Cabanatuan, Philippines News

Rangers. North Africa and Italy. Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. The invasion of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan.

THIS is a reprint of the opening portion of my article with that title, which appeared in the Saint Louis University Research Journal in December 1984.

Anthony Zendejas, a junior at Klahowya Secondary School, has been asked to perform his one-man play about the Bataan Death March at the final American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor convention this year.

This past Thursday marked the 67th anniversary of the fall of Bataan. After four months of bitter fighting against the invading Japanese, U.S. forces on the Philippines peninsula--short of food, ammunition and medicine, and with no hope of relief--surrendered to the enemy.

The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan.

Four former champions and six other elite riders have been tapped to lead the teams battling for honors in the Tour of Luzon which fires off April 13 at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City.

In June 1984, I made my first trip to the Philippines. As part of my trip, I planned on visiting the child I sponsored through the Christian Children's Fund.

THE Court of Appeals has affirmed the ruling of the Office of the President over the contested 1,219.0133 hectares of the controversial Hacienda Looc in Nasugbu, Batangas, that only 70 hectares could be included in the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program .

COTABATO CITY: An P82 million World Bank-funded building that is going to house the Social Action Center, which was inaugurated recently in the town of Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao is now open as a venue for assembly, or any kind of peace dialogues among local sectors, a provincial official said on Monday.

The Bishops-Senators Forum on the issue of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with extension and reforms will finally take place on Monday at 3pm in the Office of Senate President in Pasay City.

Sixty-three years is a long time to wait. That's how long the Filipino World War II veterans have waited to get their back pay.

Henry John "Hank" Wilayto, 92, of West Concord, Mass., , a national veterans' advocate who survived the infamous Bataan Death March, passed away Feb.

You never know where your talent will come in handy. Claire Phillips discovered that in the Philippines, where her knack for singing and charming menfolk turned her into an unlikely hero.

By Neil Jerome C. Morales The government would cull some 6,000 hogs from a swine farm north of Metro Manila following a confirmed outbreak of Ebola Reston virus , making it the first disease-related large-scale ...

Hundreds of alumni of Luna Colleges here and abroad attended its grand alumni homecoming February 11 to 13.

A six-year old boy was crushed to death by a truck along the national highway in Barangay Sapang-bulo in Palayan City in Nueva Ecija shortly before noon Tuesday, police said.

COMMISSION on Human Rights Chairman Leila de Lima on Thursday expressed deep alarm about the unabated mysterious serial killings in Davao City saying that vigilante-style of killing is a violation of human ...

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, Hampton Sides.

There are two types of serious peasant leaders. The first lives off the old fights, the ancient grudges, the struggles of a thousand years.

CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA An alleged young thief was arrested by lawmen during an operation in Barangay Padre Crisostomo in Cabanatuan City Tuesday, police said Wednesday.