The provincial board's public hearing on the coal spill in Agno is set on March 15, Wednesday, and not on March 10 as I blogged. My apologies!

Dagupan, a city yearly devastated by floods, has been selected as one of the five Asian project sites for the Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia (Promise) by the United States Agency for International Development.

The Promise, which seeks to reduce the vulnerability of urban communities through enhanced preparedness and mitigation of hydro-meteorological disasters, is to be implemented by the Center for Preparedness Foundation Inc.(CDP) at a cost of $100,000 (P5.2 million) from February 1, 2006- January 31, 2008. Read more