Baguio News
Baguio City, as the cultural, commercial and administrative center of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines, and trying to "live up" to its highly urbanized city classifica-tion, is a hive of activity.
Baguio is also the location of the official summer residence of the President of the Philippines (The Mansion), from which a lot of national news and official government pronouncements emanate while the President is in residence.
As the Summer Capital of the Philippines, it is a place closest and dearest to the hearts of a of a lot of Filipinos who are always interested in what's happening in this mountain resort town.
Here then are the top news headlines for the region to give you a better idea of what's happening in the City of Pines.
Top Baguio News Stories
Why is Baguio Always in the News?
Lisa's commentary, written 5/14/2007
As the seat of the Cordillera Administrative Region, the news desks of the major daily news-papers send stories and photos about the WHOLE region from Summer Capital of the Philippines.
And this is news from a really large land area totalling 20,335.9 square kilometers (the City of Pines comprises a tiny 57.5 square kilometers or a mere 0.28% of the whole).
So every little accident, minor landslide, or petty crime in the Cordilleras, even if the incident occured some 300km away, is datelined "Baguio City."
Reading the papers, one would think our laid-back little town is disaster-prone and crime-ridden, which is of course the complete opposite.
Residents and city officials will argue that ours is a "highly urbanized city" but that is just a technical definition the Philippine government in 1978 used to classify the city as (regardless of land area, population size or income), to secure for it a larger share in national taxes, most probably in aid of tourism.
In my opinion, it is highly urbanized in terms of the existence of concrete and glass buildings and the availability of basic utilities such as electricity, indoor plumbing, internet access and all the comforts of modern life. In recent years, we have added large malls, too!
But based on attitude, Baguio remains a small town, where everybody knows everybody, where the pace is relaxed and life can be oh, so graceful.
And since it is a small town, any news is big news!
The Cordillera Region of the Philippines has a total area of 19,294 sq. km., a tiny 57.5 sq. km of which is the Summer Capital of the Philippines. Even if the event occured in beautiful Sagada (in photo above), for example, which is about 140km away, the news is datelined "Baguio City."
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