SMX Convention Center Davao to rise soon!

Davao City will be having an SMX Convention Center soon, which will be part of the SM City Lanang. This will be a big boost to Davao City’s economy since this will be the largest convention center to rise in Mindanao.

The SMX Convention Center in Davao City is smaller in size compared to the one in Manila. It has a leasable area of 5,400 square meters (can be split into three halls with a maximum capacity of 1,800 people each) if combined it can accommodate about 5,000 plus people.

This will be Mindanao’s largest privately-run exhibition and convention facility, the SMX Convention Center is an ideal venue for international exhibitions, large-scale local trade events, major medical and other industry conventions and corporate and social functions.

SMX Convention Center Davao will be open by the first quarter of  2012.

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404 flood prone ares in Davao City bared!

THE local disaster coordinating body has listed 404 flood-prone areas in Davao City, including subdivisions, sitios and puroks.

Of the city’s 404 flood-risk areas,  139 are in District 1, 138 in District 2, and 127 in District 3.
Under District 1, City Poblacion District has 40 flood-prone areas while Talomo District has 99. For District 2, Buhangin District has 61, Bunawan District has 40, Paquibato District has 25, while Agdao District has 12.
For District 3, Toril District has 38, Tugbok District has 42, Calinan District has 37, and Marilog District has 10.

Barangay Talomo Proper has the most number of flood-prone areas at 38.

Here is the list of flood-prone areas from the DCDCC.
District 1
City Poblacion District:
Barangay 1-A (Bolton Dike): Purok 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7
Barangay 2-A (Magallanes Dike) flood prone areas are Purok 1, 2, 3, and 7
Barangay 5-A (Bankerohan Riverside) Purok 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, and 17
Barangay 7-A General Malvar Purok 1 and 2
Barangay 8-A Lower Madapo of Purok 10
Barangay 9-A San Rafael Village, Purok 10, Pag-asa Drive of Purok 4, Muslim Village, Barrio Tubigon of Purok 6 and Marfori 2 of Purok 8
Barangay 10-A DIHO II Subdivision of Purok 10 and Platinum of Riverside
Barangay 19-B Cell 1, Cell 2, Phase 1, El Rio, Phase 2, El Rio, Phase 3, El Rio, Muslim Area, Purok 8
Barangay 40-D and Purok 1 (near Bolton Bridge)
Under Talomo District:
Barangay Bucana 76-A Dapsa, Purok 12, Bilusa, Purok 19, St. John, Purok 12-A; S.I.R. Phase I; Pasil, Purok 12-B; S.I.R. Phase II; Kasilak, Purok 13; Agro Compound, Purok 32; Manggahan, Purok 20; and Manggahan, Purok 21
Barangay Ma-a Gravahan, Purok 3; GEM Village, Purok 18; Don Julian Vill., Purok 19; Purok 13 (near Bachelor Bus Garage); Lower Sanggilangan, Purok 20; Purok 13-A (near Yellow Bus Terminal); Upper Sanggilangan, Purok 20; Purok 13-B, Riverside; Purok 26 (near Safecon); Datu Loho, Purok 17 Batching Plant); New Argao, Purok 17-A; Camarin, Purok 27; and Maharlika, Purok 35
Barangay Matina Crossing 74-A: Purok Guadalupe; New Visayas Village; Purok San Isidro; Matina Gravahan, Purok 1; Purok Mahayahay; Matina Gravahan, Purok 2; Santiago Balusong; and Tahimik Avenue, Purok 4
Barangay Matina Pangi: Km. 6.5; Km. 8.5; Km. 7; Km. 9; and Km. 8. Barangay Matina Aplaya Dumalag 1; Seaside Village; Dumalag 2; San Nicolas; and Dumalag 3
Barangay Talomo Proper has the most number of flood-prone areas, 38 in total, specifically: Muslim Village; Puan, Block 1; NHA Relocation, Bangkal; Talomo Proper; NHA Kadayawan Homes, Phase III Talomo Salakot; Bangkal Seaside; New Washington; Sto Niño/Bulusan; Talomo Center Beach; Taal Duterte; Talomo Cemento; Ulas (back of Public Market); Calubi-an, Talomo; Puroks 1 up to 14; Bankal (Kadayawan, Central Park, Taal, Bulusan, Muslim Vill.); Ulas (back of Mercury Drug); Dela Merced Typhoon; Ulas Trading; Relocation; UUHSA Village, Ulas; Teachers’ Village; Talusa I; San Juan Village, Bangkal; Talusa II; and SPED Area, Bangkal.
Barangay Bago Aplaya: Gallera de Oro Subd.; Castro Village; Crossing Bago Aplaya; Vagnay Village; D’ Garden Village; Caliraya Homes; Seaside; and Versary
Barangay Bago Gallera: Mega Homes, Sitio Iñigo; Sitio Lumansoc; Rosalina Village I; Sitio Libby; San Lorenzo Village; and Sitio Lower Nalum
Barangay Baliok: Rosalina Village III (Blocks 11, 15, 16, 19, 20 & 22); Purok 2; and Purok 3
Barangay Dumoy: Pagibig Village and Dumoy Proper
District 2
Buhangin District at Barangay Buhangin Proper Spring: Spring Valley; Old San Isidro; Sandawa; New San Isidro; Talisay; San Antonio; Hillside Subd.; San Vicente; Sitio Block 10; Maglana; Mahayag; and NHA
Barangay Cabantian: Laverna Hills
Barangay Tigatto: Purok 1, Sitio Uyanguren; Purok 9, Lapanday; Purok 2, Sitio San Isidro Labrador; Purok 10, Sitio Balon; Purok 3, Sitio San Vicente Ferrer; Purok 11, Sitio Tinago; Purok 4, Sitio Sta. Marina; Purok 12, Juliville Subd (P-3); Purok 7, Sitio Bita Tinago; Purok 13, Sitio Lourdes; Purok 8, Binoring; Purok 14, Jade Valley Subd.; Rodriguez Area; San Vicente Ferrer Tinago; and Km. 10
Barangay Waan: Purok 1, Waan Proper; Sitio Riverside; Purok 2, Waan Proper; Sitio Sto. Niño; Purok 3, Waan Proper; Purok 2, Lower Dampa; Purok 4, Waan Proper; and Sitio Camamara (Riverside)
Barangay Callawa: Riverside; Purok 2; Purok 6; Purok 1-A; Purok 8; and Purok 12
Barangay Mandug: San Isidro; Sta. Marina; Purok 4; Maglana; and Purok 5
Barangay Sasa: Sto. Niño Riverside; De Guzman Village; Del Carmen (Upper & Lower); Doña Pilar, Phase 2; Bolton Relocation; and Sto. Rosario Village
Barangay Pampanga: Purok 19, Doña Asuncion: D. A. Pampanga; Phase 3, Doña Asuncion; Liceralde Village, Purok 2; Phase 7, Doña Asuncion; Phase 2, Roseville Subd.; Sto. Domingo I; and Diamond Village
Bunawan District
Barangay Lasang: Purok Aquarius, Lasang Proper; Purok Pisces, Sitio Bucana; Purok Capricorn, Lasang Proper; Purok Scorpio, Sitio Bucana; Purok Gemini, Lasang Proper; Purok Taurus, Sitio Tambongon; Purok Sagittarius, Lasang Proper; Purok Libra, Sitio Tambongon; Purok Virgo, Sitio Licanan; and Purok Aries, Sitio Licanan
Bunawan Proper: Purok 1; Purok 7; Purok 2-A; Purok 7-A; Purok 3-A; Purok 7-B; Purok 4; Purok 7-C; Purok 5; Purok 8; Purok 5-B; Purok 9; Purok 6; Purok 10 and Purok 6-A
Barangay San Isidro: Purok 1; Purok 4; Purok 1-A; Purok 5; Purok 3; and Purok 5-B
Barangay Ilang: Purok 7-A; Sto. Niño Awad, Purok 1; Purok 7-B; and Central Ilang (Puroks 2-A and 2-B)
Barangay Panacan: San Miguel, Purok 12, Km. 14; Malagamot Proper, Purok 24; Sunrise, Purok 13, Km. 14; Esturis Village, Purok 29; and Dacudao Village, Purok 22
Paquibato District
Barangay Paquibato Proper: Sitio Narra and Paquibato Proper
Barangay Pañalum: Puroks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
Barangay Mabuhay: Purok Mangga; Purok Bayabas; Purok Boongon; Purok Nangka; and Mabuhay Proper
Barangay Pandaitan: Sitio Tibungol; Purok 5, Sitio Lower Pandaitan and Sitio Pigdalahan
Barangay Colosas: Sitio Panaga and the Colosas Proper
Barangay Fatima: Purok 1, 2, 3, and Lower Latungan
Barangay Sumimao: Sumimao Proper
Agdao District
Barangay Centro Agdao (San Juan): Purok San Francisco Village; Purok Sta. Lucia; Purok Naasin; Purok Victoria Pelayo; Purok North San Juan; Purok Alicia Pelayo; and Purok Sto. Niño Pelayo
Barangay Ubalde: Puroks 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
District 3
Toril District
Barangay Lizada: Sitio Tambacan; Sitio SODACO; Sitio Samuel Village; Sitio Lawis; Sitio New Lizada Village; Sitio Punong; Sitio J.V. Ferriols; Sitio Gutierrez Village; Sitio Culusa Viullage; Sitio Curvada; Sitio Lizada Proper; Sitio BABISA; Sitio Maharlika Village; Sitio Ilocano Community; Sitio Lizada Beach; and Sitio Malatabis
Barangay Crossing Bayabas: Purok 1 (Santol Street); Purok 6 (Saypon Riverside); Purok 2 (Venus Extension); Purok 16 (Sto. Niño Village); and Purok 3 (Venus Street)
Barangay Marapangi: Marapangi I (near Lipadas River); Marapangi I (near Sirawan River); Marapangi II (near Sirawan River); and Marapangi II (near creek and Lipadas River)
Barangay Lubogan: Purok 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 14
Barangay Sirawan: Purok 1, 10, 12, and 14
Barangay Daliao has Doña Manuela
Tugbok District
Barangay Sto. Niño: Puroks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 Aglipayan Village; Purok 14, Green Meadows Subd.; Purok 16; and Purok 19
Barangay Mintal: Corner Lanatana and Champaca Streets; NAPOLCOM Area; Sampaguita Street (near PLDT); and Barangay Road going to Camp San Gabriel
Barangay Tugbok Proper: Purok 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Purok 8, Sitio New Loon; Purok 9, Sitio New Loon; Purok 10, Sitio Upper Tugbok; Purok 11, Sitio Mahayahay; Purok 12, Sitio Crossing Quarry; Purok 13, Sitio Crossing Quarry; and Purok 14, Sitio Small Tacunan
Barangay Balengaeng: Purok 1, Sitio Campo 5; Purok 5 and Purok 7
Barangay Los Amigos: Purok 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8
Barangay Talandang: Purok Saging, Sitio Bonggan; Purok Santol, Sitio Asang; and Purok Cacao, Sitio Banarao
Calinan District
Barangay Calinan Poblacion: Purok 1; 2; 3; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 29; 30; Teachers’ Village; Vietcong Area; Calle Apeke; Abayon Village; and Magsaysay Street
Barangay Riverside: Purok 1; Purok 3-A; Purok 4-A; Purok 4; Purok 5; and Purok 5-A
Barangay Lamanan: Darila; Colabol; Galao; and Lagawisan
Barangay Dacudao: Purok 6; 7; 8; 11
Barangay Inayangan: Sitio Galao and Sitio Lagawisan
Barangay Dominga: Areas along the riverside
Barangay Cawayan: Sitio Banod
Barangay Lacson: Basakan Area, Purok 9
Barangay Dalagdag: Areas along the riverside
Marilog District
Barangay Tamugan has Sitio Bala; Sitio Lower Patag; Sitio Acacia; Sitio Banod; Sitio San Miguel; and Sitio Davao Gulf
Barangay Suawan: Suawan Proper; Sitio Moab; Sitio Gatungan and Lower Tule

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Get your NSO documents at any SM Business Centers Nationwide!

Getting your National Statistics Offices documents is now a breeze with the recent tie-up between the SM Department Store and NSO. You can now work on your NSO papers as you shop, as SM Business Centerscan now facilitate the application, processing, and releasing of copies of civil registry documents. These include copies of birth, death, and marriage documents, copies of No Record of Marriage (CENOMAR) and copies of annotated and endorsed documents.

Simply visit SM Business Centers, sign the forms, make the payments, and come back for your documents in a few days.

The tie-up was recently formalized in a Memorandum of Agreement between SM and NSO. NSO Administrator Carmelita Ericta and NSO Director Lourdes Hufana recently signed the agreement with SM Retail SVP for Controllership Ricky Lim and AVP for Business Center Operations Dennis Yaw at the Prestige Lounge of SM Cubao.

The best part is that you can get your NSO documents while availing of other SM Business Center services: foreign exchange, BDO Remit, bills payment, and SSS and Pag-Ibig contributions.

NSO services is one of the many ways SM serves its customers through its Business Center, which is located at almost all SM Supermalls.

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"Simbang Gabi" starts Dec. 16!

On, December 16 is the start of the traditional Simbang Gabi dawn mass for nine-days in keeping with one of the most popular holiday family traditions in the Philippines.

The “Simbang Gabi” tradition started out in the very first midnight mass of thanksgiving held in the fields of Mexico in 1587 by farmers and their families to celebrate a rich harvest. The practice has since spread to other nations with dominant Catholic populations come Christmas time.

The first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1565. Since then, it has become the longest and best-loved festival among Filipinos. The dawn masses came to be called “Misa de Aguinaldo” by the Spaniards, which means “gift masses” in English that were later introduced to the Philippines from Mexico.The “Simbang Gabi” has become an essential part of the Filipinos’ Christmas traditions.

Up to this time it is still being practiced by most Filipinos.

Do you still go to dawn masses?

Do you complete the nine days of dawn masses before Christmas?

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Davao City “No Smoking Ordinance”!

Just in case you didn’t know!

ORDINANCE NO. 043-02
Series of 2002
Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Davao, in session assembled that:
SECTION 1. TITLE. – Be it ordained that this Ordinance shall be known as, “ THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-SMOKING ORDINANCE OF DAVAO CITY “;
SECTION 2. COVERAGE. – It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke or allow smoking in a public utility vehicle, government-owned vehicle or any other means of public transport for passengers, accommodation and entertainment establishment, public building, public place, as defined in Section 3 (e) hereunder, enclosed public place, or in any enclosed area outside of ones private residence, private place of works, cars owned by the government or duly designated smoking areas, within the jurisdiction of Davao City;
SECTION 3. DEFINITION OF TERMS.
A.) Smoking refers to the lighting and/or puffing of any lighted cigarette, cigar, tobacco or any other kind, form or type. Possession of any lighted cigarette, cigar, tobacco and the like within the prohibited areas for smoking shall constitute a prima facie evidence as an act of smoking prohibited under this Ordinance;
B.) Public Utility Vehicle Refers to Public Utility Jeepneys (PUJs), Public Utility Buses (PUBs), taxis, tricycles and other public utility vehicles used in the transport of passengers;
C.) Accommodation & Entertainment Establishment refer to restaurants, fast foods, eateries, hotels, motels, lodges, inns, boarding houses, disco houses, videoke bars, resto bars, and movie houses, or any other place with pleasant environment and atmosphere conducive to comfort, healthful relaxation and rest, offering foods, sleeping accommodation and recreation facilities to the public for a fee;
D.) Public Building refers to any of the following:
1.) A building structure owned by the government or owned by a private person but used, rented or occupied by the government or any of its instrumentalities;
2.) Any building or structure used, or controlled exclusively for public purposes by any department or branch of government, local government unit or barangay without references to the ownership of the building.
E.) Public Place refers to gasoline stations, bank, malls, town squares, terminals, shopping/business arcades, schools, churches, hospitals, cinema houses, gymnasiums, funerals parlors, barber shops, and other similar places where people usually congregate either to while away their time or to listen or attend concerts, rallies, program such as, but not limited to, Rizal Park, Freedom Park, Magsaysay Park, Osmeña Park, and the like;
F.) Designated Smoking Room refers to a delineated room inside the accommodation establishment, or public place or enclosed public place, which is totally enclosed where a person is allowed to smoke without violating this Ordinance.
Any duly designated room/ area in accommodation and entertainment establishments whether tourism accredited or not, within the territorial jurisdiction of Davao City as hereinabove defined, provided, the following conditions are met;
1.) If the accommodation and entertainment establishment is air-conditioned,
it must establish and designate a smoking room which shall not be more than ¼ of the total accommodation area of the establishment, that is air-conditioned and equipped with an exhaust fan and totally enclosed on all sides and separated from the rest of the premises where smoking is prohibited, and
2.) If the accommodation and entertainment establishment is not air-conditioned, it must establish and designate a smoking area which shall not be more than ¼ of the total accommodation area of the establishment that is fully ventilated and separated from the rest of the premises where smoking is prohibited.
G.) Enclosed Area refers to an area which is closed whether totally or partially at the sides and is roofed or make use of the flow above it as a ceiling, or even if open on all sides but is covered by a roof, permanent or temporary in nature;
H.) Enclosed Public Place refers to a room, building, structure or edifice that is constructed with a shelter or covered by a roof with panels or concrete wall, which structure is open to the public.
SECTION 4. PROHIBITED ACTS. The following acts shall be prohibited.
A.) Smoking in any of the places enumerated in Section 2 hereof, except in duly designated smoking areas;
B.) Knowingly allowing, abetting, or tolerating smoking in accommodation establishments, whether tourism accredited or not, except when smoking is done inside or within the duly designated smoking areas referred to in this Ordinance;
C.) Smoking while inside a government-owned or public utility vehicle whether moving or stationery or while solicitation of passengers is going on or while the vehicle is waiting for passengers;
SECTION 5. PERSONS LIABLE. The following persons/ individuals are deemed liable under this Ordinance:
A.) Any person smoking within the prohibited rooms, areas/ individuals are mentioned in Section 2 hereof;
A.) Any passenger, driver, conductor, or inspector of government-owned vehicles or public utility vehicles (PUVs) smoking as stated in Section 5 (c) hereof;
B.) The President or Manager incase of a company, corporation, or association or the owner/ proprietor or operator in case of single proprietorship, of accommodation and entertainment establishments, whether tourism-accredited or not, who knowingly allows, abets or tolerates and/ or fails to warn, advise or report violators of this Ordinance to any policeman or nearest station within three (3) hours of the violation;
SECTION 6. The City Health Office and City Engineer’s Office are tasked to inspect and certify the appropriateness of the designated smoking areas provided by accommodation establishments whether tourism-accredited or not, taking into consideration the purpose of the law which is to protect non-smokers from the pernicious effects of tabacco smoke;
Sixty (60) days after affectively of this Ordinance, the City Health Office in coordination with the Office of the Business Bureau shall conduct an ocular inspection of all non-accredited tourism establishments in Davao City to determine compliance with the requirements of this Ordinance.

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