A police officer was killed while a village security watchman was wounded on Saturday when unidentified armed men peppered them with bullets in a remote village in Borongan City, Eastern Samar.
Vicente Operario Valley II of Sulat, Eastern Samar, died Wednesday. He was 44.
The New People’s Army (NPA) raised P25 million from extortion fees in 2012, the military said in a statement on Friday.
Eastern Samar Gov. Conrado Basada Nicart Jr. was charged on Tuesday with graft and violation of the Civil Service Rules at the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly withholding the salaries and benefits of 11 provincial government employees despite an order from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to pay them.
Eastern Samar Gov. Conrado Basada Nicart Jr. was charged on Tuesday with graft and violation of the Civil Service rules at the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly withholding the salaries and benefits of 11 provincial government employees despite an order from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to pay them.
A magnitude 5 earthquake struck off Guiuan in the central Philippine province of Eastern Samar at 6:58 p.m., according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
At least 100 families from five coastal towns in MacArthur town in Eastern Samar are asking for help after their houses were either destroyed or damaged by the earthquake that shook Eastern Visayas on Aug. 31.
The magnitude 7.6 earthquake off Visayas last Friday has left about P133.6 million worth of damages to public infrastructure, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Wednesday.
A science research specialist from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Monday said that it could take days to weeks before life returns to normal in quake-hit Eastern Samar.
The Philippine Volcanology and Seismology has recorded 371 aftershocks since the 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook Eastern Samar Friday night, the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs) said Monday.
The earthquake that struck off the east coast of the Philippines on Friday night packed energy “equivalent to 32 Hiroshima atomic bombs,” but a combination of factors spared the Filipinos destruction from a catastrophe, scientists said on Saturday.
There have been 20 aftershocks from the 7.6-magnitude quake in the waters off Eastern Samar on Friday night, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in its bulletin released at 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
Tsunami Alert Level 3 has been raised in Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte, Surigao del Norte and Surigao Sur, said Renato Solidum, director of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Friday night.
