CebuDaily News Overview (August 11, 2008)

Here are the must read news articles for today, Monday, August 11, 2008:

Dinagat Festival winner depicts evils of illegal fishing. DANCE interpretation of the adverse effects of dynamite fishing on marine resources won top prize in yesterday’s Dinagat Festival of Cordova, Cebu. more >>

Museo Sugbo opened. CEBUANOS now have a museum that they can call their very own. more >>

US company expands Cebu facility. AN American company has expanded its facility in Cebu to cater to increasing demands in the global semiconductor and solar power-based industries. more >>

Osmeña eyes graffiti-free city. The Cebu City government will be intensifying its anti-graffiti drive in the next few days in a bid to make the city graffiti-free and make it more beautiful. more >>

Insurgency in Cebu dwindling. The insurgency problem in the province of Cebu has already dwindled, according to Cebu Provincial Police Office director Sr. Supt. Carmelo Valmoria. more >>

Visayas Corn festival set for Aug. 25 to 27. The Department of Agriculture will be celebrating the 2nd Central Visayas Corn Festival 2008 in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. more >>

Cebu Marriott referring patrons to nearby hotels. Despite the ongoing major renovations and running only at a fifty percent service capacity, Cebu City Marriott Hotel is still enjoying brisk business at the same time helping neighboring hotels by referring guest overflows. more >>

South tunnel ‘still on track’

A loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation is what’s funding the only unfinished component of the South Coastal Road Project, shown here during its preparatory work in 2005. (Sun.Star file)

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Eton Cyberpod Cebu Business Park

A ten-storey office building may be constructed on two (2) parcels of land located along Mindanao Avenue, near Ayala Center Cebu in Cebu Business Park, subject to signing of a Lease Contract. With an estimated footprint of 2,200 gross square meters, around 20,000 square meters of GFA may be accommodated.

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Sarok Festival

To protect farmers and folk from the sun and the rain, the sarok, a conical hat made from bamboo strips and dried banana leaves, becomes the needed fad for the people of Consolacion. The festival was traditionally celebrated every 14th of February to coincide with its charter day celebrations. However, the Sarok Festival evolved into a free interpretation dance, with the musical concept inspired from the Miligoy de Cebu, a published Filipino folk dance originating from the same place. The festival is now celebrated in October.

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GMA inaugurates legislative building

President Arroyo cuts the ceremonial ribbon during the formal inauguration of the new Plaza Sugbu and renovated Cebu City Hall legislative building yesterday morning.

photo by Ferdinand Edralin

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3 cities in Cebu among top 6 areas easiest to start business in: survey

THREE cities in Cebu emerged among the top six cities where it is easiest to start a business in the Philippines, according to a survey commissioned by the International Finance Corp. and the World Bank.

Lapu-Lapu City is the second easiest city to start a business in, next only to Taguig. Cebu City placed fourth, while Mandaue landed sixth in a list of 21 cities in the “Doing Business in the Philippines 2008” survey.

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Development of Cebu’s SRP

CEBU CITY—The Cebu City government is hoping to settle development plans with interested locators at the 240-hectare reclaimed South Road Properties (SRP) in the next three months, City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said.

The mayor said development plans are being shuffled back and forth between interested developers and the city, which he admitted is being “choosy” in the development it wants on the property.

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