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 ... 
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 ... 
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; ... 
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 ... 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 [...]
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 [...]
Announcing the contest for bloggers and non-bloggers alike to win FREE Tickets to the most-awaited Concert at the Tuna Festival month!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
