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The whole month of July, the Philippines celebrates the 31st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Month. Launching activities shall be held in various venues in Naga City on July 1, 2009-- the first time that NDPR launching events are held outside the National Capital Region.

Dr. Josephine Robredo-Bundoc, in-country Director at the Philippines Walking Free clinic and consultant at the UP-PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is this year's Coordinator of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Month. Dr. Bundoc is a native of Naga City and the younger sister of city mayor Jesse Robredo.

In the run-off to the 31st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPAR) Month in July Dr. Josephine Robredo-Bundoc and company from the Walk Free Project and Physicians for Peace distributed and attached pre-fitted limb prostheses to amputees in Naga City.

The half-day event took place at the Naga City Civic Center last weekend.

LUPI, Camarines Sur, June 11  -- The P1.9-billion Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project (LCDP) under the Bicol River Basin and Watershed Management Project (BRBWMP) is currently underway as engineers and construction workers of A.M. Oreta Co. Inc. have started working on it since May 24, 2009.

LEGAZPI CITY, June 12 (PNA) - Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile has defended President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the issue of Charter Change (Cha-Cha) being pushed by the House of Representatives.

LEGAZPI CITY - - ON THE EVE of the 50^th Charter anniversary of this city, Mayor Noel E. Rosal revealed that after two years the city had finally recovered from the destructive effects of typhoon "Reming" in November of 2006, with the help of the private sector, the national government and foreign agencies which poured in some P 5-Billion in economic and infra investments in this prime Bikol city.

NAGA CITY, June 11 (PNA) -- About 1,700 people volunteered to donate blood during the multi-sector celebration of the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) on June 14 at the Naga City Gymnasium here.

LEGAZPI CITY, June 9 (PNA) -- The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has identified seven key areas in the Bikol region declared by the Philippine Economic Zones Authority (PEZA) as Special Economic Zones for developments worth a total of about P4.5 billion.

IRIGA CITY --- The Kalikasan Group (K-Group) of the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP), in support of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) program, has lined-up various activities to mark the celebrations of the Environment Month this June and the World Environment Day last June 5.

How exactly will Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo consult "the people" regarding the proposal from the Naga City Executive Council on Tercentenary Celebration to move the schedule of the civic-military parades?

We ask this question in view of the news that the confused mayor cannot decide on the said proposal which emanated from a council of his own creation. Why create a council which is tasked of sorting out the matter at hand only to proclaim afterwards that "the people" would need to be consulted? Had the proposal been to retain the schedule of these said activities, would Mayor Robredo declare that "the people" need to be consulted? Incidentally, was "the people" consulted regarding the experimental traffic scheme at Panganiban Drive?

June 5, 9:15 PM. There he is again! Back to Germany for the second time! Oh no, this is not Berlin, it is Dresden. Obama is not heading for Berlin in this visit. In fact he is not really into meeting anyone from Berlin. His concern is completely different.

Independence Day for us, I bet, is just another holiday we look forward to. No work and no classes. Unlike Christmas or Holy Week that have deep meanings for us.

I left the Philippines last May 15 just when the world was in panic about a kind of flu tagged as having to do with pigs. The image of this animal and the symptoms of high fever were just too much to bear for human beings. The birds brought SARS; the monkeys offered Ebola. Now, the swine is proffering a new disease.

NAGPOON NA AN KRALASEHAN; ini an kasiribotan ngunyan sa mga ronâ kun sain an bakasyon ginigibo sa mga bulan na Abril sagkod Mayo. Dai ta man manenegaran na an pagpoon kan klase sarong panahon na satong labi-labing pinag-aandaman. Tibaad ini man an pasabong na tinatawan ta man nanggad nin magkakanigong pansin an edukasyon, an pagkánood. Bilang sarong paratukdo, an pagpoon kan klase sarong panibagong taon sa samong kinaban.

In my column this week, allow me to present some data from a study I made on the relation of poverty and population in Masbate.

I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT a couple of things, about some thoughts that have been following me or have been nagging me to say something about them.

MANILA - The Filipino people's vote against the convening of a constituent assembly has been cast. Between 10,000 to 15,000 people joined the rally in Makati on June 10 to show their indignation over the railroading of House Resolution 1109, which provides for the convening of Congress into a constituent assembly with the Senate and House voting as one.