MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 153
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
MDN’s 12th Year push for dev’t journalism
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By: ALLAN M. MEDIANTE Editor In Chief
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S Mindanao Daily celebrates its 12th year today. It emphasizes the reading public’s need for a “stronger and dynamic media that promotes more on economic and business developments.” “Development journalism, in this sense, will not only inform but also educate people, young and adult, across all platforms of nation-building activities,” says MDN President & CEO Dante M. Sudaria. The 9th Mindanao Business Leaders and Entrepreneur Awards, at Ayala Centrio Mall, Cagayan de Oro City. AwardMindanao Daily News ees were joined by the MDN President/ CEO Dante M. Sudaria, Veterans Bank Vice Pres. Mike C. Villareal and MDN See MDN’S, page 15 EIC Allan Mediante
5 Chinese, 15 PH laborers nabbed in CDO illegal gold mining site By FROILAN GALLARDO
Malacañang honors Bukidnon State University as Outstanding Organization in the 2022 Philippine Quality Award (PQA) Program BAL AYBAL AY CIT Y- The Bukidnon State University (BukSu) was recently honored at the 2022 Philippine Quality Award (PQA) Program Conferment Ceremony, held at the Malacañang Palace, The conferment was - a testament to excellence and high organizational performance of the institution. BukSU is recognized as 1 of the 12 Outstanding Organizations in the Philippines as it receives the Recognition for Proficiency in Quality Management (Level II) under the 25th Philippine Quality
Award (PQA) Assessment Cycle, during a conferment ceremony held today at the Malacanang Palace. The prestigious award was received by Comm. Jo Mark M. Libre, CHED Commissioner and Chairperson of the BukSU Board of Regents, BukSU President Dr. Joy M. Mirasol, BukSU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dr. Maribel G. Valdez. and Atty Ronnie Azura, representative of Sen. Chiz Escudero. The PQA is the country's highest national recognition for exemplary organizational perfor-
mance for the public and private sectors. The award is a testament to BukSU's commitment to excellence and service quality. It is the product of the hard work and synergy of the BukSU community, under the guidance of its Board of Regents and the support of its community partners. Caraga State University is also a recipient of the award. BukSU and CSU are state universities under the charge of Hon. Comm. Jo Mark M. Libre. (Office of the BUKSO President)
MAY 16, 2023 10:34 PM CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 16 May)— Authorities arrested five Chinese nationals and 13 Filipino laborers during a raid last Saturday in an illegal gold mining site in the environmentally threatened Iponan River here. Director Felizardo Gacad Jr., head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Mines and Geosciences Bureau 10, said they found a bottle of mercury among the tents used by the miners in Barangay Pigsag-an here. Gacad said he had water samples taken along the Iponan River and vowed to check other possible mining sites to check if mercury have contaminated the waters. “We need to revisit the site to see how rampant is the use of mercury in the illegal mining operations,” Gacad said. Mercury is considered very
llegal miners set up camp along Iponan River in Cagayan de Oro City.. MindaNews file photo by FROILAN GALLARDO dangerous to humans and Chuangao, Pan Jiquan, Luo the environment. Small- Jian Hui, and Yuan Yin Lin. scale miners engaged in NBI assistant regional diillegal mining operations rector Norman Decampong use mercury to separate the said the Chinese nationals did not have passports gold from the soil. A joint team of DENR per- and only showed copies of sonnel, National Bureau of their Alien Certificates of Investigation (NBI) agents Registration (ACR). and Army elite Special Forc- “All five Chinese nationals es raided the mining site are from the mainland China in the hinterland village of and speaks only Mandarin,” Pigsag-an following a tip Decampong said. from a concerned citizen. The NBI filed eight comLawyer Michael Pacuribot, plaints against the Chinese chief of the DENR legal divi- nationals and Filipino laborsion, identified the Chinese ers for violating sections as Mingzhi Meng, Shen See GOLD, page 15