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VOL. LIIV. No. 025

City of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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PRES. ARROYO HERE TODAY
Launching SK Green Phils.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will launch today another environmental campaign in a very brief official visit here coinciding with the national convention of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK).

President Arroyo will breeze through the province this morning arriving at the city airport at around 11 a.m. before she will proceed to an FULL STORY

PRESIDENTIAL VISIT. Pres. Arroyo is arriving this morning for a national SK event and law signing. SK nat'l chair Jane Censoria Cajes and Rep. Edgar Chatto lead welcomers.

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THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

An unprecedented colored man as President in America's White House brought more than just a skin-deep change in the face of the New America.

For one, President Barrack Obama is rectifying the error of a war in Iraq where then outgoing president George Bush, the Junior got a "shoe-to-kill" order from a peeved media man. The Iraqi suspect missed hitting his used shoe in the face of Junior Bush - but he made a direct hit on his message. "America, get out of here!"
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Just Before Deadline
Troops inch closer
into Abu Sayyaf lair
ZAMBOANGA. Tension gripped Sulu province as government troops moved closer to an Abu Sayyaf lair in defiance of the Islamic extremists' stern warning to pull back or they would behead one of the three Red Cross captives, even as yesterday's 2 p.m. deadline lapsed.

Jolo town Mayor Hussin Amin said the troops were ordered to pound the extremists who have been holding hostage Filipino Mary-Jean Lacaba, Italian Eugenio Vagni, and Swiss Andreas Notter.
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MARIJUANA UPROOTED. Joint team from the Philippine Drugs Emforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Inabanga police uprooted marijuana plants from a secluded farmland in barangay Ilihan, Inabanga town last week. PDEA chief Yogi Ruiz and SPO2 Rolando Anunciado, of the Inabanga PNP made the successful operation after a weeklong surveilance.

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