Manila

Where is Manila?

There was peanut loaf, liver loaf, bean loaf.

Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

This is the Thrilla' in Manila.

Water Voices Documentary Series, ADB, Manila, Philippines

Look at this young bean that is moving to catch the light every time.

You know how much coffee is worth, when treated as a commodity as a bean?

I remember his son had the L.L. Bean bootlaces, and we're trying to do up his laces.

OTTAWA In April 1999 Larry Proctor, a United States citizen and owner of a seed company, won a patent at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), claiming a Mexican yellow bean. The patent conferred Proctor exclusive rights over a bean variety he called Enola.

The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a farmers variety, originally from Mexico and in the public domain for centuries. The bean is consumed throughout Mexico and by Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the US who know it by the names Mayocoba, Canario, or Peruano.

Now, coumarin is a very common thing, a material, in fragrance which is derived from a bean that comes from South America.

So I wrote at the top of the manila folder, and I started looking at the data.

And all of those products probably end their lives in a dump like this one in Manila.

The Philippines hosted the International Rice Forum in Manila, which attracted around 200 participants from 27 countries.

I'll give you two examples, also from the garden lima beans. You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites?

Yousef seethed with resentment about the discovery of his Bojinka (explosives) cell in Manila the month before and vowed

Infrastructure in Asia with the Asian Development Bank in Manila in February 2004 the and its resulting UNCDF book.

Received Master's degree in Business Administration from Ateneo de Manila University and Bachelor of Laws degree from University of the Philippines.

Acaraje, a Brazilian food from Africa, is a ball of caupi bean dough, onions, and salt, fried in palm oil and served with shrimp and a spicy sauce.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

So I had a manila folder, and I had a Sharpie, and I was like, what am I going to call this research?

Although the bean variety existed in publicly available seed collections, it took ten years, hundreds of thousands of dollars, massive protest by farmers and civil society, the intervention of international agencies, and five consecutive legal decisions before the USPTO finally annulled the patent in July 2009. By then, Proctor had exercised a complete monopoly over the production, distribution, and marketing of the bean for more than half of the patent s lifespan.

There may be one or two of you who are brilliant jelly bean guessers, but for the most part the group's guess would be better than just about all of you.

And they killed about 12,000 sharks in this period, literally just by stringing a manila rope off the tip of Keem Bay at Achill Island.

Noting that 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the First International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, held in Manila from 3 to 6 June 1988,

The humour feels as if it is pitched at kids rather than adults, and for me Johnny English's wacky misadventures aren't as inventive and focused as Atkinson's silent movie gags in the persona of Bean.

Recalling also the Manila DeclarationA 43 538, annex. adopted by the First International Conference of New or Restored DemocraciesThen called the International Conference of Newly Restored Democracies. in June 1988,

Red Army millet, black bean, mountain kids madrigal black goat, hardcover buckwheat tea, paper cutting shadow puppets book, handmade slippers... All pieces of beautifully packaged agricultural products is neatly placed on the stand, they have a common brand name called Huangxiangren .

Recalling further the declarations and plans of action of the four international conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in 1994, Bucharest in 1997 and Cotonou in 2000,

Kishida specially went to Davao City, base of Duterte, instead of Manila, the capital, so as to hope to confirm cooperative relationship with the Philippines on the issue of the South China Sea.

The INSARAG secretariat, supported by the Governments of Colombia, the Philippines and Armenia, organized earthquake response exercises in the earthquake prone cities of Bogotá (October 2003), Manila (January 2004) and Yerevan (June 2005).

Among those who took the HSK on that day, there were 1,304 candidates from 10 schools in the Greater Manila area and 25 candidates from the society. They applied for HSK Levels 2 6 tests.

Recalling further the declarations and plans of action of the five international conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in 1994, Bucharest in 1997, Cotonou in 2000 and Ulaanbaatar in 2003,

According to Taiwan's The Central News Agency , one jail in the suburb of the Manila area saw a bombing event, resulting in the death of 10 prisoners, including two Chinese, and the injury of the warden.

UN Habitat has also supported recent peer learning at the city level, sponsoring exchanges, workshops, training and field trips among cities (e.g., Mumbai, Manila, Addis Ababa, Arusha, Durban, Havana, Medellin, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Johannesburg).

At the end of 2000, CIAT, supported by the FAO, requested that the USPTO re examine the patent. Geneticists then performed genetic fingerprinting on the yellow beans, and concluded that Proctor s Enola bean was identical to the Mexican beans covered by the Trust Agreement.

It was only in the late 1980 s, when the Communist empire was crumbling, that US governments actively backed democratic politicians and demonstrators in Seoul, Taipei, or Manila. But the heroes of democracy were Asian, not American.

Noting the initiatives taken by the countries that participated in the first, second and third International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, held, respectively, at Manila in June 1988, Managua in July 1994 and Bucharest in September 1997,

MANILA As the slowdown in the world s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden will likely be placed on the region s major economies, particularly its two giants, India and China.

Renews its support for the Peace Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front initiated on 30 August 1996 in Jakarta and officially signed on 2 September 1996 in Manila.

Recalling also the declarations and plans of action of the six international conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in 1994, Bucharest in 1997, Cotonou in 2000, Ulaanbaatar in 2003 and Doha in 2006,

Recalling further the declarations and plans of action of the six international conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in 1994, Bucharest in 1997, Cotonou in 2000, Ulaanbaatar in 2003 and Doha in 2006,

In accordance with the decision taken by the Panel of External Auditors in 1989 at Manila, UNIDO calculated the amounts required to cover the estimated costs of contingency liabilities for end of service payment as at 31 December 2004.

After returning to the local police station, the policeman first of all offered a bowl of mung bean soup to the old man and told the latter to drink it up for fear that he might suffer heatstroke due to being exposed to the scorching weather for a long time.