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	01 December 2004 President Arroyo confers the Order of Sikatuna on outgoing ADB President. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo confers the Order of Sikatuna, with the rank of Datu, on outgoing ADB President Tadao Chino. His term ends January 31, 2005. During his farewell call, President Chino expressed the importance of ADB-Philippines development partnership, especially as the Philippines is the host to the ADB headquarters. President Arroyo welcomed ADB's approach of designing projects that placed minimal demands on the National Government's constrained budget.
09 November 2004 Launching of ADB project for Mindanao's Poor Women Vendors. Susanne Wendt, Social Development Specialist of ADB lays the capsule for the Women Resource Center in Panabo City which is part of a US$1 million project to protect Mindanao's poor women vendors from health and safety risks. The project is a technical assistance grant from the ADB's Japan Fund for Poverty reduction (JFPR), funded by the Government of Japan, and will benefit eight public markets in Mindanao. Assisting her are (from left) Panabo City Mayor Rey Gavina and Assistant Secretary Austere Panadero of the Department of Interior and Local Government, which is implementing the project.
	20 October 2004 Book Launching of ADB-funded Philippine fisheries publications. Shamshad Akhtar, Director General of ADB's Southeast Asia Department receives from Agriculture Undersecretary Cesar Drilon a set of publications form the ADB-funded Fisheries Resource Management Project on fisheries resource management and livelihood initiatives launched in celebration of 41st Fish Conservation Week. Looking on at center is Jessica Muñoz, Project Director.
20 October 2004 Ground breaking for ADB Project to Develop Poor Urban Communities. Vice President Noli de Castro, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), attended the Angeles City launching of the US$30 million-Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project of the ADB, that will provide affordable housing and serviced land to about 20,000 urban poor communities outside Metro Manila. Speaking the launch is Michael Lindfield, ADB Senior Housing and Urban Development Specialist, while seated (from left) are Rolando Geronimo, Executive Vice President, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP); Juliet Quinsaat, Treasurer, Angeles City; Carmelo Lazatin, Mayor, Angeles City; Vice President de Castro; Armando de Castro, Secretary General, HUDCC; and Reynaldo David, President, DBP. DBP and HUDCC are executing agencies of the project.
	6 October 2004 VP de Castro Visits ADB Project for the Urban Poor. Vice President Noli de Castro visited Dreamland Heights in San Pedro, Laguna, which is the relocation site for urban poor dwellers formerly living along the Muntinlupa railways. ADB supported the project with a US$ 1 million grant from its Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, financed by the Government of Japan and being implemented by the Muntinlupa Development Foundation (MDF). Also present were Michael Lindfield, ADB senior housing finance specialist (in dark coat, beside VP de Castro); Richard Ondrik, ADB Chief Country Officer (seventh from right); Alfred Xerez Burgos (sixth from right), MDF President; Ramon Sy, MDF Chairman (fifth from right); Laguna Vice Governor Edwin Olivarez (at extreme left); and community residents.
13 September 2004 ADB Reaffirms its Support to Power Sector Restructuring in the Philippines. Shamshad Akhtar, Director General of the ADB's Southeast Asia Department, speaks at a dialogue between development partners and the Government on issues facing the power sector. From left are Raphael Lotilla, President, Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation; Energy Secretary Vincent Perez; Ms. Akhtar; Vladimir Bohun, ADB Consultant; Rodolfo Albano, Chairman, Energy Regulatory Commission; and Lasse Aznar Holopainen, President, Philippine Electricity Market Corporation; Ambassadors and representatives from bilateral and multilateral development agencies attended the half-day meeting held at the ADB Headquarters.
	17 August 2004 ADB Turns Over Manual on Monitoring of Metro Manila Air Quality. Yue-Lang Feng, Principal Environment Specialist of ADB, and Jean Marc Olive, World Health Organization (WHO) Philippine Representative (third and fourth from left) hand over manuals on Public Health Monitoring of the Metro Manila Air Quality Improvement Sector Development Program to the Government, represented by Julian Amador, Director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Environment Management Bureau and Undersecretary Milagros Fernandez of the Department of Health. The manual identifies health effects of air pollution and was funded by ADB and WHO.
4 August 2004 ADB Grant to bring Renewable Energy to Negros Occidental. Finance Secretary Juanita Amatong and Thomas Crouch, ADB Country Director for the Philippines, shake hands after signing a US$ 1.5 million grant to bring renewable energy and livelihood opportunities to low income villages of Negros Occidental. Negros Occidental Governor Joseph Maranon (at left) and Japan Embassy's Financial Attache Satoshi Ikeda (at right) look on. The community-based project will bring power to more than 100 households and 2,480 people in the eight off-grid villages that depend mainly on the use of kerosene, batteries, and candles for energy. About a third of the beneficiaries live below the regional poverty threshold of US$0.27 per day.
	2 April 2004 ADB Briefing on Pasig River Project for European Ambassadors. Michael Lindfield, ADB Senior Housing Finance Specialist, briefs European ambassadors on the ADB's Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Project for Pasig River. Seated (from left) are ADB Executive Director Michele Miari Fulcis; Swiss Ambassador Lise Favre; French Ambassador Renee Veyret; Sylvia Clemente, Deputy Executive Director, Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, which is the project's implementing agency; and Italian Ambassador Umberto Colesanti (at right). Not in photo are Belgian Ambassador Christiaan Tanghe and Dra. Isabela Ferreira, Deputy Head of the Portuguese Embassy.
22 March 2004 ADB Slum Upgrading Project in Payatas. Thomas Crouch, Country Director of the Asian Development Bank's Philippines Country Office, (left) cuts the ribbon to inaugurate one of two 10,000-gallon water tanks in Payatas, Quezon City to improve the living conditions of its residents, many of whom lost their homes in a garbage landslide tragedy in July 2000. The project is from ADB's Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, funded by the Government of Japan. From left are Mr. Crouch; Quezon City Councilor Rose Susano; Hirochimi Sakuma, Financial Attache of the Japanese embassy; Quezon City Councilor Bong Liban; and Finard Cabilao, Director, External Affairs Services of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Other components of the project are bridge financing, livelihood and housing loans, road construction and a drainage system.