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    • Korean firm to put up P3.6-B golf course-leisure park in Subic Freeport

      By HENRY EMPEÑO SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — A Korean-led company has received approval from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) for the development of a P3.6-billion golf course and hotel and leisure facilities complex…

    • Sta. Cruz folks decry nickel mining anew

      By HENRY EMPEÑO SANTA CRUZ, Zambales — Heavy rains and mining woes are back with a vengeance in this town. As rainwater flowed down slopes mined for nickel, siltation resulted in lower areas like…

    • Subic firms absorb 2,557 ‘endo’ workers

      By PATRICK ROXAS | The Manila Times SOME 2,557 “endo” or contractual workers referred for regularization by 17 manpower service providers here were recently absorbed by their respective companies in compliance with the Department of…

    • San Marcelino villages compete for best solid waste program

      By CARRIE T. ASPA | San Marcelino, Zambales WITH total prizes amounting to P1 million, the 18 barangays comprising this farming and mining town are scrambling to be named the best practitioner in solid…

    • Philippine Navy gets first surveillance blimp

      By HENRY EMPEÑO  SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — The Philippine Navy (PN )received on Tuesday its first surveillance dirigible, a lighter-than-air craft that will be used as a radar platform to bolster government capacity in…

    • Olongapo implements smoking ban

      OLONGAPO CITY — The city government has begun implementing an anti-smoking drive here which has generated both applause and criticism from residents because of the strict policy prohibiting people from lighting up in public…

    • The Amazing Jeepney Race takes off in Subic

      The Amazing Jeepney Race takes off in Subic

      Story and photos by Henry Empeño TEN units of the iconic Philippine jeepney rumbled out of the popular Camayan Beach Resort/Ocean Adventure theme park here on August 20, heading out for hitherto parts unknown.…

    • Ruling PDP-Laban party snags more members in Zambales

      THE PDP-Laban bandwagon is gaining more steam. Just this month, members of the Zambales provincial council, as well as those of a dominant local political party, joined the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban)…

    • SBMA okays ‘win-win’ deal for Subic school takeover

      By HENRY EMPEÑO SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has greenlighted the takeover by a new company of the debt-ridden property previously leased out to the Lyceum of Subic Bay,…