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===Featured Philippine News===
===Featured Philippine News===


*'''PH voted as best diving area at Japan fair'''
*'''Gov’t to evacuate OFWs still in Libya'''
*August 21, 2011
*August 22, 2011
:MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines was chosen as one of the top diving destinations of the world during the recently concluded 19th Marine Diving Fair in Japan.
:Philippine officials on Sunday announced they were arranging with a humanitarian group the repatriation of more than 1,700 Filipino workers in Libya as rebels pushed closer toward Tripoli and small clashes erupted in the Libyan capital itself.


:The country was voted as Best Diving Area and Best Dreaming Area, alongside heavyweights such as Maldives and Palau, the Tourism Department said in a statement........[http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/08/21/11/ph-voted-best-diving-area-japan-fair<font size=4 color=green>Full Story »</font>]  
:Libyan rebels announced that a 600-strong force that set eastward from the coastal city of Zawiya had reached the outskirts of the town of Jedaim on Sunday and that the front line was now less than 30 kilometers from the seat of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. It was unclear if the Libyan ruler was still in Tripoli.........[http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/45475/gov%E2%80%99t-to-evacuate-ofws-still-in-libya<font size=4 color=green>Full Story »</font>]  


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*'''Palace welcomes US report on terror groups, hopes for updates in travel advisories'''
*'''PH voted as best diving area at Japan fair'''
*August 20, 2011
*August 21, 2011
:Even as it welcomed a US State Department report indicating terrorist groups in the Philippines are “declining," Malacañang is hoping for a corresponding modification in travel advisories on the country.
:MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines was chosen as one of the top diving destinations of the world during the recently concluded 19th Marine Diving Fair in Japan.


:Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte also said the Palace takes the report as an inspiration of sorts to sustain the government's counter-terrorism efforts.......[http://www.gmanews.tv/story/229985/nation/palace-welcomes-us-report-on-terror-groups-hopes-for-updates-in-travel-advisories<font size=4 color=green>Full Story »</font>]
:The country was voted as Best Diving Area and Best Dreaming Area, alongside heavyweights such as Maldives and Palau, the Tourism Department said in a statement........[http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/08/21/11/ph-voted-best-diving-area-japan-fair<font size=4 color=green>Full Story »</font>]


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===Featured Sport Event in the Philippines===
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