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Philippines: BAY AREA PINOYS CAST THEIR VOTES IN 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS

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PRESS RELEASE
Department of Foreign Affairs
2330 Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Philippines ? Tel. No. 834-4000 ? www.dfa.gov.ph

BAY AREA PINOYS CAST THEIR VOTES IN 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS

16 April 2007 ? Consul General Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez of the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. reported to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo that the Filipinos in the Bay Area already started to cast their votes for the 2007 Philippine National Elections.

Mr. Antonio Menchavez, a 63-year old Cebu native who is currently a security officer at the Philippine Center building in San Francisco, personally delivered his ballot to the Consulate during the first day of elections, 14 April 2007. This was received by members of the Special Ballot Reception of and Custody Group (SBRCG) including Consul Anthony Mandap, Mr. Cesar Cruz and Mr. John Jiao.

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BPO Council Launched in NY, Philippines Praised as Outsourcing Destination

PRESS RELEASE
Department of Foreign Affairs
2330 Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Philippines ? Tel. No. 834-4000 ? www.dfa.gov.ph

BPO COUNCIL LAUNCHED in New York City, RP PRAISED as OUTSOURCING destination

16 April 2007 ? Consul General Cecilia B. Rebong of the Philippine Consulate General in New York, USA reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce-New York (PACC-NY) formally launched the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Council on 4 April 2007 at the Philippine Center in Manhattan to promote the Philippines as a business process outsourcing destination.

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Philippines: ‘We are in Great Pain’ — Missing Activist’s Family

STATEMENT OF TOMAS LEGISLADOR DOMINADO, JR. ON THE ABDUCTION AND DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS WIFE, MARIA LUISA ARCHES POSA AND NILO ARADO

Just recently, on March 28, I gave 30 stems of red roses to my wife symbolizing our 30 years of marriage amidst arduous struggle for democracy. Through thick and thin, we have marched together, with our people, for 37 years in their fight for liberation.

Would this be about to come to an end? For last night (April 12), agents of the state under the Arroyo regime forcibly abducted my wife and Nilo Arado of BAYAN. They shot Leeboy Garachico of KARAPATAN, in the neck and left him for dead.

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Philippines: Dureza Tells AFP to Mind Welfare of Sulu Civilians

Jesus Dureza, President Arroyo’s adviser on the peace process, has released a statement saying that the clashes in Sulu was not directed against the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). He also called on the military to be careful not to harm civilians during its operations.

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Philippines: Interfaith Mission Slams AFP Over Grecil’s Death

National Interfaith Psychosocial First-Aid Mission
Brgy. Kahayag, New Battan, Compostela Valley Province
April 14, 2007

MISSION STATEMENT

April 16, 2007

Knowing that,

The 1001st Infantry Brigade under 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has hastily charged the victim of its cold blooded killing, Grecil S. Buya, as a child soldier of the New People?s Army last March 31, 2007;

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