Wuhan hospital president dies of novel coronavirus pneumonia

02/18/2020

BEIJING — Liu Zhiming, president of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital in Hubei province, died of the novel coronavirus pneumonia at 10:30 am on Tuesday despite medical efforts, according to a report of China Central Television. The hospital, which…

BREAKING: Healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez collapses, dies

Cathy Cañares Yamsuan 02/04/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Controversial healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez collapsed and died while playing tennis at the Ayala Alabang Clubhouse earlier Tuesday, three days short of his 53rd birthday. His spokesperson Deedee Siytangco confirmed the priest’s demise in…

Kobe Bryant, 4 others killed in California chopper crash

01/27/2020

CALABASAS, California— NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday, January 26, 2020, (Monday dawn, January 27, 2020, Philippine time). The chopper went down…

Gov. Gwen to visit mother of baby who died in Camotes District Hospital

Rosalie Abatayo 01/07/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Governor Gwendolyn Garcia will be meeting today, January 7, 2020,  the mother of a three-week-old boy who died in the district hospital of Camotes.  The child, identified as Kai Gavin Yangson, reportedly…

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern dies at 77

01/02/2020

NEW YORK — David Stern had basketball as a passion and law as a profession, one he figured he could return to if a job at the NBA didn’t work out. He never did. Instead he went…

PAL Holdings president Lucio ‘Bong’ Tan Jr. dies

Miguel R. Camus 11/11/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Lucio Tan Jr., president of airline operator PAL Holdings Inc., has died Monday, his sister Vivienne Tan said in a statement. He was 53. No cause of death was cited but Bong, as he was…

Former City of Naga vice mayor Othello ‘Boy’ Chiong passes away at age 68

Rosalie Abatayo 11/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —  City of Naga is now mourning over the loss of their former vice mayor Othello “Boy” Chiong. Chiong passed away around noon on Monday, November 4, 2019, after years of battling a lingering…

Boxer Patrick Day dies of brain injuries 4 days after fight

10/17/2019

CHICAGO— Boxer Patrick Day died Wednesday, four days after sustaining head injuries in a fight with Charles Conwell. Promoter Lou DiBella said Day died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 27. “He was surrounded by his family,…

First man to perform spacewalk dies

10/12/2019

MOSCOW — Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it…

Motorcycle rider killed in Boljoon road accident

Alven Marie A. Timtim 10/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A man died after the motorcycle he was driving collided head-on  with a tourist van at around 2:30 p.m. on Frtiday, October 4, 2019, along Sitio Tinawgan, Barangay Granada, Boljoon town, southern Cebu.…

WWII US veteran who fought in PH, longtime lawmaker dies at 91

09/03/2019

NEW YORK  — Former state Sen. Bill Larkin, a World War II veteran who saw combat in the Philippines, died Saturday. He was 91. His family announced the death Sunday, calling Larkin a “dedicated public servant, soldier…

Man with P1M donation to Kapa dies of heart attack

06/19/2019

KORONADAL CITY – A 76-year-old man from Polomolok, South Cotabato suffered a heart attack and died after learning that President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the closure of Kapa-Community Ministry International Inc. (Kapa). Ambrose Alojado, a public elementary school…

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