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5,000 Pinatubo evacuees awarded houses and lots

November 6, 2000 - 12:00am

Some 5,000 families displaced by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 will celebrate tomorrow a "victory party" after the Mt. Pinatubo Commission (MPC) recently awarded them new houses and lots in various...

Nation

House approves MPC's 2-year term extension

By Ding Cervantes | May 30, 2000 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga -- Gov. Lito Lapid thanked members of the House of Representatives yesterday for passing on second reading the proposal to extend the term of the Mt. Pinatubo Commission (MPC) by another...

Headlines

Special audit sought on P31-B Pinatubo funds

By Ding Cervantes | April 18, 2000 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga - The Joint Congressional Oversight Committee (JCOC) on Mt. Pinatubo agreed yesterday to ask the Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct a special audit of some P31 billion in government funds...

Headlines

Bunkhouses at Clark `contaminated' site torn down

By Ding Cervantes | January 28, 2000 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga - The Mt. Pinatubo Commission (MPC) has started to demolish 56 bunkhouses at an evacuation center here which about 20,000 lahar-displaced families used to occupy and where shallow wells...

Headlines