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==Friendship Games== | ==Gen. Santos City to host BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games== | ||
*Source: http://www. | *Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/8736-gen-santos-city-to-host-bimp-eaga-friendship-games.html | ||
*February | *Monday, 20 February 2012 12:31 | ||
:By. Mindanao | :By. PNA | ||
The tourism industry in Gen. Santos City is expected to grow this year with the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines–East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) deciding to let the city host the 7th BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games. | |||
Gen. Santos has been the country's "city of champions" being the home of world pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, Miss Universe 2011 third runner up Shamcey Supsup, and Pacman heir-apparent Nonito Donaire, among others. | |||
The upcoming sports events slated later this year shall be spearheaded by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) in partnership with Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio of General Santos City and Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez of the Province of Saranggani. | |||
According to Joaquin Loyzaga, PSC commissioner, among the games to be played are lawn tennis, athletics (track and field), badminton, sepak takraw, swimming and table tennis. | |||
He added that each country will have separate teams for boys and girls, except for sepak takraw which will be exclusive for boys. | |||
The event is open to all athletes aged 21 years old and below and must come from the BIMP-EAGA member countries. | |||
The Gen. Santos City Tourism Office has proposed during the organizing committee meeting that a roadshow covering the four participating countries to help promote culture, tourism, sports and trade, and improve linkages and ties between the delegates and their respective countries along with the event itself. | |||
Believing Mindanao has untapped talented athletes, Loyzaga said they are hoping to bring more sports programs outside of Manila especially to Mindanao and schedule more of such programs as possible. | |||
Secretary Luwalhati Antonino, Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair, said that the BIMP-EAGA friendship games affords opportunity not just for sports development but also for tourism promotion and improvement of the ties among the focus areas of EAGA. | |||
"We are advancing our BIMP-EAGA initiatives in this particular area of cooperation to promote the sub-region as a melting pot of sports talents and world class athletes while showcasing our great culture" said Antonino, said in a statement. | |||
Antonino, former Gen. Santos City mayor, is also the Philippine Signing Minister to EAGA. | |||
BIMP-EAGA is an economic cooperation formally created in 1994 covering the entire Brunei Darussalam; 10 provinces in the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku and Irian Jaya; Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan in Malaysia; and Mindanao and Palawan in the Philippines. | |||
The ASEAN sub-grouping is a mechanism primarily intended to spur development in the lagging sub-economies of the member countries by boosting intra-EAGA trade, tourism and investments. | |||
==Friendship Games== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/351868/friendship-games | |||
*February 19, 2012, 3:54pm | |||
:By. Mindanao Newsbits | |||
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) – The tourism industry here is expected to grow this year with the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) deciding to let the city host the 7th BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games. | |||
This city has been the country’s “city of champions” being the home of pound-for-pound king Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up Shamcey Supsup, and Pacman heir-apparent Nonito Donaire, among others. | |||
The upcoming sports event slated later this year will be spearheaded by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) in partnership with Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio, and Sarangani Governor Miguel Rene Dominguez. | |||
==Gen. Santos City to host BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games== | ==Gen. Santos City to host BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games== | ||