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==P50-M adulterated fertilizers seized== | |||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2012/03/30/p50-m-adulterated-fertilizers-seized-214002 | |||
*Friday, March 30, 2012 | |||
:by (PNA) | |||
FFC/AVE | |||
SEVERAL truckloads of adulterated fertilizers, amounted to at least P50 million, were confiscated by authorities in simultaneous raids conducted in several areas in Mindanao on Thursday. | |||
Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group from the National Capital Region swooped down on several warehouses in Davao City, Davao del Norte, Pikit and Kabacan in North Cotabato, and Isulan, Sultan Kudarat and recovered several sacks of adulterated fertilizers. | |||
In the warehouse of the Golden Century Company in Ma-a, Davao City, bags of urea fertilizers mixed with salt were confiscated by the authorities. | |||
The same thing happened in warehouses in Sto. Tomas and Kapalong in Davao del Norte as well as in Pikit, Kabacan and Isulan. | |||
Reports showed that the owner of Golden Century, one of those arrested distributors, admitted mixing fertilizers with salt for bigger profit. | |||
In an interview in Iloilo City Thursday evening, Aileen Uy Gongco-Ongkauko, CEO of La Filipina Uy Gongco Corp., said they have started monitoring the illegal activities of adulterated fertilizer distributors for few months after receiving complaint from their clients. | |||
She said their investigation revealed at least 10 of their distributors as behind the proliferation of adulterated fertilizers. | |||
The businesswoman said they immediately coordinated with the authorities upon gathering enough evidence thus, simultaneous raids were conducted. | |||
Ongkauko confirmed the 10 distributors have been distributing their fertilizer products for the past years now, but were illegally mixing them with salt. | |||
She added that the erring distributors were also illegally manufacturing the company's fertilizer bags. | |||
Ongkauko said they will be pursuing charges against their erring distributors to warn other distributors not to emulate the same activity. | |||
Charges for violation of Republic Act 8293 or Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines are now being prepared against the arrested respondents. | |||
La Filipina is involved in trading of feeds ingredients, fertilizers, sugar, vegetable oils, grains, wheat flour, and owner-operators of sugar mill, flour mills, animal feeds mills, livestock farms, cargo ships, hotels, housing projects, shopping mall, and bank. | |||
==Al-Khobar group tagged in foiled gas station bombing== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=792272 | |||
*March 29, 2012 12:40 PM | |||
:by John Unson | |||
COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Investigators on Thursday said that they are convinced the foiled bombing of a gas station in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat was a handiwork of the notorious Al-Khobar extortion ring. | |||
It was due to the vigilance of businessman Roger Tabat, operator of the Sto. Niño Seaoil gas refilling station, that the supposed bombing of his establishment two days ago was preempted. | |||
Tabat received text messages demanding protection money “to ensure” an undisrupted operation of his petroleum distribution facility. | |||
After receiving the text messages, Tabat and his workers immediately inspected the surroundings of his establishment and found an improvised explosive device (IED) inside its restroom, which responding police and Army bomb experts promptly deactivated. | |||
The IED was fashioned from a live B-40 anti-tank rocket rigged with a battery operated blasting mechanism attached to a mobile phone. | |||
The Al-Khobar is known for bombing a establishment targeted for its extortion racket to intimidate its owner. Another attack would be pulled off, enough to cause a bigger damage, iof the business establishment would refuse to give in the group's extortion. | |||
==10 Region 12 colleges, universities to hike tuition fees== | ==10 Region 12 colleges, universities to hike tuition fees== | ||
*Source: http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/45569-10-Region-12-colleges,-universities-to-hike-tuition-fees.html | *Source: http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/45569-10-Region-12-colleges,-universities-to-hike-tuition-fees.html | ||
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==10 Region 12 colleges, universities to hike tuition fees== | |||
*Source: http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/45569-10-Region-12-colleges,-universities-to-hike-tuition-fees.html | |||
*3:08 pm | Monday, March 26th, 2012Tuesday, March 27. 2012 | |||
:by (PNA) | |||
FFC/AVE | |||
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Ten of the 26 colleges and universities in Region 12 or the Soccsksargen Region have set another round of increases in tuition and other related fees starting June, an official of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said. | |||
Dr. Eloisa Paderanga, CHED Region 12 director, said they were formally informed of the new fee increases based on documents submitted to their office by the concerned colleges and universities. | |||
Region 12 covers the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotabato. | |||
“We’re currently reviewing the submitted documents based on the guidelines set by the Commission,” Paderanga said. | |||
But she pointed out that CHED was not mandated to approve or disapprove the proposed fee increases that were submitted to their office. | |||
She said they were only tasked to receive and review the documents submitted by the colleges and universities to ensure that they complied with the requirements, among them the mandatory consultation, involving the new fee increases. | |||
“We don’t approve, we just acknowledge them because the (increase in) tuition fees are decided by the owners or the school themselves,” Paderanga said in an interview with a local television station. | |||
She did not cite any figure as to the proposed tuition fee increases set by the 10 colleges and universities but she said they were coordinating with them to ensure that the hike would be at the reasonable level. | |||
“If we find the increases as too high, we immediately ask their officials to reconsider and lower the rates to just around 10 percent,” Paderanga said. | |||
Last year, 20 colleges and universities in the region had raised their tuition fees by four to 10 percent to supposedly cover for the increase in the salaries of their personnel and finance the necessary improvements of their facilities. | |||
In January, the CHED central office issued a memorandum detailing the “"Enhanced Policies, Guidelines and Procedures Governing Increases in Tuition and Other School Fees, Introduction of New Fees, and for Other Purposes." | |||
The memo specifically laid out the consultation process and the requirements to be met by schools that intend to raise their tuition fees. | |||
It cited that 70 percent of the increase in tuition "should be allotted for the teaching and non-teaching personnel not necessarily an increase in personnel compensation." | |||
It set the creation of in every region of a Regional Multi-Sectoral Committee on Tuition Fee and Other Schools Fees (RMSCTOSF) to monitor the compliance of schools, colleges, and universities. | |||
A National Multi-Sectoral Committee was also formed to oversee the RMSCTOSFs. | |||
==Anonymous text message leads cops to bomb in Kudarat gas station== | ==Anonymous text message leads cops to bomb in Kudarat gas station== | ||