IT park to rise in Davao City

(Yeah, I posted this quite late. But I’m still posting it anyway.)
 
An information and technology park will rise in the city before the end of this year. Already, the city council today has passed a resolution endorsing the developer’s application with the Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA). Damosa Land Incorporated will develop “Damosa Information Technology Park”, an information and communication technology park zone in a 23-hectare area in along J.P. Laurel Avenue, Lanang, Davao City.

On Sept. 19, the City Council here endorsed DLI’s application for accreditation with the Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA). A PEZA accreditation, which requires a city council endorsement among other things, will grant the park’s possible investors with tax holidays and other incentives.

The part is expected to benefit the local information technology sector but also it will “spur economic growth in the city,” DLI’s Ed Villaber told the city council in a committee hearing last month. Pueblo de Oro, the first IT park in Mindanao was established in Cagayan de Oro City. (To be updated)    

Korean apologizes to Davao City mayor

The Korean tourist ordered deported by the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation upon the request of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has apologized for his actions and requested that he be allowed to stay longer.

Duterte claimed he saw Jung Kyungdoo, who came to town to play golf, hit his child with a club while at the Apo Golf and Country Club last Sept. 7. The mayor promptly requested the BID to deport Jung for violating Philippine laws on child abuse. The BID obliged.

“I admit my mistake. Please, I’m asking an apology. (I’m) hoping that you could give me some consideration. Give me a chance to come back and stay here,” Jung said in the letter to the mayor.

Jung said he came to Davao to teach his son how to play golf and chose the city “because it’s a safe and nice place for foreigners like us.”

The Korean said a personnel from the BID visited him and informed him “to go back to Korea because I violated the law.” Jung, in his letter to Duterte, said he now knows the laws in the city “most especially about family matters and that you have now a program
about Bantay Bata 163.” But Duterte said “if sorry siya, then sorry na lang pud” (If he is
sorry, then I’m sorry too). Read the full story here.