P9 M allotted to reforest industrial Mariveles

MARIVELES, Bataan, June 18 (PIA) – The touted clean coal power plant here will be spending nearly P9 million as part of its social responsibility program to reforest a vast non-watershed area in Mariveles with help from the Authority of the Freeport of Bataan (AFAB).   AFAB and GN Mariveles Coal Plant (GMCP) signed recently […]

NGCP donates school supplies

 Around 6,000 students in select public schools in Central Luzon, including Bataan, recently received school supplies from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). “The distribution is part of our Balik Eskwela project which intends to give back to our host communities or areas where we have transmission facilities,” NGCP Central Luzon Corporate Communication […]

Shakey’s invades Bataan!

CAPITOL, Balanga City – Originally known in San Francisco, California as a bar featuring the Dixieland Jazz Band, Shakey’s has gone a long way. From its first branch in Ayala cor. Makati Ave in 1954, franchised by the San Miguel Corporation primarily to promote draft beer, it now caters not only to men who want to listen to folk music while sipping beer, but also to the entire family with their well-loved thin crust pizza, chicken, pasta, mojos ‘n’ dip to go with the usual soda. 

Bataan villages bag top honors in National Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentive Award

   CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, June 18 (PIA) — Two villages in Bataan bagged the National Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentive Award (LTIA) after garnering high marks in their respective categories.

   Winners were Cataning in Balanga City (component city category) and Kitang II/Luz in Limay town (1st to 3rd class municipality category).

Flood-prone Bataan town fights ‘illegal foes’

   DINALUPIHAN, Bataan, June 17 (PIA) – Seventy two years ago in World War II, townsfolk here fought gallantly as the province’s first defenders against Japanese invasion. Now, the successors are fighting a different war that submerges their town in eight-foot high water.