Baguio, Philippines News

Nick Lizaso, a stage, TV and film director who's also an educator, trainer and lecturer, is confident that Philippine theater can be at par with the rest of the world, particularly Belarus where he recently participated in a theater festival as a jury member and workshop facilitator.

BENEFICIARIES of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in the various provinces in the Cordillera region gathered together as their way of Standing Up and Taking Action to help put an end to extreme poverty.

The Commission on Elections said there will be no more extension of voters' registration because such move might affect the preparation of the final voters list.

FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City The Philippine Military Academy here formally admitted 122 cadets as members of PMA Pudang Kalis Class of 2013 during simple recognition rites held at the Borromeo grounds Saturday morning.

ALL cooperatives will be facing a big problem if they don't register again, according to a new memorandum issued by the Department of Finance .

The next time somebody says that ita s a small world please ignore him. Take it from me, having just done a whirlwind tour to the Philippines, then to New York, followed by a trip to Tampa, ita s still a very big world.

After days of heavy rain and strong winds, the sun finally broke through the clouds in northern Luzon as tropical storm Ramil continues to move away from the country.

I will be traveling to Baugio in February for Panagbenga. I dona TMt know if this festival changes the food scene or not.

Thus Unicef Executive Director Ann Veneman endorsed the Philippine government's request for almost $75 million from the United Nations to address the deadly consequences of Typhoon Ondoy.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines, Oct 21 - Cafe by the Ruins, a popular rustic restaurant situated in Baguio City, the Philippines' famed mountain city resort, usually caters to tourists and residents who enjoy sipping their cups of brewed coffee while appreciating the artworks displayed on the cafe's stone walls.

Officials told residents still reeling from mudslides that recently buried hundreds in the northern Philippine mountains to be ready to abandon their homes again if a storm approaching Friday becomes the third typhoon in a month to hit the country.

MANILA // As the Philippines braces for yet another typhoon, aid workers are grappling with a shortage of trained professionals to deal with the growing number of people suffering from trauma, especially children.

American military helicopters started ferrying tons of aid Sunday to a northern Philippine mountain region facing shortages of food, gasoline and coffins after back-to-back typhoons killed more than 600 in the country.

MANILA More than the heavy rains dumped by tropical storm "Pepeng" in the Cordillera Administrative Region , a group blamed the deaths and damages caused by landslides in the region on corporate mining, capitalism and the government.

Rescue services assisting with the evacuation of people from a flood affected area in a helicopter, in the northen Philippine province of Pangasinan Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Parma receded in much of the northern Philippines yesterday but the toll rose to 299 confirmed dead in landslides and flooding, officials said.

U.S. military helicopters are en route with tons of food aid to storm-ravaged areas of the northern Philippines.

Relief effort on Sunday shifted to the Philippines' northern provinces devastated by floods and cut off by landslides with rescue teams using shovels and bare hands to avoid triggering more avalanches while searching for scores buried in the debris.

Despite losing a daughter, three grandchildren and a son-in-law in deadly landslides last weekend, Freddie Kuyangan said he has no plans to move away from his village in the northern Philippines.

The U.N. will appeal for tens of millions of dollars in fresh aid for the Philippines in addition to $44 million already pledged for the Southeast Asian nation as it grapples with massive destruction from back-to-back storms, a top official said Tuesday.

In the wake of the devastation brought by successive typhoons to the Philippines, Filipinos face the greater task of rehabilitating the hardest-hit areas of the country.