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	Metro Manila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metro Manila is the political, economic, social, and cultural center of the Philippines, and is one of the modern metropolises in Southeast Asia.
		Metro Manila is the smallest of the country's administrative regions, but the most populous and the most densely populated, having a population of 9,932,560 (2000 census) in an area only 636 square kilometers large.
		The Province of Manila was the 8th and last Province to revolt against Spain paving the establishment of the Federated Philippine Republics (composed of Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Bulacan, the District of Morong in Nueva Ecija, Laguna, Batangas, Cavite and Manila).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metro_Manila (3558 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Manila
		This archdiocese comprises the city of Manila, the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Cavite, Mindoro, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Rizal, Tarlac, and Zambales; and the Districts of Infanta and Marinduque in the Province of Tayabas.
		A lay brother, porter in the Convent of San Francisco, Manila, was the founder of the San Lazaro hospital for lepers in 1598.
		The Archbishop of Manila is the President of the Board of Directors of the Monte de Piedad.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09597b.htm (3408 words)

	Manila - A History
		The City of Manila occupies a unique position in Philippine political geography, for it is both a chartered city, and also it fulfills the functions of a province for the four cities and thirteen municipalities composing its metropolitan area.
		Manila City proper is bounded on the north by Navotas and Caloocan City, on the northeast by Quezon City and San Juan del Monte, on the southeast by Mandaluyong and Makati, and on the south by Pasay City.
		Metro Manila is comprised of the cities of Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan City and Pasay City, and the municipalities of Navotas, Malabon, Valenzuela (in Bulacan province), Marikina, Pasig, Mandaluyong, San Juan del Monte, Makati, Pateros, Taguig (Tagig), Paranaque, Las Pinas and Muntinglupa.
	www.aenet.org /philip/manila.htm (1983 words)

	Kasaysayan, Panitikan, Tula, Awitin, Mga Bayani ng Lahi, EMANILA.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ISAGANI R. Long ago, in the days when Tondo, Manila was a town dotted with rice fields, a poor couple was married in Tondo church.
		In the area of Manila, the battle of Pinaglabanan and fighting in Kalookan sparked other small battles north and south of the Pasig River, in places such as Marikina, San Mateo, Pasig, Pateros and Taguig.
		In February 1945, during the battle to free Manila from the Japanese, the building and the remains of Andres Bonifacio were destroyed in a fire.
	www.emanila.com /pilipino/bayani/andres_bonifacio.htm (3674 words)

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		Niño de Tondo, about 20 inches in height; made of ivory, garbed in white and gold vestment, wears a crown of gold, which is studded with diamonds and holds on His left hand a globe and in His right, a scepter.
		In Tondo, Manila, tradition has established that the image was given by a wealthy man who brought the statue from Acapulco, Mexico and entrusted into the Archbishop of Manila for safekeeping.
		Tondo’s terrain at that time consisted of waterways and tributaries which were connected to Manila Bay, a probable reason why the present stobe church of Tondo was constructed on elevated ground (several meters above sea level) to prevent sea waters from inundating the church.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/01/15/MTNN2005011526474.html (1399 words)

	Tondo, Manila - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Tondo is one of the districts of the Philippines' capital city of Manila.
		Tondo is located in the northwest portion of the city and is primarily residential-industrial in nature.
		Historically, Tondo was first mentioned in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription found in the National Museum of the Philippines, dated April 21 900.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Tondo (141 words)

	Servants to Asia's urban poor
		A huge fire in Tondo, a Manila shantytown in which Servants live and work, has destroyed thousands of homes and left about 22,000 people (4500 families) homeless.
		The Manila fire chief said that firefighters convinced about 50 residents to demolish their shanties to stop the flames from jumping to other houses.
		Tondo is built on the city’s old garbage dump.
	www.servantsasia.org /news.asp?number=49 (193 words)

	Maynilad acts on water contamination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ACTING on reports that several people in Balut, Tondo, Manila have died or were hospitalized allegedly due to contaminated water, the Maynilad Water Company on Wednesday announced that it will commence water rationing in the affected community.
		Manila health officials have sought the help of the Department of Health's epidemiology division to determine whether the cases included cholera.
		Records at the Manila Division of Preventable Diseases showed that 115 were confined at the San Lazaro Hospital, 26 at the Gat Andres Bonifacio Hospital, 13 at the Ospital ng Tondo, 41 at the Mary Johnston Hospital, and 20 at the Tondo General Hospital.
	users.telenet.be /pinoy-pinay/news/20031030e.htm (441 words)

	Box 5. Manila's Tondo Foreshore
		By 1970 it was clear to the thousands of poor families in the Tondo foreshore area along Manila Bay that, despite their many protests, the Government intended to demolish their homes and relocate them 40-45 km from the city.
		At this point, a group of both Catholic and Protestant priests who had worked with the people for years, helped them to form the Zone One Tondo Organization (ZOTO), a federation of neighbourhood organizations that would be democratic and strong enough to be taken seriously by the government.
		ZOTO was able to drive a wedge between the government and the founders of the project, namely the German Government and the World Bank.
	www.unescap.org /huset/living/box5.htm (277 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WEEKEND > The water crisis in our midst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		LAST October, a cholera outbreak in Tondo, Manila claimed the lives of several residents, while dozens were hospitalized.
		Since slum areas lack sanitary toilets, human feces are dumped into bodies of water, contaminating the water supply that travel through pipes that bear cracks because of age or of illegal connections that are often faulty.
		The circumstances surrounding the Tondo cholera outbreak, however, are just a few of the many manifestations of the growing water crisis in the world.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/jan/11/yehey/weekend/20040111wek1.html (2303 words)

	Manila Bulletin: In today's calendar.(Opinion & Editorial)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Destroyed no less than five times, the cathedral is the primary church of the Archdiocese of Manila.
		On the same day, 835 years later, Jose de la Cruz, popularly known as Huseng Sisiw, was born in Tondo, Manila.
		He is said to be the author of such works as Rodrigo de Villas, Principe Baldovino, and Historia Famosa del Bernardo Carpio, the latter inspiring the oppressed Indios to...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:95658114&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (213 words)

	PROUD TO BE A TONDO BOY
		He was born in Tondo’s swamp-like part called Tutuban, which meant in Tagalog "the place where they make tuba (an alcoholic drink made with coconuts)." There in Tutuban was the main terminal of the Luzon railway system.
		Later in 1875, Tondo was also the birthplace of the poor but brilliant Emilio Jacinto, who became known as the Brains of the Katipunan.
		Mariano Gil, the Agustinian cura of Tondo, who was alarmed and broke the secrecy of the Catholic confessional by tipping off the Spanish colonial regime.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/tl/tl012547.htm (2222 words)

	Filstream Int'l Inc vs CA : 125218 : January 23, 1998 : J. Francisco : Third Division
		For its part, the City of Manila filed on March 13, 1996, a motion for intervention with prayer to stay/quash the writ of execution on the ground that it is the present possessor of the property subject of execution.
		On May 21, 1996, the RTC of Manila, Branch 14, issued an injunction in Civil Case No. 96-78098 enjoining the implementation of the writ of execution until further orders from the court.
		In fact, the City of Manila’s right to exercise these prerogatives notwithstanding the existence of a final and executory judgment over the property to be expropriated has been upheld by this Court in the case of Philippine Columbian Association vs. Panis, G.R. No. 106528, December 21, 1993.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/1998/jan1998/125218.htm (3544 words)

	Sun.Star Manila - Tondo fire displaces 4,500 families
		FIRE hit the Baseco compound in Tondo, Manila, after midnight Monday, leaving an estimated 4,500 homeless.
		There were no reported casualties in the fire, which reached the highest alert level.
		Dinky Soliman said volunteers and Manila City Government officials have set up a command center at Baseco to identify the families affected by the fire.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/man/2004/01/13/news/tondo.fire.displaces.4.500.families.html (160 words)

	eBalita - a FREE service that provides you the latest news from the Philippines through the Web and E-mail
		Dayrit added that epidemiologists are continuously monitoring water supply and the sanitary practices of the residents as part of an investigation that the DOH is conducting on the incident.
		On the other hand, the Manila Health Department reported a total of 601 residents that have fallen ill in the Foreshore area, but only 85 of them remain at hospitals.
		Clemente Boyet San Gabriel, chief of the Manila City Sanitation Department, said the 85 patients are confined in different hospitals in the city.
	www.ebalita.net /go/news/news.php?id=1822 (489 words)

	Gov.ph - Agriculture
		MANILA, June 18 (PNA) - Department of Agriculture (DA)Secretary Arthur Yap declared the mango grafting program of the department was a success with participants reaping an unexpectedly high yield of grafted mangoes from Baseco Compound, Tondo, Manila.
		Yap said the conduct of mango grafting training to the Baseco residents, particularly members of the Kababaihan ng Maynila Multi-Purpose Cooperative, is part of the DA’s livelihood project to afford members of the community with a means of earning a living on their own backyard.
		Residents of the Baseco Compound in Tondo, Manila participated in the Mango Grafting Livelihood Project of the DA which is part of the agency’s strategies towards achieving the government’s goals for the agricultural sector under the Mid-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP).
	www.gov.ph /cat_agriculture/newscontent.asp?newsid=10418 (568 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A fifth alarm fire gutted 10 houses on Moriones Street in Tondo, Manila early Thursday.
		The worst fire to hit Tondo area occurred in January 2004, when 2,500 houses were burned and left 60,000 people homeless in Baseco Compound.
		The Supreme Court on Friday cleared Mayor Lito Atienza of Manila of the charge of the misuse of public funds in a complaint filed by a former city hall official.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=7465 (702 words)

	Discovery Issue No. 3: The Zamora Schism
		At the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1896, he was imprisoned in Manila for his activities at the instigation of the friars in Bulacan.
		In a village adjoining Manila [Malibay] Nicholas [sic] was invited to preach in a large house, which, with the use of a piano, is given free.
		Thus, in the morning of February 21, 1909, before a congregation of several hundreds at St. Paul’s Church in Tondo, Manila, Zamora bid farewell and announced from the pulpit that he was withdrawing from the Methodist Episcopal Church.
	www.users.drew.edu /loconer/discovery/3/3-3.htm (1919 words)

	Victory Outreach International -- Changing Lives Since 1967 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As we partnered together with the Manila Church and Tondo Satellite Church Bible Study, we headed out to the Manila City Jail for what would turn out to be one of the most explosive times we have experienced yet in the jails.
		The Boy's town staff was introduced to Victory Outreach Church Manila as being endorsed by the Mayor Atienza of Manila to work with the abandoned street children of Manila.
		We now have a group of young people faithfully attending the youth service in Manila and they have shown an infectious hunger for the presence of God in their lives, in their families, and in their communities.
	www.victoryoutreach.org /uwc/archive.asp (5838 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| TOP STORIES > Police foil ‘bomb plot’; Tondo raid nets 7 ‘MILF ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GOVERNMENT security forces on Wednesday averted a plot to launch a series of bombings in Metro Manila with the arrest of seven suspected members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in a predawn raid in Tondo.
		The military has reportedly alerted the Manila Police to reports that some MILF men have been recruiting members on Isla Puting Bato, a known lair of fugitive criminals willing to join any crime group for a fee.
		Earlier, all police districts in Metro Manila were put on double red alert for a possible spillover of the bombings in Mindanao in view of US intelligence reports that the Philippines may be the next target of the al-Qaida terror group.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2003/may/22/top_stories/20030522top2.html (1352 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Tondo is Real Old
		tondo is one of the scariest place in metro manila.they say...
		of course there are alot of older towns and "civilizations" other than tondo.
		In fact it think Bonifacio was also raised in Tondo, and the it was one the earlier places where Katipunan was first founded.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=31520 (401 words)

	yehey! News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A Speeding cargo truck hit and killed and elderly couple while they were crossing a street in Tondo, Manila late Wednesday.
		Police identified the fatalities as Francisco Limon, 71, and is spouse Carmelita, 72, both of 176 Biak-na bato Street, in Tondo.
		Francisco died on the spot while Carmelita was rushed to the Metropolitan Hospital where she expired later.
	www.yehey.com /tabloids/print.aspx?a=13292 (103 words)

	Pope visit left deep imprint on Tondo parish - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MARIA Mercedes Santos, who was blessed with a kiss from the Pope when she was a baby, lights a candle for him in the Our Lady of Peace Parish in Tondo, Manila.
		MARIA Mercedes Santos, 25, was rushed to the hospital in Manila for a high fever on the same weekend Pope John Paul II lay feverish and dying in the Vatican.
		Pedro Verceles for arranging the papal visit to Tondo, given the Pontiff's tight itinerary and considering that the parish had no history to speak of and its structure was only "40 percent" finished at the time.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=33434 (1223 words)

	G.P.H.S. Alumni.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These are actually some of the new additions to the old Intramuros de Manila as part of the project of Tourism Secretary Dick Gorgon — WOW Philippines 2003.
		He is on a two-month reprieve from his field work as internal auditor of diversified food conglomerate — RFM Corp. He arrived in a brand new fl Toyota Corolla (owned by his wife) with Myrna Munoz trailing him with her fl Ford Lynx.
		The core group met at the newly-renovated Malate park fronting Manila Bay (The place is simply beautiful and romantic what with its dancing/colorful fountain, sweet instrumental music and benches to sit on) at about 7:00 pm.
	www.gphsalumni.net /meetings.html (2737 words)

	Office of the President Website - Newsroom
		She told the residents of the Parola, Tondo, Manila that the first batch of beneficiaries were given the priority because they were able to comply with all the required housing documents on time.
		The President assured the remaining 2,000 targeted beneficiaries in Parola that their papers will be processed within the next three months stressing that the government is committed to provide housing security to a total of 150,000 families per year.
		The President said that the processing of the papers of some 12,000 housing beneficiaries started in l989 but only in year 2001 under her administration that Presidential Proclamation No. 96 on the disposition of land to the actual occupants was fully implemented.
	www.op.gov.ph /news.asp?newsid=3533 (535 words)

	People vs Muleta : 130189 : June 25, 1999 : J. Panganiban : Third Division
		“In the afternoon of April 29, 1993, Charito left Tondo, Manila and moved to Valenzuela, Metro Manila, bringing with her some of her sister’s baggage.
		Despite the absence of an eyewitness, the trial court held that the circumstantial evidence in this case was enough to establish the guilt of the appellant.
		Under the present factual milieu, Domingo Muleta should have been accorded the right to counsel (and all the constitutional rights of the accused), from the time that he was brought to the NBI office in Manila.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/1999/jun99/130189.htm (5529 words)

	Cop who wanted quiet life shot dead in Tondo - Jul. 19, 2004
		THE MOOD was somber inside their usually perky office inside Manila's police headquarters on Sunday.
		At 10:10 a.m., senior police officer-1 Eduardo Chiapoco, a DTOC radio dispatcher for three years, was gunned down by an unidentified man at the corner of Pacheco and Osmeña Streets in Don Bosco area, Tondo, Manila.
		But his untimely death, which came as he spent a weekend off in his house in Tondo, has left the DTOC staff one man less.
	www.inq7.net /met/2004/jul/19/met_8-1.htm (455 words)

	Contaminated water kills 4, downs 200 in Manila: report - Oct. 28, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AT least four people died and over 200 more residents in Manila's Tondo district were confined in various hospitals in the city after allegedly drinking contaminated water in the area, GMA Network radio station dzBB reported Tuesday.
		The report said water in the Tondo district was supplied by the Maynilad Water Services Inc., which is owned by the Lopez family.
		In an earlier interview on Tuesday over radio dzBB, Maynilad officials admitted that the water pipes in the Tondo district were old but that they could not do any repairs or changes because of lack of funds.
	www.inq7.net /brk/2003/oct/28/brkoth_6-1.htm (174 words)

	MILF hits raid on Moro community in Tondo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		KORONADAL CITY -- Wednesday’s (May 21) raid on a predominantly Muslim community in Metro Manila to in search of bombing suspects was meant to cover up the failure of the Philippine National Police in solving the spate of bombing incidents that rocked parts of Mindanao, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front today said.
		Police raided Wednesday Isla Puting Bato, Tondo, Manila based on alleged intelligence reports that MILF members had entered the area and were planning to bomb civilian targets.
		Reports quoted Manila Police Director Chief Supt. Pedro Bulaong as saying that the suspects had been kept under tight watch by both the military and the PNP.
	www.mindanews.com /2003/05/22nws-raid.html (528 words)

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