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                    [Title] => Officials nix reports poverty in ARMM worsened
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                    [DatePublished] => 2008-03-25 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804871
                    [AuthorName] => John Unson
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                    [Title] => Moro traders ready for Islamic food market
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SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao — Impoverished Moro communities in Mindanao are now ready to participate in the international Islamic food market.


This was after representatives of foreign donor outfits, clerics and political leaders in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) launched the other day the Muslim Mindanao Halal Certification Board Inc. (MMHCBI), which is the last requisite for the entry of Moro entrepreneurs into the international Islamic food business.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 324425 [Title] => Japan turns over farming equipment to ARMM gov’t [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — The Japanese government donated farming equipment to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) this week as part of a development package to empower the region’s peasant communities and complement the Southern Mindanao peace process.

The donation, consisting of six multi-cab vehicles, a pick-up truck and six tractors with trailers, was turned over to ARMM Agriculture Secretary Hadji Sajid Druz Ali, by Shozo Matsuura of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Leocadio Sebastian of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318503 [Title] => ARMM moves to protect seaweed growers [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — While the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) accounts for more than 50 percent of the country’s yearly production of exportable agar-agar, local seaweed growers remain marginalized and vulnerable to the schemes of wealthy traders who dictate the prices.

The country has five varieties of agar-agar, a source of carrageenan, which is widely used as a food extender and additive, and high-temperature lubricant, and in the manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, among other industrial and military uses.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305818 [Title] => Moro datus to represent RP in Japan forum [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Two young Moro datus will represent the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to the first youth leaders forum in Japan, an event regional officials said will give them a chance to prove to the international community that there is now fragile peace in the ARMM.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 304369 [Title] => A peaceful coexistence [Summary] => KABUNTALAN, Maguindanao – After living apart for years as an aftermath of former President Joseph Estrada’s "all out war policy" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Christian and Muslim farmers have found a reason to coexist anew in this isolated town, bound together by the government’s hybrid rice program.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302437 [Title] => Is ARMM fast becoming the mango capital of Southern Mindanao? [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Big tracts of land in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have been planted to mangoes in the past five years by farmers, many of whom were secessionist guerrillas who are now into large-scale propagation of exportable mangoes.

The ARMM’s agriculture secretary, Sajid Druz Ali, said that compared to other regions in the South, the autonomous region now has much bigger areas planted to mangoes and is fast becoming the mango capital of Southern Mindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299917 [Title] => Ampatuan names 3 Cabinet members [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — New Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan appointed yesterday three young professionals belonging to the Moro royalty as members of his "solidarity Cabinet."

Ampatuan’s first appointees were Datu Sajid Druz Ali as agriculture secretary, and lawyers Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi and Datu Ishak Mastura as regional solicitor-general and trade secretary, respectively. The three are still in their 30s.
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