US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

06/04/2019

WASHINGTON — The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhanced screening of…

More images from the Ermita fire in Cebu City

Benjie Talisic 02/05/2019

CEBU CITY – The fire that hit the densely populated Barangay Ermita in Cebu City  razed at least a hundred houses in three sitios of the coastal village on Tuesday afternoon, February 5, 2019. READ: Fire razes at…

From ‘window-watching’ in Samar to Bangkok, Thailand

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/16/2018

BANGKOK— The Miss Universe bug bit Matthew Dotingco when he was seven years old. He watched it by the window of a neighbor’s living room withstanding the humid 8 a.m. weather in Barangay 1, Taft in Eastern…

Honoridez eyes more participants from public school

Hendrix Berdin Lato 12/02/2018

THERE were more participants in this year’s TATAP Founder’s Cup: 2nd Serging Osmeña, Jr. National Invitation Table Tennis Championship, according to organizers. Tournament organizer Jessica Jawad Honoridez said there was an increase in the number of participants…

Stay away from SRP sidewalk that is under repair

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/26/2018

CEBU City Councilor Dave Tumulak, called on the residents near the South Road Properties (SRP) to refrain from loitering on the sidewalks being repaired along the expressway. Last Sunday, four minors aged 12-16 years old were rescued…

Police, city officials told: Go after boys stealing iron bars from coastal road’s seawall

11/25/2018

Netizens, who saw a video posted by a concerned citizen on minors who were trying to destroy a portion of the seawall of the Cebu South Coastal Road (CSCR)to collect iron bars and other scrap metals, are…

Grace Poe’s father-in-law safe after SUV’s fall from elevated parking space

Inquirer.net 11/18/2018

The father-in-law of Grace Poe only sustained a few fractured ribs and bruises after his sport utility vehicle fell from an elevated parking space at a shopping mall in San Juan City, the senator said on Sunday.…

PNP bans ‘Ang Probinsyano’ from using police assets, personnel

Inquirer.net 11/18/2018

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has ordered all its units to stop allowing the teleserye “Ang Probinsyano” from using their personnel, equipment, and facilities, following the show’s alleged negative portrayal of the agency. “All units, offices, and…

P2. 8 million drugs seized from a female dealer in Cebu City

Benjie Talisic 11/08/2018

The Abellana station of the Cebu City Police Office seized at dawn today an estimated P2.8 million worth of suspected shabu. The drug enforcement unit (DEU) of the Abellana Police led by Chief Inspector Eduard Sanchez, precinct…

Cebu is richest province but Gwen poses question on whether Cebuanos benefit from it

Morexette B. Erram, Rosalie Abatayo 11/06/2018

  Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale expressed elation over the report of the Commission on Audit that Cebu remains the richest province in the country. She said the Capitol is being extra cautious in spending to maximize the…

CESAFI MEN’S FOOTBALL: UC coach not expecting much from young team

Mars G. Alison 10/02/2018

With a team composed of mostly rookies, University of Cebu (UC) men’s football team head coach Junjun Taneo isn’t expecting much from his booters in this year’s Cesafi football tournament. But he has one simple request: Don’t…

Death from above

Jhunnex Napallacan and Rosalie Abatayo 09/20/2018

KILLER LANDSLIDE IN SINDULAN Alejandro Ravanes was lying on his bed in Barangay Tinaan, Naga City, when he felt the earth shake before 6 a.m. on Thursday. He brushed it aside. What followed was a nightmare that…

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