Battle of Bataan

The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan’s invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan’s effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. It was the largest surrender in American […]

SPARC to spark internet usage in Balanga City

   BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Worrying about not being able to use the internet? Not anymore.    Ordinary folks who are not too savvy with the use of computers, the internet and anything about information technology (IT) can now have a sigh of relief.    Thanks to the SPARC Philippines, Inc. which had forged a memorandum […]

The Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March (Japanese: バターン死の行進 Hepburn: Batān Shi no Kōshin?, Filipino: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan), which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.[3][4] All told, […]

Bataan gears to be the PHL’s BPO hub

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Bataan Chapter headed by Dinalupihan Mayor Maria Angela “Gila” Garcia, together with provincial board members, capitol department heads, business groups and the press yesterday attended the “Orientation on the Establishment and Registration of BPO Centers and IT Parks” at The Plaza Hotel in this component […]

Regular monitoring sa mga business establishments, tiniyak ng DTI-Bataan

LUNGSOD ng BALANGA, Bataan – Tiniyak ng Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) na  regular ang kanilang isinasagawang monitoring sa mga palengke at iba pang business establishments sa  lalawigan upang masiguro na hindi substandard ang kanilang mga produkto at  ipinatutupad ang tamang presyo sa mga pangunahing bilihin. Ayon kay Nelin Cabahug, Provincial Director ng DTI-Bataan, […]

DAR grants P4M building to agrarian reform cooperative

BALANGA CITY, Bataan -The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Bataan granted a P4 million multi-purpose building to an agrarian reform cooperative in this City. Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer Neil Francis T. Pedralvez and Head of Program Beneficiaries and Development Division, led other agrarian reform officials in the turnover of the newly constructed building to […]

Pagpapanatili ng conducive learning environment sa Bataan, prayoridad

LUNGSOD ng BALANGA, Bataan – Puspusan ang mga isinasagawang proyektong pang imprastraktura ng pamahalaang panlalawigan partikular na ang pagpapagawa ng mga gusaling pampaaralan at pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan sa iba’t ibang lugar sa lalawigan na umabot na sa 2,023 proyekto mula taong 2005 hanggang 2013. Target ni Bataan Gov. Albert Garcia na mapanatili o mas […]

Funds for P150 million flood control program sought

DINALUPIHAN, Bataan –  Mayor Maria Angela S. Garcia is negotiating  for a P150 million funding for the declogging of heavily–silted waterways  and rehabilitation of  dikes  to solve the perennial flooding that cause  the destruction of hundred millions of  pesos worth of agricultural crops, as well as private and public infrastructures for the past decades in […]

Sec. Acosta leads PTT reforestation project in Morong

MORONG, Bataan – Secretary Neric Acosta, Presidential Adviser on Environmental Protection recently led the fifth tree-planting activity of Thai oil firm, PTT Philippines Corporation in Sitio Kanawan in Barangay Binaritan of this municipality. Acosta was accompanied by key PTT officials and employees led by Paul Patricio Senador, President of PTT Philippines Foundation Inc. Almost 200 […]

PCAARRD, BPSU to conduct coral reef restoration project

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) will conduct a coral reef restoration project in the coastal towns of Bagac, Bataan and Subic, Zambales. Technology Transfer and Promotion Division and […]