Wushu

Feb 8 2006, 01:40 PM

wonder what would happen if they trace the serials of those guns.....

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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, center, gestures as she talks to the newly promoted officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 at the Malacanang palace in Manila. Arroyo called a command conference with the officers of the major services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines amid intensifying coup rumors. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

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The shrine was built in 2002 to commemorate Dr. Rizal’s Chinese ancestral roots. It symbolizes the strong bond of friendship between the Philippines and China. During its inauguration, De Venecia remarked that the shrine “is a great symbol of the 1,000-year-old friendship between our two nations.”

The national hero is the direct descendant of Chinese trader Cua Yi Lam, who immigrated from Siongque (“Zhang-Guo” in Mandarin) to the Philippines in the later part of the 17th century. Church records show that Cua Yi Lam was baptized Domingo Lamco in Manila in 1697 at the age of 35 and listed his birthplace as Siongque village in China.

The monument, made of the world-famous Jinjiang granite stones, stands at 18.61 meters high, which is taller than the 12-meter high Rizal Monument in Manila. It was built on a five-hectare park named in Rizal’s honor, making it the biggest Rizal Shrine outside the Philippines. The park will also be the site of a Rizal museum and library.

The success of the project can be attributed to the combined efforts of the Cua-Chua Family Association where Rizal drew his Chinese lineage, the KAISA Para sa Kaunlaran, headed by Prof. Teresita Ang-See, which provided assistance in research and substance, Philippine Airlines chair Lucio Tan who headed the project committee working group, the Tulay Foundation, the Knights of Rizal, the Philippine Consulate General in Xiamen, the Jinjiang village and the city association based in Manila that arranged funding for the project, the Fujian Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and the Quanzhou Municipal Government.

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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (L) reviews an honour guard with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ® during his courtesy call at the presidential palace in Manila December 9, 2006. Abe, who arrived in the capital on Friday, has called off a trip to the central island of Cebu after the annual Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) was cancelled due to concerns an incoming tropical storm could wreak havoc at the venue this weekend. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES)

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MANILA, Philippines -- Admiral Timothy J. Keating, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, met with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the Presidential Palace Thursday morning. Admiral Keating, who assumed the U.S. Pacific Command post last March, was accompanied to the meeting by U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney. During the visit to the Philippines, Admiral Keating met with senior military and civilian leaders to discuss issues of mutual interest. (American Embassy, Manila photo by Ben Baguyo)