{"id":130287,"date":"2017-11-10T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T03:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130287"},"modified":"2017-11-10T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T03:39:04","slug":"mitra-wants-a-more-participative-transparent-opbf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/10\/mitra-wants-a-more-participative-transparent-opbf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitra wants a more participative, transparent OPBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_130288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130288\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Abraham-Kahlil-\u201cBaham\u201d-Mitra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130288\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Abraham-Kahlil-\u201cBaham\u201d-Mitra.jpg\" alt=\"Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) President Abraham Kahlil \u201cBaham\u201d Mitra wants the OPBF to be more participative and transparent in promoting the organization and its activities. (Photo: Chairman Baham Mitra\/Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Abraham-Kahlil-\u201cBaham\u201d-Mitra.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Abraham-Kahlil-\u201cBaham\u201d-Mitra-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) President Abraham Kahlil \u201cBaham\u201d Mitra wants the OPBF to be more participative and transparent in promoting the organization and its activities. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chairmanbahammitra\/photos\/a.1710261675951476.1073741832.1666648590312785\/1710262775951366\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chairmanbahammitra\/\">Chairman Baham Mitra\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DAVAO CITY \u2013 Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) President Abraham Kahlil \u201cBaham\u201d Mitra wants the OPBF to be more participative and transparent in promoting the organization and its activities.<\/p>\n<p>This was Mitra\u2019s message during the Gala Dinner and Awards held at the HarBallroom of the Princesa Garden Island Resort and Spa in Puerto Princesa City last Nov. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage each and every member to share with us their ideas and join us in promoting the organization and its activities,\u201d said Mitra, a former elected governor of Palawan Province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us to work together towards a common goal, that is, the development and promotion of boxing in the entire region and the whole world,\u201d said Mitra.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra is positive with the active participation of the more than 150 in the on-going OPBF annual convention until Nov. 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have high hopes that we will continue to flourish together,\u201d he said. OPBF started with only three members &#8212; Philippines, Japan and Thailand in 1954 as the Oriental Boxing Federation.<\/p>\n<p>It was later named OPBF and it has now increased the number of country-members namely Australia, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Taiwan, Tonga, Malaysia and China.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra said the increase signifies strength, influence and an assurance of development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we will continue to grow as a family, and together we will work as a family,\u201d said Mitra.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY \u2013 Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) President Abraham Kahlil \u201cBaham\u201d Mitra wants the OPBF to be more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":130288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[32411,32412,32413,22457],"class_list":["post-130287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abraham-kahlil-baham-mitra","tag-oriental-and-pacific-boxing-federation","tag-participative","tag-transparent","mauthors-lito-delos-reyes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}