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Last Updated: 16 NOVEMBER 2007
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    A beaming President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo congratulates Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines His Excellency Edward Joseph Adams after receiving his credentials Friday (Nov. 16) at Malacanang's Rizal Hall. (Marcelino Pascua-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo welcomes to Malacanang officials of Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. led by Jon Aboitiz who paid a courtesy call on her Friday (Nov. 16). A joint venture of Taiwan Cogeneration Corp. (TCC) and Aboitiz Power Corp. (APC), RP Energy will establish a 300-mw, $420-million coal-fired power plant in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBMA) starting next year. (Marcelino Pascua- OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo poses with Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams (second from right) after the presentation of his credentials Friday (Nov. 16) at Malacanang's Rizal Hall. Also in photo are (from left) Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo and Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales. (Marcelino Pascua-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    PGMA ADDRESSES 33RD KBP CONFAB -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gestures to emphasize a point as she addresses the 33rd Top Level Management Conference of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) Wednesday night (Nov. 14) at the Grand Ballroom of the Oxford Hotel at Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga. (Exequiel Supera-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    A beaming President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is welcomed by Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) president Butch Canoy (extreme left) upon her arrival Wednesday night (Nov. 14) at the lobby of the Oxford Hotel in the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga where she addressed the 33rd Top Level Management Conference of the KBP. Looking on are KBP Board chairman Ruperto Nicdao and Presidential Management Staff head Cerge Remonde (2nd and 3rd from left, respectively). (Marcelino Pascua-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo offers prayers during her visit at the wake of the late former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dulce Saguisag at the St. Scholastica’s College in Ermita, Manila Wednesday night (Nov. 14, 2007). Mrs. Saguisag, wife of former Sen. Rene Saguisag, died in a vehicular accident in Makati City last Nov. 7. The former senator himself was seriously injured in the same accident. Also in photo is Saguisag’s daughter Lara. (Rolando Mailo-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo welcomes Ho Kwon Ping, chief executive officer of Singapore’s Banyan Tree Group, during a courtesy call on her Wednesday (Nov. 14) at Malacanang's Music Room. The Banyan Tree Group executive informed the President that his company is pushing through with its plan to develop two resorts in Dinalan Island, Palawan at a cost of US$70 million. (Rico Borja/OPS-NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is all smiles as she prepares to leave the stage after the opening ceremonies of "Bridges: Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace" Wednesday (Nov. 14) at Malacanang's Rizal Hall. The Bridges Program is a first of its kind in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with a lecture series in 2007 and 2008 in Thailand and the Philippines before it moves to Malaysia in late 2008 and into 2009. With the President in photo are (from left) Asian Institute of Management (AIM) president Francis Estrada, Nobel Economics Laureate Professor Robert Alexander Mundell, founding chairman of the International Peace Foundation Uwe Morawetz, and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ayala Corporation and Philippine chairman of Bridges Program. (Dado Aguilar/OPS-NIB Photo)
       
    A beaming President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shakes hands with Professor Robert Alexander Mundell, a Nobel Prize for Economics awardee for his theory on "optimum currency areas," at the opening rites of "Bridges: Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace" Wednesday (Nov. 14) at Malacañang's Rizal Hall. Looking on are Asian Institute of Management (AIM) president Francis Estrada, founding chairman of the International Peace Foundation Uwe Morawetz, and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ayala Corporation and Philippine chairman of Bridges Program. (Dado Aguilar/OPS-NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is greeted by Jose M. Concepcion III, Presidential Consultant for Entrepreneurship, after she delivered her speech during the presentation of the CITI Microentrepreneur of the Year Awardees Wednesday (Nov. 14) at Malacañang's Heroes' Hall. Also in photo is Presidential Management Staff (PMS) Head Cerge Remonde (left). (Dado Aguilar/OPS-NIB Photo)
 
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presides over the National Security Council (NSC)-Cabinet Group meeting Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 13) at Malacanang's Aguinaldo State Dining Room. With the President in photo is Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. Earlier, the President convened the National Anti-Poverty Commission-Cabinet Group meeting in Malacanang to come up with measures that would bolster the government’s anti-poverty program. (Alfredo Francisco/OPS-NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gestures to stress a point as she presides over the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC)- Cabinet Group meeting Tuesday (Nov. 13) at Malacanang's Aguinaldo State Dining Room. The President convened the meeting to come up with measures that would bolster the country’s peace and stability, enhance the delivery of basic services notably clean water, quality education, and speed up the implementation of the P1-billion additional outlay for the government’s anti-poverty program. Also in photo is Vice President Noli de Castro (back to camera). (Alfredo Francisco-OPS/NIB Photo)
       
    President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo receives a framed “Heal the Nation Now Manifesto” (a call for national solidarity and healing not only physically but spiritually and politically) from Dr. Daisy Camitan, chairperson of the 13th Academic Meeting and Annual Convention of the Philippine Academy of Medical Specialists (PAMS), before she addressed the conference at the Isla Ballroom of the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City Monday (Nov.12). Also in photo are (from right) Dr. Jerrimo Genuino, PAMS-Cavite Chapter chair; National Director for Special Concerns of the Department of Health Dr. Elmer Punzalan, and PAMS president Dr. Rene Catan. (Marcelino Pascua /OPS-NIB Photo)
       

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