5.3 earthquake shakes southern Mexico, causes some damage

01/17/2020

MEXICO CITY — A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico on Thursday night, causing some damage in part of the southern state of Oaxaca. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor occurred at 8:07 p.m. and was…

Collision of three truck causes bridge traffic

Norman V. Mendoza 07/27/2018

Three cargo trucks were involved in a vehicular accident along Marcelo Fernan Bridge at past 12 noon on Friday (July 27). No person was injured due to the incident. Only two trucks suffered serious damage. The collision…

Unruly drivers, roadwork causes of heavy traffic

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/18/2018

Traffic problems in Cebu City’s roads will never end unless drivers follow traffic rules. Despite the ongoing roadworks, Cebu City Traffic Operations (CCTO) chief Francisco Ouano said the greatest contributors to traffic congestion in choke point areas…

Heartbreaker? WHO says smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes

AFP 06/03/2018

WHILE the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday there was too little awareness of tobacco’s impact on the human heart. On the occasion of World…

Multiple collision on Marcelo Fernan Bridge causes heavy traffic

Nestle L. Semilla 05/28/2018

CEBU CITY- Eleven vehicles collided at the Marcelo Fernan Bridge which connects mainland Cebu to Mactan Island after a 20-footer prime mover lost its brake and rammed into the other vehicles past 11 a.m. on Monday. The…

DA-7 chief: Heat causes livestock prices to go up

Nestle L. Semilla 05/01/2018

PRICES of livestock have increased between P5 and P10 per kilo in the past weeks. Director Salvador Diputado of the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7) said that they had observed these in their monitoring in…

Truck with cement trips at SRP, causes gridlock

Nestle L. Semillla 02/28/2018

A truck carrying tons of cement fell on its side past midnight of Wednesday, blocking both sides of the South Coastal Road and causing a 15-hour traffic gridlock that stretched all the way to Cebu City in…

‘Dec. 2’ causes iPhones to crash; IOS update released to repair bug

Inquirer.net 12/03/2017

ANOTHER issue popped up to challenge Apple’s software engineers when users on Twitter and Reddit posted about their iPhones crashing on Dec. 2. According to MacRumors, a date-related software bug in the iOS 11.1.2 began forcing iPhones…

Fault line movement in Boljoon causes landslide, endangers town

Morexette B. Erram 10/29/2017

Close to a hundred persons were evacuated from a village in Boljoon town that is now considered a high-risk area following a landslide that occurred last Friday caused by a movement in the town’s fault line. Officials…

‘Explosive’ rise in HIV noted among injection drug users

Nestle L. Semilla 05/27/2015

Draft executive order proposes guidelines for clinics The City Health Offices in Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu have noted an “explosive increase” in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID). To address this, the…

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