(Welcome remarks of Butch Meily, Chamber president, at the dinner for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the Starlight Roof, Waldorf Astoria in New York, September 27, 2007.)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD EVENING. I’M BUTCH MEILY, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND I’D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO TONIGHT’S EVENT.

TONIGHT IS A FAMILY AFFAIR BECAUSE FOR A FILIPINO, IT OFTEN SEEMS THAT MUCH OF OUR HISTORY OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS HAS BEEN TOUCHED BY OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES. WHEN YOU GREW UP IN MANILA, STREETS HAD NAMES LIKE TAFT AVENUE, DEWEY BOULEVARD AND MCKINLEY. THREE MILLION FILIPINOS LIVE AND WORK IN THE U.S. MANY OF OUR FATHERS OR GRANDFATHERS FOUGHT AND DIED SIDE BY SIDE WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR II.

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Philam Chamber President Butch Meily introduces the CEO of NTT Tetsuro Yamagushi and the CEO of NTT Docomo Masako Yoshikawa to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the Chamber’s dinner Thursday, September 27 at the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Three hundred guests attended the glittering affair which was the culmination of an Outsourcing Summit organized by the Business Processing Association of the Philippines, Department of Trade and Industry and the Chamber.

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Anthony Pangilinan, president of the PLDT Foundation and a representative of Philippine Business for Social Progress, the largest NGO in the country, meets with members and guests of the Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast in June, 2007.

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