CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines — The town of Calaca in Batangas became the country’s newest component city after a majority of the residents voted yes in a plebiscite conducted on Saturday.

The bid of Calaca town to become Batangas province’s fifth city will be decided in a Sept. 3 plebiscite, as local officials stepped up the campaign to entice voters to support the conversion.

Calaca will become Batangas' fifth city once its conversion into a component city is ratified through a plebiscite President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure converting the ...

Calaca is the first city in the 1st Congressional Distict of Batangas and fifth in the province after Lipa, Tanauan, Santo Tomas and Batangas City CALACA, Philippines – The Commission on ...