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+ Follow Philippine-American Friendship Day Tag
Philippine-American Friendship Day
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                    [ArticleID] => 2110089
                    [Title] => Are the Philippines and America still friends?
                    [Summary] => Today is supposed to be the Philippine-American Friendship Day, instead of being the Philippine Independence Day.
                    [DatePublished] => 2021-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1148714
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 2110092
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Still friends
                    [Summary] => Today, the fourth of July, is celebrated as Independence Day in the US.
                    [DatePublished] => 2021-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2021/07/03/freetoon_2021-07-03_22-55-37442_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 2025452
                    [Title] => US Independence Day: Foundational freedoms for the future
                    [Summary] => "Friends help each other in times of need, or as I’ve heard here, the weight becomes lighter when we help each other—'Ang mabigat ay gumagaan, kapag nagtutulungan."
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-07-04 10:15:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136541
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805705
                    [AuthorName] => Sung Kim
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2020/07/04/philippines-us-covid19-response_2020-07-04_10-27-28765_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 2025521
                    [Title] => Are we still friends with America?
                    [Summary] => Today, we are supposed to celebrate the Philippine-American Friendship Day. But is there still a friendship, after all the pain and heartaches? To my mind, we and the US are like two lovers who aren’t sure if they are still in love with each other.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1148714
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 1931849
                    [Title] => The Phl-US love-hate affair and China’s cruel seductions
                    [Summary] => If you allow this writer a little attempt at analogy, simile perhaps with a little sprinkling of hyperbole, in the field of foreign relations, then I will oblige.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1148718
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 1830357
                    [Title] => The state of Phil-Am relationship
                    [Summary] => Today, being Philippine-American Friendship Day, it behooves on us to reflect on the quality of the relations between the Philippines and the United States. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1148714
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 1830424
                    [Title] => US and Philippines: Friends, partners, allies
                    [Summary] => Every July 4, the United States and the Philippines celebrate Philippine-American Friendship Day and the United States celebrates our Independence Day.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-07-04 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805705
                    [AuthorName] => Sung Kim
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/articles/gen5-duterte-trump_2018-07-03_22-57-1065_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 963998
                    [Title] => NBI can go after drug mule’s recruiters – Binay
                    [Summary] => 

Vice President Jejomar Binay is set to visit the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) this week to find out why the agency is not acting against the recruiters of a Filipina executed in China for drug trafficking last week.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825213 [Title] => July 4 [Summary] =>

When I was growing up in the ’70s, July 4 was a nationwide non-working holiday. Officially dubbed as Philippine-American Friendship Day, I often wondered why other countries did not enjoy a similar special “BFF” (i.e., best friends forever) day.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134856 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249993 [AuthorName] => Dean Andy Bautista [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 824190 [Title] => US reaffirms strong ties with Philippines [Summary] =>

Ties between the Philippines and the United States have so improved that perhaps President Aquino and US President Barack Obama “might be friends in Facebook already,” US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. said last night.

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