-hit-income-target&catid=24:companies)
Companies
Written by Honey Madrilejos-Reyes / Reporter
Monday, 27 October 2008 21:12

SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) remains bullish that it could meet its target net income of P14 billion for the full year, a growth of 13 percent over the previous period.

“Our confidence stems from the strong performance of the retail stores, the malls and the property businesses. Fundamentally, consumer spending is better during the second half given that oil prices have gone down and the peso weakened, a factor that is favorable to families of OFW’s,” said company president Harley Sy.

For the rest of the year, SM will open two department stores, two hypermarkets and two malls in Rosales, and Baliuag.

Under property subsidiary SM Land Inc., the Sy-controlled firm will also launch the new wing of Taal Vista Hotel, which has completed its P650-million expansion that doubled the hotel’s number of rooms from 130 to 260 and added a grand ballroom with a 1,000 person seating capacity.

For the first half of the year, SMIC reported a 14-percent year-on-year rise to P6.5 billion. Consolidated revenue rose 17 percent to P65.6 billion, as retail sales surged 21 percent to P52.6 billion, it said. Retail merchandising, which consists of hypermarkets and supermarkets, accounted for 32 percent of the first-semester net income.

Rental revenues from malls and other properties grew by 11.8 percent to P6.4 billion. Shopping malls contributed 34 percent of the profit. SMIC’s banking and real estate business accounted for 27 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the total profit.

In July, SM issued $350 million worth of five-year bonds. The landmark deal, which was unrated, was the largest to-date and the first successful international bond offering by a Philippine company in the last two years. The bond proceeds will be used to fund SMIC’s foray into non-mall property projects.

SMIC’s retail group now has 89 stores composed of 31 department stores; 32 supermarkets, nine of which are SaveMore branches; 11 hypermarkets, and 15 Makro outlets.

Walang pasok ngayon sa Imus. Holiday. Araw ng Imus.

Holiday din ang trapik kaya hay ang sarap mag-drive sa Aguinaldo Highway sa ngayon.

But anyway, I just noticed that along Aguinaldo Highway, Imus seems to be the most problematic area with regard to the traffic situation. Bacoor effectively implements its buhos system while Dasma has its own traffic light system and management. Imus, somehow is very chaotic starting from Perpetual Village in Barangay Real all the way to Robinsons Place Imus and Patindig Araw near Bayan Luma and Anabu.



Tama ka mate...Imus town proper has small roads and if your not from the area, mahuhuli ka ng counter flow. :lol: So many "one way" sa looban.

O nga pala, Araw ng Imus noh...

Tama ka mate...Imus town proper has small roads and if your not from the area, mahuhuli ka ng counter flow. :lol: So many "one way" sa looban.

Sa looban nga actually ok ang daloy ng trapiko.

Its the major thoroughfare (or the ONLY major thoroughfare) of Imus which brings the headache. Aguinaldo Highway has so many junctions in Imus proper that it hasn't been carefully managed by the CTMO and the local Imus traffic enforcement unit.

SM expects to hit income target (http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1062:sm-expects-to-hit-income-target&catid=24:companies)
Companies
Written by Honey Madrilejos-Reyes / Reporter
Monday, 27 October 2008 21:12

SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) remains bullish that it could meet its target net income of P14 billion for the full year, a growth of 13 percent over the previous period.

“Our confidence stems from the strong performance of the retail stores, the malls and the property businesses. Fundamentally, consumer spending is better during the second half given that oil prices have gone down and the peso weakened, a factor that is favorable to families of OFW’s,” said company president Harley Sy.

For the rest of the year, SM will open two department stores, two hypermarkets and two malls in Rosales, and Baliuag.

Under property subsidiary SM Land Inc., the Sy-controlled firm will also launch the new wing of Taal Vista Hotel, which has completed its P650-million expansion that doubled the hotel’s number of rooms from 130 to 260 and added a grand ballroom with a 1,000 person seating capacity.

For the first half of the year, SMIC reported a 14-percent year-on-year rise to P6.5 billion. Consolidated revenue rose 17 percent to P65.6 billion, as retail sales surged 21 percent to P52.6 billion, it said. Retail merchandising, which consists of hypermarkets and supermarkets, accounted for 32 percent of the first-semester net income.

Rental revenues from malls and other properties grew by 11.8 percent to P6.4 billion. Shopping malls contributed 34 percent of the profit. SMIC’s banking and real estate business accounted for 27 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the total profit.

In July, SM issued $350 million worth of five-year bonds. The landmark deal, which was unrated, was the largest to-date and the first successful international bond offering by a Philippine company in the last two years. The bond proceeds will be used to fund SMIC’s foray into non-mall property projects.

SMIC’s retail group now has 89 stores composed of 31 department stores; 32 supermarkets, nine of which are SaveMore branches; 11 hypermarkets, and 15 Makro outlets.

Matutuloy kaya dito ang SM City Tagaytay o kahit SM Supercenter Tagaytay muna?:)

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This is the segment from Castro Subdivision to Saint Dominic junction. This is still under construction...

But the real headache is not here but in a certain part of Niog, Bacoor, Cavite in which the construction cannot proceed because of a certain G. Alejandro is claiming that the land which will be in the way of Molino Boulevard is still paying up real estate tax to the Municipal coffers of Bacoor. This small segment is a hindrance to the development of the road which will one of the solutions to the worsening problem of Aguinaldo Highway's congestion.

Nang dahil dyan, napapaisip ang mga taumbayan na pinatataas lang nya siguro ang presyo ng kanyang lupa upang bilhin ito ng gobyerno mula sa kanya....Pero masasabi ko, with this feudal action, its not obvious why this said project could not push through which is better for the greater majority of Cavitenyos.

Worse, because of that land conflict, its creating a bottleneck situation in which the vehicles have to pass by a muddy one lane access way to by pass that bloody land! Therefore there is also a buhos system being done in that small segment! Imbes na 10 minutes lang ang byaheng Niog-Molino nagiging 20-30 minutes dahil sa trapik na ginagawa nito.

And for Gov. Malicsi or Manny Villar or Mayor Strike, I hope they'll exercise their "political will" so that it could be finished and would be of use for the public.

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This is the segment from Castro Subdivision to Saint Dominic junction. This is still under construction...

But the real headache is not here but in a certain part of Niog, Bacoor, Cavite in which the construction cannot proceed because of a certain G. Alejandro is claiming that the land which will be in the way of Molino Boulevard is still paying up real estate tax to the Municipal coffers of Bacoor. This small segment is a hindrance to the development of the road which will one of the solutions to the worsening problem of Aguinaldo Highway's congestion.

Nang dahil dyan, napapaisip ang mga taumbayan na pinatataas lang nya siguro ang presyo ng kanyang lupa upang bilhin ito ng gobyerno mula sa kanya....Pero masasabi ko, with this feudal action, its not obvious why this said project could not push through which is better for the greater majority of Cavitenyos.

Worse, because of that land conflict, its creating a bottleneck situation in which the vehicles have to pass by a muddy one lane access way to by pass that bloody land! Therefore there is also a buhos system being done in that small segment! Imbes na 10 minutes lang ang byaheng Niog-Molino nagiging 20-30 minutes dahil sa trapik na ginagawa nito.

And for Gov. Malicsi or Manny Villar or Mayor Strike, I hope they'll exercise their "political will" so that it could be finished and would be of use for the public.

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:ohno: isn't there an eminent domain law in the philippines? well, maybe there isnt! come to think of it, i remember my lawyer cousin saying.... there's no law in the Philippines. hard to believe. regards!:)

i am really planning to tour this place but i sont have time..it is really wonderful that i saw how beautiful it is...i will surely find sometime to spend one night at the island...probably next month

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And for Gov. Malicsi or Manny Villar or Mayor Strike, I hope they'll exercise their "political will" so that it could be finished and would be of use for the public.

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:ohno: isn't there an eminent domain law in the philippines? well, maybe there isnt! come to think of it, i remember my lawyer cousin saying.... there's no law in the Philippines. hard to believe. regards!:)
oh my! i'm afraid of the possibilities. i hope you're aware what the Cavite politicians can do. at least be happy that this case is still being settled in the court and no one gets killed yet. hehehe. j/k i hope you get what I mean. :colgate:

^^ Yeah, I know....:colgate:

Laguna, Cavite top next wave of locations for BPOs

By Jesus F. Llanto, abs-cbnNEWS.com, Newsbreak | 11/03/2008 3:20 PM

Clusters of cities and municipalities in Laguna and Cavite topped the list of the 10 next wave of locations for outsourcing in the Philippines, a scorecard of the BPO industry showed.

Metro Laguna—composed of Santa Rosa City, Calamba City, Los Banos, Cabuyao and San Pablo City—was cited as the best outsourcing location in the Philippines outside Metro Manila and Metro Cebu by the scorecard ranking of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and the Department of Trade and Industry. Metro Laguna got a score of 88 percent out of 100.

Metro Cavite—composed of Dasmarinas, Bacoor, Imus and Cavite City—was ranked as the second best outsourcing location with a score of 85 percent.

The scorecard also included two cities in the Visayas, two cities in Mindanao, a city in Batangas, the Angeles-Clark- Mabalacat cluster in Central Luzon and two clusters of local government units in Bulacan.

The scores of the other top ten next-wave cities are as follows: Iloilo (81%), Davao (80%), Bacolod (78%), Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat (77%), Baliuag-Marilao-Meycauyan (74%), Cagayan de Oro (73%), Malolos-Calumpit (73%) and Lipa City (73%).

The BPAP-CICT-DTI scorecard computed the scores using the following criteria: availability of talent (50%), infrastructure (30%), cost (5%) and business environment (15%).

Best performers

Secretary Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III of the CICT said the availability of huge potential talent pool in Laguna was behind its high ranking. “Metro Laguna taken together ranked the highest for availability of graduates and workers out of the more than 30 locations assessed.”

Oscar Sanez, chief executive officer of the BPAP, meanwhile, said that Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat was included in the list because of the presence of economic zones that spur development. Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat also got a perfect score of 100 for the infrastructure category, which took into account the quality of roads, access to international and domestic flights, hotels, and presence of providers of fiber optic networks.

Bacolod City, meanwhile, topped the business environment category. Sanez said the presence of PEZA sites and ICT council in the city boosted its score in this category.

The business environment criterion, said Sanez, also took into account incentives from the local government units, peace and order situation, vulnerability to natural disturbances, travel advisories and crime rates.

The cities of Iloilo and Cagayan de Oro, meanwhile, topped the cost criterion, which took into account the cost of labor and office space.

Beyond Manila and Cebu

Sanez said that cost is not a big factor in the ranking because investors have realized the cost advantage of locating outside outsourcing hubs like Manila and Cebu.

“Moving outside Manila and Cebu can create more economic opportunities outside these cities,” Sanez said adding that they have learned from the experience of India, where overcongested locations have driven up wage and rental rates.

Industry data show that 80 percent of the Philippine outsourcing industry operations is concentrated in Metro Manila.

Celeste Ilagan, executive director of the investments promotions group of the Board of Investments said that industry concentration has put “tremendous pressure” on Manila and Cebu when it comes to manpower supply.

“We have to show the investors that there are other places where they can go," Ilagan said. “ Otherwise pressures to raise rental rates and salaries in these major metropolitan areas would go unabated.”

Chua said that having BPO locators outside Manila and Cebu can also boost the economy of the provinces and cities. “It can spur the local economy because of the high disposable income of the workers.”

Laguna, Cavite top next wave of locations for BPOs

By Jesus F. Llanto, abs-cbnNEWS.com, Newsbreak | 11/03/2008 3:20 PM

Clusters of cities and municipalities in Laguna and Cavite topped the list of the 10 next wave of locations for outsourcing in the Philippines, a scorecard of the BPO industry showed.

Metro Laguna—composed of Santa Rosa City, Calamba City, Los Banos, Cabuyao and San Pablo City—was cited as the best outsourcing location in the Philippines outside Metro Manila and Metro Cebu by the scorecard ranking of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and the Department of Trade and Industry. Metro Laguna got a score of 88 percent out of 100.

Metro Cavite—composed of Dasmarinas, Bacoor, Imus and Cavite City—was ranked as the second best outsourcing location with a score of 85 percent.

The scorecard also included two cities in the Visayas, two cities in Mindanao, a city in Batangas, the Angeles-Clark- Mabalacat cluster in Central Luzon and two clusters of local government units in Bulacan.

The scores of the other top ten next-wave cities are as follows: Iloilo (81%), Davao (80%), Bacolod (78%), Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat (77%), Baliuag-Marilao-Meycauyan (74%), Cagayan de Oro (73%), Malolos-Calumpit (73%) and Lipa City (73%).

The BPAP-CICT-DTI scorecard computed the scores using the following criteria: availability of talent (50%), infrastructure (30%), cost (5%) and business environment (15%).

Best performers

Secretary Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III of the CICT said the availability of huge potential talent pool in Laguna was behind its high ranking. “Metro Laguna taken together ranked the highest for availability of graduates and workers out of the more than 30 locations assessed.”

Oscar Sanez, chief executive officer of the BPAP, meanwhile, said that Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat was included in the list because of the presence of economic zones that spur development. Angeles-Clark-Mabalacat also got a perfect score of 100 for the infrastructure category, which took into account the quality of roads, access to international and domestic flights, hotels, and presence of providers of fiber optic networks.

Bacolod City, meanwhile, topped the business environment category. Sanez said the presence of PEZA sites and ICT council in the city boosted its score in this category.

The business environment criterion, said Sanez, also took into account incentives from the local government units, peace and order situation, vulnerability to natural disturbances, travel advisories and crime rates.

The cities of Iloilo and Cagayan de Oro, meanwhile, topped the cost criterion, which took into account the cost of labor and office space.

Beyond Manila and Cebu

Sanez said that cost is not a big factor in the ranking because investors have realized the cost advantage of locating outside outsourcing hubs like Manila and Cebu.

“Moving outside Manila and Cebu can create more economic opportunities outside these cities,” Sanez said adding that they have learned from the experience of India, where overcongested locations have driven up wage and rental rates.

Industry data show that 80 percent of the Philippine outsourcing industry operations is concentrated in Metro Manila.

Celeste Ilagan, executive director of the investments promotions group of the Board of Investments said that industry concentration has put “tremendous pressure” on Manila and Cebu when it comes to manpower supply.

“We have to show the investors that there are other places where they can go," Ilagan said. “ Otherwise pressures to raise rental rates and salaries in these major metropolitan areas would go unabated.”

Chua said that having BPO locators outside Manila and Cebu can also boost the economy of the provinces and cities. “It can spur the local economy because of the high disposable income of the workers.”

This is great news. For Cavite to developfurther, we need industries and Business Process Outsourcing Companies may be of great help. Teletech already started with Bacoor.

There are rumors that there'll be Covergys in Robinson's Place Dasmariñas soon. This is a great news for Cavite.

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wow! very cooool.

if this wasnt labeled, it might be mistaken that this is in New Zealand.

canyon woods?

Good news Cavite residents.Metro Star Ferry will commence it's Cavite City - Intramuros Ferry route and it is expected to start by the end of this month.

Another good news for Cavite:

According to NSO cencus done is August 2007, the population of Cavite has reached 2,856,765. I did not fined any official ranking in the web page I saw, but by comparing it to the other provinces with big populations, Cavite seems to be number 1 already.

Also, it has one of the highest rates of population growth, averaging 4.59% annually from 2000 to 2007.

And the population of Dasmarinas has reached 556,330, bigger than that of most cities.

Heavily urbanized na talaga and Cavite.

(Not necessarily good new for residents who have go thru Cavite's traffic jams everyday.)

I passed thru Aguinaldo the other day from Daang Hari intersection all the way to Zapote. Traffic was really heavy, and it was not even rush hour.

The number 1 culprint seems to be ILLEGAL PARKING on the outer lane, effectively reducing the road to 1+1 lanes. The establishments there should be required to move back from the road and provide parking space for themselves and their customers.

The second culprit seems to be the undisciplined jeepney and bus drivers who stop in the middle of the road. The traffic enforcers dont seem to mind even if the jeepneys and buses break the rules in front of them. Baka dahil sa tong.

The third cause is the crumbling asphalt paving, which has been patched up many times like band-aid so that when you go thru it parang torture test sa kotse, kaya you are forced to swerve or slow down. The road has deteriorated so much since I last drove thru it a few years back.

^^ The 2 main culprits I see: volume and very narrow road.

Yeah, yeah, it's always the narrow road but nobody is doing anything to introduce better and wider road.

Bacoor, Imus and Dasmarinas should be converted into cities. I think now is the right time for it. For Bacoor, I had doubts at first because then Mayor Castillo's plan seems dubious. Now I think it's time.

I agree. Even the planning or conceptualization of Metro Cavite should start now. A lot of Cavite towns are qualified to be cities and now, especially in the future, we're already experiencing the same problems with Metro Manila. Early planning is the key.

I've read about Metro CALA(Cavite-Laguna) before. Any news on this?

ang ganda nga talaga ng corrigedor island...superb

The MMDA Sidewalk Clearing Operations Group and the LGU's of Bacoor-Imus are now demolishing "usli" structures along Aguinaldo Highway. :banana:

they should resolve the right of way issue with molino blvd.....Cavitenyo style

"Cavitenyo style"

May kasamang salamangka or sleight of legerdemain.

Cavitenyo style.....meaning with Armalites hehehe

The MMDA Sidewalk Clearing Operations Group and the LGU's of Bacoor-Imus are now demolishing "usli" structures along Aguinaldo Highway. :banana:

Kakahiya ang Cavite, Bakit sila humingi ng tulong sa MMDA which is made for METRO MANILA. :ohno:

Cavite have the funds and everything and yet, they want the pink panther to help. This shows that Cavite mayors and "governors" have no political will whatsoever.

Kakahiya ang Cavite, Bakit sila humingi ng tulong sa MMDA which is made for METRO MANILA. :ohno:

Cavite have the funds and everything and yet, they want the pink panther to help. This shows that Cavite mayors and "governors" have no political will whatsoever.
Better read the news first before making hasty judgment.

It is Pres. PGMA that directed the MMDA to assist Cavite in solving different problems like traffic situation, road widening, etc. I don't see any problem with accepting help from a neighbor.

And I've read before that MMDA is also extending help to the different cities all over the country so Cavite isn't alone. ;)

Better read the news first before making hasty judgment.

It is Pres. PGMA that directed the MMDA to assist Cavite in solving different problems like traffic situation, road widening, etc. I don't see any problem with accepting help from a neighbor.

And I've read before that MMDA is also extending help to the different cities all over the country so Cavite isn't alone. ;)

Gloria did that because she saw that those cavite mayors are incompitent to do it.

Anyway though, It shows that BF is doing a really good job. Kasi dati rati, hinde kilala ang MMDA. Ngayon, nagiging nationwide na sya :lol:

The former Bacoor mayor is really incompetent but the other mayors are doing very well. Aguinaldo Highway is a national road and the traffic situation of national concern already. So not doing a road widening doesn't already make them incompetent. ;)

^^ Umm...excuse me...si Manny Malicsi ba yung isa sa competent? :lol:
Anyway, I saw a banner earlier in Talaba Barangay Hall proclaiming "Yes! To Bacoor City!"

^^ Umm...excuse me...si Manny Malicsi ba yung isa sa competent? :lol:
Anyway, I saw a banner earlier in Talaba Barangay Hall proclaiming "Yes! To Bacoor City!"

I think he's referring to Jessie Castillo. The Police Station Padlocking Guy. :bash:

^^ Yes. Mayor Castillo. :)

Anyway, I'm for Bacoor cityhood now. It's about time.

When then-Mayor Castillo was pushing for it, some people were thinking that he was pushing for Bacoor's Cityhood so he could run as the Representative of the District of Bacoor.

I think @Arciga_01 has a point. I hope the mayors and residents of Cavite will rather take this as a challenge to help improve their localities.

Heavy traffic and road facilities in Cavite are serious issues that needs to be given priority. They directly affect the local economy and industries.

From Trece to Carmona... Bacoor to Rosario... Bacoor to Dasmarinas... every minute is rush hour! I guess the CALA higways (East-West & North-South) need not be justified --- the situation calls for it!

^^ The question is WHEN? The situation is already frustrating and stressing. I hope Arroyo would pass by Aguinaldo Highway when she goes to Tagaytay so that she would experience the traffic that is now "part of the Cavitenyo lifestyle."

^^ "the situation calls for it" = "now na"

PGMA was in Tagaytay just recently to "attend mass". Didn't bother about the traffic mess in SLEx or in Cavite... maybe she needed that "traffic time" to relax and snooze a bit... talk about turning a negative-vibe into a positive one. :lol:

^^ :lol: Well..."hard worker" naman sya so pag-bigyan....:lol:

But really...Aguinaldo Highway is the SOLE major thoroughfare of Bacoor-Imus-Dasma-Silang-Tagaytay corridor...and the residents here would prefer to go along Aguinaldo Highway rather than divert to far away SLEX.

The major bottleneck here also is....Longos Talaba area.
And regarding Imus' traffic management....they suck! :bash: as compared to Dasma and Bacoor which has improving traffic situation given the limitations.

^^If there was a helipad in that church, she could have come differently...

You have been to GMA and Carmona didn't you? Traffic management officials in Imus and GMA seems quite the same.

I hope Molino-Paliparan road should be uniformly widened and extended up to Silang town proper.

The widening of Governor's drive (Carmona-Dasma) is awfully being done. Progress is very slow, while the curves and bridges are sub-standard. Cavite's honorable politicians might have made substancial gains out of this project.

Cong. Pidi, Gov. Ayong --- time to do ala B.F.!

^^ I would understand the situation of Governor's Drive GMA right now because of road widening (pero ambagal) but Imus' right now is so worse! :bash: I would commend Dasma and Bacoor for nice execution of traffic management...but Imus....thumbs down.

How about a Skyway along Aguinaldo (Dasma-Bacoor)? :lol:

I think the widening of Carmona-Dasma section of Governor's Drive was started since c.2000 and still under construction today... Aguinaldo Hi-way (Imus proper) on the other hand no longer has provision for widening to 6 lanes, while the CALA hi-ways might not come true in the next 5yrs.

Meaning: Relocate to a new home in NCR or Laguna. :nuts:

^^ Villar or Lacson for President! hahahaha jk.

I'm really considering transferring for good in Metro Manila or Laguna. Cavite is a problematic place for now. I cannot settle for it. It's obvious that Cavite is not a priority of the national government and they're interested more in developing Laguna and provinces north of Manila.

^^We can be neighbors then? Welcome to Eton! :lol:

I think the best and easiest way is to pass a law renaming Cavite to Pampanga del Sur or Clark II --- then the infrastructure projects will push through! :nuts::bash::nuts:

Kidding aside, last time I've been to Cavite, PGMA's pic can be found near the bridge between Dasma & GMA. Project info boards, part of Governor's Drive widening.

SM Prime allots P10B for capex (http://www.smprime.com/News.php?BlurbID=1754)
By Zinnia B. Dela Peña, 17 Nov 2008
Source: Phil Star

Amid a global economic downturn, shopping mall giant SM Prime Holdings Inc. will pursue its expansion program, with a capital budget of P10 billion set for next year.

SM Prime president Hans Sy sounded a positive but cautious note on the company’s prospects next year but emphasized that the worldwide economic slowdown would not deter SM Prime’s expansion plans.

“We’re cautiously positive but we’re continuing with our expansion program. We’re not pulling back. We’re not slowing down,” Sy said, noting the big jump in the firm’s October sales despite a slowing economy.

Out of the P10 billion proposed capital budget, P7 billion will go to the construction of new shopping malls and expansion of existing ones, higher than the P6 billion earmarked this year. The balance of P3 billion, on the other hand, will go to expansion in China.

Up for construction next year are SM Naga which will offer 73,000 square meters of leasable space, SM Rosario (50,000), SM Pamplona (40,000), Rosales (17,000), North Edsa Sky Garden (34,000). All these will provide an additional 214,000 square meters, bringing end-2009 gross floor area to 4.5 million square meters from the expected 4.3 million square meters this year.

The company’s malls will also increase to 36 by end-2009 from 33 this year.

Sy said the company is also pursuing its expansion in China with plans to put up one new store a year. Its malls in China are located in highly populated areas in southern and western China, namely, Xiamen, Jinjiang and Chengdu.

Plans are now underway for the establishment of a mall in Chongquing with two more planned in 2010 and 2011 – Suzhou and Zibo in Guangdong province.

SM Prime chief finance officer and executive vice-president Jeffrey Lim said funding for the expansion will come from a combination of debt and internally-generated cash. “There will be some borrowings, probably half of that. We’re looking at various options whether debt or preferred shares. We’re still evaluating whether we should get it in dollars or peso,” Lim said.

For the remainder of the year, SM Prime will open SM Supercenter Rosales in Pangasinan and SM City Baliuag in Bulacan. The new Atrium of SM Megamall is also expected to be open for business in November.

SM City North EDSA, and SM City Fairview are also currently undergoing expansion and due for completion in 2009.

Correct!:okay:

Cavite provincial and local officials should gather together and plan for better highways in coordination with the national government. If it's just waiting for dole out from the national government then mapapanis lamang ang Cavitenos. These officials (together with the people) should be more proactive.

There are already at least 3 major highways planned in Cavite and it is already a priority project under the administration. I think the problem now is just the fund.

^^How can a project be declared a priority when the source of funds was not considered in the feasibility?... Only in the Philippines, where pathetic planners abound! :ohno:

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"How can a project be declared a priority when the source of funds was not considered in the feasibility?..."

Exactly. STAR extension is ongoing, TLUEP is ongoing. Meanwhile, the Manila-Cavite extension has been planned since the time of Mahomet and here it is still a plan.

^^And I thought R. Revilla Sr. was close to the Palace!

Cavite not only need the Coastal Road extension, but the CALA (E-W & N-S) hi-ways as well...

^^And I thought R. Revilla Sr. was close to the Palace!

Cavite not only need the Coastal Road extension, but the CALA (E-W & N-S) hi-ways as well...

I hope it pushes through soon.

SM Prime opening more China malls in three years
By Jenniffer B. Austria, 18 Nov 2008
Source: Manila Standard Today

SM prime Holdings Inc., the country’s leading shopping mall operator and developer, will open three malls in China in the next three years.

SM Prime executive vice president and chief finance officer Jeffrey Lim told reporters that SM Prime would open a mall next year in Suzhou near Shanghai. SM Prime in 2010 will inaugurate a mall in Chonquing and another one in Zibu in 2011.

Lim said the company had decided to go slow with its China expansion. SM Prime is allotting P3 billion expansion next year.

Lim said the company saw a slow growth in China despite its huge population as it tried to feel the market pulse.

SM Prime operates three malls in China—Xiamen and Jinjiang in southern China and Chengdu in the Central part.

Lim said the funding for the China malls expansion would come from dollar borrowings for conversion into yuan.

Meanwhile, SM Prime said it would open three malls in the country next year. These are SM Naga (Bicol), SM Rosario (Cavite), and SM Pamplona (Las Piñas).

The company will also complete the expansion of SM North Edsa and SM Rosales.

The projects will add 214,000 square meters of leasable space to the company.

SM Prime by yearend is expected to have 33 malls nationwide. Including the SM China malls, the firm’s total estimated gross floor area will reach 4.7 million sq.m.

SM INVESTMENTS (http://www.sminvestments.com/News.php?BlurbID=1759)

And rendering of SM Rosario? I can't find one on the net.

Bacoor's battlecry:
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The usual rush hour scene in Bacoor
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Read carefully the sign: :D
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Cavite's "Baby Bus" - Now their numbers are dwindling unlike before.
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One of the Bus companies that runs Dasma-Lawton line
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And Aguinaldo Highway's remedy to the worsening traffic situation,
"Buhos" system or counter-flow. These are south-bound vehicles, going Imus, Dasma, Silang & Tagaytay. This is the main priority of the counterflow during rush our dusk to evening, otherwise in the morning.

Doing "Buhos" at Aguinaldo Highway corner MCI, Imus, Cavite
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SM Prime opening more China malls in three years
By Jenniffer B. Austria, 18 Nov 2008
Source: Manila Standard Today

SM prime Holdings Inc., the country’s leading shopping mall operator and developer, will open three malls in China in the next three years.

SM Prime executive vice president and chief finance officer Jeffrey Lim told reporters that SM Prime would open a mall next year in Suzhou near Shanghai. SM Prime in 2010 will inaugurate a mall in Chonquing and another one in Zibu in 2011.

Lim said the company had decided to go slow with its China expansion. SM Prime is allotting P3 billion expansion next year.

Lim said the company saw a slow growth in China despite its huge population as it tried to feel the market pulse.

SM Prime operates three malls in China—Xiamen and Jinjiang in southern China and Chengdu in the Central part.

Lim said the funding for the China malls expansion would come from dollar borrowings for conversion into yuan.

Meanwhile, SM Prime said it would open three malls in the country next year. These are SM Naga (Bicol), SM Rosario (Cavite), and SM Pamplona (Las Piñas).

The company will also complete the expansion of SM North Edsa and SM Rosales.

The projects will add 214,000 square meters of leasable space to the company.

SM Prime by yearend is expected to have 33 malls nationwide. Including the SM China malls, the firm’s total estimated gross floor area will reach 4.7 million sq.m.

SM INVESTMENTS (http://www.sminvestments.com/News.php?BlurbID=1759)

Nice update, grabeh talaga ang SM walang tigil...

Confirmed na ang SM Rosario... how about SM Tagaytay?

Ito yatang sa Rosario parang malaking grocery (Hypermarket) with a small department store di ba? I hope new roads will be available before this third SM in Cavite opens...

Confirmed na ang SM Rosario... how about SM Tagaytay?

Ito yatang sa Rosario parang malaking grocery (Hypermarket) with a small department store di ba? I hope new roads will be available before this third SM in Cavite opens...

Actually, this is the Fourth SM in Cavite.

Bacoor (July 1997)
Dasmarinas (May 2004)
Molino (November 2005)

I didn't realize that SM Dasma is already 4 years. :D

^^ What more ang Bacoor? I never knew that it was almost a decade (or already over a decade) when that establishment was constructed...:D

kailan ba nagsimula i-construct ang robinson's imus? hahahaha

what/where's the first mall in Cavite by the way? maybe it's either in cavite city or imus?

^^ Uy, one of the first Robi outside MetroManila yan. Umm..basta late 90's...and the shops then were poshy...now...hay, nagdownscale pero bumubuhay ito sa kanila.

^^ What more ang Bacoor? I never knew that it was almost a decade (or already over a decade) when that establishment was constructed...:D

Yup. SM Bacoor is I think the sixth SM Supermall constructed. SM's First Provincial Mall. I wouldn't categorize SM Cebu as a provincial mall. :)

North EDSA (1985, I think)
Sta. Mesa / Centerpoint (1990)
Megamall (1991)
Cebu (1994)
Southmall (1995)
Bacoor (July 1997)
Fairview (October or November 1997)

^^ The generation of blue waves and white box type of SM City...Bacoor, Fairview and Iloilo.

^^ The generation of blue waves and white box type of SM City...Bacoor, Fairview and Iloilo.

Yup. I think Iloilo opened in 1999.

Bacoor needs a major facelift! I hope cityhood will help them achieve this.

^^ What about Imus?

^^ Imus doesn't look as bad as Bacoor. :D

^^ Oh...I thought its the other way around. :nuts: :lol:

^^ Imus doesn't look as bad as Bacoor. :D

I like Imus, except the traffic.

Cavite State University - Severino de las Alas Campus
Indang, Cavite

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Map of Cavite Province
Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Immaculate Concepcion
Naic, Cavite

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and they got a flag too. :D

Yeah. :)

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Cavite State University
Severino delas Alas Campus
Indang, Cavite, Philippines

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Guardhouse

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Starbucks Tagaytay
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^^ I think it's one of the most photographed Starbucks in the Philippines. :D...and the most crowded too. :D

Crosswinds
Tagaytay

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^^ I think it's one of the most photographed Starbucks in the Philippines. :D...and the most crowded too. :D

This is the only Starbucks in the province of Cavite, well, as of now. :)

This is the only Starbucks in the province of Cavite, well, as of now. :)

Talaga? Ibig sabihin walang Starbucks sa SM City Bacoor at SM City Dasmariñas?:colgate:

Well, bagay naman ang Starbucks sa isang cool climate na lugar gaya ng Tagaytay City, sakto pa sa scenic view ng Taal Lake at Taal Volcano:okay:

^ there's no starbucks in sm bacoor and dasmariñas. i'm wondering why. :D

Talaga? Ibig sabihin walang Starbucks sa SM City Bacoor at SM City Dasmariñas?:colgate:

Well, bagay naman ang Starbucks sa isang cool climate na lugar gaya ng Tagaytay City, sakto pa sa scenic view ng Taal Lake at Taal Volcano:okay:


^ there's no starbucks in sm bacoor and dasmariñas. i'm wondering why. :D

Siguro dahil malapit siya sa Batangas. :D
Alam nyo na ang ibig ko sabihin :)

^^
Katabi lang din kasi ng Tagaytay City ang Amadeo which is the "Coffee Capital of the Philippines":okay:

Hmmm, eh 'di dapat pala lagyan naman ng Starbucks ang SM City Bacoor at SM City Dasmariñas kasi nasa Cavite ang Coffee Capital ng bansa and other coffee shops all over Cavite:colgate:

I find it ironic. Starbucks coffee(and other coffee brands) consumed in the Philippines are locally grown specifically in upland Cavite towns and we have no other Starbucks chains aside from Tagaytay. Come to think of it, Cebu or even Laguna has even more branches. hehehe. But don't get me wrong here. Not having more coffee chains means loss to us and we don't make it a big deal like in other provinces hehehe.:lol:

I find it ironic. Starbucks coffee(and other coffee brands) consumed in the Philippines are locally grown specifically in upland Cavite towns and we have no other Starbucks chains aside from Tagaytay. Come to think of it, Cebu or even Laguna has even more branches. hehehe. But don't get me wrong here. Not having more coffee chains means loss to us and we don't make it a big deal like in other provinces hehehe.:lol:

Yep, because the coffee is still coming from Cavite:okay:

Yep, because the coffee is still coming from Cavite:okay:

I like Amadeo Coffee. I buy from their cooperative everytime we pass by Tagaytay. But I hope Rustan's Coffee can open another Starbucks Branch at Cavite. Caviteños have high purchasing power, however, most of it is spent in Manila where most of us work. :)

Cavite City

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Bacoor

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^^ Wow...camwhore star...:runaway: :lol:

Cavite City

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I miss home :(

Bacoor needs a major facelift! I hope cityhood will help them achieve this.

I don't think so, for as long as Jun Abaya is the congressman, Bacoor won't be a city as it's not among his priorities/in his agenda; kaya nga ang mga kapitan sa Bacoor nangungulit na sa pamamagitan ng mga poster nila na "NOW NA!".

Usap-usapan na isa sa mga kapatid ni Jun Abaya ang kakalaban kay Strike Revilla bilang meyor ng Bacoor sa susunod na halalan, bukod pa sa magbabalik kuno na si Asspog.

Bacoor



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wow parang may nakitang buffet in the sky...

I don't think so, for as long as Jun Abaya is the congressman, Bacoor won't be a city as it's not among his priorities/in his agenda; kaya nga ang mga kapitan sa Bacoor nangungulit na sa pamamagitan ng mga poster nila na "NOW NA!".

Usap-usapan na isa sa mga kapatid ni Jun Abaya ang kakalaban kay Strike Revilla bilang meyor ng Bacoor sa susunod na halalan, bukod pa sa magbabalik kuno na si Asspog.
hala! :ohno: grabe naman. thanks for the info :cheers:

hi mga pinoys , tourist and specially Caviteneos. this will be our new thread, this thread is all about cavite and we would like to present you the official website of cavite wherein you can find all the business lists in all parts of cavite. we want to fulfill our services to the people specially the caviteneos. we want everybody to know that cavite is wonderful place to be with. so visit our websiteat http://cavite.info be part of revolution!!!! be part of Cavite.info.


http://aljayizer.com/cavph.jpg
http://cavite.info


Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.
Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.

to mods: this is not a forum btw it is a search engine

May Puregold na pala sa GMA!

Ang laki ng Christmas Tree at ang daming pailaw sa Kapitolyo pero ang mga major roads ng probinsya ay kay didilim!!!!

Ang Governor's Drive at Daang Hari-Molino-Paliparan, aabutin ata ng 20yrs bago makumpleto ang widening!!!

Ang saya dito!

I like Amadeo Coffee. I buy from their cooperative everytime we pass by Tagaytay. But I hope Rustan's Coffee can open another Starbucks Branch at Cavite. Caviteños have high purchasing power, however, most of it is spent in Manila where most of us work. :)

Oi high purchasing power? Dami na atang na lay-off sa mga Eco-Zones dito ah?...

hi mga pinoys , tourist and specially Caviteneos. this will be our new thread, this thread is all about cavite and we would like to present you the official website of cavite wherein you can find all the business lists in all parts of cavite. we want to fulfill our services to the people specially the caviteneos. we want everybody to know that cavite is wonderful place to be with. so visit our websiteat http://cavite.info be part of revolution!!!! be part of Cavite.info.

Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.
Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.

to mods: this is not a forum btw it is a search engine

Ano bang revolution ito tol? Baka naman puro political agenda lang makikita namin dito ha?

Oi high purchasing power? Dami na atang na lay-off sa mga Eco-Zones dito ah?...

Yup. I agree. There were many people who were affected by the lay-offs at our Eco Zones. However, if you would compare it with other provinces, I think it still is one of those with High Purchasing Power because there are a lot of Caviteños who work in Metro Manila and still go home at Cavite. Same goes with those who live at Laguna and Rizal.

If I have the purchasing power, I'd rather save it for the future and not for Starbucks :lol:

BTW, I hope the Eco-Zones in Cavite would be vigilant enough in taking care of the enviroment. I saw one factory dumping used motor oil in a drainage canal!!! :ohno:

hi mga pinoys , tourist and specially Caviteneos. this will be our new thread, this thread is all about cavite and we would like to present you the official website of cavite wherein you can find all the business lists in all parts of cavite. we want to fulfill our services to the people specially the caviteneos. we want everybody to know that cavite is wonderful place to be with. so visit our websiteat http://cavite.info be part of revolution!!!! be part of Cavite.info.


http://aljayizer.com/cavph.jpg
http://cavite.info


Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.
Basically it is quite expensive so have to find a way to make it sustainable. The concept of Cavite.INFO is like a search engine that when searched, the pertinent information will be displayed. This is like Google but the results are more informative and focused, a friend told me that this is what they called narrowcasting. Don’t worry about the directory posting, it will be for FREE.

to mods: this is not a forum btw it is a search engine

Hanep sa advertisement! :lol: si Pacquiao pa yata yan ah?! :D

If I have the purchasing power, I'd rather save it for the future and not for Starbucks :lol:

BTW, I hope the Eco-Zones in Cavite would be vigilant enough in taking care of the enviroment. I saw one factory dumping used motor oil in a drainage canal!!! :ohno:

Where exactly? Rosario? Gen. Trias? Dasmarinas? :ohno:

Ang paboritong mall ng mga tinatamad pumunta ng Carriedo.....:nocrook:

FRC Supermall
Imus, Cavite
NBI Clearance Capital of northern Cavite....:nocrook: :D
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Aguinaldo Highway last Friday
Palico, Imus, Cavite

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