Cebu City tears down parts of 2 popular resto, hotel

Nestle Semilla 01/16/2023

CEBU CITY—Amid the revelries here to celebrate the twin Feast of the Señor Santo Niño and the Sinulog Festival, former Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, the city’s anti-flood task force head, went on to demolish parts of two…

Cebu City gov’t set to issue demolition notices to 3 malls, 47 other establishments on Nov. 28

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 11/26/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government, through its Task Force “Gubat sa Baha,” will serve notices of demolition to 51 commercial and business establishments on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. The Cebu City Public Information Office…

Two establishments given 10 days to dismantle structures encroaching three-meter easement of Lahug-Kamputhaw rivers

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 11/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Government has given two big establishments along Gen. Maxilom Ave. 10 days or until December 3, 2022, to voluntarily dismantle a portion of their structures that encroached on the three-meter…

Why did cop go with both suspects?

Apple Ta-as 10/25/2015

A policeman is in hot water for accompanying a Chinese husband and wife, who turned out to be murder suspects, as they fled the Lighthouse Restaurant right after the Oct. 21 shooting that left two diplomats dead…

Police reenact crime scene of Oct. 21 shooting

Apple Ta-as, Nestle L. Semilla 10/25/2015

SOON after gunshots were heard in the Lighthouse Restaurant last week, four police teams and a paramedics team arrived. It was too late to save the lives of two Chinese diplomats who died later in the hospital.…

TRIAL AHEAD IN CHINA

Apple Ta-as, Eileen G. Mangubat, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/24/2015

The husband and wife implicated in Wednesday’s shooting of three Chinese diplomats in Cebu City will face investigation and a full trial in their homeland. The journey home started yesterday when a police convoy left Camp Sergio…

Mayor Rama: It’s a local crime; charge them here

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/24/2015

IF Cebu city government officials had their way, the two Chinese suspects in the shooting of three Chinese diplomats in a local restaurant would be charged by the police and tried in a Philippine court. In a…

2 SPARED FROM RAPS

Apple Ta-as, Chito O. Aragon 10/23/2015

No charges will be filed by the police against the Chinese couple who are being held  for Wednesday’s shooting of three Chinese diplomats during a birthday celebration in the Lighthouse Restaurant in Cebu City. “They enjoy diplomatic…

GUNNED DOWN

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac 10/22/2015

Heated words in a birthday celebration yesterday ended in gunshots that wounded Cebu Chinese Consul Song Ronghua and killed two members of his staff. Police are looking into a possible grudge attack behind the shooting, which took…

UPDATE: Suspects in Chinese Consul General shooting nabbed

Apple Ta-as 10/21/2015

Police have in custody a Chinese national Li Qing Liang , 60, identified as the shooter and his wife Gou Jing, 57. They are being investigated with the help of an interpreter in the Cebu city police…

Three wounded in Cebu City resto shooting

Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac 10/21/2015

At least three persons were wounded in a noontime shooting incident which happened in one of the function rooms of the Lighthouse Restaurant along General Maxilom Avenue in Cebu City. Nine persons were having lunch at 1:32…

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