Inside APO Production Unit, Inc.

BY TITA VALDERAMA

— PCIJ

Posted in: 2010 elections, apo printing press, Governance, Multimedia, Photos, PIA, Politics

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The elections as fiesta

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Scenes from the first hour of voting at Commonwealth Elementary School

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‘Too small to be seen,
too juicy to be let go’

IT IS now so obscure that many government officials don’t even know what it is, but there was once a time when the APO Production Unit, Inc. seemed destined for great things. ‘APO’ actually stands for ‘Asian Productivity Organization,’ which was the name of the Japan-based group that had helped start it more than three decades ago as an outfit that would serve the information and training needs of Asian countries.