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                    [Title] => RP mulls lifting of Lebanon ban
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The Philippine government may soon resume the deployment of Filipino workers to Lebanon.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364560 [Title] => Pagbibigay ng puwesto sa ret. generals binira ni Nene [Summary] => Binatikos ni Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., si Pangulong Arroyo dahil sa pagkuha nito sa mga retiradong heneral upang bigyan ng puwesto sa kanyang administrasyon.

Nadismaya si Sen. Pimentel sa natanggap niyang impormasyon na si dating AFP chief Gen. Generoso Senga ang pahahawakin ng Pangulo sa pamamahala ng NBN Channel 4 dahil sa pagiging tapat nito sa nabigong kudeta noong Pebrero.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364730 [Title] => Pagbibigay ng puwesto sa ret. generals binira ni Nene [Summary] => Binatikos ni Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., si Pangulong Arroyo dahil sa pagkuha nito sa mga retiradong heneral upang bigyan ng puwesto sa kanyang administrasyon.

Nadismaya si Sen. Pimentel sa natanggap niyang impormasyon na si dating AFP chief Gen. Generoso Senga ang pahahawakin ng Pangulo sa pamamahala ng NBN Channel 4 dahil sa pagiging tapat nito sa nabigong kudeta noong Pebrero.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335894 [Title] => Gov’t distributes updated security handbooks vs terror to OFWs [Summary] => RIYADH — With terrorism now among the threats facing Filipino workers abroad, the Philippine government is distributing updated handbooks on safety and security in dealing with terror attacks, including chemical and biological.

The Safety and Emergency Handbooks for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) for 2006 was amended from its first edition in 2003, according to Ambassador Roy Cimatu, the country’s special envoy to the Middle East.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250022 [Title] => Deployment ng Pinoy troops sa Iraq, tuloy [Summary] => Sa kabila ng sunud-sunod na pagkasawi ng mga Pinoy sa Iraq mula sa mga bomb attack, inihayag na itutuloy ng pamahalaan ang pagpapadala ng karagdagang Pilipinong sundalo na kabilang sa humanitarian contingent doon.

Ayon kay AFP Vice Chief of Staff at Spokesman Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, ang ikalawang batch ng mga sundalong ipadadala sa Iraq ay hindi magsasagawa ng combat mission.

Samantala, dapat nang sibakin ni Pangulong Arroyo si Ambassador Roy Cimatu bilang pinuno ng Middle East Preparedness Team sa gitna ng pagkamatay ng ilang Pinoy sa Iraq.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235772 [Title] => Arroyo condemns Iraq truck bombing [Summary] => President Arroyo condemned yesterday the truck bombing that killed 25 people in Iraq and stressed that Filipino troops among the US-led coalition forces will be staying put there.

"The Philippine government condemns in strongest terms the recent bombing incident in Iraq," Mrs. Arroyo said in a statement. "We sympathize with the Iraqi people and reiterate our firm resolve to rescue Iraq and its democratic institutions."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201672 [Title] => GMA’s wish: Freedom and peace for Iraqis [Summary] => President Arroyo said yesterday that her birthday wish is for the return of peace and freedom to the Iraqi people, even as the United States-led coalition forces finally entered Baghdad on the 16th day of the war in Iraq.

"I pray and wish for the people of Iraq to have peace and freedom in their land," the President said in her remarks at the end of the thanksgiving mass celebrated for her 56th birthday at the San Agustin Parish Church in Lubao, Pampanga. Her family, led by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, attended the mass.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201441 [Title] => Palace orders Alvarez to check on Pinoys in ME [Summary] => Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Communities Heherson Alvarez will fly to the Middle East to check on the situation of Filipinos working there.

Alvarez said he has been instructed by President Arroyo to find out what else can be done to help the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East besides the programs being implemented by special envoy Roy Cimatu and his Middle East Preparedness Team (MEPT).
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732629 [AuthorName] => Sammy Santos [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201212 [Title] => Sun Cellular extends free service to families of OFWs in Middle East [Summary] => Sun Cellular is assisting the government in its campaign to bring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in war-stricken Iraq and Kuwait closer to their families by extending its services for free to aid the government in its "Oplan Kalinga" – a project to establish a 24-hour call center to ensure that communications will be open and available for OFWs facing the terror of war in the Middle East.

The undertaking is part of a nationwide effort to help dispel the fears of the public on the dangers being posed by the US-Iraq war.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201126 [Title] => Embahada ng 'Pinas sa Kuwait nakaalerto [Summary] => Nasa highest alert ngayon ang Embahada ng Pilipinas sa Kuwait matapos ang pagpapaulan ng missile ng Iraq sa isang commercial center sa nasabing bansa noong Sabado ng umaga.

Agad na nagtungo ang Middle East Preparedness Team (MEPT) sa pamumuno ni special envoy Ret. Gen. Roy Cimatu sa Kuwait upang tulungan ang may 150 Pilipino na empleado ng isang commercial center na kinabagsakan ng isang missile mula sa Basra, Iraq.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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