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SMUGGLED ONIONS. Some 71,551 kilos of confiscated smuggled onions are buried at the research center of the Department of Agriculture in Sitio San Ramon, Barangay Talisayan, Zamboanga City on Saturday (Feb. 4, 2023). The smuggled onions were seized by authorities in separate anti-smuggling operations last Jan. 22, 23, and 25. (Photo lifted from Pinpin Parehja FB page) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Some 71,551 kilos of smuggled onions were buried Saturday at the Department of Agriculture Research Center compound in Sitio San Ramon, Barangay Talisayan here. Dr. Floralie Yeo Floriano, Bureau of Plant and Industry Quarantine Officer, said the onions pose a risk to consumers since they have no phytosanitary permit from the port of origin. The onions came from India and were sold to a business firm in Malaysia. Authorities seized the onions when they were shipped by smugglers to Zamboanga City via the province of Tawi-Tawi. "There was no directive from our central office that it can be donated. So au ....
SMUGGLED ONIONS. Some 71,551 kilos of confiscated smuggled onions are buried at the research center of the Department of Agriculture in Sitio San Ramon, Barangay Talisayan, Zamboanga City on Saturday (Feb. 4, 2023). The smuggled onions were seized by authorities in separate anti-smuggling operations last Jan. 22, 23, and 25. (Photo lifted from Pinpin Parehja FB page) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Some 71,551 kilos of smuggled onions were buried Saturday at the Department of Agriculture Research Center compound in Sitio San Ramon, Barangay Talisayan here. Dr. Floralie Yeo Floriano, Bureau of Plant and Industry Quarantine Officer, said the onions pose a risk to consumers since they have no phytosanitary permit from the port of origin. The onions came from India and were sold to a business firm in Malaysia. Authorities seized the onions when they were shipped by smugglers to Zamboanga City via the province of Tawi-Tawi. "There was no directive from our central office that it can be donated. So au ....
IMPROVED DESIGN. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Mindanao Regional Office presents the new PHP1,000 bill in Davao City Monday (June 13, 2022). The agency said the note will be circulated in Mindanao soon. (Contributed photo) DAVAO CITY - Officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Mindanao Regional Office urged the public Monday to treat the new polymer banknote with care, as simply stapling it can be considered as "intended mutilation" punishable by law. "Those who are accustomed to stapling banknotes, the polymer ones should not be stapled. Unlike the paper banknote, you can take the staples out, and it will just leave holes (but the polymer ones will rip," said Dorothy Joy Diaz, BSP Mindanao Regional Office bank officer. She added: "If it rips, then it is a mutilated banknote. Violators can be charged under the Presidential Decree 247." Presidential Decree 247 or the Central Bank Act states that willful defacement, mutilation, ripping, burning or ....