Pamintuan urges Angeleños: ‘Let us be forward-looking’

The first day of the incoming local administration augurs well for the people of Angeles City, as Mayor-elect Edgardo D. Pamintuan executive inaugurates his term with a job fair at the Event Center of SM-Clark on July 1, 2010. Dubbed “Trabahong Pang-Angeleño,” the fair will be gathering more than 34 firms, mainly from the Clark [...]

SCAD chairman tells realtors: “The future will happen here”

“Location, position, transition.” This was the message of Subic-Clark Alliance for Development (SCAD) Chairman Nestor S. Mangio to the members of the Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Associations, inc. (CREBA) on their First North Luzon Regional Real Estate and Housing Conference held last June 11, 2010 in Urdaneta, Pangasinan. Tasked to speak on sustainable [...]

Research shows RP has a lot of idle lands

BALANGA CITY, Bataan—State agriculture researchers said the Philippines has still many idle lands yet to be cultivated for food production. Reynan Calderon, an agriculture scientist based in the Bataan Peninsula State University, stated this following his recent visit to Fukuoka, Japan, where he presented research papers at the International Symposium on Machinery and Mechatronics for [...]

Masonic Community Service

Masonic Community Service. Officers and members of Jose Abad Santos Memorial Lodge 333 headed by its Worshipful Master Redentor Gatus recently launched its Brigada Eskwela Project at the Air Force City Elementary School inside the Air Force City. The project is part of the community service program of JASML 333 to help in the beautification [...]

CILA concludes successful Korean language training

The Clark Investors and Locators Association (CILA) has successfully concluded its short training course on the Korean language held from May 25 to 26 at the PLDT Innolab inside the Clark Freeport. CILA President Lito Mercado said the language training course in part of CILA’s advocacy to provide continuous education and learning for the Clark [...]

E. Aguilar Cruz Museum to open in Pampanga

A museum in honor of the late E. Aguilar ‘Abe’ Cruz, writer, newspaperman, artist, bon vivant, and UNESCO ambassador recently opened at Abé’s Farm at the foothills of Mt. Arayat in Magalang, Pampanga. Called the E. Aguilar Cruz (EAC) Museum or Abé Museum, it will showcase Abe’s artworks, furniture collection, memorabilia and writing instruments. The [...]

A big gamble in Subic

By Fel V. Maragay After so much wrangling and fault-finding, the long-overdue plan to modernize the Subic Bay port and make it at par with international standards is about to take a leap from blueprint to implementation stage. Since the Americans left the former naval facility in Zambales with the expiration of the bases treaty [...]

Asean can play leadership role in Asia

For ASEAN Secretary-General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, a major revelation about the new reality of Asia’s global role and “shift of weight from West to East” came in October 2008, when Western and Asian leaders met in China’s Great Hall of the People during the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing. Speaking at an international media conference held [...]

Angat Dam privatization is no guarantee to lower irrigation cost

Farmers using water from reservoirs of Angat Dam in Bulacan have been warned that the privatization of the dam will not automatically result in lower irrigation-service fees. National Irrigation Administration (NIA) chief of staff Bonifacio Labiano said that the President has the power to amend the irrigation-service fees. The fee will be based on the [...]

DFA reopens passport and consular offices in Clark

In response to public clamor, the Foreign Affairs department has finally reopened its passport and consular office inside the Clark Freeport Zone which had been closed for about six months. Clark Development Corporation Assistant Vice President Bernardo Angeles, Jr. of the Investment and Promotions said the opening of the DFA satellite office is an offshoot [...]

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