A trip in those days to Diliman and the Balara Filters was like a trip out into the country. The area was still probinsya and even the large buildings of the UP were dwarfed in the empty expanse ...

Years ago, there was this place that was the very definition of summer: Balara Filters. It was the postcard-pretty, day-trip destination of the Fifties and the Sixties, right up there with the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The body of a man believed to have been summarily executed was dumped before dawn Thursday inside the Balara Filter compound in Quezon City. A sheet of bond paper with the ...