Miner rescued after 11 days in Philippine mine Oct 5, 2008
Police arrested Anayasan on Saturday at the home of one of his relatives in Baguio city near Itogon, said provincial police Chief Danilo Pelisco. The rescued miner had earlier been on trial for alleged robbery but jumped bail and disappeared. (Honolulu Advertiser)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Ten Koreans die in Philippine car crash Aug 27, 2008
Nerez says most of the Koreans were residents of the northern city of Baguio. Poor vehicle maintenance and bad roads are blamed for many of the car accidents in the Philippines. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Air Force confirms crash of C130 plane off Davao Gulf Aug 26, 2008
Students and government officials in Baguio City converged at the historic Burnham Park recently to perform "surgeries" on century-old trees at the park. abs-cbnNEWS.com (8/25/2008 10:53:00 PM). (ABS CBN News)
Wedding announcement: Kristy Kay and Charles Coleman Aug 20, 2008
and Jolly (Kelly) Coleman of Baguio City, Philippines. The maid of honor will be Renee Perkins, and the bridesmaids will be Virginia Barfield, Laura (Kelley) Belue, Brandie (Wallace) Kay, Kimberly (Rice) Bean, Lynne Thurman, Jaide Morrow and Cody Eirman. (WWalker County Messenger, GA)
Philippine officials save 18 dogs from butcher Jul 31, 2008
The dogs' rescue followed another raid in northern Baguio city's public market on Sunday, when authorities seized 570 pounds (258 kilograms) of butchered dog meat and arrested six suspected traders. Dog meat is considered a delicacy in some parts of the Philippines, particularly in Baguio in the mountainous Cordillera region, where back-street restaurants serve the meat despite the ban on killing dogs and protests from animal rights advocates. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
UMCOR Hotline for July 1, 2008 Jul 2, 2008
Dixon is in contact with Bishop Benjamin A. Justo of the Baguio Episcopal Area of the Philippines to express concern for the tragedy and to offer support. In an email to UMCOR, Bishop Justo listed 16 United Methodist churches that were damaged or destroyed in the typhoon. (AlertNet)
* World News Quick Take Jul 1, 2008
Baguio police spokesman Virgilio Hidalgo, said investigators believe the blast late on Sunday was linked to a gambling argument. Definitely, this is not related to terrorism, Hidalgo said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Philippine ace amateur boxer warms up for Olympics Jun 17, 2008
Manny Lopez, president of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines, said the 29-year-old Olympic veteran boxer is in "great shape" after two-week intensive drill with Mexican counterparts in the national training center in northern Philippine city of Baguio. Lopez said Tanamor will move up from his light flyweight division (48 kilogram) to flyweight division in Halle, Germany for the absence of light flyweight competition during the June 18-22 meet. (Xinhuanet, China)
* Many displaced as tropical storm hits northern Philippines May 18, 2008
The northwestern coast of the main Philippine island of Luzon as well as the northern mountain resort of Baguio were without electricity while the coastguard barred small ferries from taking to sea, it said in a report ... Floods cut off key roads in Panay, the neighboring island of Mindoro and northern Luzon while landslides damaged a house and shut down roads to Baguio and nearby areas in the Cordillera, it said in an update. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
At least 5 killed as storm lashes northern Philippines May 18, 2008
BAGUIO, Philippines (AP) A tropical storm lashed the mountainous northern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least five people in landslides and floods, blowing roofs off houses and toppling power posts, officials said. Rescuers pulled a villager alive from a hut buried by a landslide amid pounding rain from Tropical Storm Halong on Sunday, but he died while being taken to a hospital in the mountain township of Itogon in Benguet province. (USA Today -- Weather)
Survivors found five days after China quake May 17, 2008
In Baguio in the Philippines in 1990, a cook was found alive in the rubble of a shattered hotel after two weeks. Share. (Reuters India)
4-H PAO to hold second Filipino Fiesta on Saturday Apr 12, 2008
The Panabenga Flower Festival in Baguio City; Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiap, Manila; Ati-Atihan/Dinagyang in Kalibo, Aklan and Iloilo City and Maskara of Bacolod City ... 1:35-1:40 p.m. Panagbenga Flower Festival in Baguio City. (Charles City Press, IO)
4-H PAO to present Filipino Fiesta II Mar 20, 2008
The Panagbenga - Flower Festival in Baguio City; Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila; Ati-Atihan/Dinagyang in Kalibo, Aklan and lIoilo City and Maskara of Bacolod City. The club members will be in costume and will provide visual displays when making their presentation. (Charles City Press, IO)
Prince Harry and the media: Your views Mar 1, 2008
Valentine Anthony, Baguio City, Philippines. The media was correct in keeping the story a blackout; what is appalling is how much they're running with it now. (CNN -- International)
60 comments Feb 28, 2008
I just find it curious if anybody saw "Saturday Night Live," maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and needs another pillow," said Clinton alluding that the moderators aren t tough enough on Obama. The candidates sparred for 90 minutes on trade, foreign policy, and the War in Iraq but there was no game changer. Obama remained cool and Clinton stayed irritable. As these debates go on (and on, and on) we learn very little new about the candidates. Hillary s confession at the end of the... (Human Events Online)
* Sports Briefs Feb 23, 2008
Juan Enrique Steyners Tissert and Dagoberto Rojas Scott were whisked to the country's main boxing training camp in Baguio on Thursday. "We brought them immediately to the battlefield, to the firing line to work," Ramirez said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Philippine plot within a plot Feb 16, 2008
That included the abrupt cancelation of her planned visit over the weekend to the Philippines Military Academy in provincial Baguio City, where the president is known to spend holidays. It remains unclear if security officials planned to declare a state of emergency or crack down on planned anti-government rallies over the alleged plot, similar to the government's reaction to an alleged coup attempt in February 2006. (Asia Times Online)
PSG: 7 NPA teams out to kill Arroyo Feb 16, 2008
Razon said the police had no intention of making the document public until Prestoza was asked why the President had canceled her trip to Baguio ... He said the PSG and intelligence community had monitored some of the teams in Baguio City and Northern Luzon, including Banaue ... Prestoza said he advised the President against going up to Baguio City because of "serious threats against her life.". (Inquirer.net)
Officials Uncover Al Qaeda Plot to Kill Philippines... Feb 15, 2008
Arroyo's planned visit to the Philippines' premier military academy this weekend in the northern city of Baguio was canceled and her remaining schedule was "under assessment," said Prestoza, the Presidential Security Group head ... A police counterterrorism officer said a captured Abu Sayyaf member told investigators late last year that his comrades, working with Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah and Manila-based Filipino Islamic converts, planned a bomb attack apparently in December aimed at... (Fox News)
Officials: Arroyo target of plot Feb 14, 2008
and embassies," he said without offering specifics.The alleged plot was also to involve a sniper shooting the president, Esperon said.A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said officials there were aware of media reports that foreign embassies had been targeted but would not comment further. She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with policy.The officials did not specify when the attacks were expected to occur. But Prestoza said President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's attendance at an alumni homecoming of... (The Miami Herald)
Security chiefs cite plot to kill Philippine president Feb 14, 2008
Her security chief, Brigadier General Romeo Prestoza, said Arroyo had been informed of the threat, which forced her to cancel a scheduled trip Friday to the northern resort city of Baguio. Security forces in the Philippines were placed on full alert. (Yahoo! Asia News)
BOBBY FISCHER: 1943-2008 Jan 20, 2008
" In July 2004, he was seized by the Japanese authorities when he tried to board a plane from Japan to Manila and was accused of trying to leave the country on an invalid passport. He was detained in prison for nine months while the various governments, as well as a staunch group of supporters in the chess world, tried to resolve the issue. In 1999, in a series of telephone interviews on a Philippines radio station, he rambled angrily and profanely about an international Jewish conspiracy, which... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Arroyo-allied mayor shot in car in deadly ambush Dec 27, 2007
Caesar Rafael, formerly abducted and released by the New People's Army, was killed during a Christmas truce between the government and the communists AP AND AFP, MANILA AND BAGUIO, PHILIPPINES Thursday, Dec 27, 2007, Page 5. A northern Philippines town mayor who was once abducted by communist guerrillas was shot dead in a Christmas Day ambush on Tuesday, police said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Maid was strangled, police confirm Dec 21, 2007
Dulnuan had a criminology degree from the University of Baguio City but decided to leave home to work in the housekeeping profession and send money back home to her family, her friends said. Members of the Filipino community raised $17,000 to help pay the costs of returning the young woman's body to her homeland. (Toronto Star)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Quake disrupts trains in Philippines Nov 27, 2007
People ran out of offices and homes in Manila and in the northern city of Baguio, witnesses said. Children were evacuated from schools. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Married Today, Gone Tomorrow Sep 28, 2007
5 meter (18 feet) wide wedding cake during a mass wedding held at a shopping mall in Baguio, north of Manila, September 27, 2007. Nearly 60 couples took part in the event, with organisers promoting the cake to be the largest in the Philippines. (Townhall.com)
GUILTY: Erap draws life for plunder Sep 13, 2007
Edcel Lagman (Lakas, Albay); Jose Yap (Lakas, Tarlac); Jose Solis (Kampi, Sorsogon);Prospero Nograles (Lakas, Davao City); Monico PUentevella (Lakas, Bacolod City); Exequiel Javier (Lakas, Antique); Antonio Cuenco (Lakas, Cebu City); and Maurcio Domogan (Lakas, Baguio City) supported De Venecias appeal for the public to accept the verdict which was fully backed by strong evidence presented by the prosecutors. Opposition Rep. (Tempo)
100,000 Japanese-Filipino kids get no support from Jap dads Jun 29, 2007
The DFAs regional consular offices nationwide and the DSWDs Cordillera Autonomous Region and Baguio City offices will be used as registration centers for the two-month activity. Nuqui said the registration aims to chart a socio-demographic profile of these children in the Philippines -- their whereabouts, their situation and their needs. (News on Japan, Japan)
New Tool Determines Landslide Risk In Tropics Jun 27, 2007
Devised originally for Baguio City, Philippines--a city that averages five typhoons annually and holds the world record for most precipitation received in a 24-hour period (46 inches on July 14-15, 1911)--the risk rating system relies on data commonly available in developing countries ... He and Artessa Saldivar-Sali, a Filipino who spent summers with her family in Baguio, developed the system as part of her master's degree thesis work ... "The fact that the Baguio area has constant, heavy... (Science Daily)
Philippine nurses re-sit scandal-tainted exams Jun 11, 2007
Lawyers hired by the US Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) acted as observers at examination centres in Manila, Baguio, Cebu and Davao. Labour Secretary Arturo Brion said the graduates were re-taking the examinations together with 66,000 others sitting for the first time. (Yahoo! Asia News)
* Philippine candidates trade accusations May 17, 2007
FIGHTING WORDS: With the opposition leading the Senate race, allegations flew in a politically divided country where at least 126 people have been killed since January AGENCIES, MANILA AND BAGUIO, THE PHILIPPINES Thursday, May 17, 2007, Page 5. A city maintenance worker removes campaign posters in a street in Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines, yesterday. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Man dies in Philippines vote count shoot-out May 17, 2007
BAGUIO, Philippines (AFP) - One man was killed Thursday when shooting broke out in a violence-plagued area of the Philippines as votes were being counted, police said. The wife of a mayoral candidate was wounded in the shoot-out in the flashpoint northern province of Abra, where at least eight other people have been killed in campaign-related violence. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Rukmini Paatka Toheke: Fighting to recover women's role May 9, 2007
In 2005, she took part in an Asian Women's Conference in Baguio City, the Philippines. Rukmini has also been invited to speak at various seminars, workshops and other meetings at the regional and international level. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
TI Investing $1B in Philippine Plant May 3, 2007
Texas Instruments already operates a production complex in the northern city of Baguio. The facility, which has undergone at least four expansions since it was set up in 1979, accounts for 40 percent of the semiconductor company's global output. (ABC News -- Wire)
Texas Instruments to build $1 bln plant in Philippines May 3, 2007
The company currently has a 25-hectare complex in Baguio City in the northern Philippines, and has been scouting for a new site in either the Philippines or China. Negotiations with the Philippine government took over a year, officials said. (ABC News -- Wire)
TI to expand IC-assembly operations May 3, 2007
Once built, we expect to quickly ramp the site with the help of our experienced team in Baguio, where we've had assembly/test operations for almost three decades ... TI first entered the Philippines in 1979 in Baguio City. (EETimes)
Obituaries - 2/24/2007 Feb 24, 2007
daughters and sons-in-law Lucy and Mike Piccirillo of Palmdale, Evelyn and Bill Lamden of San Diego, and Cindy and Alex Martin of Oceanside; sisters Gloria Calomay of Escondido, Dolores Talana of Van Nuys and Betty Alcova of Baguio, Philippines; 16 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Viewing is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. and rosary recited from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, at Oceanside Mortuary. (North County Times)
'Survival of the luckiest' Feb 10, 2007
Siblings and Baguio POW's from left Eileen Moule, Bill Moule and Linda Moule during the 62nd reunion of the Baguio/Bilibid civilian POWs (Philippines) and the 37th Infantry Division that liberated them Thursday, February 8, 2007, at the Elks Lodge on Anastasia Island ... Baguio POW's Robert Welles, left, and Dick Welles, right, stand around their father Marshall Welles, the oldest living survivor at age 99 during the 62nd reunion of the Baguio/Bilibid civilian POWs (Philippines) and the 37th... (The St. Augustine Record)
Solidarity with the Earth Feb 6, 2007
AT a time when we are experiencing very cool weather here in Luzon in Baguio, in fact, and in its environs, it is so cold that vegetables are suffering great damage a United Nations report, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sounds a strong alarm to the whole world about global warming. The study, undertaken by 2,500 scientists from more than 100 countries, certifies not only to the fact of global warming but states that global warming is very likely caused by human... (Manila Standard Today)
Baptist Leader Takes New Post Feb 3, 2007
During their seven years there, Johnson taught at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary and Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary in Baguio City. He had hoped to return to the seminary in Louisville to teach there, but he knew theological disagreements with the new conservative administration prevented that, he said. (The Ledger)
Church window Jan 7, 2007
They resided on the campus of LNBC in Baguio City where Randy has helped President Joven Laroya and Academic Dean Jovita Fernandez find the opportunity to finish their doctoral studies. He has been teaching, and assisting in curriculum and policy revisions. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
