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GenSan News Online Mag

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Food grilled to perfection and more at Harvey’s

Barangay Lagao in GenSan is turning out to be the culinary center of the city.   It hosts the famous diner's paradise, the GenSan restaurants' haven - Tiongson Arcade which houses specialty restos like Gusteau's Shrimps and Crabs, Euro Kitchen and Gio's ...
Food grilled to perfection and more at Harvey’s

Grab A Crab Resto goes DIMSUM

Dimsum is the Cantonese term for a type of Chinese dish that involves small individual portions of food, usually served in a small steamer bamboo basket or on a small plate. What calls to mind when talking about dimsum are dishes ...
Grab A Crab Resto goes DIMSUM

Father’s Day treats at Ranchero, Pablo’s and Paseo del Sol

During this Father's Day weekend (June 18 - 20, 2010) sister establishments Ranchero Grill, Pablo's Steaks and Crabs and Paseo del Sol will be serving up treats for their customers. Check out the poster below to see what we mean... Starting yesterday, ...
Father’s Day treats at Ranchero, Pablo’s and Paseo del Sol

Ballena Kainan, Lagao’s Roadside Delight

Who would have thought that somewhere in a sidestreet of Barangay Lagao, lies a simple unassuming carenderia which has been attracting not only ordinary folks but also VIP's including the members of the City Council of GenSan? Always on the lookout ...
Ballena Kainan, Lagao’s Roadside Delight

Keiko Ken Kambingan, Purok Malakas’ pride

One of the GenSan restaurants that Bariles usually frequents (at least twice a month) when he suddenly feels the appetite for it is Keiko Ken Kambingan, located at Nunez Street, Purok Malakas.  The other one is Kambingan sa Depot which ...
Keiko Ken Kambingan, Purok Malakas’ pride

ZheZtah Chicken and Burgers’ delicious little secrets

One of the newly-established GenSan restaurants has steadily been packing it in these days.  Clients are mostly from the office-rich area of the local government center of the city who either eat there or have their orders delivered to their ...
ZheZtah Chicken and Burgers’ delicious little secrets

P-Noy keynotes 12th National Tuna Congress

His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino is the Keynote Speaker during this weekend's 12th National Tuna Congress unfolding here in General Santos City, the Tuna Capital of the Philippines! This we got from a draft of the program of ...
1 September 2010 I Read the full story

Sa Balai Bistro’s Pizza-All-You-Can-Eat

For the upcoming SEX (Soccsksargen EXperience- An Orgy of Food, Fun & Adventure) activity this weekend, one of our partners again is Koronadal City's most famous bohemian resto, Sa Balai Bistro. Owned by culturati and chef Carlo Ebeo, this small place ...
2 September 2010 I Read the full story

SM City GenSan perspectives/plans presented to Darlene by Design Team

Barely two weeks ago, GenSan City Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio finally got a glimpse of how her city's next mall will look like. The design team of the upcoming SM City GenSan composed of representatives from Monolith Construction Dev. Corp, general contractor; ...
26 August 2010 I Read the full story

Congressman Pacquiao takes oath

Congressman Manny Pacquiao finally took his oath as the new representative of the province of Sarangani in simple rites this morning at the Sarangani Capitol Park. Pacquiao was accompanied by his wife Jinkee, his children and his siblings.  His father was ...
28 June 2010 I Read the full story

Tuna Fest 2010 unravels on Sept 18-26!

August - 16 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 15 Responses - Viewed 241 times, 4 so far today

The GenSan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., the organization granted by the city government of General Santos to oversee the conduct of the GenSan Tuna Festival 2010 has finally released the schedule of this much-awaited annual fiesta. A major change under the new administration of the Honorable Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio was the collective decision [...]

Sa Balai Bistro’s Pizza-All-You-Can-Eat

September - 2 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 5 Responses - Viewed 81 times, 10 so far today

For the upcoming SEX (Soccsksargen EXperience- An Orgy of Food, Fun & Adventure) activity this weekend, one of our partners again is Koronadal City’s most famous bohemian resto, Sa Balai Bistro. Owned by culturati and chef Carlo Ebeo, this small place below the 2nd floor of an old house has been serving his very own [...]

“ASAP Sessionistas Live in GenSan” Blog & Facebook Contest

September - 1 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 4 Responses - Viewed 62 times, 2 so far today

Announcing the contest for bloggers and non-bloggers alike to win FREE Tickets to the most-awaited Concert at the Tuna Festival month!

P-Noy keynotes 12th National Tuna Congress

September - 1 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 2 Responses - Viewed 66 times, 2 so far today

His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino is the Keynote Speaker during this weekend’s 12th National Tuna Congress unfolding here in General Santos City, the Tuna Capital of the Philippines! This we got from a draft of the program of the 12th National Tuna Congress from the Congress Secretariat. President Noynoy will speak before the [...]

Bleed for Life: A Blood Letting & Typing Drive of Soccsksargen Bloggers!

August - 31 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 3 Responses - Viewed 72 times

In the wake of the alarming rise of dengue cases in GenSan and outlying areas, the Soccsksargen Bloggers in cooperation with the Philippine Red Cross and the Robinsons Place-GenSan is spearheading a worthy cause this very weekend! This is BLEED FOR LIFE: A Blood Lettting & Blood Typing Drive on September 5, 2010, General Santos [...]

Are you ready for SEX, the Soccsksargen EXperience?

August - 30 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 17 Responses - Viewed 136 times, 1 so far today

Naaah, it’s not what you think it is dear readers! SEX here in the title is short for “The Soccsksargen EXperience” – An Orgy of Food, Fun and Adventure. It is basically an offshoot of a unique activity which the Soccsksargen Bloggers spearheaded in May 2010. If you happened to follow Bariles’ posts on a regular [...]

NDDU is Mindanao’s #1 Top Performing Nursing School

August - 29 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 12 Responses - Viewed 177 times, 5 so far today

Notre Dame of Dadiangas University or NDDU is now Mindanao’s #1 Nursing School. This we got from the latest ranking of the Top Performing Nursing Schools in the Philippines by the Professional Regulation Commission.  Their basis was the July 2010 Nursing Board Exam results. NDDU ranked 15th nationwide with a performance rating of 88.37% among [...]

4 Generals @ July 2010 Nursing Board Exam Topnotchers List

August - 28 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 9 Responses - Viewed 149 times, 1 so far today

Four young generals just very recently made GenSan proud again by landing in the list of the July 2010 Nursing Board Exam Topnotchers! They lorded it among a total of 91,008 examinees where only 37,679 made it. Taking the #3 slot is Allyce Joana Toledo De Leon of University of Santo Tomas who garnered an [...]

Nyoy Volante at KCC Mall of GenSan

August - 27 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 3 Responses - Viewed 145 times

For the Tuna Festival Month of September 2010, the KCC Mall of GenSan is lining up a series of special events meant to add more luster to the city’s celebration. For starters, on the heels of its hugely successful Aiza Seguerra Album Tour, it has booked acoustic performer Nyoy Volante for a CONCERT on September [...]

SM City GenSan perspectives/plans presented to Darlene by Design Team

August - 26 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 89 Responses - Viewed 812 times, 5 so far today

Barely two weeks ago, GenSan City Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio finally got a glimpse of how her city’s next mall will look like. The design team of the upcoming SM City GenSan composed of representatives from Monolith Construction Dev. Corp, general contractor; Jose Siao Ling & Associates, architect; and D.A. Abcede & Associates, project manager,   [...]

ASAP Sessionistas Live in GenSan!

August - 25 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 3 Responses - Viewed 95 times

In their first major event, Denville Music & Production and Record Breaker Events Managements, in celebration of the 2010 Tuna Festival Month is bringing to GenSan one of the most popular groupings of talented performers we often see on television. Generals, be ready for the ASAP SESSIONISTAS Live in GenSan, a once-in-a-lifetime-concert where you get [...]

Disney Channnel soon @ SkyCable GenSan!

August - 23 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 10 Responses - Viewed 101 times

After years and years of waiting, subscribers of SkyCable in General Santos City whose kids are followers and fans of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Jonas Brothers, Mr. Bean, Lilo & Stich, Hannah Montana, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, among others and who themselves loved the Disney Classics like Bambi, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Mary [...]

“Big & Small” Kids Photo Contest Winners

August - 22 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 4 Responses - Viewed 111 times

After weeks of speculating on who are gonna be the winners of the Search for the Big & Small Kids Photo Contest, GenSan News Online is now ready to release the results. From out of the combination of votes tallied from the Facebook Fan Page of the Big & Small Company, from the comments counted [...]

Bariles’ Top 10 Most Influential Emerging Blogs for 2010

August - 22 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 16 Responses - Viewed 176 times, 1 so far today

It has been two years since this blog won in Janette Toral‘s annual Search for the TOP 10 MOST INFLUENTIAL EMERGING BLOGS.  This was in 2008 when GenSan News Online Mag was still known as Bariles Republic. To be lumped together with the country’s other fledgling but “quite popular” blogs at that time was something [...]

Robinsons buys 29.6 hectares for GenSan Housing Project

August - 21 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 5 Responses - Viewed 138 times

Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC) is really hell-bent on making its presence felt in GenSan even more with its recent move. With less than a year after it formally opened its biggest mall in Mindanao, the Robinsons Place GenSan, its housing unit, Robinsons Homes purchased 29.6 hectares of property in the Tuna Capital. The property which [...]

Robinsons, Bloggers Haven of Soccsksargen

August - 20 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 12 Responses - Viewed 184 times, 4 so far today

HAVEN – (noun) a sanctuary, a refuge.  A place where one experiences bliss, delight, joy, happiness, nirvana. Before the imposing structure of Robinsons Place GenSan dominated the scenery along the Lagao National Highway, Bariles and his happy group of online writers, now famously known as the SOCCSKSARGEN BLOGGERS used to share a common problem – [...]

Juicy Dance Crew Inter-School Competition for Mindanao

August - 19 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 3 Responses - Viewed 67 times

With the major win of a local dance crew from General Santos City, the XB Gensan at ABS-CBN’s “It’s Showtime” last month, a lot of hip-hop groups are surely determined on following their footsteps. XB GenSan‘s glory was not an overnite success however.  For over two years, this group of dancers from Barangay Bula had [...]

Darlene declares GenSan NO-FIREARM ZONE

August - 18 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 7 Responses - Viewed 145 times, 1 so far today

Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio signed on Friday, August 13, 2010 Executive Order No. 23 declaring General Santos City as No-Firearm Zone. The move is in response to the spate of armed violence and crime incidents involving firearms in the city since early this year which has reached an alarming level. The E.O. cites Republic Act No. [...]

Red Trellis’ Seafood-All-You-Can-Eat on its 1st Birthday

August - 18 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 1 Response - Viewed 137 times, 1 so far today

Here’s great news for everyone who goes for eat-all-you-can feasts! Red Trellis Seafood Garden is celebrating its first anniversary on August 21, 2010 and to thank its loyal customers, it is offering a GRAND SEAFOOD ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT on that very same day! Red Trellis which serves the most succulent and fat king crabs from Surigao aside [...]

Caricaturist for hire

August - 16 - 2010 Reporter: bariles 10 Responses - Viewed 177 times

For the first time in his checkered life and as far as he can recall, Bariles never had somebody do me a caricature of himself.  But now, somebody just did and he is proud to show it to the readers and his friends here at GenSan News Online Mag. Dyaaaaraaaaan……. This artwork is a product [...]



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Bariles is a Filipino word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
The city boasts of the only “Tuna Festival” in the world celebrated every September 5 in commemoration of its charterhood anniversary.
Bariles is also the alias of this blog\'s author who would like nothing than to write about his beloved city by the bay and share it with his kababayans from all over.
He has worked throughout Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Currently, he devotes his time, beauty, and talent in the fields of Communications, Marketing and Media. He is also the unofficial leader of the \"Soccsksargen Bloggers\", a motley group of online journalists who share a common goal to share what\'s true, good, progressive and beautiful about their region and her people.

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