The Spratly Islands

It has been of great concerns lately about the dispute within several nations claiming the said to be oil-rich islands of spratly located at the South China Sea. Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and China are continuously debating and exchanging warning words to each other that they should get away from the islands because one of those countries are claiming the islands. China and Philippines in particular are in hot tension on to whom the islands should be under. China warned US to not interfere with the dispute between Philippines which is a known US ally country, this was after Washington announced that they are ready to play any role to resolve the conflict peacefully.

Spratly islands are a group of nine small islands - which is currently occupied by the Philippine military troops and several civilians - are said to be rich in minerals and oils. This dispute has been happening long time ago and it has just emerged again recently after Vietnam and Philippines separately warned China about exploring in their territorial waters, which in return China fired back that it is their waters and no other else.

The 10-members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conducted a meeting in Bali to discuss the incident about the conflicting countries regarding the claim of the Spratly Islands. China, during the meeting, revealed that they are getting ready to create guidelines for the behaviors in the said islands. Philippines on the other hand, is planning to take China to the U.N. tribunal that handles maritime border disputes upon hearing what China is planning to do.

Amidst all the troubles in the mentioned group of islands, Filipinos residing in the area are hoping that someday they will gain enough people to come visit the islands and is thinking about working a solution for it. The islands has no Internet connections, cars, shopping malls and the Mayor of the islands are planning to take actions to cater these holes to lure more people in. This is due to the fact that Philippine lawmakers believe that sustainable livelihood in fishing and tourism would become great arguments for the Philippines in its territorial claim in the Spratly Islands.

Cebu - City of Culture

Recently, the city of Cebu was recognized as the first city to be ever given the title of “City of Culture” by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This prestigious recognition was given to the city due to its rich heritage and culture. Upon the recognition, local government organizations planned to create a yearlong activities that will address and give credit to the said award. Government officials said that the activities would include lectures about Cebu’s history, artistic and literary forums, culture and heritage discussions and many more.

Promoting art and culture through its cities is the goal of the ASEAN upon giving the award as City of Culture to Cebu. The organization hope to encourage other cities too in participating with the said program and hope to strengthen the bonds between countries within the ASEAN nations.

The change that we were talking about

Finally, we have changed the website!

After all the planning and discussions that we had, we finally did it. We changed some features and at the same time removed and added some of it for the benefit of the site. It took about 2 days to change the entire site, we needed to match things up, from color to fonts to layouts, and finally it all went well.

From all of us in Kageron Team, we hope you all like the new look of the site. Send your feedbacks and suggestions, it will help us in our daily endeavor.

Thank you for all the support and God Bless.

Kageron Team

Negros Earthquake

An earthquake occurred this early morning(Tuesday, July 12, 2011) at 4am while everyone was sleeping in the Philippines. It was estimated to have a magnitude of 6.4 and is said to have occurred its epicenter in Negros, Philippines.

No reports of serious injuries and casualties have been established and it is expected to go in a couple of hours from now. I do hope that nothing serious really happened near the epicenter of the earthquake.

Right here in Cebu, Philippines, there hasn't been that great feeling of the earthquake other than those employees who are working night shifts. And it is safe to say that nobody was hurt during the incident here in Cebu.

God Bless us all.

Change

After all those years of keeping up this blog, we finally decided to have a leap of change with regards to the blogs physical outlook. This decision will cover the change of design of the blog particularly and entirely just about that. I have talked to my friend who is a co-writer/designer of the site and I have asked his permission about it and he gladly said yes.

In this view, the website will change its design in the upcoming days, not sure when exactly. We are still looking for a suitable design that would fit the blog and to its readers, so stay tuned everyone, because are going up a notch in this blog nation.

Best regards from all of us here.

KAGERON TEAM