South Cotabato Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. and Provincial Government of South Cotabato will host the 18th Mindanao Business Conference (”One.Global.Filipino. Rising above the global challenges”) on September 17-18, 2009 at Fit Mart Mall convention center, City of Koronadal, South Cotabato.
The event’s sponsors are: City Government of Koronadal, BDO, Department of Tourism, Department of Trade and Industry, BusinessWorld, Holcim Cement. Business matching, trade and travel fair, tours to Lake Sebu and golf tournament are some of the scheduled activities during the scheduled conference.

Extensive recruitment drive is underway for the formation of the first batch of the Web Fellow Project, a spin-off of the attempt of the Kidapawan Bloggers to widen its fold of bloggers -writers and artists.
Web Fellow Project initiative’s goal is to have all involved groups designate one or more members as Web Fellows, who are responsible for enhancing access to information of the web site and for providing content related to their specialty.
Like money, you can’t take your ideas to the grave. The greatest knowledge of our times may …

Finally! A long wait is over. Kidapawan City’s Fruit Festival, also known as Timpupo Festival will be again celebrated this September 21-25, 2009.
Last year, due to fruit shortage, the festival was canceled. To the dismay of many who eagerly awaited for it, many plans were altered. Potential tourists arrivals was not realized. This only show that what started to be a modest attempt to create a festival unique to Kidapawan, the festival had become a league of its own. It has become as famous as the other festivals in …

A young girl from the mountain village of Malibatuan in Arakan town is on the way to fulfilling her dream of earning a college degree from the country’s premiere state university with the help of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
In a letter to Board Member Rodrigo Escudero (2nd District, North Cotabato), Chairman of the SP Committee on Education, 18-year old Keizel Fernando asked the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to endorse her as a nominee of the province for the “Iskolar ng Bayan” ladderized curriculum program of the University of the Philippines-Manila in Palo, …

Cagayan de Oro Bloggers was formally given the responsibility to manage the biggest gathering of Mindanao Bloggers through 3rd Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit slated on October 14, 2009 which will be held Cagayan de Oro City.
It will be the best avenue for Mindanao Bloggers to be acquainted with each other. This year’s theme is: “Mindanao Bag-ohon sa Panan-aw,” which aims to uphold Mindanao through the nice things and places it has to offer and expunge the negative notions the world has about it.
So far, I have attended the two summits.
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Kidapawan City (5 July) — Among City Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco’s first order of business in his new second term is to assure that the increase of salaries and wages of more than 700 employees of the City Government is implemented.
The mayor abides to the memorandum from the Department of Budget and Management which mandates all government line agencies and local government units to a 10% across the board salary increase for all of its employees.
Gantuangco reiterates in a special meeting what he first announced during his first day of …

The success of every endeavor generally manifests itself in its seismic impact whether enormous or minute. The response to the adidas Wanted Old Shoes promo could be called a seismic convulsion.
adidas Wanted Old Shoes (WOS) Promotion generated an influx of inquiries all over the archipelago, galvanizing adidas users to bring in their old sports shoes but still functional and in decent condition to over 100 participating adidas stores nationwide in exchange of as much as P1,000 off for the next purchase of any adidas shoes. And most important, donating …

This is a selection of wall and floor ceramic tiles products from Eurotiles, Philippines that are samples on display for sale in the SMA Lumber & Construction Supply shop in Lanao, a barangay of Kidapawan.
I’m so glad that we were able to visit the shop as I was interested in looking for some tiles for a small project at home. Whilst there we took some pictures to be able to look at them at home and to post them here so more people would know about this great shop.
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