Cabanatuan, Philippines News

Bay Area landfills either closing or expanding Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer Sonoma County trash trucks last rumbled through the gates of the Mecham Road dump four years ago.

Fellow veterans and others from across the region packed the Laurel Train Depot Thursday night to pay their respects to a local hero, James Arnold Flowers.

The Veterans War Memorial Park, situated at the corner of East Elk Avenue and Armed Forces Drive in downtown Elizabethton, was built in 2002 as a memorial to Carter County soldiers killed in America's wars.

ILOILO CITY, This highly-urbanized Western Visayas city is finalizing its clean air action plan to encompass all actions to be taken by stakeholders in collaboration with the city government here in an attempt to help solve the issues on global warming and climate change.

Anthony Zendejas and his 11-minute play, "The Rescue of the Doomed Ghost Soldiers of Bataan," will highlight this year's Kitsap County Veterans Day event Nov.

The operators of Angat, Pantabangan and San Roque three major dams in Northern and Central Luzon blamed for exacerbating floods in the region last week released water again Thurdday due to heavy rains triggered by a low pressure area, further inundating communities.

The Pantabangan dam starts releasing water at 250 cubic meters per second 3:45 pm The Pagasa issues a flood warning to NPC.

Heavy rains brought by an almost stationary typhoon "Pepeng" wrought massive destruction and flooding in Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija since early Thursday as two major dams the Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija and the San Roque in Pangasinan were forced to open their floodgates to prevent a more catastrophic breaching and collapse of the structures.

The Department of Education has suspended classes in public and private elementary and secondary schools in typhoon-affected areas in Regions I, II, III and the Cordillera Administrative Region .

At least 100 villages in 22 municipalities and cities in Nueva Ecija remained flooded as tropical depression Pepeng continued to bring heavy rains over the northern provinces of Luzon.

Additional rescue equipment are being sent to help in the evacuation of residents affected by massive flooding and landslides in the provinces of northern and central Luzon.

CABANATUAN CITY Pantabangan Dam has started releasing water starting 11 a.m. Sunday as its elevation rose to a critical level of 220.2 meters as super typhoon "Pepeng" dumped more rain in the surrounding regions.

Opposition presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and possible running mate Manuel "Mar" Roxas III will barn storm Cagayan de Oro on Sunday, September 27, 2009 seeking momentum to rally new and old symphatizers of the late President Corazon Aquino who could bring them all the way to Malacanang in next years national elections.

U.S. Army Cpl. Daniel W. Johnson - a soldier in the Quartermaster Corps on the Philippine island of Corregidor when Lt.

The rural banking industry has been in existence for 57 years. And as we celebrate the Rural Banking Week, I feel that it is imperative that we take a look at the beginning of the industry, its present status, and where it is headed.

British prisoners of war condemned the Japanese government after it offered US veterans a full apology and invited them to visit the country while ignoring the plight of those from the UK.

A MAN nicknamed "Doc" who comes from an influential family in San Fabian has been tagged as the leader and protector of the five suspected members of a kidnap-for-ransom group slain in a shootout with police and military authorities at dawn Wednesday.

A MAN nicknamed "Doc" who comes from an influential family in San Fabian has been tagged as the leader and protector of the five suspected members of a kidnap-for-ransom group slain in a shootout with police and military authorities at dawn Wednesday.

One of the greatest rescue missions of all time gets an estimable treatment in this faithful, thrilling account of a daring operation to free more than 500 Allied POWs from their Japanese captors at Cabanatuan in the Philippines in 1945.

One of the greatest rescue missions of all time gets an estimable treatment in this faithful, thrilling account of a daring operation to free more than 500 Allied POWs from their Japanese captors at Cabanatuan in the Philippines in 1945.