The 19th annual Bataan Memorial Death March begins at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on March 30. This march is directed in reputation of the courageous defenders of the Philippine Islands throughout the duration of the Second World War.

Greater than 4,000 marchers are expected to join the difficult journey along hot, open desert of White Sands, with attitudes of up to 5,300 feet on trails and washes.

A petrochemical feedstock facilities of the Philippine oil refinery Petron Corp were recently set up for use and will begin performing their functions in February 2008. The facilities are portion of Petron's US$300 million project to make greater the ratio pf the useful energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied to it. It is the Petron's 180,000 barrel per day refinery in Bataan.

A team from the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will direct a general survey of the 620 megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) located 70 kilometers west of Manila to assist the Philippines in making a choice if it is better to engage in nuclear power generation.

IAEA was formed to help in transfer of technology and counsel countries in view of nuclear power generation, and to discover whether a country is breaking any safety or environmental standards connected to nuclear generation.

A new Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) office building for the first district of Bataan equal in value to Php30 million will be constructed in a lot with an area of 13-hectare in Barangay Mulawin in Orani, Bataan.

The DPWH will construct the new office building to take along the products of development to the rural area and to accelerate the infrastructure  plans of action in the Bataan's first district.