A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France’s Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 14 others, officials said.
A civil society group known for their anti-flyover stance kicked off their nine-day series of novena Masses for the “enlightenment of local leaders” at the Asilo de la Milagrosa Shrine at Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City at 6 a.m yesterday.
The initial survey conducted by the civil society group Movement for Livable Cebu (MLC) listed several items that Cebuanos felt should be present in a metropolis like Cebu City.
Last Sunday I discussed a topic that President Benigno Aquino III raised before the Liberal Party rally: the opposition of Mayor Micahel Rama to the proposed construction of flyovers in Cebu City.
TOKYO – Seven people are missing after a section of highway tunnel collapsed in Japan, Kyodo News reported, citing the government.
At least 13 people were killed and dozens are feared missing after a flyover under construction collapsed in Bangladesh’s southeastern port city of Chittagong, police said Sunday.
Already assured of over P27 billion in infrastructure projects in 2013—the biggest slice of the government’s public works budget next year—Mindanao will get an additional P1.96 billion in projects to be funded by soft loans from the Saudi Arabian government, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the city government on Friday opened to traffic the P373.1-million Lazatin flyover in this Pampanga capital, providing better access to Pampanga, Bataan, Olongapo City, Zambales and the Subic Bay Freeport, said Public Works Undersecretary Rafael Yabut.
Three people were killed and five injured when an eight-lane suspension bridge in northeast China collapsed early on Friday, only nine months after it opened, state media said.
Aside from its flood control master plan for Metro Manila and outlying provinces, the Department of Public Works and Highways has completed similar plans for effective and comprehensive flood management of 12 of the 56 river systems throughout the country that are on DPWH’s priority list.
Contempo Property Holdings, Inc. was launched in Cebu last week and is developing its first project in Cebu located in H. Cortes street in Mandaue City.
Senator Edgardo Angara on Wednesday urged the government to increase its spending on overdue infrastructure projects.
Public safety was a new dimension in the complaints about flyovers when a Sports Utility Vehicle crashed into a divider in the Banilad-Talamban flyover in Cebu City on Saturday evening.
