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DOE pushes solar power for MSMEs DOE Undersecretary Arwin Ardon
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By MARK FRANCISCO
HE Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will provide technical assistance to all micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) who are willing to use solar energy in their respective businesses.
Speaking during the 5th Mindanao Businessweek Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards last Saturday in Cagayan de Oro City, Energy Undersecretar y Arwin Ardon said the DOE plan is hoped to materialize in 2017.
“It is part of President Duterte’s priorities. We are prioritizing MSMEs,” Mr. Ardon said even as he revealed that the program will start in Mindanao and w i l l move on to Visayas and Luzon. It’s part of the government’s
Exporters pushes abolition of tariffs on PH exports to Japan By ANTONIO COLINA IV, MindaNews
DAVAO City – Exporters in Davao Region had asked President Rodrigo R. Duterte for negotiation with Japanenese government for the lifting of tariff rates imposed on Philippine products during his recent three-day state visit there. Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) 11 executive director Edwin Sotto told Kapehan sa Dabaw Monday that the lifting
of tariffs will help Filipino exporters, particularly the banana growers in Mindanao. He cited that there are countries exporting to Japan tariff-free. “We’re paying quite a good amount of tariff. Other countries exporting bananas to Japan are paying zero tariff already,” he said. Sotto said the Japanese See tariffs, page B7
de centra lization aim,” Ardon said. Und er t he s cheme, MSMEs which intend to use solar energies in their respective businesses will have to apply for assistance with the DOE. The agency will then evaluate their applications before giving the green light for both technical and financial assistance. In another development, Ardon said the government is pushing for ward to harness the vast ocean energy resources in the
country. Speaking in his capacity as president of the government-owned PNOC Renewables Corp., Mr. Ardon said the Philippines has a total of 170,000-MW of ocean energy potential. For now, H&WB Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., a FrenchFilipino consortium, is the only company in the Phi lippines p er mitte d by DOE to capture and process tidal energies in San Bernardino Strait and off the coast of Sta. Ana, Cagayan.
MARAWI City -- President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will visit the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (ARMM) seat in Cotabato City on October 29, as the region’s top official sees stronger anti-poverty programs under the current administration. ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said President Duterte has previously expressed his desire to help the region’s drive against
poverty and hunger. Based on latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, ARMM is the poorest region in the country with poverty incidence of 53.4 percent. Lanao del Sur and Sulu, two of the five provinces that comprise ARMM, are considered the poorest and second poorest provinces with 70.2 percent and 61.8 percent poverty incidence, respectively.
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Japan vows support to peace, dev’t in Mindanao By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
DAVAO CIT Y – The Japanese government has vowed to support the Philippines’ peace and development efforts in Mindanao, President Rodrigo R. Duterte said on Thursday evening. Duterte, however, did not give details how Japan would help in the government’s peace efforts in his arrival message at the F. Bangoy International Airport. “I sought and received Japan’s continued support for the peace and development agenda in Mindanao, as we move a step forward towards the goal of just
and lasting peace for the peoples of Mindanao and for our country,” he said. Before leaving for Japan on Tuesday, Duterte said Mindanao would be the “central focus” of his state visit from October 25 to 27 “to put on track this island region towards a just and lasting peace and development.” “In all my interactions in Japan, it was clear to me and to everyone that Japan is, and will always be, a true friend of the Philippines,” he said. Duterte added they signed deals with Japan See peace, page B7
Duterte to launch program to combat poverty in ARMM High on the list of ARMM regional government’s concerns – aside from peace and order – are food security and poverty. These issues are the focus of President Duterte’s first executive order that puts to task 12 government agencies. THE 12 agencies on the forefront of the fight against poverty are Cooperative Development Authority; Housing and Urban De-
velopment Coordinating Council; National Anti-Poverty Commission; National Commission on Indigenous Peoples; National Commission on Muslim Filipinos; National Food Authority; National Youth Commission; Office of the PresidentPresidential Action Center; Philippine Commission on Women; Philippine Coconut Authority; Presidential See program, page B7
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