BALIWET, Zambales: It's a double celeb­ration for 12-year-old Jaderick Castillo and some other 1,000 residents of a village in this remote Zambales town in Luzon.

On June 7, which marked a beloved traditional festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival, a Chinese-funded solar project lit up Baliwet, a mountain village in this town, about 190 km northwest of Manila. Electricity supply finally arrived at this remote village.

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