China officials take blame in deadly shelter fire

A local Chinese government on Saturday admitted it had tolerated the existence of an illegally run orphanage where six children and one young adult died in a house fire.

A local Chinese government on Saturday admitted it had tolerated the existence of an illegally run orphanage where six children and one young adult died in a house fire.
An 18-year-old man who had just been released from an orphanage where he stayed for 15 years was found dead in barangay Toong, Cebu City. Jerry “Boy” Mansalay had a bullet wound in the head when he was found by the road at 5 a.m. yesterday. No clear motive has been established yet in the [...]
IN the spirit of good tidings and gift giving, the management and staff of the Choi City Seafood Restaurant visited the SOS Children’s Village in Talamban, Cebu City to bring joy to the orphans as part of the company’s first anniversary celebration last Nov. 19.
The riprap that collapsed near an orphanage in the mountain barangay of San Jose, Cebu City was “substandard”, according to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB).
The children and nuns have vacated the orphanage in the mountain barangay of San Jose, Cebu City where a wall riprap below the building caved in during a heavy rain Wednesday night. But the My Bonita Home for Girls would have to remain vacant until a thorough inspection is made of its foundation, said Cebu [...]
OVER 80 girls, four nuns and three drivers housed in an orphanage in a Cebu City mountain barangay vacated the building after the rip-rap retaining wall in front of the compound gave way past 9 p.m. Wednesday night. “We were about to sleep when all of a sudden we heard a crashing sound. At first [...]
Originally posted 6:13 pm | Saturday, May 21st, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR—(UPDATE) A landslide caused by heavy rains hit an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, killing at least eight children and two caretakers, the official Bernama news agency said. Six more children were missing, buried under the mud and rubble, while nine survivors, most of them [...]