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20 December 2006
How and Why a Poor and Disaster-Prone Province Topped the National Exams
Tomas Oppus, Southern Leyte -- It’s no accident that Southern Leyte topped the recent National Achievement Test (NAT) where three of its national high schools in fifth class municipalities bagged a 1-2-3 finish in the freshman level. In fact, eight of its national high schools were in the top 30. |
4-8 September 2006
ADB Board Visits Philippine Projects
During a group visit to Philippines during 4-8 September, Board members viewed projects in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and met with project executing agencies and participants to talk about the ADB-Philippines partnership.
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21 July 2006
Sisterhood of Mindanao Market Vendors Helps Them to Learn and Earn More
At the market in Panabo, in the southern Philippine province of Davao del Norte, times have been hard for 68-year-old vendor Remedios Homesillo. But a new project has been trying to bring new hope and incomes to the vendors to help break them out of the cycle of poverty and debt, by teaching them new skills, improving working conditions, and in the process helping them become better parents. Read the full story. |
15 June 2006
Upgraded Davao City International Airport is Ready for More Passengers & Bigger Aircraft
Davao City – With air transportation crucial to economic and social connectivity in the Philippine archipelago, the new $128 million state-of-the-art international airport in this city is a welcome development. It is now fully operational and is raring to take in more passengers and bigger aircraft.
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26 April 2006
Bringing Early Childhood Development to the Philippine Poor
Saludita Buton or Lola Salud, 53, has ten children and eight grandchildren. During the day, she babysits up to five other toddlers as a volunteer day-care mom for children of poor working mothers. She does this in a space less than 20 square meters adjacent to her home in Barangay Catadman, Catmon, Cebu. Read the full story and view the photo gallery. |
18 April 2006
Reducing Tricycle Noise in the Philippines' Puerto Princesa City
Puerto Princesa’s tricycles are fast-becoming tourist icons on their own like Thailand’s tuk-tuks. Its unique larger-than-usual design is intended to transport not just people, but cargo too. They are fitted with sidecars with shelves at the front and back sections to load agricultural produce. The windshield is wide and the sidecar is roomy to accommodate more cargo or passengers. The city is basically an agricultural and tourism area, hence the need to have a rear cargo compartment, inspired by the vintage cars of the 1950s. Read more. |
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10 February 2006
Lilo-An's "Decentralized" Waste Water Treatment Facility Improves Cebu's Beaches
In this small town of 80,000 inhabitants, a bold initiative of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), with financial support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila has made a significant contribution to the improvement of coastal environment. On 23 November 2005, Lilo-an municipality, DENR and ADB inaugurated a decentralized water treatment facility which is going to clean all waste waters from a public market in Poblacion, which was known to be an environmental "hot spot" at Lilo-an's beach. This market had been polluting this popular weekend beach of the Cebuanos for many years, and had caused headaches and health concerns to many of the city's visitors and its administrators. |
25 October 2005
Southern Philippines Irrigation Project
Agriculture production and farmers' income in the Southern Philippines will be raised as a result of the US$60 million Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project. |
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19 October 2005
With ADB Funding, Puerto Princesa Eyes to be No.1
Puerto Princesa City -- Almost P2 billion worth of infrastructure projects funded by the Asian Development Bank in this city are boosting its US$100 million development plan which will make it ready for a massive tourism promotion that aims to bring in 600,000 tourists in just three years’ time. |
2 September 2005
River Waste Goes Up in Smoke and Helps Poor Fisherfolk in the Process
An environmental army in Calauan, Laguna has taken the matter of cleaning up the Laguna Lake Basin into their own hands and making money out of it in the process. |
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27 June 2005
Saving the Fish for Another Day
PANGASINAN, PHILIPPINES - The Fisheries Resource Management Project seeks to reverse the trend of declining fisheries resources in municipal waters - the area within 15 kilometers of the shore - caused by overfishing and destructive fishing using dynamite, cyanide and fine mesh nets. |
25 May 2005
ADB Charm Offensive Brings New Hope to Upland Farmers
SAGADA, MT. PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES - The Cordillera Highland Agriculture Resource Management (CHARM) is a seven-year project that aims to reduce poverty in the Cordillera region by increasing incomes of smallholder farm families through improved agricultural productivity and the development of sustainable systems of resource management. |
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19 December 2004
From ‘HOME ALONG DA RILES’ to ‘DREAMLAND’
SAN PEDRO, LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES - Informal settlers living near the Muntinlupa railroad tracks no longer risk life and limb and hear the incoming screech of trains but have their own homes and livelihood in Dreamland Heights, San Pedro, Laguna, made possible through a US$1 million grant from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, financed by the Government of Japan. |
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