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	Lanao del Sur
		Lanao del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
		Its capital is Marawi City and borders Lanao del Norte to the north, Bukidnon to the east, and Maguindanao and Cotabato to the south.
		Found in the interior of Lanao del Sur is Lanao Lake, the largest lake in Mindanao, where the Maria Cristina Falls, the largest waterfall in the country is located.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/l/la/lanao_del_sur.html (130 words)

	Lanao del Norte
		Lanao del Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region.
		The province borders Lanao del Sur[?] to the south, Zamboanga del Sur to the west, Misamis Oriental to the northeast, Bukidnon to the east, and is separated from Misamis Occidental by Iligan Bay.
		Lanao del Norte is subdivided into 22 municipalities and 1 city.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lanao_del_Norte.html (79 words)

	Central Mindanao: Key Areas-Lanao del Sur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is bounded on the north by Lanao del Norte, on the east by Bukidnon, on the west by Illana Bay, and on the south by Maguindanao and Cotabato.
		Of Lanao del Sur's total land area, 133,135 hectares are alienable and disposable and 254,154 hectares are forested land.
		Lanao comes from the word ranao, meaning "lake." Lanao centers around the basin of Lake Lanao; thus, it is the land of the Maranaos, the "people of the lake."
	www.mindanao.org /cm/overview/ka2.htm (432 words)

	Central Mindanao Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Central Mindanao comprises the provinces of Lanao del Norte and North Cotabato, and the three cities of Cotabato City in Maguindanao, and Marawi City and Iligan City in Lanao del Sur.
		Lanao del Norte’s boundary on the north is Iligan Bay, south are Moro Gulf and Lanao del Sur, northeast is the province of Misamis Oriental and east is Bukidnon.
		North Cotabato is bound on the north by Lanao del Sur and Bukidnon, on the south by Sultan Kudarat, on the west by Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.
	www.evis.net.ph /subregions/subregion12.htm (562 words)

	General Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The region is composed of the mainland provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur and the island provinces of Sulu and Taw-tawi.
		The province of Maguindanao is located on the west of Central Mindanao; on the north by Lanao del Sur; on the east by Cotabato province and on the south by Sultan Kudarat and on the west by Illana Bay.
		Lanao del Sur could be a potentital development area in the autonomous region with its vast untapped resources.
	www.da.gov.ph /agribiz/region_armm.html (710 words)

	Maranaw
		The people (mostly Muslims), who live in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur on the island of Mindanao are usually referred to us "Maranaws" or "Maranaos".
		In fact, Lanao del Sur is virtually self-sufficient until a decade ago, when some of the more aggressive farmers turned to business or to industrial and public employment, leaving behind their paddies to fallow.
		Today, the brass artisans of Tugaya, a lakeshore community in Lanao del Sur, some 20 kilometers from the capital city of Marawi, are utilizing scraps recovered from the bomb casings and ammunition shells of the Second World War and also brass sheets that are commercially sold.
	litera1no4.tripod.com /maranaw_frame.html (2023 words)

	i Report Issue No. 4 \| Lanao's Dirty Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the provincial elections officer for Lanao del Sur, was changing the assignment of election inspectors and the clustering centers of the voting precincts.
		Sumalipao was in fact the election supervisor for Lanao del Norte but was moved to Lanao del Sur in February 2004, shortly after Garcillano's appointment as commissioner.
		Garcillano was particularly familiar with Lanao del Sur, having served as the provincial election supervisor there from 1970 to 1971 and having been assigned to supervise either the registration or the election there several times in the 1990s.
	www.pcij.org /i-report/4/lanao2.html (1471 words)

	Greater Northern Corridor: Key Areas- Lanao del Norte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is bounded on the north by Iligan Bay and Misamis Oriental, on the east by Bukidnon, on the west by Panguil Bay and Zamboanga del Sur, and on the south by Lanao del Sur and Illana Bay.
		Lanao del Norte has a terrain gradually rising from the shoreline of Panguil Bay in the west to the mountains adjoining Lanao del Sur in the southeast.
		Spanish rule was not established in Lanao until almost the end of the Spanish reign.
	www.mindanao.org /gnc/overview/ka6.htm (294 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lanao del Sur is the land of the Maranaos, “people of the lake,” among the most devout of Muslim tribes as well as the most artistic.
		Lanao del Sur forms the western portion of Northern Mindanao.
		Lanao del Sur is outside of the typhoon belt
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=115 (426 words)

	i Report Issue No. 4 \| Lanao's Dirty Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lanao's is a landscape of rugged hills, lakes, and swamps.
		Inevitably, Lanao elections are marred by violent incidents involving the killing of candidates and their supporters and the switching of ballot boxes.
		The common belief in Lanao is that the Comelec officials in the province, the teachers who man the polls, even the watchers of rival candidates can be bought; if not, they can be kidnapped or threatened.
	www.pcij.org /i-report/4/lanao.html (1770 words)

	:: Malaya - The National Newspaper :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Post-election accounts show that it was in Lanao del Sur where one of the worst cases of "dagdag-bawas" (vote-padding and shaving) in the May 10, 2004 elections took place.
		Documents from Namfrel’s chapter in Lanao del Sur illustrate the extent of the alleged vote-padding and shaving.
		The six to seven Lanao del Sur towns that were still canvassing the votes weeks after the elections were held also formed the subject of Garcillano’s conversations with other people, presumably including Comelec field officers.
	www.malaya.com.ph /jun21/news3.htm (1140 words)

	Newsbreak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Contrasting the 2004 voter turnout by sexes and using the corrected figure, the male turnout was 112.87 percent and the female turnout was 111.82 percent, clearly a statistical impossibility.
		Lanao del Sur is not the only province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to have registered such an improbably high voter turnout.
		Namfrel’s provincial chair for Lanao del Sur Hadji Abdullah Dalidig said, in his June 21, 2005, affidavit that the vote shaving and padding in the province affected the results of the presidential canvass.
	partners.inq7.net /newsbreak/istories/index.php?story_id=46960 (929 words)

	Lake Lanao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Lanao is a large lake in the Philippines, located in Lanao del Sur province in the country's southern island of Mindanao.
		With a surface area of 340 square km (131 square miles), it is the largest lake in Mindanao, and the second largest lake in the Philippines.
		A hydroelectric plant installed on the Lanao Lake and Agus River system generates 70% of the electricity used by the people of Mindanao.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lanao_Lake (219 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term Lanao is derived from the Maranao word “Ranao” meaning a body of water.
		They are the natives of the place occupying the land around Lake Lanao, which is situated at the central part of Lanao del Sur.
		When it was divided into two provinces, the southern portion became Lanao del Sur and the northern part became Lanao del Norte.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=history&province=56 (137 words)

	Lanao del Sur, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
		Lanao del Sur, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
		del Norte, on the east by Bukidnon, on the west by Illana Bay, and on the
		Lanao del Sur forms the western portion of the extensive plateau of Northern
	oasis.fortunecity.com /acapulco/215/mmindanao/lanaos/lanaos.htm (437 words)

	Lanao del Sur 'clustering' ... - May 11, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		COMELEC Commissioner Mehol Sadain says the clustering of voting centers in Lanao del Sur province due to "the intense political situation among the Maranaos," is "effectively disenfranchising voters."
		A lot of people claiming to be residents and voters of Lanao del Sur have meanwhile asked the Comelec legal department to include them in the voters' list.
		A total of 2,041 established precincts for the 275,870 voters in Lanao del Sur have been clustered into 1,607 voting precincts, he added.
	www.inq7.net /brk/2004/may/11/text/brkoth_2-1-p.htm (179 words)

	Elections ‘peaceful and orderly but not honest’ in Lanao del Sur town--Borra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aside from Lumbatan, voting in Lanao del Sur was generally peaceful including those in the towns of Masiu, Bayang, Butig, Madalum and Sultan Domalinda, which were put under Comelec control earlier.
		Borra said voter turnout in Lanao del Sur was slow in the morning but picked by noon yesterday.
		Lanao del Sur has 261,805 registered voters as of May this year.
	www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2001_1127_01a.htm (365 words)

	Did Mike Arroyo Fund Postelection "Special Operations" in Lanao? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The results of the Lanao count in 2004 are considered one of the most controversial in an election that has been marred by allegations of fraud.
		Namfrel's Lanao chapter, on the other hand, was able to complete 77 percent of the count in 38 of the province's 39 towns.
		Moner supposedly went around Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Sultan Kudarat and Tawi Tawi from May 14 to 17 to distribute what was allegedly money from Mike Arroyo to his men, who were in turn tasked to deliver the funds to election officers "para baligtarin ang COCs (to reverse the certificates of canvass)," said Macadaub.
	pcij.org /stories/2005/lanao.html (2758 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		Rey Sumalipao, provincial election supervisor for Lanao del Sur in the 2004 elections, on Wednesday said that it was Brig.
		Gudani, who was relieved as chief of Task Force Lanao, which was tasked to oversee the elections in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur, alleged that Sumalipao intervened in how election results counting was done in the provinces.
		The general claimed that he was pulled out of his post as 1st Marine Brigade commander at the height of the 2004 national polls for ensuring clean and honest polls in Lanao del Sur.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=18247 (1351 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| METRO > Namfrel to look into poll cheating in Lanao del Sur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Luz reacted Wednesday to the claim of Hadji Abdullah Dalidig that election returns in his possession show that totals in the Lanao del Sur certificate of canvass were tampered.
		The opposition is using Dalidig’s June 21 sworn statement to buttress claims that President Arroyo cheated in the 2004 election.
		Luz said reports by other Namfrel volunteers in Lanao saying that it had been premature for Dalidig at that time to claim that there was fraud because they have not finished their count.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/jun/23/yehey/metro/20050623met3.html (454 words)

	Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur Mindanao tourist destinations Marawi city hotels accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As Lanao del Sur's capital city, Marawi serves as the province's commercial, educational, cultural, religious, and political center.
		An important lamdmark in Lanao del Sur, from which all distances in Mindanao are measured.
		Marawi City draws the most number of visitors within Lanao del Sur in which the MSU is located.
	lakbaypilipinas.com /travel_marawi_city.html (1259 words)

	“Vote-buying is the reason why Lanao del Sur is underdeveloped” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is the reason, Dalidig said, why concerned residents in Lanao del Sur formed the Islamic Movement on Election Reforms for Good Government or Imergg.
		Lanao del Sur, one of the five provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, ranks second in the country for having the highest poverty rate at 54.96.
		Dalidig said it is not unusual for Lanao del Sur politicians to dip into the municipal coffers to get their money back.
	www.mindanews.com /2004/05/14polls-votebuy.html (530 words)

	yehey! News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He then asked his supporters in Cotabato City and Lanao del Sur to be vigilant in guarding the ballots in order to avert possible manipulations.
		Barbers and Biazon, who are both seeking re-election under the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan or K-4 are neck and neck in the race for the 12th senatorial slot in the May 10 elections.
		Based on the tally of the Commission on Elections, Biazon is leading by 42,369 votes after votes from the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte and Saranggani were canvassed.
	www.yehey.com /tabloids/print.aspx?a=15546 (243 words)

	http://www.bangsamoro.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a culmination of the week-long celebrations for the 46th Lanao del Sur Day rites, distinguished Maranaos were given recognition at a ceremony held at the Provincial Capitol Gymnasium last Sunday.
		Lanao was created during the height of the government campaign for resettlement in Mindanao.
		Thereafter, in May 27, 1959, by virtue of RA 2228, the unified Lanao was divided into Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur, which was officially chartered on July 4-10, 1959.
	www.bangsamoro.com /news/071605_a.php?PHPSESSID=e62bf3b6a589fd128ea7de1feefcdf47 (347 words)

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