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The road taken: Transforming Biñan in 365 days

Only 34 kilometers south of Manila, Biñan City in Laguna province has served as a suburban residential community of Metro Manila, accessible via the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and the National Highway. Covering 24 barangays, this sprawling, first class city boasts of two of...

Reclaiming Rizal for future generations

Biñanenses are bound to recall the day when their city government won for them a piece of history; a history that now beckons to define Biñan’s identity for generations to come. It began eight years ago, in 2010, when word got around that the...

Biñan: A city with a view to the new century

From a municipality that first came to the common man’s awareness by way of a delicious rice cake delicacy, the Biñan of today has shed much of its provincial, agricultural past to make way for a rapidly industrializing, modern city. Under the leadership of...

FEDERALISM 101 SERIES

  PHILIPPINES GRAPHIC: It has been widely reported that the Calabarzon provinces are in favor of Federalism. As a mayor of one of the top three cities in Laguna province, do you think that Federalism is feasible in the Philippines? Biñan Mayor Walfredo 'Arman' Dimaguila:...

Beyond the chrysalis: Philippines Graphic interviews Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza

People stand in awe of stories told and retold that border on the magical: an abandoned child, in the throes of death from advanced leukemia, with little hope of surviving as per doctors’ diagnoses, finding healing in a home for abandoned babies and,...

Federalism in three acts

The Philippines Graphic begins its launching, with this issue, of a massive information campaign on Federalism and the possible directions we might consider taking as a nation. The idea is to gather a significant number of mayors and former mayors to lend their opinion on the...

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