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	City's History
		Calbayog as a town and parish during the Spanish period was composed of several villages, the most populated of which are called visitas.
		Calbayog as a city with its first set of city officials was inaugurated on October 16, 1948.
		The city comprises the territorial jurisdiction of the former Municipalities of Calbayog, Oquendo and Tinambacan.
	members.fortunecity.com /ruel1/calbayogko/id2.html (1270 words)

	CalbayognonsNetwork
		The city has its own airport regularly serviced by commercial planes going to and from Manila and a bustling sea port constantly lined with passenger and cargo vessels coming from and going to various points of the region to as far as the mega-cities of Manila and Cebu.
		The city is largely se lf-sufficient in terms of food and is known as an important exporter of vegetables and other more exotic agricultural produce to the rest of the region.
		The city is proud of its semi-independence from Samar province yet exerts significant political pressure in determining the province’s leadership.
	groups.msn.com /CalbayognonsNetwork/overviewofcalbayog1.msnw (1320 words)

	Calbayog Frequently Asked Questions
		Calbayog as a city has an area that is the fifth largest in the country.
		While much of the surrounding area that the hospital cares for is economically challenged, Calbayog is the center of trade for the upper-half of the population on the island having trading and transportation routes including the Pan Philippine Highway that transects the city.
		The Calbayog Hospital is a one story 300 sq meter building consisting of one main hospital building, a kitchen cum canteen (not operational now), an OPD extension and conference room, and a maintained shed-garage.
	www.calbayogsan.org /calbayog_faq.html (1989 words)

	Calbayog City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Calbayog City is a 1st class city in the province of Samar, Philippines.
		According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 147,187 people in 28,912 households.
		Calbayog City is politically subdivided into 157 barangays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calbayog (68 words)

	Eastern Visayas, Region VIII, Philippines
		The capital of the province of Leyte is Tacloban City.
		Calbayog City, Samar, is, in area, the second largest city in the Philippines.
		It is divided into Calbayog City and twenty-five towns, of which Catbalogan is the provincial capital.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ph-viii.html (574 words)

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		CALBAYOG CITY — Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento says his city is peaceful and the peace and the crime situation is under control, contrary to some media reports circulating in the region.
		In contrast, Tacloban City was tagged as the the dirtiest city in the region for the second time under the administration of Mayor Alfredo "Bejo" T. Romualdez Sr.
		It is even possible that Calbayog may become a center of commerce in the entire Eastern Visayas as it has a domestic airport to cater to the transportation needs of the public.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/03/23/PROV200403235526.html (507 words)

	CalbayognonsNetwork
		THEY flapped their wings, scratched the ground, and wiggled their tails as they danced and romped through the main streets of Calbayog City, during the vesper day parade on Sept. 7, held in celebration of the city fiesta in honor of the Our Lady of Nativity.
		The city government wanted then to have a festival that would instill pride and sense of identity among the Calbayognons and to unify them as one community.
		Aside from the city officials, parents, students and members of private organizations have also been supportive of the event.
	groups.msn.com /CalbayognonsNetwork/calbayogsarakikifestival.msnw (708 words)

	Calbayog CDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Calbayog City CDS Team conducted their public consultation on their draft CDS document last July 23 at the function room of the Calbayog City Museum.
		This process will help the city to better understand the factors that fuel the local economy, at the same time, it will also help identify the city's niche in the context of the regional and national economy.
		He cited Calbayog City's program which involves teachers in the collection of real property taxes, from which a percentage of the total amount will go into the local Special Education Fund, as a good example for other LGUs to emulate.
	www.cdsea.org /archives/Kcontrib/calbayog_cds.htm (794 words)

	City Mayors: Local government in The Philippines
		The 177 recognised cities belonging to the League of Philippine Cities are regarded as belonging to the same sub-tier as the municipalities but are given more central government subsidy to fulfil their duties.
		Chartered cities, which include a number regarded as Highly Urbanised Cities, are accorded significant powers of self-government and individual representation as congressional districts (which are otherwise based on provincial boundaries), while component cities are recognised only as titular cities.
		The current mayor of the city of Manila is Jose "Lito" L. Atienza, currently on his third and final term, who oversees a city council consisting of the vice mayor and 36 elected councillors (six from each congressional district).
	www.citymayors.com /government/philippines_government.html (2092 words)

	Calbayog Ko...
		We feel that letting the viewer to glance at our City, will make changes to itself and can even change the world, and we want to let other people know how they can join in and make all our lives better, and especially is to let the world know that CALBAYOG CITY does exist.
		CALBAYOG CATHEDRAL - situated at the heart of the city proper.
		Dubbed as the biggest church in the entire province of Samar, the Calbayog Cathedral has lots of Spanish touch in architecture, and a bit of taste of the modern times.
	members.fortunecity.com /ruel1/calbayogko (405 words)

	History of Calbayog
		Calbayog began as early as 1600 in a settlement called Hibatang by the river bank of the present Oquendo River.
		The present Barangay Anislag was the forerunner of Calbayog settlement.
		Calbayog rose to political and religious prominence after the American era and became the seat of Roman Catholicism in Samar when the Diocese of Calbayog was created on April 10, 1910.
	calbayog.lgu-ph.com (449 words)

	PGMA awards Security Tenure Certificates to informal settlers in Calbayog City
		The City government led by Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento has devised ways and means to relocate them with the cheapest cost of three to four pesos per day.
		It was the city government which negotiated sale of the private land to the government itself and in turn the recipient pays the lot according to his capacity to pay.
		Yolanda Villar, one of the cooperative presidents said she is happy with the coming of the President who unveiled mostly pro-poor projects initiated by the City government.
	www.samarnews.com /news2006/oct/f887.htm (400 words)

	Infocity - Asian City Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Key speakers in the dialogue were Mel Sarmiento, Mayor of Calbayog City, Philippines; Dr. Hoang Ngoc Tuan, Director Science and Technology Department of Hai Phong and Head of the City’s CDS Task Force; and Li Bin Long, Deputy Director of the Lanzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission.
		The City Government of Ormoc, through the initiative of Mayor Eric C. Codilla, is building a leisure park at the 2-kilometer stretch of Anilao River where around 10,000 people died in a massive flooding in November 1991.
		Calbayog City, through Mayor Mel Senen S. Sarmiento, was recently awarded the Konrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence (KAME) as a highly performing city government.
	infocity.org (470 words)

	PGMA to give ‘special’ SONA for Samar people
		CALBAYOG CITY, Samar – In her second visit to this city’s 58th Charter Day Anniversary on Monday (October 16), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has prepared a very special day, as she is expected to deliver her “special” State of the Nation Address (SONA) exclusively for the constituents of three provinces of Samar Island.
		In an exclusive interview, Calbayog City Administrator Edgar Isidro yesterday informed this writer that the visit of the president is now confirmed.
		The October 16 visit will be President Arroyo’s second visit to the city of Calbayog, the first was when she graced as the resource speaker during the graduation ceremony of the Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Sciences and Technology (TTMIST) in 2002.
	www.samarnews.com /news2006/oct/f884.htm (627 words)

	House of Representatives - House Members
		To some friends it was a miracle considering that the city of Calbayog was traditionally a Nationalista country.
		As a City Mayor, he was able to instill in the minds of the people and the city officials to forget politics for a while and concentrate on the work of building up Calbayog City and fulfill the dream of socio-economic upliftment of the city.
		He is the only Calbayog City Mayor who has brought fame, name and awards to the City of Calbayog.
	www.congress.gov.ph /members/print_about.php?id=uy-r (1032 words)

	League of Cities of the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Olongapo City bags grant as ISF Pionner LGU - Olongapo was chosen as the pioneer LGU of the Innovation Support Fund (ISF) funded by the Australian Government, under the Land Administration and Management Program (LAMP2), a project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
		Tagaytay City and Marikina City were among the eight cities from the Asia-Pacific region that were commended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for outstanding achievements and best practices in healthy cities’ projects at the Second General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities on October 28-30, 2006 in Suzhou, China.
		Mayor Sarmiento shared the initiatives and experiences of Calbayog City, which implements the project by setting limitations on the number of fishing boats and utilization of selective juvenile and trash fish excluder devices.
	www.lcp.org.ph (560 words)

	S·mar and Leyte
		The diocesan seat is at Calbayog, a city of 22,000 inhabitants on the western side of S·mar; the cathedral is dedicated to Sts.
		Besides training youths for the priesthood they give courses of primary instruction in seven grades, three commercial courses, a four years' high school course, and classical courses for the B. degree (Greek, Latin, English, Spanish, natural science, higher mathematics, and philosophy).
		The Sisters of Charity have charge of the girls' academy, the College of the Miraculous Medal, at Calbayog, in which there are primary, secondary, and higher courses, together with lessons in drawing, painting, music, sewing, and embroidery.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/samar_and_leyte.html (266 words)

	Solon's supporter tagged gunman in mayor's murder - Mar. 03, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		TACLOBAN CITY -- Police arrested on Monday night seven armed men one of them tagged as the gunman in a mayor's killing in Calbayog City, Samar.
		The mayor's brother Arcadio identified Arnold as the gunman when he went to the Calbayog City police station where the suspect and six others were detained.
		Lope Lim, Calbayog police chief, said the police seized four.45 cal. pistols and two.357 magnum Smith and Wesson revolvers from the suspects.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/mar/03/reg_3-1.htm (398 words)

	About the Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital
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		on the island of Samar.Calbayog is the fifth largest city in the Philippines.
		A small clinic was then established, the Calbayog Clinic, near the center of town near City Hall.
	www.calbayogsan.org /about_us.html (431 words)

	About Culture and Arts
		The project is a literary workshop participated in by students and teachers of Calbayog City and its neighboring municipalities.
		Victor Sugbo, one of the panelists for the workshop, and expert on Eastern Visayas literature, explains that of the two, it is Waray literature that has been collected, recorded, and documented by scholars and researchers.
		TTMIST is expected to be able to use this first creative writing workshop as a start-off point for the larger vision of holding an annual creative writing workshop in Calbayog, aimed at cultivating interest anew in Waray literature and creative writing in general.
	www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=40 (848 words)

	Calbayog Mariculture Zone, Brgy. Malajog, Calbayog City, Samar, Philippines
		These photos were taken at the Marine Sea-Cage Farming location in Malajog, Calbayog City, Samar.
		VP Teofisto Guingona and Chairman JR Oben-This photo was taken during the official declaration of the Mariculture Zone in Malajog, Calbayog City.
		Calbayog Mayor Mel Sarmiento and VP Teofisto Guingona in Malajog.
	stkitts.globat.com /~ussecf.com/edith.html (4638 words)

	Samareños set big welcome for PGMA tomorrow : Philippines : Gov.Ph : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		CALBAYOG CITY -- A big welcome awaits President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on her visit here tomorrow (Monday) as the special guest of the 58th Charter Day anniversary celebration of this lone city of Samar Island.
		Upon arrival at the Calbayog airport, she will immediately preside over a private meeting with top officials of the three Samar provinces -- Eastern Samar, (Western) Samar and Northern Samar -- led by host Calbayog City Mayor Mel Sarmiento, at the airport terminal building.
		Expected to top the agenda of the airport powwow are the various developments projects lined up for implementation by the Arroyo administration for the whole Samar Island, ranging from irrigation facilities to farm-to-market roads, school buildings to the multibillion-peso upgrading of the battered Calbayog-Catbalogan-Wright section of the old Maharlika Highway.
	www.gov.ph /news/?i=16334 (367 words)

	Human Resources in Samar
		The total population of Samar based on its 2000 Census of Population was 641,124 with 124,255 households.
		Among the 25 municipalities and one city in the province, Calbayog City posted the largest population of 147,187 inhabitants, which is 22.96 percent of the total population of the province.
		Catbalogan, the capital town, is the next populated area with 84,180 individuals or 13.13 percent of the total population (please refer to Table 1).
	samar.lgu-ph.com /human.htm (533 words)

	The Diocese of Calbayog
		The missionaries from Catbalogan established missiones in Gandara and Paranas, while the missionaries from the island of Capul established mission stations in Calbayog.
		In 1768 it was divided into separate provinces, with Tacloban as the capital of Leyte and Catbalogan the capital of Samar.
		On April 10, 1910, Pope Pius X separated the island provinces of Samar and Leyte form the Diocese of Cebu, and erected the Diocese of Calbayog comprising both island provinces.
	www.cbcponline.net /calbayog (498 words)

	Calbayog travel guide
		Calbayog travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
		Samar might not be a very popular tourist destination but for those who want to try the off-beaten track, the province, specifically Calbayog, might just be the place you're destined to be enjoying this summer.
		One can also take a flight from Manila to Calbayog by availing of the Asian Spirit flights thrice weekly.
	www.world66.com /asia/southeastasia/philippines/calbayog (254 words)

	Official Website of Samar Provincial Council- FORTIS VOLUNTAS FRATERNITAS
		Samar however has the worst stretch of main road in the entire region with its perennially-under-construction, poorly-cemented national highway linking the province to the rest of the country.
		Several special development programs in the province have so far failed to significantly improve the people’s economic life as Samar remains to be one of the poorest provinces in the country.
		As a flourishing trade and commercial center, Calbayog is an ideal location for food processing, manufacturing, banking, transportation, and communication industries.
	www.geocities.com /samartriskelions (429 words)

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