New French Ambassador to the Philippines visits Cebu

By Quennie Sanchez Bronce (The Freeman) Updated February 21, 2009 12:00 AM Comments (0)

CEBU, Philippines - Valentines weekend became extra special because the new French Ambassador to the Philippines, Thierry Borja de Mozota, visited Cebu. Mr. Borja de Mozota, who was born in Paris in 1948, holds a bachelors degree in international law and a diploma in advanced political science. He began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an assignment at the Embassy of France in New Delhi before he joined the Office for Asia-Oceania Affairs in Paris. Prior to his assignment here in the Philippines, he was the Ambassador of France to Brunei. Aside from meeting the French who are already residing or doing business here in Cebu, the Ambassador also met with government officials to strengthen the trade relationship between France an the Cebu government an the private sector. Mr. Borja de Mozota, last February 14, had lunch with the media together with French Consul Michel Lhuillier, Les Amis de la France director Louis Thevenin and Press Attache Carolle Lucas. The Ambassador later on visited Boljoon and Carcar to explore areas where the French government can help the Philippine government in heritage site conservation and restoration.

French Ambassador to Visit Silliman June 6

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His Excellency Thierry Borja de Mozota, Ambassador of France to the Philippines, has scheduled a visit to Silliman University on June 6. The Ambassador will be with a party of two: Mr. Louis Thievenin and Ms Juliette Blouin, Director and Deputy Director of the Alliance Francaise de Cebu, respectively. Silliman University Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan, who concurrently serves as Acting President, while President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III is on official leave, will formally welcome the Ambassador to the University. A special academic convocation has been set on the same day, marking the start of School Year 2011-2012, and the Ambassador will be the guest speaker. The Ambassador will discuss the friendship between France and the Philippines to an audience composed of students and faculty at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. The University will also explore partnership opportunities with the Embassy of France on programs related to education, culture and the arts. France is one of 31 countries represented in Silliman. Of the University's student population of over 8,000, 300 are international students. French is also one of the foreign languages being offered in the curriculum.

French Ambassador to visit Dumaguete City on June 6 by Rachelle M. Nessia DUMAGUETE CITY, June 3 (PIA) --- The Ambassador of France to the Philippines, His Excellency Thierry Borja de Mozota, is scheduled to arrive in Dumaguete City on June 6 to be the guest speaker during a special convocation in Silliman University (SU).

The convocation will mark the start of school ar 2011-2012, said SU Director for Office of Information and Publications Mark Garcia, in a statement. He will speak on the friendship between France and the Philippines," Garcia said. SU is eyeing to explore partnership opportunities with the Embassy of France on programs related to education, culture and the arts. The Ambassador will arrive together with Louis Thievenin and Juliette Blouin, Director and Deputy Director of the Alliance Francaise de Cebu, respectively. Garcia said that Silliman University Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan, who concurrently serves as Acting President while President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III is on official leave, will formally welcome the Ambassador to the university. With a student population of over 8,000, Silliman is home to around 300 international students coming from 31 countries. France is among the countries represented in the University and French is one of the foreign languages being offered in the curriculum. (RMN/PIA Negros Oriental)

History of the Philippines

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The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans via land bridges at least 30,000 years ago.[1] The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, who sighted Samar on March 16, 1521 and landed on Homonhon Island southeast of Samar the next day.[2][3] Before Magellan arrived, Negrito tribes roamed the isles, but they were later supplanted by Austronesians. These groups then stratified into: hunter-gatherer tribes, warrior-societies, petty plutocracies and maritime oriented harbor principalities which eventually grew into kingdoms, rajahnates, principalities, confederations and sultanates. States such as the Indianized Rajahnate of Butuan and Cebu, the dynasty ofTondo, the august kingdoms of Maysapan and Maynila, the Confederation of Madyaas, the sinified Country of Mai, as well as the Muslim Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. These small states flourished from as early as the 10th century AD, Despite these

kingdoms attaining complex political and social orders, as well as enjoying trade with areas now called China, India, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, none encompassed the whole archipelago which was to become the unified Philippines of the twentieth century.[4] The remainder of the settlements were independent Barangays allied with one of the larger nations. Spanish colonization and settlement began with the arrival of Miguel Lpez de Legazpi's expedition on February 13, 1565 who established the first permanent settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu.[5] The expedition continued northward reaching the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon on June 24, 1571,[6] where they established a new town and thus began an era of Spanish colonization that lasted for more than three centuries.[7] Spanish rule achieved the political unification of almost the whole archipelago, that previously had been composed by independent kingdoms and communities, pushing back south the advancing Islamic forces and creating the first draft of the nation that was to be known as thePhilippines. Spain also introduced Christianity, the code of law, the oldest Universities and the first public education system in Asia, the western European version of printing, the Gregorian calendar and invested heavily on all kinds of modern infrastructures, such as train networks and modern bridges. The Spanish East Indies were ruled as a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and administered from Mexico City, Mexico from 1565 to 1821, and administered directly from Madrid, Spain from 1821 until the end of the SpanishAmerican War in 1898, except for the brief British occupation of the Philippines from 1762 to 1764. During the Spanish period, numerous towns were founded, infrastructures built, new crops and livestock introduced. The Chinese, British, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and indigenous traders, complained that the Spanish reduced trade by attempting to enforce a Spanish monopoly. Spanish missionaries attempted to convert the population to Christianity and were eventually generally successful in the northern and central lowlands. They founded schools, a university, and some hospitals, principally in Manila and the largest Spanish fort settlements.

Universal education was made free for all Filipino subjects in 1863 and remained so until the end of the Spanish colonial era. This measure was at the vanguard of contemporary Asian countries, and led to an important class of educated natives, like Jose Rizal. Ironically, it was during the initial years of American occupation in the early 20th century, that Spanish literature and press flourished. The Philippine Revolution against Spain began in August 1896, but it was largely unsuccessful until it received support from the United States, culminating two years later with a proclamation of independence and the establishment of the First Philippine Republic. However, theTreaty of Paris, at the end of the SpanishAmerican War, transferred control of the Philippines to the United States. This agreement was not recognized by the insurgent First Philippine Republic Government which, on June 2, 1899, proclaimed a Declaration of War against the United States.[8] The PhilippineAmerican War which ensued resulted in massive casualties.[9] Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo was captured in 1901 and the U.S. government declared the conflict officially over in 1902. The Filipino leaders, for the most part, accepted that the Americans had won, but hostilities continued and only began to decline in 1913, leaving a total number of casualties on the Filipino side of more than one million dead, many of them civilians.[10][11] The U.S. had established a military government in the Philippines on August 14, 1898, following the capture of Manila.[12] Civil government was inaugurated on July 1, 1901.[13] An elected Philippine Assembly was convened in 1907 as the lower house of a bicameral legislature.[13]Commonwealth status was granted in 1935, preparatory to a planned full independence from the United States in 1946.[14] Preparation for a fully sovereign state was interrupted by the Japanese occupation of the islands during World War II.[6][15] After the end of the war, the Treaty of Manila established the Philippine Republic as an independent nation.[16] With a promising economy in the 1950s and 1960s, the Philippines in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a rise of student activism and civil unrest against President Ferdinand Marcos who declared martial

law in 1972.[6][not in citation given] The peaceful and bloodless People Power Revolution of 1986, however, brought about the ousting of Marcos and a return to democracy for the country. The period since then, however, has been marked by political instability and hampered economic productivity.