MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XII, No. 070
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LDN hosts Pagana Maranao for MFC, Oro Best Expo 2022 By ASANGAN T. MADALE Contributor
TUBOD L ANAO DEL NORTE: - Governor and newly appointed Regional Development Council Region 10 (RDC-X) Chairperson, Governor Imelda ‘Angging’ Quibranza-Dimaporo, hosted a scrumptious Pagana Maranao luncheon for the guests of the recently opened Mindanao Food Congress and Oro Best Expo 2022. Pagana is a traditional
feast of Maranao, a way of welcoming special guests and visitors with the highest form of hospitality, symbolizing the level of civility and indicating the degree of the host’s grace. Usually, the occasion begins with a solemn prayers. After which ,guests are lavishly with a sumptuous , marked with native attire, traditional dances, and pleasant company “I want you all to know that
See HOSTS, page 11
Environment groups ask PBBM to realign Samal-Davao bridge, save Paradise Reef By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV MindaNews
(In photo l-r ): LDN Tourism head Ms Alerma Grace Montanez, HE Shambhu Kumaran Ambassador of India to Philippines ,RDC-X Chairperson & Gov. Imelda “Angging” Quibranza-Dimaporo (3rd-left) Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Rolando “Klarex” (4th-left) Former Congressman Abdullah D. Dimaporo, 2nd District of LDN (5th-left) and official poses for a souvenir photo hosting a Pagana Maranao during the Mindanao Food Congress held in Limketkai, Cagayan de Oro City. (Contributed photo)
DAVAO CITY – Environment groups called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to make them part of his administration’s promise of unity by heeding the growing clamor to realign the Samal Island-Davao City
(SIDC) Connector project to save Paradise Reef from destruction. Mylai Santos, director of Ecoteneo, told reporters during a press conference at the Ateneo De Davao University on Friday that Marcos’ statement during See ASK, page 11
Cops, BOC seize P6.2-M smuggled cigarettes in Zambo Sur By TEOFILO GARCIA, JR.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities scored anew against smugglers with the seizure of PHP6.2 million worth of cigarettes and the arrest of three persons in Zamboanga del Sur, an official said Friday. The contraband, consisting of 100 master cases and 3,900 reams of assorted brands of cigarettes worth PHP6.2 million, was seized in an intelligence-driven anti-smuggling operation in Bag-ong Upper Tudela, Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur at about 5:53 p.m. on Thursday last week. Col. Richard Verceles, SEIZED. The smuggled cigarettes, worth PHP6.2 million, confiscated by the authori- operations chief of the Area ties in Barangay Bag-ong Upper Tudela, Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur on Thursday Police Command - Western (Oct. 27, 2022). The cigarettes were seized at a checkpoint established by police and customs personnel after receiving a tip about the shipment. (Photo courtesy of Area Mindanao, said a team of Police Command - Western Mindanao)
See SEIZE, page 11