Multiple deaths reported as floods, landslide strike Jakarta

01/02/2020

JAKARTA — Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least three lives and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning inundated both residential and commercial areas across the…

DOH declares national dengue alert

07/15/2019

RAPID SPIKE IN REGIONAL CASES REPORTED MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday declared a national dengue alert amid a spike in reported cases of the viral illness caused by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in several…

One dead in Lorega Fire

Morexette Erram 11/14/2018

CEBU CITY—An elderly man was reportedly killed in a fire that struck a densely populated urban poor village in Cebu City on Wednesday afternoon. Fire investigators from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said they had yet…

‘Mass hysteria’ reported Argao town

Morexette B. Erram 06/22/2018

Hours after the incident occurred in Ronda National High School, 19 students from Colawin National High School in Barangay Colawin in Argao town, southeastern Cebu were also reported to have suffered mass hysteria. The Argao Municipal Disaster…

AGATON’S FURY

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/02/2018

Heavy rains triggered floods, landslides in 7 southern towns, 1 city; 2 deaths reported Mary Flor Basadre-Quirante was trembling as she was packing her things inside her devastated house in Barangay Looc, Malabuyoc town, about 137 km…

Labella urges police: Deepen probe into reported suicide

JOSE SANTINO BUNACHITA, Rosalie O. Abatayo 12/27/2017

  ACTING Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is asking the city’s police to investigate deeper the death of an election assistant who jumped off the third floor of a mall last Tuesday. “I immediately called Col. (Cebu…

Moderate to heavy traffic reported as school year opens in private schools

Nestle L. Semilla 06/13/2017

As classes began in private schools across Metro Cebu yesterday, moderate to heavy traffic was reported in various parts of the metropolis. About a hundred traffic enforcers were dispatched by the Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) to…

Sinkhole found in Badian Town

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/29/2017

CEBU CITY–A sinkhole was discovered on Saturday morning in a river in the mountain barangay of Taytay, Badian town, 106 kilometers south of Cebu City. Police Officer 1 Rodjie Alicaway of the Badian police station said they…

25 families flee homes in fear of reported sightings of armed men

Doris C. Bongcac, Norman V. Mendoza 04/21/2017

Olango Island Government troops continued to search for two armed men spotted along the beach lines of Barangay San Vicente on Olango Island on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers and police forces conducted clearing operations, but until 5 p.m.…

Biz leaders: Cebu safe, secure

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/10/2017

TRAVEL ALERT, REPORTED TERROR THREATS Following Cebu’s successful hosting of meetings for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) 2017 Summit, local business leaders found reports of alleged terrorist threats in Central Visayas hard to believe. Cebu…

Asean Summit enters second day; no major incident reported

Benjie Talisic 04/04/2017

  POLICE Regional Office (PRO-7) Director Noli Taliño said that no major incidents happened during the conduct of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) Summit meetings, which entered its second day today. Taliño said the meetings…

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