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	Abra (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abra is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon.
		Abra's inhabitants are mostly descendants of Ilocano settlers and members of the Tingguian tribe.
		Abra is hemmed in by the towering mountain ranges of the Ilocos in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abra_province (486 words)

	Pidigan groomed as vegetable bowl of Abra - Printer Friendly Page - GENERAL - abrenian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PIDIGAN, Abra (2 March) -- If there are fruit vegetables sold in the public markets in Bangued, the provincial capital town of Abra, as early as the months of September to October, these are definitely, no longer imported from the nearby provinces of Ilocos and Pangasinan.
		Farmers in the low-lying barangays of Pidigan particularly Brgy San Diego have considered venturing into vegetable farming these past few years to become the vegetable bowl of the town.
		In an interview with Pidigan Municipal Agriculturist Marlita O. Basingan, the Pidigan LGU has sustained this effort of the farmers in this town by providing regular allocations in their 20 percent economic development funds.
	www.abrenian.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=110 (445 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description
		The Province of Abra is now known as the ""Natural Dye Capital of the Philippines"" because it is blessed with abundant natural dye-yielding plants.
		Abra is an inland province bounded by Ilocos Norte and Mountain Province on the north, Ilocos Sur on the south, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur on the west, and Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Apayao on the east.
		Abra had a population of 195,964 as of May 1996, or 16.33% of the Cordillera Administrative Region's total population.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=69 (303 words)

	Hector's page of the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The province of Abra occupies the western portion of the Cordillera region in northern Luzon.
		It is landlocked by Cagayan on the north and east, and also partly by Isabela on the east, by Abra and Ilocos on the west, and by the Mountain Province on the south.
		It is bounded on the north by Kalinga-Apayao, on the east by Isabela, on the west by Abra and Ilocos Sur, and on the south by Benguet and Ifugao.
	members.aol.com /Johnromeo/Philippines.html (1717 words)

	PIA News Releases
		PIDIGAN, Abra (22 February) -- In line with the one-town-one-product policy (OTOP) program of the Arroyo administration, the municipal agriculture office of the local government unit of Pidigan in Abra, continue to support farmers in the production of corn.
		In an interview with Oliveros-Basingan, the municipal agriculturist of LGU-Pidigan, the local government has increased its allocation for fertilizer loans to their farmer-cooperators despite their pressing need for funds for the on-going construction of their municipal building which swallowed up the greatest bulk of their local revenues of 2005 and 2006.
		It must be noted that Pidigan is the corn cluster pilot area of the Cordillera region with full support from various agencies in the form of farm-to-market roads, farm implements, post-harvest facilities, and fertilizer loans assistance.
	www.pia.gov.ph /news.asp?fi=p060222.htm&no=16 (423 words)

	Abra, Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1846, Abra was separated from the province of Ilocos Sur and established as a politico-military province.
		In 1905, the province of Abra was annexed as a sub-province of Ilocos Sur.
		In the 1980s, Abra became the hotbed of communist rebels who fed on the discontent over the loss of ancestral lands due to the establishment of a large logging concession.
	home.comcast.net /~maesteban/island_groups/luzon/car/abra/abra.htm (299 words)

	PRIME BALWEG SLAY SUSPECT ACQUITTED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bangued, Abra, April 12, 2003 -- The principal suspect in the killing of prominent rebel-priest Conrado Balweg in 1999 was acquitted by a local court here Thursday.
		Despite the NPA's admission, however, three Catholic priests and 14 church workers from Ilocos, La Union and Abra were ordered arrested by the court here for their supposed involvement in the killing of Balweg, who in 1986 effectively ended the years war between NPA rebels in the Cordilleras and the government.
		Baba claimed she was transported to military camps were she was tortured and forced to admit her involvement in the crime.
	www.newsflash.org /2003/04/ht/ht003298.htm (399 words)

	Abra - KILLING FIELDS OF THE NORTH : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The murderers did not only take a life and deprived his wife, family and the residents of Tineg, Abra of a loving husband, father and leader but have shown their gross disrespect to a house of faith indicative of their desire to perpetuate themselves in power at all costs.
		On October 29, 2002, Mayor Clarence Benwaren of the Municipality of Tineg, Province of Abra, was murdered inside the San Isidro Labrador Church in Calauan Laguna while participating in a sacred rite of matrimony.
		Yesterday, the Lady Mayor Wilma Saguiyod-Gatud of Tubo, Abra, another Municipality that has witnessed the assassination of it's late Mayor Jose Segundo (who was also on the opposition side) in the not too distant past, was arrested for an alleged 'possession of unlicensed long firearms'.
	www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=15718&catID=2 (2423 words)

	G.R. No. L-32126 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Corazon, who had not earlier revealed the Identities of the killers of her father because she was afraid of her own mother, was somehow able to reveal the circumstances surrounding his killing to these immediate relatives of hers, and the sworn statement she thereafter executed on August 5, 1967 (Exh.
		Two (2) PC soldiers arrived in the afternoon of June 26, 1967, and after Bernardo's remains was autopsied and he was buried under their house, they conducted an investigation, but she did not give them any information relative to the Identity of the persons who shot her husband because she did not really see them.
		On the witness stand, he stated that he belongs to Cursillo No. 3 of the Parish of Bangued, Abra, and said cursillo was held on October 20 to 23, 1966, at the St. Joseph Seminary in Galicia, Pidigan Abra, and not on June 23 to 26, 1967.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1978/jul1978/gr_32126_1978.html (4822 words)

	Cordillera Online - Abra Province
		Located at Bucay, Abra, it is a façade of the first provincial capitol of Abra.
		The monument of Gabriela Silang, popularly known as the "Joan of Arc" of the Ilocos for leading the Ilocanos' resistance against the Spaniards in 1763, stands at the Town Plaza of Pidigan.
		Located on top of a hill overlooking the town of Bangued and neighboring municipalities of Tayum, La Paz, Pidigan and Penarrubia, Victoria National Park features a shrine of the Blessed Mother cradling the infant Jesus built near the reservoir of the Bangued waterworks.
	www.cordilleraonline.com /content/view/29/171 (235 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Raps v. 'brain' in Balweg murder dismissed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lorna Rivera-Baba, a church worker who was reportedly wrongfully accused by the military as a top-ranking officer of the New People's Army (NPA), was absolved from using a fictitious name and for illegally possessing firearms.
		In a one-page decision, Judge Loreto Seares of the Pidigan Municipal Circuit Trial Court ruled that Baba "is not the subject of the warrants used to arrest her, thus the restraint made on her person is illegal."
		The Agustin Begnalen Command of the mainstream CPP-NPA based in Abra claimed responsibility in the assassination of Balweg inside his ancestral home in Malibcong, Abra.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2003/08/25/news/raps.v..brain.in.balweg.murder.dismissed.html (400 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - 2 killed, 4 hurt in 3 Abra shootings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The weapon used is believed to be a cal. 45 pistol as evidenced by one spent shell recovered at the crime scene.
		The lone fatality, Francisca Cabangan Babida, a housekeeper, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Abra Provincial Hospital.
		Although their alleged assailant fled after the shooting, a companion, who was invited to the Pidigan Municipal Police Station for questioning, identified him as Carlos Barona Camaddo, married, a resident of Udangan, La Paz, Abra.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2004/10/28/news/2.killed.4.hurt.in.3.abra.shootings.html (683 words)

	The Official Website of the Province of Ilocos Sur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Silang was born in the barrio of Canlogan, Santa, Ilocos Sur, on March 19, 1731.
		Her father was an Ilokano peasant from Santa and her mother, an Itneg household maid from Pidigan, Abra.
		Driven out of Vigan by the superior forces of Spain, she retreated, with the remnants of her lamented husband army, to Pidigan, the hometown of he r Itneg mother.
	www.santa.gov.ph /ilocossur/herogabriela.html (968 words)

	Hostage negotiator loses in Abra mayoral race - May 20, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PIDIGAN, Abra -- The mighty dragon has been subdued.
		Bisares said that having been part of Pacuno's team before had made him aware of the current administration's weaknesses and it was what he used to beat his former mentor.
		For the next three years, Bisares said he wants Pidigan to develop and progress.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/may/20/reg_3-1.htm (306 words)

	Go vs Bongolan : RTJ-99-1464 : July 26, 1999 : J. Puno : Second Division
		This is an administrative case filed against respondent Judges Benjamin A. Bongolan and Alberto Benesa for usurpation and abuse of authority, rendition of unjust order and ignorance of the law in granting bail to several accused charged with kidnapping for ransom.
		The case was docketed as Criminal Case No. 97-123 and assigned to Branch 2, Regional Trial Court of Bangued, Abra presided by respondent Judge Benjamin A. Bongolan.
		The police authorities found the white Nissan car abandoned in Pidigan and that is the reason why the police at the checkpoint in Tangadan, San Quintin, Abra, between Abra and Ilocos Sur, was not able to intercept the kidnappers and their victim.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/1999/jul99/rtj_99_1464.htm (2916 words)

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		Together with the followers of her husband, she established the Ilokano independence struggle in Pidigan, Abra.
		Her successes against the colonial forces sent to crush the rebellion inspired the inhabitants of many neighboring towns in the Ilokos — Abra, Cagayan, and Pangasinan.
		Pursued into the hinterlands of Abra and the Mountain Province, she and 80 of her loyal followers were brought back to Candon.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/03/19/OPED2005031930975.html (326 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Retired Philippine Army colonel and ex-mayor of Pidigan town, Abra province Ernesto Pacuno Sr.
		He added that his father's remains will be cremated and brought back to his hometown of Pidigan.
		Pacuno was Pidigan mayor for 16 years while his son Disraeli was mayor for six years.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=6936 (973 words)

	EmailPinoy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cebu City (22 February) -- The full implementation of the RVAT is good for the economy because with the RVAT, consumption demand is seen to decline and foreign exchan...
		PIDIGAN, Abra (22 February) -- In line with the one-town-one-product policy (OTOP) program of the Arroyo administration, the municipal agriculture office of the local go...
		BANGUED, Abra (22 February) -- Survey results disclosed that one of the reasons for the poor performance in school among grade one pupils is malnutrition.
	news.emailpinoy.com /philippine/localepnews (309 words)

	TrekEarth \| Mt Bolagao & Abra River Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Photos: Earth >> Asia >> Philippines >> Ilocos >> Abra >> Pidigan
		View of Abra river and Mt Bolagao, a part of Caraballo range located North of Philippines.
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	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Asia/Philippines/Ilocos/Abra/photo269991.htm (124 words)

	AN APPEAL FOR FREEDOM
		It has been more then a year since Lorna was abducted by the ISAFP in Pidigan, Abra and held incommunicado for five days.
		One of those disregarded for immediate release is churchworker Lorna Baba in Abra.
		She has been continuously detained and accused of the murder of CPLA leader Conrado Balweg despite the claim of Cordillera NPAs of being the ones responsible for Balweg's death.
	members.tripod.com /~gabriela_p/2-action/010420_wpp.html (562 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Gabriela Silang, first Filipina general and martyr
		Her mother was a non-Christian Itneg from Pidigan, Abra.
		Then they were driven out of Vigan by a large force of Spanish and Filipino soldiers.
		Gabriela took her army to to Pidigan, he Itneg mother’s hometown.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/mar/17/yehey/opinion/20060317opi5.html (842 words)

	jOhN JoHn P. sErBaN!a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Start from the very beginning I John John P. Serbania presently residing at Pamutic, Pidigan, Abra as my home town that I don't forget.
		I always dream to go in the other country to find a good future for me and my family that I ever dream in my whole life that I'm still young in the age of 25 as of now.
		In the age 20 I teach College at least 1 year 9 months at Abra Valley Colleges.
	www.geocities.com /jepserbania/about.html (281 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News - Obituaries
		Carmen Pira Tabudlo, 80, of Honokaa, Hawaii, a former Mauna Kea Beach Hotel employee, died last Tuesday in the Queen's Medical Center.
		She was born in Pidigan, Abra, the Philippines.
		She is survived by son Henry; daughters Herminia Malone, Petronila Blank and Teresita Richards; brothers Jesus, Dionisio and Francisco Pira; sisters Magdalena Quezada, Concepcion Lagumbay, Juanita Pira, Paula Carsola and Lucia Baldos; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
	starbulletin.com /2003/07/01/news/obits.html (1070 words)

	Abra's Plea : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kristoffer Liau - Ayyeng Manabo Abra / Singapore
		Manuel B. Felina - Bucay, Abra / Boston, MA Elaine Bonilla - Luba/Canada
		Gilbert Ulbaken - Lagangilang, Abra / Riyadh Saudi Arabia
	www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=16468&catID=2 (1976 words)

	TESDA - Technical Education and Skills Development Authority - List of Vocational Institutions with TESDA Authorized ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rosario Bldg., Gomez St., Zone 5, Bangued, Abra
		Data Center College of the Philippines of Bangued, Abra, Inc.
		Lans Bldg., Magallanes St., Zone 5, Bangued, Abra
	www.tesda.gov.ph /tvi/tvi.asp?provID=75 (72 words)

	News - SEAMEO SEARCA BIC
		The program was launched in 2001 in Currimao and Pasuquin, both in Ilocos Norte; Sta.
		Lucia, and Bantay, all in ilocos Sur; Bacnotan, La Union; and Pidigan, Abra.
		For DS 2002, 2003 and 2004, vegetables and other crops were introduced and planted after the main rice crop in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Abra.
	www.bic.searca.org /news/2005/apr/phi/22.html (485 words)

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		I'm so proud of you because i'm from Abra as well.
		I really like the music on your web site and the little dancing guy.
		Naragaskak unay sir ta nakakitaak ti webpage nga akimbagi ket taga Abra lalo na nga taga Langiden.
	htmlgear.tripod.com /guest/control.guest?u=romeoboy&a=view&i=1001&r= (196 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Pidigan, Abra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Pidigan, Abra
		Pidigan is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines.
		According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 10,183 people in 1,875 households.
	random.dragonslife.org /pidigan-abra/2086 (100 words)

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