With plans already on the table to set up continuing care facilities for retirees, companies from the United States and Europe are looking at investing in the country's retirement sector.

Reynaldo Lingat, Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) acting general manager, said that an American firm was looking for idle lands in Clark Field, Pampanga, and even beyond, including Subic Bay Freeport in Zambales to Morong in Bataan.

Good People International, a Korean group which is based in Yeoungdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korean has donated medicines worth P12 million to poor people in various parts of the country.

Leaded by Rev. Joshua Yoon Soo, the Korean group donated over the weekend a box of assorted medicines to the people of Bataan through Gov. Enrique Garcia.

Armanda Batag, one of the entrepreneurs in Bataan shares the secret of "tinapang banak".

Learned the trade from her mother, Batag said that she went on her own after graduating from college. In her smokehouse, it can be seen how tinapa is processed. The working hours are usually at night, because it’s in the afternoon the fish come in.

In the smoking area, several pieces Bataan specialty are available the tinapang banak (smoked grey mullet) were taken from the pit for us to see. Batag said that while the fish is a favorite among locals, it doesn't sell when she brings the fish to Divisoria, her Manila outlet.

For the first time, Japan government officially invites US POWs to Japan. The government of Japan has decided to invite to Japan next year former U.S. prisoners of war who survived the Bataan Death March with this, Japan government is hoping to end up the anti-Japanese feelings of many former US POWs. This is part of the plan to promote understanding of this country among them.

The Bataan Death March took place on the Bataan Peninsula of Luzon Island in the Philippines. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army forced approximately 70,000 U.S. and Philippine POWs to march about 60 miles in scorching heat.