Economic News

COTABATO CITY (Sept.20) - A local business chamber and the Department of Trade and Industry launched on Thursday the Business Resource Center (BRC) here, a facet for advisory and extension services needed to boost the local economy.The Muslim Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kutawato, Inc., chaired by entrepreneur Bai Sandra Siang, will oversee the operation of the BRC.The DTI's office in Region 12 provided the BRC with office equipment, including laptop and desk top computers with complete accessories, a photo copier, a Nikon camera, a scanner and an LCD projector to hasten its delivery

KORONADAL CITY
(Sept. 17/NDBC) – An attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE) in Region 12 on Tuesday hold advocacy seminar on employees’ compensation
program (ECP).

Present to
listen to the advocacy of the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) were
information officers of regional government agencies and the local press.

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 8/NDBC) – The famous
CityMalls in the country, managed by DoubleDragon Properties Corporation, will soon
rise in this city, the Philippine Stock Exchange reported on its site Monday.

CityMall Commercial Centers Inc.
(CMCCI), the shopping mall development arm of DoubleDragon, said the
CityMall-Cotabato City is expected to be completed by the third quarter of
2015.

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KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept. 2/NDBC) --Organic products from North Cotabato such as black rice and coco sugar are starting to penetrate the international market, the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) reported Monday. In a press statement, MinDA said that the North Cotabato provincial office is currently processing confirmed orders of black rice and coco sugar from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, which are expected to be formalized in the next six months.

COTABATO CITY -- The Chairman and Managing Head of the Regional Board of Investments of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM), lawyer Ishak Mastura, called for the conduct of a study on how Federalism can improve the policy environment for business and economic development using the ARMM experience of autonomy as baseline, reference point and case study.

KORONADAL CITY – The July 13-15 joint business fair in Gen. Santos City by private groups and the Department of Trade generated P35 million-worth of investments, DTI’s regional office here said.In an email Saturday, DTI’s office for Region 12 said the activity also generated P5 million worth of sales by participating entrepreneurs and private trading groups.The three-day event, held at a shopping mall in Gen. Santos City, was dubbed Negosyo Konsyumer ATBP (NKATBP), which involved traders and entrepreneurs from central Mindanao’s South Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-Sarangani and Gen.

COTABATO CITY -- This historic city had been named one of the country’s ten most competitive cities” in a search by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) and the Department of Trade and Industry.Local merchants were elated with such recognition, for them an indication that Cotabato City, which has 37 barangays, is now rising from the adverse effects of conflicts, from underdevelopment and devastation wrought by calamities.Senior employees of DTI’s office for Region 12 in Koronadal City on Friday said the newly-elected Cotabato City Vice Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi received on Thursday

COTABATO CITY --- A private power firm is keen on energizing far-flung areas in the strife-torn Sulu province and nearby island towns in Tawi-Tawi.
Lawyer Ishak Mastura, chairman of the Regional Board of Investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, on Friday said the prospective power provider, the Kaltimex Rural Energy Corporation, is attached to a foreign firm providing electricity to off-grid Indonesian islands.