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                    [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
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                    [Title] => 31 Tarlac villages still hounded by drug menace
                    [Summary] => CAMP MAKABULOS, Tarlac — Thirty-one Tarlac villages are still affected by the illegal drug menace, and the provincial police vowed to sweep them clean of illegal substances before the year ends.


In a report to Gov. Jose Yap Sr., Senior Superintendent Angelo Sunglao, Tarlac police director, said they have "eliminated" drug pushing since last January in at least 18 barangays earlier tagged as "affected" or "threatened."


According to Sunglao, a village is considered "affected" if there is at least one drug pusher there. 


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                    [Title] => JICA picks Tarlac for primary health care training
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has chosen Tarlac for its training program for experts on primary health care who would be deployed elsewhere in the world.


Ten Japanese trainees arrived here last July 19, and will stay up to the end of the month.


In a courtesy call on Gov. Jose Yap Sr. last Wednesday, Hirohiko Takata, JICA resident representative, said they are preparing Japanese experts on primary health care for future assignments in JICA’s overseas technical operations.


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                    [Title] => Gov’t, Reds hold another round of informal talks
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — The government peace panel is set to hold another round of "informal talks" today with self-exiled leaders of the National Democratic Front (NDF) in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, Gov. Jose Yap Sr., the panel’s senior consultant, disclosed.


Yap, who left for Oslo yesterday, said the five-day "backdoor" negotiations with leaders of the NDF, the political wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), are expected to jump-start formal talks meant to peacefully end the 34-year-old Maoist insurgency in the country.


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                    [Title] => Tarlac residents to decide on opening of  Clark landfill
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY —  Officials of the provincial government here said that another round of public consultations should be undertaken before it could act on a request that the sanitary landfill built by a German firm in Capas town be opened to other areas outside Tarlac and the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ).


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                    [Title] => Right-of-way talks for expressway nearing completion
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Representatives of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) told local officials here led by Gov. Jose Yap Sr. that they are nearing completion of right-of-way negotiations for the construction of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac expressway.


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                    [Title] => Tarlac officials looking for ways to address tobacco tillers’ woes
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Local officials are looking for ways to assist more than 10,000 tobacco farmers in five northern towns after their produce has remained unsold for nearly four months now.  


Gov. Jose Yap Sr. has directed provincial agriculture chief Bartolome Fajardo to conduct a "prompt and thorough study" on the economic impact of the unexpected "tobacco crisis." 


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                    [Title] => Tarlac issues Holy Week traffic advisory
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Gov. Jose Yap Sr. here has approved a traffic advisory for motorists flocking from the metropolitan capital to the North for the five-day Holy Week break in order to help ease the heavy flow of vehicles, especially along the MacArthur Highway. The provincial chief executive has ordered Tarlac police provincial director, Senior Superintendent Mario Sandiego, to put all lawmen in the province under "extra alert" to prevent any untoward incident along major routes here linking Metro Manila to Northern Luzon cities and provinces.


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                    [Title] => Pneumonia is Tarlac’s 2nd top killer, but no SARS
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Pneumonia is the second leading cause of mortality in Tarlac, next to heart diseases, but the provincial health office (PHO) gave assurances that there is still no case of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) here.


In a report to Gov. Jose Yap Sr. during the regular monthly meeting of the Tarlac Mayors’ League, Dr. Ricardo Ramos, PHO chief, said the province’s mortality rate for pneumonia in 2002 was 68.35, or 763 cases per 100,000 population.


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                    [Title] => Tarlac Aetas will soon surf the wilds of cyberspace
                    [Summary] => SITIO KALANGITAN, Capas, Tarlac — Young Aetas in this upland village will soon be surfing the wilds of cyberspace once telephone lines, or even wireless Internet connections, are installed here.


The Aetas have been living together with unats (lowlanders) in this community after they were displaced by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991.


Last Tuesday, 21 out-of-school youths, one of them a female Aeta, were given certificates for having completed a six-month basic computer literacy training program.


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                    [Title] => Various ailments afflict Tarlac flood victims
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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. 


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                    [Title] => 31 Tarlac villages still hounded by drug menace
                    [Summary] => CAMP MAKABULOS, Tarlac — Thirty-one Tarlac villages are still affected by the illegal drug menace, and the provincial police vowed to sweep them clean of illegal substances before the year ends.


In a report to Gov. Jose Yap Sr., Senior Superintendent Angelo Sunglao, Tarlac police director, said they have "eliminated" drug pushing since last January in at least 18 barangays earlier tagged as "affected" or "threatened."


According to Sunglao, a village is considered "affected" if there is at least one drug pusher there. 


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                    [Title] => JICA picks Tarlac for primary health care training
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has chosen Tarlac for its training program for experts on primary health care who would be deployed elsewhere in the world.


Ten Japanese trainees arrived here last July 19, and will stay up to the end of the month.


In a courtesy call on Gov. Jose Yap Sr. last Wednesday, Hirohiko Takata, JICA resident representative, said they are preparing Japanese experts on primary health care for future assignments in JICA’s overseas technical operations.


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                    [Title] => Gov’t, Reds hold another round of informal talks
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Yap, who left for Oslo yesterday, said the five-day "backdoor" negotiations with leaders of the NDF, the political wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), are expected to jump-start formal talks meant to peacefully end the 34-year-old Maoist insurgency in the country.


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                    [Title] => Tarlac residents to decide on opening of  Clark landfill
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY —  Officials of the provincial government here said that another round of public consultations should be undertaken before it could act on a request that the sanitary landfill built by a German firm in Capas town be opened to other areas outside Tarlac and the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ).


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                    [Title] => Right-of-way talks for expressway nearing completion
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                    [Title] => Tarlac officials looking for ways to address tobacco tillers’ woes
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Local officials are looking for ways to assist more than 10,000 tobacco farmers in five northern towns after their produce has remained unsold for nearly four months now.  


Gov. Jose Yap Sr. has directed provincial agriculture chief Bartolome Fajardo to conduct a "prompt and thorough study" on the economic impact of the unexpected "tobacco crisis." 


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                    [Title] => Tarlac issues Holy Week traffic advisory
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Gov. Jose Yap Sr. here has approved a traffic advisory for motorists flocking from the metropolitan capital to the North for the five-day Holy Week break in order to help ease the heavy flow of vehicles, especially along the MacArthur Highway. The provincial chief executive has ordered Tarlac police provincial director, Senior Superintendent Mario Sandiego, to put all lawmen in the province under "extra alert" to prevent any untoward incident along major routes here linking Metro Manila to Northern Luzon cities and provinces.


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                    [Title] => Pneumonia is Tarlac’s 2nd top killer, but no SARS
                    [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — Pneumonia is the second leading cause of mortality in Tarlac, next to heart diseases, but the provincial health office (PHO) gave assurances that there is still no case of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) here.


In a report to Gov. Jose Yap Sr. during the regular monthly meeting of the Tarlac Mayors’ League, Dr. Ricardo Ramos, PHO chief, said the province’s mortality rate for pneumonia in 2002 was 68.35, or 763 cases per 100,000 population.


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                    [Title] => Tarlac Aetas will soon surf the wilds of cyberspace
                    [Summary] => SITIO KALANGITAN, Capas, Tarlac — Young Aetas in this upland village will soon be surfing the wilds of cyberspace once telephone lines, or even wireless Internet connections, are installed here.


The Aetas have been living together with unats (lowlanders) in this community after they were displaced by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991.


Last Tuesday, 21 out-of-school youths, one of them a female Aeta, were given certificates for having completed a six-month basic computer literacy training program.


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