{"id":270505,"date":"2020-10-01T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270505"},"modified":"2020-10-01T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:19:07","slug":"new-omb-chair-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/01\/new-omb-chair-assumes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"New OMB chair assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"iOwMBY2y\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Atty.AgilaD.Natividad\/posts\/1639370039577023\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Atty.AgilaD.Natividad\/posts\/1639370039577023\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>PROUD TO BE MALOLENYO! Congratulations Mayor Atty. Christian &quot;AGILA&quot; D. Natividad sa pagkakatalaga bilang Chairman ng&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Atty.AgilaD.Natividad\/\">Atty. Agila D. Natividad<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Atty.AgilaD.Natividad\/posts\/1639370039577023\">Wednesday, September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former three-term mayor of Malolos City, lawyer Christian \u201cAgila\u201d Natividad, on Thursday assumed as the new chairman of the Optical Media Board (OMB).<\/p>\n<p>Natividad vowed to go all out against counterfeiters of storage devices, and promote respect for intellectual property rights in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He took his oath of office before Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi.<\/p>\n<p>In a short oath-taking program, Cusi welcomed Natividad to the Duterte Administration and asked him to serve the OMB with the same passion he showed as three-term mayor of Malolos City.<\/p>\n<p>The OMB, under the Office of the President, regulates the mastering, manufacturing, importation and exportation of optical media products.<\/p>\n<p>Former chairpersons include Edu Manzano, Ronnie Ricketts and Senator Bong Revilla.<\/p>\n<p>Natividad is a hall of famer as Most Outstanding City Mayor of the Philippines given by the Association of Social Welfare and Development Officers of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>During his term, Malolos City was a consistent awardee for seal of good housekeeping and for peace and order.<\/p>\n<p>It was also considered to be one of the safest cities in the Philippines.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROUD TO BE MALOLENYO! Congratulations Mayor Atty. Christian &quot;AGILA&quot; D. Natividad sa pagkakatalaga bilang Chairman ng&#8230; Posted by Atty. Agila &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":270507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270505","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270508,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270505\/revisions\/270508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}