Tarlac, Philippines News

NOTWITHSTANDING the election next year and its consequent ban on public infrastructure projects for a certain period, several "mega projects" are set for implementation in Pangasinan.

Holiday travel proved fatal to at least 13 people in Central Luzon Monday after a truck fell into a ravine in Aurora province that resulted in the deaths of nine people, while four others were killed in a seven-vehicle pileup along the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway in Pampanga, officials said.

Four people were killed Thursday in the Philippines after a bus driver fell asleep at the wheel, causing the vehicle to collide with a van, police said.

An accident on Monday afternoon reportedly caused by smoke from burning cogon grass along the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway in Concepcion town in Tarlac province killed 3 persons Monday afternoon, an initial report said.

Before Santa, mistletoe and Christmas trees, we had beln - Nativity ensembles taking weeks to arrange.

Traffic in the country's major expressways is expected to build up beginning Saturday as thousands of motorists and travelers start trekking to the provinces for their Christmas vacation.

In all places, I saw it in a bus bound to Manila. I was on my way back home from Baguio after a successful storytelling session at the public library there.

Some P130.7 million worth of fertilizer from Japan arrived in Subic recently making way to provinces heavily affected by recent typhoons in the country.

OWNED Bases Conversion and Development Authority has extended the deadline for submission of bids to manage, operate and maintain the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway .

Tomorrow, Nov. 27, we observe the 77th Birth Anniversary of a great statesman, a well-loved Filipino, and an exemplary family man Senator Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino Jr.

Dr. Enrique S. Manabat Jr. M.D., formerly of Green Bay, Wis., was born Jan. 18, 1929, in Tarlac, Philippines, to Enrique Sr.

The congressional inquiry into the alleged overpriced purchase of road right-of-way in the Cojuangco family-owned Hacienda Luisita sugar land has political undertones, Quezon Rep.

Walter Zergman of Sequim is among the few living veterans of the Bataan Death March of 1942.

THE entire Central Luzon and its two international freeport zones are joining the forthcoming North Philippines Tourism and Travel Expo 2009, further affirming the event's national, international and regional character.

MABALACAT, Pampanga At least 75 tribesmen from Mindoro, Quezon, and Pampanga will vie for the top honors in the First ever Philippine Olympic Committee ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Mangyan-Aeta-Dumagat indigenous people of the Philippines of the 'Tribal Games finals on Friday at Clark Freeport Picnic Grounds, Mabalacat, Pampanga.

Weather bureau PAGASA hoisted Storm Signal No. 3 in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon as Typhoon Santi is forecast to make landfall Friday.

This infrared image from NASA's AIRS instrument on the Aqua Satellite shows the extent of Mirinae's high clouds on Oct.

This is the map of tributaries and flood-prone areas around the Agno River basin from Pagasa's Flood Forecast Branch.

This is the map of tributaries and flood-prone areas around the Pampanga River basin from Pagasa's Flood Forecast Branch.

AT&T Inc. announced Wednesday its contribution of an additional US$25,000 to Tlcoms Sans Frontires , the France-based organisation specialised in providing emergency telecommunication, facilitating the coordination of aid efforts in the wake of disasters.