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In the News (Wed 16 Dec 09)

  
  Olongapo City
The year has passed was a year of success and recovery to the City of Olongapo because of the continued success of the Subic Bay Freeport where Olongapo City's economy is anchored.
For school building programs, the city concentrated on classroom construction to solve the deficiency instead of funding fence, toilets, repair works, etc. Donation are sought to fund the provision of computer facilities in all public schools with priority to secondary level.
The City Employment Center (CEC) was establish to widen the dissemination of job opportunities at the Freeport.
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 Olongapo City
Olongapo was a small fishing village of Subic.
In 1884, Olongapo was occupied buy the Spaniards who made it a settlement of the Spanish navy.
On December 7, 1959, after a protracted agitation by its citizens, Olongapo was relinquished by the United States to the Philippine government and converted into a municipality.
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 Integrated Solid Waste Collection System
Between 1988 and 1990, the City Council enacted eight ordinances or measures dealing with the utilization of the sanitary landfill area, the rates of solid waste collection fees, the schedules and mechanics of collection etc. The ordinances are supplemented by directives and issuances by the Local Chief Executive.
The Division of City Schools accepted to play a vital role in the information campaign when it agreed to incorporate the concept of integrated solid waste collection in their curriculum and started educating the children about the values of clean and healthy surroundings.
As a result, the city government has less control and the burden of the responsibility for the implementation of the system is absorbed by non-governmental sectors.
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 Subic, Olongapo Travel Tips and Information - Subic, Olongapo Travel Hotels Resorts Lodging Discounts Philippines
Tidal flatland, Olongapo City is characterized by rugged and mountainous terrain.
The population of Olongapo City is more than 310,000 and is projected to increase to 453,894 by the year 2000.
Olongapo City is a two hour drive from Manila via the North Expressway, passing through Bulacan, Pampanga and Bataan.
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 Action Asia: Olongapo & Subic Bay: Primal Forces in the Philippines
On June 15, 1991, Mount Pinatubo - just 30km from Olongapo city, erupted with a massive blast that ripped 300m off the top of the mountain, dug a vast crater into its summit and sent thousands of tonnes of rock, sand and ash hurtling into the sky.
Richard Gordon, the energetic and charismatic mayor of Olongapo city, saw opportunity in the midst of this upheaval.
Olongapo city is about halfway down the eastern side of Subic Bay, and the old base - the SBMA area - abuts it to the south.
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 Dumaguete City travel guide
Dumaguete City is a city in the Philippine province of Negros Oriental.
Dumaguete City is referred to as a university town because of the presence of seven universities and colleges, where students of the province converge to enroll for tertiary education.
The city is also a popular educational destination for students of surrounding provinces and cities in Visayas and Mindanao.
www.world66.com /asia/southeastasia/philippines/dumaguetecity   (298 words)

  
 ABS-CBN Interactive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Senior Supt. Florencio Buentipo Jr., Olongapo City Police director, said in his report that his office was able to maximize its operations with only 279 employees assigned in the different section and fields units including the six police precincts covering seventeen barangays of this city.
Safeguarding the city’s thriving tourism industry, the Olongapo City Police concentrated its efforts in police-visibility operations to ensure the safety of visitors and deter criminal acts.
ILOILO CITY - City Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo warned senators who are supporting the exemption of 13 municipalities from income requirement to give way to their conversion to cityhood, that the population of all the members of the League of Cities combined is almost one half of the voting population in the country.
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 Subic Central - Subic Bay, Olongapo, Zambales Philippines Internet Community Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
OLONGAPO CITY — The high-technology Geographic Information System (GIS) will be used as part of measures to provide innovative land and asset management here in a bid to attain broadbased economic growth.
OLONGAPO CITY -- Police investigators found grenade fragments in the debris of a Victory Liner bus whose conductor died in an explosion in Olongapo City on Thursday, Chief Superintendent Ismael Rafanan, Central Luzon police director, said.
Olongapo City - A BUS conductor was killed when a box apparently left behind by a passenger exploded Thursday in the northwestern Philippine city of Olongapo, police and witnesses said.
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 OLONGAPO
Olongapo City lies 127 kilometers north of Manila and is located at the southernmost tip of the province of Zambales mountain.
This is the main entrance to the fortified former naval settlement that is Olongapo still stands inside the Subic Bay Freeport.
Olongapo City Bremerton Sisterhood Marker- this is the marker which symbolizes the sister-city relationship between the people of Olongapo City and Bremerton City is located at Freindship Park near the main gate of the base.
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 Sun.Star Pampanga - Olongapo ousted in First Aid Olympics
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Only on its first year in the contest, the City Government's team emerged champion in the Third Regional First-Aid and Basic Life Support Olympics in Region III held last August 18 at the Angeles City High School.
This is the reason, he said, why the city government is pursuing the modernization of the equipment for the fire department and the entire city disaster coordinating council.
Recently, the city fire department received a boost in its operations when Rodriguez purchased several heavy equipment such as a rescue tender, a 10-storey high-rise ladder, fire truck and other rescue equipment.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/pam/2006/09/03/sports/olongapo.ousted.in.first.aid.olympics.html   (354 words)

  
 SubicBay.Ph Olongapo-Subic.com Zambales daily news jobs
The Dumaguete City government is bent on filing a damage suit against two shipping lines whose vessels damaged severely the coral reefs in the city's 6.5-hectare marine sanctuary area, in Barangay Banilad Monday.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The controversy generated by the transfer from the Makati City Jail of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, a US Marine convicted for the rape of a Filipina in Olongapo City, is yet to die down.
OLONGAPO -- A Filipino pilot and his Malaysian student were injured Tuesday when their single-propeller Cessna trainer plane crashed into the sea near a former US naval base, police said.
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Olongapo, chartered city in the Philippines, in Zambales Province, on central Luzon Island, about 95 km (about 60 mi) west of Manila.
Olongapo is located on the northeast coast of Subic Bay, one of the nation's finest harbors.
Olongapo is the site of the former Subic Bay Naval Station, which the United States military leased from the Philippines until 1992.
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 Olongapo Home Page
His message to the citizens was for them to exercise their rights to vote in the coming election in a most responsible way and to shun voting for traditional politicians who rule with oppressive polices and perpetuate themselves through family dynasties.
The civil society movement of the city was there with banners and issued a declaration of principle.
The Former City Mayor and chairman of the SBMA during the administration of former President Fidel Ramos was Richard Gordon.
www.preda.org /work/olongapo/olongapo.html   (662 words)

  
 OCNHS - Olongapo City National High School, Olongapo City Zambales,Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
gallery of photographs to include the city of Olongapo and the former Subic Bay Naval base.
Olongapo City National High School (OCNHS), the only secondary institution in the country adopting a special Information and Computer Technology (ICT) curriculum more...
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 Car Rental Olongapo City. Discounts Olongapo City Car Hire Companies
Olongapo City administers itself autonomously from Zambales province.
Adjacent to the city is the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, which until 1992 was a United States naval base.
Olongapo was originally governed as a part of the United States naval reservation until 1959.
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 POLITICAL PROTECTION / OLONGAPO CITY / SOCIAL PROBLEMS
The limitations are the corruption of the local politicians in Olongapo and Angeles and Manila who protect the paedophiles and sex tourists for their own gain.
Olongapo City was a Navy town totally dependent upon the Subic Bay Naval Base for employment and fast money through a thriving commercial sex industry controlled by a handful of wealthy families in the City.
Young people, whose parents were having affairs, running bars or clubs, or in general neglecting their children because of the moral decay that permeatted the city, were high on drugs and violence.
www.preda.org /politics.htm   (352 words)

  
 Olongapo City travel guide
Olongapo City travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
Olongapo City is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the province of Zambales, Philippines.
The name Olongapo is derived from the phrase "Ulo ng Apo", which means "head of the chief" in Tagalog.
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 Olongapo city philippines phone directory
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 Olongapo City, Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With three months to go before the year ends, the city’s Mass Land Titling Project has switched to high gear in an effort to encourage the owners of some 90% of the city’s lots that remains untitled to avail of the project.
Newly appointed SBMA Chairman Feliciano “Fil” Salonga and Administrator Armand Arreza recently made a courtesy call to Olongapo City Mayor James “Bong” Gordon, Jr.
Mayor Gordon presented to Salonga and Arreza the city’s Master Plan and pointed out that the Freeport is actually sitting on much of...
www.olongapocity.gov.ph   (102 words)

  
 Five day "marriages" in Olongapo
If you met her on your first liberty in Olongapo, she would be there waiting for you at the bar on all other liberties and would refuse all 'offers' from other sailors until you returned to her.
The prostitutes in Olongapo City were the most companionable I had ever encountered.
Unfortunately, of all the vast sums of money flowing into Olongapo City each month, brought in by aircraft carrier crews and sailors from a steady stream of smaller vessels, very little remained in Olongapo for the city's upkeep.
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 Subic bay, Olongapo City, Philippines Photo Gallery by Regie [tekgik] Fernando at pbase.com
I was born and raised in Olongapo and was evacueted to U.S because of the Pinatubo eruption.This picture mean a lot to me because I haven't been back since last time I went home 1998.
I was born and raised in Olongapo until Mt. Pinatubo erupted.
I am from Olongapo City and I was one of the thousands of Volunteers who helped clean up the base after the Americans left.
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 Subic Bay Memories
Even though there were thousands of sailors and Marines in Olongapo when the ships were in, there were many times that number of girls working in the bars.
True, the girls were highly encouraged by the bar owners to consent to sexual requests, and the girls themselves sometimes did so simply to ensure another barfine the next day, but the girls were not obligated to do anything.
And because of that many of the Filipinas who once worked in the bars and clubs of Olongapo have been ostracized and treated with utmost rudeness and cruelty, even by (perhaps especially by) their own countrymen.
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 Olongapo City Philippine Travel Destination - Olongapo City Island, Fly Philippines Hotels Travel Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Olongapo City Philippine Travel Destination offers wide choice of hotel accommodations, resort hotels and beach resorts, iterinaries, travel and tours, adventure, diving, eco-tourism and honeymoon packages.
You will also find helpful travel tips and general information that will assist in making up your mind as where to stay or visit while you are in Olongapo City Island.
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 Church in Olongapo
As is true of all believers in Christ, we are members of His one Body, the church.
In order to practice the oneness of the Body with all the Christians in Olongapo, we meet as the church in Olongapo.
We are in fellowship with over 2,000 local churches worldwide to express the one Body of Christ.
www.geocities.com /churchinolongapo/index.html   (153 words)

  
 OCNHS - Olongapo City National High School
Olongapo City National High School (OCNHS), the only secondary institution in the country that has a special ICT curriculum, took a step farther in strengthening the ICT skills of its students when it formally joined last January 25 the list of beneficiaries of the Smart Schools Program.
OCNHS, situated in the heart of Olongapo City, has been cited for formulating an ICT curriculum that is unique throughout the country.
Aside from the basic education class and special science class, the school has an ICT class that enjoys extra computer subjects not taught in the other classes.
www.surigaoislands.com /ocnhs/news_01.php   (581 words)

  
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Legend of Olongapo, History of Olongapo, Father of Olongapo
Olongapo during the war - - - - Battle of Zigzag Pass during World War II While most of the country had gained independence from the American, Olongapo remained under American Military control
Olongapo fought on, cleaning up ashes from Mt. Pinatubo Eruption in 1991
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