17 May 2013
The Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) is making waves in the business arena after it posted the highest growth rate among investment promotion agencies (IPA) in the country. The 1,691-hectare industrial complex has surpassed the seven other big IPAs including the Clark Development Corporation (CDC) and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in terms [...]
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16 May 2013
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Provincial Board of Canvassers proclaimed on Wednesday 2nd district Congressman Albert Garcia as the elected governor of the province and his father incumbent Governor Enrique Garcia as the newly elected congressman of the 2nd district. The young Garcia who got 257, 596 votes clobbered incumbent Dinalupihan town Mayor Joel [...]
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15 April 2013
KM 44 Death March marker was unveiled Thursday or 71 years this April 11 after thousands of Filipino and American soldiers reached Balanga, still not a city and the capital town of Bataan, during the Death March when Bataan fell to the Japanese Imperial Army on April 9, 1942. The marker indicates that [...]
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11 March 2013
Companies in the Freeport Area of Bataan underwent an orientation on labor standards from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in a bid to make the sprawling industrial complex the country’s first labor standard compliant freeport zone. About 50 different companies, together with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, PhilHealth, Social Security System, and [...]
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26 February 2013
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan, February 20 (PIA) – Thousands of jobs will again be generated in the province after a lawmaker here passed a bill that will maximize the use of an underutilized land in Limay town and convert it into an “integrated investment hub” for energy-related businesses. The Senate has already adopted the version [...]
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26 February 2013
MARIVELES, Bataan, February 21 (PIA) – Bataeños may soon receive lower monthly electric bills after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) recently completed a P299 million transmission project that supports a new power plant located in this town. The Mariveles Coal Transmission Reinforcement Project caters to the GN Power Ltd.’s new coal-fired electric generation [...]
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19 February 2013
This city over the weekend opened the grand lighting of facades of high-rise buildings, a new library and the St. Joseph Cathedral around its Plaza Mayor designed similar to the famous Salamanca in Spain. City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III thanked Bishop Ruperto Santos and businessmen Jerry Acuzar, Dr. Eusebio Aquino and former Consul Eduardo de [...]
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13 February 2013
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan, February 8 (PIA) – Church and police leaders here have joined forces in convening election candidates in the province to sign a peace covenant which they said if followed earnestly will bring forth a “very peaceful” election come May. In a mass dedicated for the covenant signing, Diocese of Balanga Bishop Ruperto [...]
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