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Taclobanons, China firm officials meet Duterte
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - May 24, 2016 - 12:00am
Officials of Sun Chenggui, a housing builder based in Shandong, China, accompanied by typhoon Yolanda survivors from Tacloban City, paid a courtesy visit and congratulated incoming President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao...
The Freeman reporter elected PRO-8 Press Corps president
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - February 18, 2015 - 12:00am
Miriam Garcia Desacada, correspondent of The Freeman and reporter of DyVL Aksyon Radyo in Tacloban City, was elected the new president of the re-organized Police Regional Office-8’ Press Corps during last Friday’s...
At a hamlet in Tacloban: Yolanda survivors bare they never got any aid
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - January 29, 2015 - 12:00am
More than a year since the Yolanda devastation, at least eight families comprising a hamlet at Sitio Alimasag in Barangay 88 of San Jose district in this city never received any tent or temporary shelter and relief...
Weeks after Ruby E. Samar's town still in misery
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - December 20, 2014 - 12:00am
A couple of weeks after typhoon Ruby struck Eastern Samar, some residents in at least four barangays of the town of Dolores are still living in forlorn huts, with nipa shingles as their flooring that overlaid the...
Electricity restored in Tacloban, Leyte towns
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - December 13, 2014 - 12:00am
A week after typhoon Ruby struck Eastern Visayas, electric power has been restored at about 2 a.m. yesterday in Tacloban City and neighboring towns, under the service area of the Leyte Electric Cooperative 2.
1st year commemoration prayers, protests staged in Yolanda-hit Tacloban
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - November 9, 2014 - 12:00am
Close to an estimated 5,000 Yolanda survivors chanted, sang and even crying as they joined the commemorative walk at about 5 a.m. yesterday around this city to mark the 1st anniversary of Yolanda devastation, which...
No definite site yet for the Papal Mass
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - November 6, 2014 - 12:00am
Belying reports days ago that Pope Francis will celebrate his Papal Mass at the DZR Airport in this city, Father Amadeo Alvero said there is no definite site yet for it until now.
Heirs of Palo Library property ask PNoy: Stop Demolition
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - October 21, 2014 - 12:00am
The prominent heirs of Pio and Luisa Acebedo-Pedrosa family who owns the century-old Palo Library—a landmark of Palo town in Leyte—had sought for the intervention of President Benigno Aquino III in stopping...
Petilla invites Romualdez for Leyte Gulf Landing rites
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - October 19, 2014 - 12:00am
Despite the political segregation of Tacloban as a highly urbanized city from Leyte province, Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla assured Mayor Alfredo Romualdez of a formal invitation for the 70th Leyte Gulf Landing...
Tacloban court acquits journalist
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - October 18, 2014 - 12:00am
For lack of evidence, the Regional Trial Court-Branch 7 here has decided to dismiss the child trafficking charge against Miriam Garcia Desacada, a print and broadcast journalist covering Eastern Visayas.
HLURB team visits housing projects in Tacloban City
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - October 11, 2014 - 12:00am
Ten months after typhoon Yolanda devastated Eastern Visayas, a team of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board pledged for the completion of permanent shelters to the victims in Tacloban City.
Ahead of Pope Francis visit hotels, inns in Leyte all taken
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - September 25, 2014 - 12:00am
Scores of hotels, inns and pension houses, and hundreds of lodging houses in Palo town and this city are now fully booked by visitors, months ahead of the scheduled visit of Pope Francis I on January next year....
Permanent housing set for 498 displaced families in Tacloban
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - September 24, 2014 - 12:00am
Ten months after Yolanda devastated the houses in Tacloban City, hundreds of displaced families are now on the verge of realizing their wish to have a house and lot they can call their own.
After Glenda scare Tacloban evacuees back to their homes
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - July 17, 2014 - 12:00am
It was a sunny and warm day in Tacloban City yesterday, after typhoon Glenda's strong winds and heavy rains swept the city on Tuesday and brought fear among residents---in temporary shelters and in coastal areas---with...
At Tacloban City council hearing Brigham presents housing project documents
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - July 8, 2014 - 12:00am
Documents for the housing project in Barangay Bagacay by the Brigham Estate Homeowners Association Inc. were presented to the City Council in yesterday’s joint committee hearing on the legality of the pro...
Private groups put up housing project
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - July 6, 2014 - 12:00am
A total of 492 families, who survived the Yolanda devastation, will soon be owners of a house and lot in Barangay Bagacay of this city, under the community mortgage program as a result of the initiative set between...
Tacloban fiesta controversy Permit “limitation” spoils Pintados-Kasadyaan Fest
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - June 29, 2014 - 12:00am
The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals pushed through yesterday ahead of the Tacloban City fiesta on June 30, while its chairperson Mayor Matin Petilla of Palo, Leyte, complained that the city government did...
Gazmin visits Leyte, confers award on South Korea's ARAW troops
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - June 11, 2014 - 12:00am
National Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin yesterday visited the Republic of Korea's Joint Support Group, known as ARAW contingent, at its base camp in Brgy. Candahug of Palo, Leyte.
Tacloban invites Pope Francis
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - June 6, 2014 - 12:00am
The Tacloban City Council yesterday approved unanimously a resolution inviting Pope Francis  to visit the Yolanda-torn city by next year when the pope is planning to visit the Philippines.
Task Force Cebeco sends home crewmen
by Marlon Necito A. Taño - March 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Restoration works continue w/ only 160 men a considerable number of the 577-strong Task Force Kapatid CEBECO (Cebu Electric Cooperative) 1,2 and 3 linemen were sent home to Cebu, leaving only 160 personnel to continue...
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