The first phase of the Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge (BCIB), which is worth P7.25-billion and poised to be the country’s longest water-spanning bridge, has drawn bids from eight top local and international construction firms, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said Tuesday,...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has signed a memorandum of agreement with Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) to establish the Bataan Abucay Doppler Radar Station within the BPSU campus. Funded by the Office of the President through the...
President Marcos is confident that universal health care in the country will be fully implemented soon. "Malapit na tayong umabot talaga sa universal health care. We are 80 percent of the way. Kaunti na lang at matutupad na natin yung universal health care (We are very close to truly achieving...
A man who killed a police officer in Taguig City surrendered to police in Bataan on Thursday night, Aug. 28. The suspect Rocky, 43, of Taguig City appeared before the Hermosa Municipal Police Station in Hermosa town and turned over a 9mm Taurus pistol believed to be the service firearm of the...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is carrying out a study to assess the feasibility of converting the long-mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) into a hyperscale data center. As it stands, DICT Secretary Henry Aguda said the BNPP already has the...
Police are investigating the possible link between the P802-million suspected “shabu” or crystal meth found inside sacks of chicken feed in Mariveles, Bataan on Thursday, Aug. 14, and the P10-billion drug haul of the Philippine Navy (PN) in Masinloc, Zambales in June. Police Brig. Gen. Ponce...
Police recovered six sacks of suspected floating shabu valued at P802 million in the shoreline of Barangay Sisiman, Mariveles, Bataan. Inside were 118 packs weighing a kilo each. The contraband was discovered near a lighthouse following information from a concerned citizen. An inventory was...
Keen to advance nuclear energy development, Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is set to receive funding support from the United States (US) government nearly three years after it first sought assistance to explore the potential of small modular reactors (SMRs). On the sidelines...
Three fishermen were rescued from a fishing boat that capsized off Mariveles in Bataan amid the onslaught of tropical storm “Crising” and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) on Sunday, July 20. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said it received a report about a half-submerged motorbanca in...
Two septuagenarian fishermen who went missing after a fishing expedition in Bataan were rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) while clinging to their half-sunken boat off Orion town on Monday, July 7. The PCG identified the fishermen as Crispin Mendoza, 70, and Rogelio Pascual, 71, both...
BALANGA CITY, Bataan — Aboitiz Power Corp. (AboitizPower) signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the provincial government of Bataan to provide scholarships for students taking up engineering, a course deemed vital to the development of infrastructure and technology in the...
A legal entanglement concerning intellectual property (IP) related to a reactor design, which South Korea encountered with the American firm Westinghouse Electric Company, continues to impede the targeted feasibility study intended to evaluate the potential for reactivating the mothballed...
