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In Mindanao Food Congress, Hopes for ‘Doable Action Agenda’

DAVAO CITY?Key agribusiness players in Mindanao aim for stronger government-private sector partnership in addressing food and agri-industry concerns across the island-region when the 6th Mindanao Food Congress opens here on 18-19 July 2007 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel.

The Mindanao Business Council, along with its cooperators from the government and private sector, formalized here yesterday the conduct of the 6th Mindanao Food Congress, an annual gathering of key players in Mindanao food and agriculture industry to discuss industry issues and policy initiatives.

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Arroyo Extends Philippines’s Full Cooperation in Campbell Probe

MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is extending the Philippine government?s “full cooperation” in the United States ongoing investigation on the circumstances that led to the death of US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell.

Press Secretary and concurrent Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said in a statement this morning the President “is saddened” by the death of the Peace Corps worker.

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Philippines: Arroyo in Elite Company in Boao Forum

MANILA – When President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo attends the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) slated this weekend in China?s southernmost island province of Hainan, she will be in elite company.

More than 200 senior government officials and 600 top businessmen from around the world, including the wealthiest of them all, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, are among those who have confirmed their attendance to the April 20-22 forum which this year will look for new approaches and ideas for sustainable economic development in Asia.

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President Orders Probe on Attacks Vs Journalists in Philippines

MANILA — Describing the successive attacks this week on provincial media practitioners as “despicable,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the local law enforcement agencies to “carry out a swift and thorough investigation.”

In a statement, Press Secretary and concurrent Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said attacks on journalists have “no place in a democracy that upholds press freedom.”

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US Embassy in Philippines Saddened by Death of Peace Corps Volunteer

U.S. Embassy News Release
April 19, 2007

MANILA — The U.S. Embassy is saddened to confirm the death of U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell, who disappeared on April 8 while hiking in Banaue, Ifugao Province, Northern Luzon. Search parties discovered Ms. Campbell?s body near Barangay Batad, Banaue town this morning. Philippine authorities will make the final pronouncement of cause of death.

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