De Yro stated that is Cagayan’s

De Yro stated that is Cagayan’s contribution to the increasing new fiber discoveries in international that these days took center stage at the Product and Technology Trade Fair in Tugeugarao City at some stage in the Aggao Nac Cagayan, an annual festivity of Cagayan province.

Garcia said that for the primary time, diverse products from the Bakong had been on display at the Aggao Nac Cagayan for sale on the sales space of Santa Teresita on the Capitol Grounds at some point of the festivity.

“We’ve been generating the products for the past 3 years and this 12 months we are now prepared to offer them for the Cagayano humans and the arena to peer,” Garcia said.

De Yro stated that whilst it's miles domestically known as Bakong in Northern Philippines, it's miles popularly regarded in Myanmar as Sumsum.

“The citizens of Santa Teresita have usually considered the Bakong as pests in the areas where they thrive specially inside the Laguna De Cagayan,” De Yro stated.

Garcia defined that it was in 2013 right after the First National Eco-Tourism Festival of the metropolis when the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Product Development Design Center of the Philippines took samples of the plant for research.

Since then, Garcia stated, nearby ordinances had been enacted to shield the place and plant species.
“It is to the credit score of the exchange and enterprise branch that we have been able to unveil the monetary advantages of the plant,” she said.

HANGUANA Malayana

HANGUANA Malayana is a good source of fiber for numerous products together with items and housewares, textile, high grade paper, wall décor and other artworks and furniture, among others.

The metropolis of Santa Teresita in Cagayan province abounds with this plant regionally referred to as Bakong. In the Fifties, the town changed into formerly Buguey city’s Barrio Namunit, a historical vicinity that became believed to be the landing web site in 1557 with the aid of the Spanish conquistadores led by using Juan De Salcedo.

However, there are no statistics the plant was introduced by the Spaniards and began propagating them in a lake within the village then referred to as Barrio Namunit.

The Bakong plant is mainly found growing inside the Laguna De Cagayan (formerly known as Bangalau Lake) in Santa Teresita alongside the countrywide road connecting the Cagayan North International Airport in Lallo metropolis and the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority in Santa Ana town.

“You are without difficulty greeted by way of the dominant Bakong plant with its outstanding long wide leaves as quickly as you reach the region,” Benjamin De Yro, a product development consultant of the workplace of Mayor Lolita Garcia of Santa Teresita.

Due Diligencer’s take

Due Diligencer’s take

Jolliville isn't always the simplest listed organization that indicates in its POR that it has extra stockholders among public traders. Some groups do similar shows in their PORs or even portray themselves as public businesses.

If indexed groups are also public as they declare to be, the public need to become THE lively stockholders, and not stay passive as they have long been gave the impression to be. It is a pity that just a few rise up to most of the people stockholders, who're in general the families who personal the business.

The public investors should recognize via now that with out them, enterprise proprietors could not have succeeded in listing their corporations’ shares. They need to be reminded that the general public stockholders and owners take their businesses public now not always to share their companies with them however to store on taxes.

It is ready time the public clamored for representation within the boards of listed businesses. After all, they enabled the very wealthy to pay best minimum taxes on their holdings based available on the market value of their holdings.

Incidentally, whilst going over Jolliville’s filings, Due Diligencer located the name “Jolly L. Ting,” who is chairman of the board and chief executive officer. The corporate identification could have been a play of words on one of the owner’s names. Isn’t it? Just asking.

JOLLIVILLE Holdings Corp. (JOH)

JOLLIVILLE Holdings Corp. (JOH) suggested in a general statistics sheet (GIS) that as of June 2016, it had 33 Filipino stockholders and one foreigner who owned 280.224 million stocks and 1.276 million shares, respectively.

It additionally stated its overall 34 stockholders owned 281.Five million shares, which represent the enterprise’s terrific shares out of 1 billion in legal capital inventory.

The lone foreigner who owns 1.276 million JOH shares, or zero.Forty five percent, changed into no longer diagnosed. His/her Jolliville stocks had been held through PCD Nominee as file stockholder.

Due Diligencer checked the records against Jolliville’s public ownership record (POR) which indexed Elgeete Holdings Inc. As foremost stockholder, with a hundred twenty five.784 million JOH stocks or forty four.Sixty eight percentage of the overall. Four of Jolliville’s friends held 50.016 million JOH shares, or 17.Seventy six percent.

A POR suggests the range of stocks that public traders personal. In the case of Jolliville, it credited the public with
ninety six.392 million JOH stocks, or 34.24 percent. That share must make Jolliville greater public than others.

Subtract 175.799 million JOH

Subtract 175.799 million JOH stocks, the range of stocks held through the general public proprietors and affiliates indexed in Jolliville’s POR, from 280.224 million JOH stocks held by way of 33 stockholders in the GIS and also you get 104.424 million shares, or 37.096 percent.

Deduct again 50.016 million JOH shares held by using most of the people owner’s friends from 104.424 million JOH stocks, and the difference of 54.408 million JOH stocks, or 19.328 percent, belong to different bigger shareholders inclusive of the proprietors’ allies.

Due Diligencer isn't attributing to the general public the possession of 104.424 million JOH shares, or 37.096 percentage, which could too huge to be believed. Rather, these had been held – and nonetheless are held – by means of affiliated stockholders as proven in Jolliville’s list of pinnacle 100 stockholders.

The public will genuinely be puzzled by means of the perplexing presentation of the ownership of stockholders in Jolliville’s top a hundred listing, its GIS and POR.

Ironically, while the holdings

Ironically, while the holdings of Jolliville’s public stockholders may be considered great, those did no longer, and still do no longer, translate to club in the organisation’s seven-character board. Instead, their seats were allotted to 2 impartial directors, specifically Dexter E. Quintana and Sergio Ortiz-Luis.

By the way, as a listed business enterprise, Jolliville, which owns a number of gentlemen’s clubs, became registered on Sept. Three, 1986 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It could not have obtained SEC approval had it sincerely copied the name of Jollibee Foods Corp., the homegrown speedy meals chain.

Computations

To display why public traders have didn't go with a director or  to the board of Jolliville, Due Diligencer did some computations.

It could not be actual, as Jolliville showed in its POR, that its public stockholders owned 34.24 percent of the business enterprise’s 281.Five million first-rate stocks. The data within the agency’s GIS confirmed only 33 stockholders as owners of 280.224 million JOH shares, which represent ninety nine.5 percent of tremendous stocks.

Biswas referred to that North Korea’s

Biswas referred to that North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile functionality is in addition escalating tensions over the Korean peninsula, with the USA more and more worried that North Korean missiles may additionally ultimately have the variety to attain the USA place of origin.

“With geopolitical tensions on the Korean peninsula rising, the Korean won has moved lower, with South Korean Credit Default Swap spreads achieving a 7 week high as traders insured towards default risks on South Korean debt,” he added.

The peso first touched the P50:$1 degree on November 24 remaining year as bets on interest price hikes inside the US, which simply came about in December, desired the greenback. It depreciated via five.35 percent towards the USA dollar in 2016.