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Mindoreño College Boxer Dies After Fight at SCUAA Games
A student-athlete from Occidental Mindoro State College died Saturday (April 26, 2025) after a boxing match at the ongoing State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association…
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Mindoreño College Boxer Dies After Fight at SCUAA Games
A student-athlete from Occidental Mindoro State College died Saturday (April 26, 2025) after a boxing match at the ongoing State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association national games…
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Mindoreño College Boxer Dies After Fight at SCUAA Games
A student-athlete from Occidental Mindoro State College died Saturday (April 26, 2025) after a boxing match at the ongoing…
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Demographics of Household Heads in Occidental Mindoro Reveal Gender Disparities
A demographic study released by the Philippine Statistics Authority reveals notable gender disparities among household heads in Occidental Mindoro…
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MIMAROPA Cuisine Takes Center Stage During Filipino Food Month 2025
The island provinces of MIMAROPA are showcasing their distinctive culinary heritage as part of Filipino Food Month 2025, showing…
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No Casualties in Fire at Old Provincial Hospital Building in Calapan City
A fire erupted Sunday at an abandoned building of the former Provincial Hospital in Barangay Ilaya, Calapan City with…
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Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo
Bernardo Creative Ventures, Inc., the company behind Direk Fuels, Oriental Mindoro’s homegrown gas station chain, and Direk Builders, which rents out heavy equipment, is expanding its portfolio by venturing into online media and content production.
The company’s entry into news media is not surprising, as its founder and CEO, Romel “Direk” Bernardo, was a television writer, producer, and director for over 15 years. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a researcher, writer, and producer for GMA-7’s top-rating show Imbestigador before becoming the executive producer for ABS-CBN’s award-winning documentary program, The Correspondents.
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Mindoreño College Boxer Dies After Fight at SCUAA Games
A student-athlete from Occidental Mindoro State College died Saturday (April 26, 2025) after a boxing match at the ongoing State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association national games in Camiguin. Marc Mateo Castillo, who represented the Southern Tagalog Region, collapsed following…
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Mindoreño College Boxer Dies After Fight at SCUAA Games
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Bulalacao, Lisap Bridge, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
By Romel “Direk” F. Bernardo(Last of Two Parts) Before Mansalay and Roxas, my father’s church duties first brought him to Bulalacao, eastern Mindoro’s southernmost and most distant municipality, in…
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
By Romel “Direl” F. Bernardo(First of two parts) Long before massive and speeding Chinese-made passenger buses began passing through our island from Manila to Visayas and vice versa, or…
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
(This article was penned at the height of COVID 10 pandemic in 2020)By Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo Businesswoman Flor Maliwanag-Keh should have been the busiest and proudest business owner…