Parts of the country are warned against heavy rains and thunderstorms which may trigger flash floods and landslides on Saturday due to tropical depression Dante, the state weather bureau said.
After four months of allegedly unrealized promises, residents of Casiguran, Aurora province, decided they have had enough and marched back to Manila.
In an election campaign dominated by old and familiar names, his is one that easily stands out: Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, son of a political veteran whose family rules the politics of Aurora province.
Sen. Sergio Osmeña III on Tuesday vowed to block the P353-million budget next year for the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (Apeco), saying Sen. Edgardo Angara’s pet project has “absolutely no chance of succeeding in 50 years” and that the P2 billion spent for it had been wasted.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) officer in Maria Aurora town in Aurora was shot and killed by two men in his house in the province on Saturday night, police said Sunday.
Indigenous people, farmers and fisherfolk have turned to the Commission on Human Rights to get their voices heard in their struggle against the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) project, which they said has been threatening to displace them, remove their sources of livelihood and disrupt their peaceful lives.
President Benigno Aquino III is not about to declare a ceasefire in his word war with impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona despite pleas from senators for the heads of two coequal branches of government to restrain themselves.
Residents opposing the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) in Casiguran, Aurora, on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the laws that created the zone.
The Aurora Special Economic Zone was created by virtue of Republic Act No. 9490, which aims to boost social, economic and industrial development in Aurora and nearby provinces. The bill, sponsored by Senator Edgardo Angara in the Senate and by his son, Representative Juan Edgardo Angara, in the House of Representatives, was signed into law [...]
Benham Rise, also known as Benham Plateau, is a 13-million hectare undersea region east of Luzon, off the provinces of Isabela and Aurora. It is bounded by the West Philippine Basin to the north and east. It is enclosed by the coordinates 119°30’E to 132°00’E and 12°10’N to 20°30’N latitude. The plateau is a massive [...]
Fresh from her victory in the Miss Philippines-Earth pageant, University of the Philippines alumna Athena Imperial of Casiguran, Aurora, got a job offer from the governor of her province. Gov. Bellaflor Angara-Castillo invited the smart and articulate beauty queen to work for the provincial government, saying that Imperial “has the makings of a great political [...]
