A passenger vessel ran aground Thursday after being hammered by strong winds and waves spawned by a tropical depression, but all 228 passengers—many of them students returning to this university town from the holidays—were rescued unharmed, authorities said.
A passenger vessel ran aground on Thursday, after being hammered by strong winds and waves spawned by tropical depression Auring, but all 228 passengers—many of them students returning to this university town from the holidays—were rescued unharmed, authorities said.
Tayasan, Jimalalud and La Libertad have turned into virtual ghost towns as people refuse to go back to their homes in the coastal villages, shaken by continued aftershocks four days after a strong earthquake struck the province.
At least 52 people were killed when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Negros and Cebu provinces shortly before noon Monday, causing landslides and huge cracks on highways, and violently shaking buildings, officials said.
At least 40 persons, including a nine-year-old girl, died in Negros Oriental during the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the province and other areas shortly before noon Monday, local authorities here said.
The Dumaguete City government has banned the rebuilding of homes along the Banica River where houses were destroyed by the Dec. 17 flash floods at the height of Tropical Storm “Sendong.”
The owners of MV Ever Transport III, which capsized off the coast of Dumaguete City a week before Christmas, said they would retrieve their marooned vessel as soon as they sign a contract with a salvor, a Philippine Coast Guard official said Wednesday.
A Dumaguete lawyer succumbed to bullet wounds Friday afternoon some three hours after he was shot by a still unidentified suspect inside his office here at 11 a.m.
A Dumaguete lawyer is fighting for his life after a still unidentified assailant shot him several times inside his office here at around 11 a.m. Friday.
DUMAGUETE CITY—President Benigno Aquino III has become a poster boy for antismoking advocates here. Antismoking groups, mostly students from Negros Oriental State University and the Foundation University, paraded around the city recently to celebrate the World No Tobacco Month while holding tarpaulins that bore the President’s photo holding a cigarette. The photo’s caption read “What [...]
President Benigno Aquino III has become a poster boy for anti-smoking advocates here.
