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		<title>Brownouts return to Calbayog City</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/brownouts-return-to-calbayog-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Calbayog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capoocan, Calbayog City
Last night the electricity was off in Capoocan from 6pm to 9pm local time. When I called the Samelco substation, they said it was a &#8220;rotating&#8221; brownout from Napocor. This morning, the power is out in Brgy Central of Calbayog City. I contacted Samelco&#8217;s Capoocan substation again, and was told this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calbayog Diocese Centennial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Diocese of Calbayog City, Samar, turned 100 years old today. The Diocese was created in 1910 by Pope Pius X, making it the oldest Diocese in Samar Province.
Papal Ambassador, Archbishop Joseph Edward Adams, the Papal Nuncio, led the Centennial Thanksgiving Mass at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The Mass, which was closed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samar News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://samar.expat2phils.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As per request, we have added a Google News page about Samar.
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		<title>Weather page added</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/samar/weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the storms we have been having, I thought it would be appropriate to add a weather page. You can click on the link above, or click here.
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		<title>Zest Air grounded.</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/zest-air-grounded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calbayog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asian Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancellation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were planning on flying Zest Air between Calbayog and Manila today, you were out of luck. There was a last minute cancellation, due to maintenance issues. Apparently, the plane did not pass a pre-flight inspection, or was otherwise not ready in time for boarding in Manila. About 11 AM the representatives in Calbayog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmonella in Samar</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/salmonella-in-samar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sta. Rita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the southern portion of Samar Province is having a pig problem. In the past 2 months, 84 of Sta. Rita&#8217;s 8,900 pigs have died of Salmonella infection. Leo Cañeda, executive regional director of the Department of Agriculture, held a meeting in Tacloban on Friday, with some of Samar&#8217;s mayors and government agriculturists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calbayog&#8217;s Third Airline</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/calbayogs-third-airline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cebu Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Arroyo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new airline is comming to Calbayog. Cebu Pacific Airlines has already opened it&#8217;s ticketing office in Calbayog, and is scheduled to start service, between Calbayog&#8217;s Sabang Airport, and Manila, on Feburary 18, 2009. According to Cebu Pacific&#8217;s local representative, Analyn S. Amoguez, the flights will be Monday, Wednessday, and Friday mornings.
Currently Zest Airways (formerly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catbalogan Cityhood Update</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/catbalogan-cityhood-update/</link>
		<comments>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/catbalogan-cityhood-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hon. Reynato S. Puno]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://samar.expat2phils.com/?p=387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a &#8220;Press Statement of the City Government of Catbalogan on cityhood issue,&#8221; published on the Samar News.com website, the issue of Catbalogan&#8217;s cityhood is not yet settled. Here is a quote from that statement:

As things stand now, Catbalogan remains and still is a city. No more less than the Chief Justice of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calbayog News Page moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calbayog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US Ambassador Kristie Kenny]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://samar.expat2phils.com/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that this blog is up and running, I have decided to discontinue the Calbayog News Page, and have moved a couple of articles from there to here.
The first article was origionally published on June, 14, 2008. It is about U.S. Ambassador H.E. Kristie Anne Kenny visiting Calbayog, for the inauguration of the new Calbayog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catbalogan &#8211; No Cityhood</title>
		<link>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/catbalogan-no-cityhood/</link>
		<comments>http://expat2phils.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/catbalogan-no-cityhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin Dale</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://samar.expat2phils.com/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ruled that the creation of 16 new cities was unconstitutional. Amongst those 16 is Samar Province&#8217;s Capitol of Catbalogan. This decision was in response to a petition by the League of Cities of the Philippines, who objected to the &#8220;mad rush&#8221; to create cities who did not meet [...]]]></description>
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