Davao City and Samal Island

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nice vid presentation tj

neomind nice photos. especially pearl farm set. beautiful

[MtApoStandard]

Davao inventor bags top national search

Inventor and businessman Samuel M. Abrenilla topped this year’s search for Ambassador Alfredo M. Yao Intellectual Property Innovation Awards at the awards rites at the Manila Hotel last week.

Jointly sponsored by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Intellectual Property Office, the search aims to promote the intellectual property culture and innovation among the Filipino people.

The PCCI and IPO search will provide the intellectual property rights owner a venue for potential inventors and enhance commercialization of their entries.

Abrenilla who is a consistent winner in the Mindanao and Visayas invention contests finally landed the national search after his entry, called Moxtrack Dehydrator, was short-listed among the many entries submitted for the national search.

The Moxtrack Dehydrator which won the judges’ nod for its competitiveness among Philippine fruits and other agricultural products has three designs. It was also identified as an export partner. Having been short-listed among the competing entries already gave Abrenilla an edge over other nominees. The final screening which was originally scheduled on October 3 was rescheduled for October 10 due to the onslaught of typhoon Ondoy late last month.

The big day came in the evening of October 21 during the PCCI Awards and Fellowship Night when all the short-listed participants were recognized for their contribution. No less than President Gloria Maca-pagal-Arroyo was there to award the prizes together with leaders in the business sectors. Abrenilla submitted two entries, the Moxtrack Dehydrator and the Maxpower MFR 1.01-A Fuel Saving Device.

Abrenilla received a cash prize of P200,000 and a wood-and-brass-made trophy designed by internationally renowned artist Eduardo Castrillo.

The Moxtrack Dehydrator, Abrenilla said, is a new kind of dehydrator targeting high-value agricultural products. He said it is a unique and innovative product of long research. It is not only a dryer. It can also extract moisture to the lowest moisture content and retaining the color and natural properties of the agricultural product. He emphasized that a product with an “ube” color retains its color using the dehydrator.

Abrenilla who for years operated a bakery business in downtown Davao City, encountered a recurring problem of a hot environment within the bakery area. The heat was something most bakeries experience. He said he wanted to have a different ambience for his bakery which he wants to be a come-on for his customers. Even these days the bakery which has gone into franchising business exudes a lively and colourful ambience.

He said acquiring a modern bakery equipment was expensive and was not a sound investment for aspiring bakery owners. His bakery requires a unique bakery equipment as he wanted to come up with a new, less expensive but innovative equipment.

http://www.dailymirror.ph/Oct/local10312009&02.html

[dinabaw]

Davao's Tourist Attractions


Peoples Park


San Pedro Church and Freedom Park


Chinatown


Museo Dabawenyo


Pag-Asa


and


Mayor Rodrigo Duterte!

thank's to:
shemlongakit

[MtApoStandard]

Originally Posted by dinabaw

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte!

thank's to:
shemlongakit

love pag asa

[dinabaw]

they have both fiery eyes! they can smell este see enemies miles away!

[neomind]

Eden Park, Davao City













































More photos at www.digitalye.com

[Rajah_Soliman]

ot: this reminds me of kublai's style....



image hosted on flickr

[KING CITY]

repost ko lang kung na post na to last Sept.
(PIA Press release)


P4.1-B new investments in Davao City given tax incentives
by Prix D. Banzon

Davao City (15 September) -- The Davao City Investment and Promotion Center (DCIPC) reported that new investments in Davao City as of the first week of September 2009 totaled to P4.1 billion and were covered by tax incentives.

DCIP head Engr. Roberto Teo said this is the highest during the term of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte although he is confident it could go higher towards the end of 2009.

"By then we could surpass the 1997 figure of P4.414 billion which for now remains highest record so far," he said.

He said there are already projects in the pipeline and proponents are currently complying some minor requirements.

Included in the P4.1 new investments he said are four property development projects namely Chula Vista Residences with capitalization of P661.8 million, Abreeza-P2.48 billion, Santiago Villas, P253.6 million, Deca Homes Resort Residences, P586.8 million. The other investments are My Hotel- P60 million and Coffee-Herbal Processing Plant- P105 million.



http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=read...ate=09/15/2009

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DAVAO. An artisan paints a sign on a skating rink in Magsaysay Park to remind clients not to go against the flow. (Toto Lozano)

[oradude23]

Marco Polo Davao recognized for improved room profitability

MANILA, Philippines - Marco Polo Hotels has accorded Marco Polo Davao with the “Most Improved Room Profitability Award” for its consistent high ranking and advancement in the local market share.

Part of the improvement is attributed to the completion of the newly renovated Cabana rooms and suites at The Deck during the first quarter of the year, enhancing the hotel’s overall value in terms of accommodation and guest satisfaction.

The Deck, located at the hotel’s podium at the fourth level, also features four other attractions — The Polo Bistro Pool Lounge, the Sarangani Function Room, the Fitness Center, and the two-story wellness haven Lazuli Spa.

Together with the Cabana rooms and suites, these attractions have made Marco Polo Davao emerge as Davao City’s icon of ultimate indulgence and prestige.

The luxury hotel also has 14 ballrooms and function rooms, five restaurants and bars, a 24-hour high-tech business center, two Continental Club floors, and a wide array of other elegant facilities, amenities and services.

The hotel is a towering symbol of Davaoenos’ hospitality as it joins the country’s famous Mt. Apo in dominating the city’s skyline.

Further enhancing the hotel’s prestige are the numerous awards and distinctions it has earned in various field, with the Most Improved Room Profitability Award coming as a welcome addition.

For inquiries or reservations, call (082) 221-0888 local 7340 to 7342.

[Wadaboy]

Originally Posted by KING CITY

repost ko lang kung na post na to last Sept.
(PIA Press release)


P4.1-B new investments in Davao City given tax incentives
by Prix D. Banzon

Davao City (15 September) -- The Davao City Investment and Promotion Center (DCIPC) reported that new investments in Davao City as of the first week of September 2009 totaled to P4.1 billion and were covered by tax incentives.

DCIP head Engr. Roberto Teo said this is the highest during the term of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte although he is confident it could go higher towards the end of 2009.

"By then we could surpass the 1997 figure of P4.414 billion which for now remains highest record so far," he said.

He said there are already projects in the pipeline and proponents are currently complying some minor requirements.

Included in the P4.1 new investments he said are four property development projects namely Chula Vista Residences with capitalization of P661.8 million, Abreeza-P2.48 billion, Santiago Villas, P253.6 million, Deca Homes Resort Residences, P586.8 million. The other investments are My Hotel- P60 million and Coffee-Herbal Processing Plant- P105 million.



http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=read...ate=09/15/2009

Condo nang Chula Vista Residences?

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Sa Samal din 'to d ba?

[davaoeagle]

Home » Sun.Star Davao » Local News
Real estate group eyes French retirees for city
Monday, November 2, 2009
By Jade C. Zaldivar


BY MID-year of 2010, Davao City will be a retirement haven to French nationals.

This is part of the city's real estate sector promotion of Davao as the boom-city of Asia, said Chamber of Real Estate & Builder's Association Inc. (Creba) Davao Chapter president Carlos Vargas on Monday.

"We're gearing up to promote the city as the boom-city of Asia. We see a big rise in real estate development in the coming years because we do have all the potential to become a big city," Vargas said during Monday's Kapehan sa SM.

The city has been considered as one of the potential retirement havens in the country, Vargas said.

"The PRA (Philippine Retirement Authority) has already identified the city as one of the best places to retire in. Through a series of consultation with the PRA, we're now gearing up for the first batch of French retirees which will come into the city by mid-year next year" Vargas said.

Vargas said the expected number of French retirees is 100 but Creba's target of foreign and Filipino-American retirees to settle in the city is 200 to 300.

"We're hoping for a doable target. The difference is PRA aims for foreign retirees to come into the country but Creba also wants Filipino-Americans to settle here kasi marami ring mga Filipino-Amercans na gustong mag-settle dito sa Pilipinas," Vargas said.

"Itong 100 na French retirees, simula pa lang ito. There will be thousands more who are expected to come when we succeed in promoting the city as both a retirement haven and the best place to invest in," Vargas said.

Vargas said this move will result to much pump priming of the city's economy. "If one retiree will spend $1000 everyday, this would mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for the local economy. Malaki ang magiging effect nito sa ating economy."

The city's potential, Vargas said, lies on several factors essential for development.

"Davao has a good setup eh. We have the hospitals, hotels. The city has a good implementation of law and order, we are flood-free, typhoon-free, and we have the resources. Marami tayong mga prutas, gulay so the cost of living too is very cheap na para sa kanila," he said.

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Home » Sun.Star Davao » Business
SM City Davao now a cyberzone
Monday, November 2, 2009


IT IS SM's greatest feature as it launched its free access wifi zone anywhere inside the mall.

SM regional manager for Mindanao Debby A. Go led the switch-on of its wifi access on October 30, together with Joanne A. Abrogar, operations manager, Cyberzone, SM Supermalls; Jennifer D. Silan, head, sales and marketing of Philcom; Russel D. Alaba, group brand manager, Vismin, SM; Jay J. Mandulara, brand manager; and Bert Barriga, vice president, Davao ICT Council.

Go said the SM mall in Cagayan de Oro City is also a wifi zone, saying that they wanted to also provide people in Mindanao free access to Internet.

Abrogar said SM Davao is the 24th mall that they had installed the connection and five more malls will be equipped with wifi access before the end of 2009.

She said by the first quarter of 2010, all the 36 malls around the country will have Internet access, one of the value-added services within SM malls with Philcom as their wifi provider.

Meanwhile, Silan said with six megabyte per second, the wifi access at SM can allow 1,500 users simultaneously even as she said that one can get connected anytime in the mall.

Both Abrogar and Silan said they carefully studied the access, including the ban of restricted sites while people access the connection within SM.

Abrogar, however, said that as part of their corporate social responsibility, (CSR) they pay particular attention of banning strictly restricted sites.

She said they had set up a monitoring system even as she encouraged the public to report to SM management any suspicious sites being used.

She said this is a free access and they encouraged the cooperation of everyone inorder to maintain continuous connectivity.

The Davao ICT Council welcomed this new development even as Barriga reminded the public that what SM had offered to Dabawenyos should be put to good use.

Barriga noted that the move of SM to align with ICT sector is a milestone and with that in itself is a manifestation that SM is the key to push for community development.

He said with a bandwidth that runs faster, this is already an advantage and we need to capitalize on this by using it to good use.

He said this is also an opportune time as Davao is now a global player considering that many business process outsourcing companies are eyeing the city as expansion area.

Part of the launch activity is a photo blogging seminar workshop by Davao's first female web designer and freelance journalist Jojie Alcantara.

Alcantara said visuals are important in any website but she said that with everybody now into blogging it is also important that bloggers know some journalism ethics.

"Other than sharing with the participants techniques on photo blogging it is best for them to know that there are ethics to follow because ethics in the formal media also applies in the Internet," she said.

She said this is part of my advocacy to let people understand and learn some media ethics. (Prix D. Banzon)

[davaoeagle]

Sorry this is kind of redundant to the preceding news but this one has some nice comments from the writer that I highlighted.


Tuesday, November 03, 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
| Corporate News
24th SM mall offers free Wi-Fi access
Business World


DAVAO CITY -- In a bid to attract more mall-goers, SM City Davao has turned its 79,000-square-meter structure into a “wireless fidelity” or Wi-Fi zone.

Debbie A. Go, SM regional manager for Mindanao who switched on the free Internet access service Friday night, said the company’s shopping complex in Cagayan de Oro City has also become a Wi-Fi zone.

Ms. Go said this would provide customers Internet connection whenever they are in the mall so they can surf the Web or check e-mail for work or other purposes.

“This is also good for our mall considering this would be an attraction,” she said.

Jennifer D. Silan, Philcom Corp. sales and marketing head, said the wireless connection can accommodate 1,500 simultaneous users, noting that anyone can get Internet access practically anywhere inside the shopping mall.

Ms. Silan, however, said the management is studying whether to restrict connections by banning sites “not good” for customers. The Davao complex is the 24th in the SM group’s malls with wireless fidelity connections.

Joanne A. Abrogar, operations manager of Cyberzone, another unit of the SM Supermalls, said the wireless fidelity access is also part of the corporate social responsibility of the SM group.

She called on shoppers to harness Internet connection for “good use” and report those using it for “questionable purposes.”

The Information and Communications Technology of Association of Davao called on other big establishments to follow the SM mall’s lead.
Erriberto P. Barriga, vice-president of the council, said the connectivity was a “milestone” and “a manifestation” that the mall is becoming the leader in pushing for the city’s development.

“This is already an advantage and we need to capitalize on this by putting it to good use,” Mr. Barriga said.

There were reports two years ago that the mall would convert its vacant lot of about three hectares into an information and communications technology zone so it can lure investors, particularly contact centers.

Last year, SM Prime acquired another piece of land in Lanang District at the northern part of the city, right next to Insular Waterfront Hotel and in front of the upscale Insular Village.

The land, which used to be owned by the Dakudao family, was the site of the old Lanang Golf and Country Club. -- C. Q. Francisco

[dinabaw]

Brother Humburger malapit na matapos sa Damosa Gateway

hmmm i think NCCC Lanang have a new competition in Lanang aside from Abreeza, SM and The Shops i saw another poster of mall just 300(?) meters from Damosa.

[Peng Hok]

Originally Posted by dinabaw

Brother Humburger malapit na matapos sa Damosa Gateway

Sa Damosa pala ang outlet ng Brothers Burger? Saan banda dun?

When it opens, it will be the first outlet in Mindanao and the second outlet outside Metro Manila.

Originally Posted by dinabaw

hmmm i think NCCC Lanang have a new competition in Lanang aside from Abreeza, SM and The Shops i saw another poster of mall just 300(?) meters from Damosa.

Really? Asa banda? Angliongto Ave na side? Or JP Laurel na side?

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City or Town: Davao City
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