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	Cebu City - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cebu City is the capital of the province of Cebu in the Philippines and is the second most important metropolitan center in the country.
		Cebu is one of the main hubs of international flight into the country and is the most important center of commerce, trade, and industry in the Visayas and Mindanao parts of the country.
		To the northeast of the city are Mandaue City and the town of Consolacion, to the west are Toledo City and Balamban, to the south are Talisay City and the town of Minglanilla.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cebu_City (593 words)

	Cebu City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cebu City is the provincial capital of Cebu in the Philippines and is the second most important metropolitan center in the country.
		Cebu is also the main hub, outside of the capital, of international flights into the country and is the most important center of commerce, trade, and industry in the Visayas and Mindanao, the southern parts of the country.
		Cebu City is governed mainly by city hall, composed of one mayor, one vice-mayor and sixteen councilors (eight representing the north and eight representing the south).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cebu_City (4143 words)

	Wow Cebu City! » 2006 » March
		Cebu City (27 March) — Nearly one billion pesos worth of investments are expected in Cebu within the year, representing the expansion efforts of two of the top Cebu-based companies.
		Cebu City (23 March) — With Cebu’s degree of business success and sustained development in the retirement and medical tourism industry, a US-based expert on the health care industry noted that Cebu could become the country’s hub for both the retirement and the medical tourism industry.
		Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia who is also the board’s chair, said the proposals from the two companies are being studied as to the price it would incur because they do not want to use up their fund for this alone.
	wowcebucity.com /?m=200603 (3081 words)

	Geography of Cebu
		Cebu in Central Visayas is in the center of the Philippines archipelago.
		Cebu City, the regional capital of Central Visayas, lies at the heart of the Philippine archipelago, 365 miles south of Manila.
		Located midway on the East Coast of Cebu Island, it is bounded on the north by the Municipality of Talisay and on the west by Toledo City and Balamban.
	www.livingincebu.com /geography.htm (323 words)

	Welcome to www.cebutravelsite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cebu X is organized annually by the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation, Inc. (CFIF), the primary support organization and professional business partner of the Philippine furniture export industry in the last 30 years.
		A project of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), held annually, the event is conducted to celebrate the business and economic success of the province and to communicate that success to key publics within and outside Cebu.
		Upon exiting the church, the hungry is enticed by the sight and smell of puto bumbong and bibingka (native delicacies made of sticky and glutinous rice sold nearby).
	www.cebutravelsite.com /calendar.htm (1289 words)

	Balamban, Cebu - Cebu Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Balamban is a 2nd class municipality in Cebu, Philippines.
		Balamban is home to the country's biggest shipbuilding industry.
		Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu) Inc., the country's largest shipbuilding and ship repair facility is located in a sprawling industrial complex called West Cebu Industrial Park in barangay Buanoy.
	www.ngkhai.net /cebuwiki/index.php?title=Balamban,_Cebu (105 words)

	Ramon Magsaysay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		President Magsaysay asked what the operating costs per hour were for that type of aircraft, then wrote a personal check to the PAF, covering the costs for his flight.
		On March 16, 1957 Magsaysay left Manila for Cebu City where he was scheduled to speak at an educational institution.
		It was late in the afternoon that day that newspapers reported that the airplane had crashed on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, and all those aboard were killed except one newspaperman, Néstor Mata.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay (687 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Wenceslao: Balamban experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		THE trek was long so we set out from one of the mountain villages in Cebu City after supper, which in the countryside was early in the evening.
		Balamban was a poor municipality then, and it showed in what our hosts could offer for the duration of our meeting: corn, root crops, banana.
		Farmers in a big chunk of Cebu City’s hinterlands were far better because they had mangoes that sometimes paid well.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2006/03/10/oped/bong.o..wenceslao.html (505 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Balamban opposes Occidental Cebu bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Balamban is one of seven local government units in the district, most of which are Yapha’s allies and already expressed support to Yapha’s move.
		Even before the plan to divide Cebu was formalized, Balamban Mayor Alex Binghay was among the first local leaders who voiced opposition to the move.
		Officials of Balamban, where big shipbuilding companies are located, told Yapha that having another local government unit will increase the expenses for personnel services and so is against President Arroyo’s program to downsize government agencies.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2005/04/21/news/balamban.opposes.occidental.cebu.bill.html (371 words)

	thepinoy.com - Philippine News & Information Portal
		Cebu Plaza Hotel - Designed as a business resort hotel, Cebu Plaza has extensive sports and recreational facilities for the hotel guests and the members of the Safari Club, an exclusive membership club for sports enthusiasts, groups and families who love outdoor fun.
		Cebu Plaza Hotel by Travelsmart.net - Designed as a resort hotel, Cebu Plaza has an extensive sports and recreational facilities for the hotel guests.
		Park Place Hotel in Cebu, Philippines - Conveniently located at the heart of uptown Cebu, Park Place Hotel has the distinction of being right smack in the center of Cebu's business, commercial and entertainment districts.
	www.thepinoy.com /content/directory/Travel_and_Tourism/Cebu (617 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Potential problem in exodus of skilled workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There have been a good number of them, mostly coming from the shipbuilding firms in Balamban who were all trained skilled workers, but are forced to seek employment abroad to get better income for their families.
		The problem of the shipbuilding firms in Balamban is typical of most of the firms in the province in the face of the current dilemma over the high inflation rate and the low pay of the workers.
		In the case of the Balamban shipbuilding industry, I learned that much of the work is done by workers who get their pay from contractors rather than from the FMB or Tsuneishi.
	manilatimes.net /national/2006/mar/18/yehey/opinion/20060318opi4.html (601 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Balamban barangay hopes to become Cebu summer capital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		WITH a climate “comparable to that of Baguio City,” Balamban’s Barangay Gaas, which links Cebu City to Cebu’s southwestern towns, is moving to become the island’s summer capital.
		They said there is also the presence of the Cebu cinnamon, “the only one of its kind in the world,” as well as a flower pecker that is also endemic to the place.
		Binghay said they are now doing the legwork to accomplish their idea of displaying in the site, as an added attraction, a model of the plane that Magsaysay was in when he died.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2005/06/06/news/balamban.barangay.hopes.to.become.cebu.summer.capital.html (409 words)

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		BALAMBAN, Cebu — A grounded antenna electrocuted a teenager and his father and younger brother who tried to rescue him at the rooftop of their house in Barangay Sta.
		When members of the family, who were enjoying the show in their new television, heard something explode, Jun, the father, 37, and his son Jeffrey, 16, went out to see what happened.
		Jun and Jonel died on the spot, while Jeffrey was taken to the Balamban District Hospital but died later.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/09/22/PROV2005092245018.html (279 words)

	Jumalon Foundation Publications - Rediscovery of Cebu’s Vanishing Songbird
		In July 19, 1980, before the scheduled induction of the new sets of officer of the Cebu Biological Research Society in which organization the writer incidentally was the president.
		It is therefore fervently hoped by some Cebu biologists that this short account about the endemic Cebuano bird will shed light and give correct information to the populace who on the other hand must act as good custodians of our natural heritage.
		With sincere apologies to the persons liable for the said press release, as disciples of science it is our duty to uphold the truth and rectify the gross misrepresentation thus committed by the party responsible in publishing such an erroneous information.
	www.jnjumalon.org /Publications/Vanishing_Songbird.htm (1098 words)

	Calendar of Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MANUNGAL TREK, Balamban, Cebu- An annual mountain trek held within the 3rd week of March, in memory of the late president Ramon Magsaysay whose plane (named the Mt. Pinatubo) crashed in Mt. Manunggal on March 17, 1957.
		Bantayan, the oldest parish in Cebu, shows its rich religious faith in a solemn procession of carrozas (large carriages), lighted up and adorned with life-size images of key Biblical characters showing the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
		Cebu has 166 islands and islets with sandy beaches and clear blue waters teeming with marine life.
	www.cebucitytourism.com /calendar.html (2000 words)

	Asia-Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cebu Pacific Air is the Philippine"s low fare great value airline.
		Situated in Mactan, Cebu, Philippines, Plantation Bay is a 5-star+ beach resort just 15 mins away from the airport.
		While you"re going about your business and work in Cebu, we at Richmond Plaza Hotel are preparing your dinner and warming up your bed exactly the way you"re used to when you are at home.
	www.asia-links.com /sina/directory/directory.asp?folderid=8970 (444 words)

	Greenpeace Flays US
		The shipbreaking plant, a 20-hectare facility located in the Aboitiz-owned Cebu Industrial Park in Balamban town, has also been accused of polluting the Tanon Strait between Cebu and Bohol.
		Sanez said that an EMB inspection of the KandA facilities last Friday showed that asbestos was being stored in the plant's premises for eventual disposal in landfills.
		Cebu residents have filed a complaint with the Convention's secretariat in Geneva against KandA's alleged polluting activities.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/another.html (678 words)

	Balamban, Cebu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Romulus Cabahug portrays Balamban as originally a densely forested area except for a very small portion of land lying along the coastline.
		There are no definitive records as to when Balamban first became a town.
		But Octogenarians in the 1950’s recall that sometime before 1878, Balamban was already an organized unit with a Spaniard, Capitan Cinaco Gutierez, as its first administrator.
	www.ngkhai.com /pointcebu/facts/balamban.htm (136 words)

	People vs Narciso : 103875 : September 18, 1996 : J Bellosillo : First Division
		For alibi to prosper the person pleading this excuse must show that (a) he was somewhere else and not at the crime scene at or about the time of the killing; and, (b) it was physically impossible for him to be at the place of the crime.
		Rosario for his arrest in Cebu City for violation of P.D. 532 where he was a suspect in snatching.
		The distance between Balamban and Cebu City was never subject of evidence for appellant to support his claim that he could not have been in Balamban at the time of the killing because he was in Cebu City.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/1996/sept1996/103875.htm (2518 words)

	Greenpeace Flays US
		To protest the pollution, Cebu residents through Elac have filed a complaint with the Geneva-based secretariat of the 1989 Basel Convention.
		The Philippines and Japan are signatories to the Basel Convention which seeks to ensure that hazardous wastes are moved in an environmentally sound manner and that such wastes are properly disposed of.
		In their complaint, Elac said that on top of air and land contamination, Cebu's marine resources were being affected by the alleged improper disposal of wastes and oil spills.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/toxic_vessels.html (512 words)

	PHNO: HOMETOWN AND COMMUNITY News Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cebu City, June 28, 1999 - President Joseph Estrada has gained the respect and affection of Cebuanos for going full blast with major infrastructure projects in the province despite losing in the last presidential elections to the province's favorite son, former Cebu Governor Lito Osmena.
		The vessel was launched at the Tsuneishi Heavy Industries at the West Cebu Industrial Park in Balamban, Cebu.
		The south reclamation project is undertaken by the Cebu City government while the coastal highway is implemented by the national government.
	www.newsflash.org /1999/06/ht/ht000817.htm (472 words)

	Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
		Living in Biasong, an agriculture-based barangay in Balamban, Cebu, 31-year-old Susan Piloto and Marilou Cudis, know the importance of having healthy livestock and poultry to enhance agriculture and to augment the community’s income.
		Susan, Marilou and 19 others from Balamban, Asturias, Tuburan and Tabuelan, were sent by their respective Barangay Development Councils (BDCs) to undergo the 9-day lecture and 3-day practicum in a training conducted by the PVO for BAHA volunteers in January 2004.
		Susan, Marilou and 19 others from Balamban, Asturias, Tuburan and Tabuelan, were sent by their respective Barangay Development Councils (BDCs) to undergo the training on strengthening the capabilities of Barangay Animal Health Aide (BAHA) volunteers in June 2003.
	www.rafi.org.ph /ciadpB6.htm (794 words)

	Cebu’s most unused bridge
		Generally, the travel between Cebu City on the eastern side of the island and Balamban on the west coast of the province is a pleasant one along the newly concreted Trans Central Highway, notwithstanding that I don’t know why and how this got to be called—Trans Central Highway.
		Through Manipis, the distance between Cebu and Balamban is some 67 kilometers whereas if you would go to Balamban from our city via the Naga-Uling road, your trip is, at almost 80 kilometers, definitely longer.
		As I heard the story onsite, his car, coming from the direction of Cebu City, was slowly and carefully negotiating the downward slope when a dump truck which was following it, lost its brakes and hurtled the arbiter’s car off the lane and unto the death valley hundreds of meters down.
	www.thefreeman.com /opinion/story-20031204-12687.html (873 words)

	West Cebu Industrial Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The dispersal of industries in Cebu to new Integrated Industrial Centers in the countryside saw the development of the West Cebu Industrial Park (WCIP) in Balamban town along the western seaboard of Cebu Island.
		The 202-hectare estate is a project of Cebu Industrial park Developers, Inc. (CIPDI), a joint venture of the Aboitiz Group and Tsuneishi Holdings, Inc. of Japan.
		Made of reinforced concrete pipes with a size range of 0.6 meters to 1.2 meters in diameter.
	www.dticebu.net.ph /02_d_11.html (220 words)

	Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog
		In March 2001, several hired killers gunned him down as he was on his way out of the Balamban district hospital, where he served as a government physician for more than seven years.
		After being shot in the head, he was left for dead by his killers, apparently hired by a woman he had a fight with the month before.
		I know alot of you lawyers out there are in tears and want to head out to Balamban, Cebu, to "help" him, but I heard they don't have lawyers out there.
	kevinmd.com /blog/2005/08/doctor-blinded-by-attempted-murder-now.html (271 words)

	Ecpat International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gala Enerio said these were the findings of a survey of trafficking routes in the country from 1999 to 2001.
		These children and women are suffering from exploitation for sexual purposes, for forced labor, slavery or are used as source of organs that are sold.
		Enerio and Miaco were among the speakers during a three-day capacity building training for Cebu media practitioners on child and women trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation at the Binghay Marine Park in Balamban, Cebu.
	www.ecpat.net /eng/ecpat_inter/irc/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1541 (517 words)

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