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                    [Title] => One last push for BBL
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While browsing my Yahoo mail last Sunday night, one particular news item caught my interest to read the entire story from the link.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1299243 [Title] => President says Gambia to shift from English [Summary] =>

Gambia's president said that he wants to implement a policy change that would shift the country's language from English to a local language.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-10 05:27:29 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1104679 [AuthorName] => Abdoulie John [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 385563 [Title] => Gambia celebrates 42nd independence anniversary [Summary] => The Republic of The Gambia celebrates its 42nd anniversary of independence from British rule today.

Despite the geographical distance between the two countries, the Philippines and Gambia have become close allies. The Gambia is some 9,000 miles away from the country, situated along the Atlantic Coast of Western Africa.

The efforts initiated in June 2005 by the establishment of an honorary consulate in Manila and, even more significantly, by the state visit of President Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh have borne fruit in the bilateral relations of the two countries. [DatePublished] => 2007-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283351 [Title] => PNOC keen on oil exploration prospects in Gambia [Summary] => The state-owned Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) is taking concrete steps to push through with plans to undertake oil exploration in Gambia in West Africa, Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said yesterday.

"(Gambian) President Alhai Jammeh offered to the Philippines one exploration block and PNOC will prepare for the exploration work there," said Lotilla.

The Philippines’ oil exploration agreement with Gambia was an offshoot of the recently-concluded state visit of Jammeh.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283178 [Title] => Pinoy farmers’ peanuts link RP and Gambia [Summary] => While the economy of the tiny Republic of Gambia in West Africa depends primarily on agriculture, it also finds itself agriculturally linked to the Philippines via the "pink" peanuts indigenously grown here.

Visiting Gambian President Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh was particularly proud of the fact that a variety of his country’s peanuts — their top export product — came to Gambia in 1966 all the way from the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283010 [Title] => GMA, Gambian president vow cooperation on oil, OIC issues [Summary] => Beleaguered by a new surge in world crude oil prices, President Arroyo and Gambian President Yahya Jammeh promised the two countries would help each other to address the problem.

The President described Jammeh’s visit as "God-sent" as he also vowed to back the Philippines’ bid for "permanent" observer status in the influential Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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