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                    [Title] => Typhoon rehabilitation in Central Luzon to cost P806 million
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Some three weeks after typhoons “Pedring” and “Quiel” battered Central Luzon, government agencies are now in better grasp of the initial cost of priorities for rehabilitation in the region: P806 million for housing and rehabilitation of damages roads, bridges and school buildings.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 350544 [Title] => 6,200 families in Tarlac, Pampanga told to evacuate [Summary] => Rising floodwaters from heavy rains dumped by tropical depression "Henry" prompted officials of Tarlac and the Pampanga town of Candaba to order the evacuation yesterday of a total of 6,223 families to prevent loss of lives.

Social welfare officials said at least 243 barangays in Zambales, Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga and Tarlac were flooded. The National Disaster Coordinating Council placed the number of affected people at 37,677 in three provinces alone.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329747 [Title] => Tarlac newsman killed [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — A land dispute is being pursued by local police in the death of the editor-in-chief of a local newspaper here.

Orlando Mendoza, 58, of the Tarlac Profile, was on his way home from his farm in Sitio  Apalucong, Barangay Armenia, when unidentified gunmen riddled him with M14 bullets killing him on the spot.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1453997 [AuthorName] => Len Espinosa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275088 [Title] => Delay in Tarlac River dike repair bewailed [Summary] => GERONA, Tarlac — Public Works and Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane saw for himself last Friday the threat posed by the ruined portions of the Tarlac River dike to Tarlac’s northern towns.

Local officials warned of the "horrible disaster" that may befall Tarlac during the rainy season due to the failure of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to repair washed-out portions of the Tarlac River’s concrete embankments, particularly in Barangay Colibangbang in Paniqui town.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168087 [AuthorName] => Benjie Villa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 265334 [Title] => Mediamen distribute relief goods in Tarlac [Summary] => PANIQUI, Tarlac — Some 1,000 families here who are still struggling with the aftermath of last month’s heavy floods received relief goods yesterday from members of the National Press Club.

Assisted by the Tarlac Press and Radio Club (TPRC), headed by Leng Lopez-Tiamzon, Manila-based journalists led by NPC president Tony Antonio saw for themselves how this town’s western farming villages have virtually become swamps.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264060 [Title] => Speedy repair of damaged Tarlac dikes urged [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Local officials have called on Public Works and Highways Secretary Florante Soriquez to speed up the repair of damaged portions of the earth dikes along the Tarlac River.

"They (present) a clear and present danger," Gov. Jose Yap Sr. said of the 700-meter breach in the earth dike in Barangay Colibangbang, Paniqui town and the 200-meter collapsed portion of the embankment in Barangay Malayep, Gerona town.

The dike portions were washed away at the height of torrential rains last month.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263719 [Title] => Various ailments afflict Tarlac flood victims [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Water-borne diseases continue to afflict flood victims, mostly children, in the northern Tarlac town of Paniqui, even as hundreds of families remain in evacuation centers.

This, as the Tarlaqueños WorldWide Group (TWWG), an Internet-based organization that draws membership from natives of this province now based in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and across Asia, raises funds to help the calamity victims.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168087 [AuthorName] => Benjie Villa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263604 [Title] => 2 Tarlac towns face more floods [Summary] => CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac — The northern Tarlac towns of Paniqui and Moncada remain vulnerable to more floods, an aerial survey made by the Armed Forces’ Northern Luzon Command yesterday showed.

The Tarlac River continues to flow into the breached portion of the earth dike in Barangay Colibang—bang, Paniqui town. The village and neighboring barangays in Moncada are still flooded.

Vast ricefields in the two towns and in neighboring Camiling and in Bayambang, Pangasinan are still under water, the survey showed. The same goes for wide areas in Pampanga.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168087 [AuthorName] => Benjie Villa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263353 [Title] => Tarlac folk’s flood woes not yet over [Summary] => PANIQUI, Tarlac — Residents of this town, already inconvenienced by floods for days, may find themselves bracing for heavier flooding.

The threat also lingers for the neighboring towns of Moncada, Ramos and Anao.

This, as the remaining earth dike along the Tarlac River in Barangay Colibangbang here might give way due to strong currents, Vice Mayor Joy Gilbert Lamorena said.

Lamorena and Benjamin Lopez, district engineer of the public works department in Tarlac, inspected the earth dike late Wednesday.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168087 [AuthorName] => Benjie Villa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263244 [Title] => Body count in Tarlac rises to 9 [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Search and rescue teams continued to scour flood-stricken villages in Tarlac, particularly in Paniqui town, for more missing people.

This, as the death toll from floods in the province has risen to nine.

A total of 2,395 families or nearly 10,000 people remained in evacuation centers, although 7,525 families were affected by the floods caused by the collapse of an earth dike along the Tarlac River in Barangay Colibangbang in Paniqui town.
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