China hails first flight to Antarctica for tourists

Marc Cosep 12/20/2017

Want to see penguins this Christmas? Then board China’s first commercial flight to Antarctica . The first commercial flight to Antarctica successfully landed on Saturday; carrying about around 20 Chinese passengers. The plane departed from Hong Kong…

URDUJA LEAVES 29 DEAD

AFP, Inquirer.net, Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/17/2017

Another storm is coming and Cebu is again being asked to be prepared Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Urduja (International name Kai-Tak) have killed 26 people in the Eastern Visayas island province of Biliran, authorities said Sunday,…

PRO-7 on full alert due to ‘Urduja’

Nestle L. Semilla 12/15/2017

The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) is on full alert for possible landslides and flooding in Cebu after Tropical Storm Urduja’s expected landfall was delayed until tomorrow morning. Police Supt. Reyman Tolentin, PRO-7’s information officer…

Lapu-Lapu cops play Santa to indigent families

Norman V. Mendoza 12/12/2017

WHEN Saturnina Saure, 65, saw a group of policemen in full uniform enter her community in Sitio Kitchen, Barangay Pajo in Lapu-Lapu City yesterday morning, she immediately thought they were there to arrest someone. To her surprise,…

Piolo Pascual: ‘Time to move our tears away’

Clint Holton Potestas 12/11/2017

THE STAYING power of Piolo Pascual is in the shrills of the fans. “I love you too,” the singer-actor replied after a fan shouted an endearment that interrupted his performance during the “I Got Stung” mini concert at…

UV downs USC to bag APUG hoops crown

Jonas N. Panerio 12/11/2017

The University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers continued their dominance of the southern collegiate basketball scene as they pushed past the University of San Carlos (USC) Warriors, 82-73, to claim the championship in the Asia Pacific…

PRO-7 chief to kin of late Ermita Chief Rupinta: Be patient, cops working to solve case

Nestle L. Semilla 12/08/2017

Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino, the director of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO 7), has once again asked the family, colleagues and supporters of the late Ermita Barangay Captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta to be patient…

POLICE: IT’S GOING TO BE ‘LESS BLOODY’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 12/06/2017

PNP BACK ON WAR ON DRUGS Promising it is going to be a “less bloody” war on drugs, ranking officers of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) welcomed Malacañang’s decision to put the police back…

Osmeña Jr. to deliver privilege speech in his first council session

Doris Mae C. Mondragon 12/06/2017

THE appointment of Renato “Junjun” Osmeña Jr. to the Cebu City Council would mean proper representation of the south district of Cebu City, said Councilor Joel Garganera. Junjun Osmeña, who ranked ninth in last year’s elections, will…

Time to ban firecrackers

Editorial 12/06/2017

Even if President Rodrigo Duterte already issued a directive banning the use, sale and distribution of firecrackers, Mandaue City Hall’s citywide ban on firecrackers is still laudable if only to emphasize and enforce the President’s order on…

A high regard for females

Sofia Aliño Logarta 12/06/2017

Females have been treated badly because they have been viewed as second-class citizens, brainless, as not having a soul. They have also been seen as toys or objects of entertainment. In some cultures, they had been used…

A time to hope

JASON BAGUIA 12/01/2017

Ten years ago, our then pope Benedict XVI released the encyclical letter “Spe Salvi” (Saved in Hope). The letter to Catholics across the world was released November 30, the feast of Saint Andrew, Jesus Christ’s first-called apostle,…

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