The World Bank has canceled part of the loans for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) while as project scope was pared down with only five months left before its financing closes. A May 8 restructuring paper seen by Manila Bulletin showed that the Washington-based multilateral lender, effective Jan....
CEBU CITY – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão toured this city a day after the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Leaders’ Summit concluded. Gusmão was welcomed by Mayor Nestor Archival, Vice Mayor Tomas Osmena, and other officials when he visited the Cebu City Hall on...
CEBU CITY – Seven alleged pickpockets preying on unsuspecting partygoers were arrested inside a pension house in Barangay Kalubihan here. The suspects – a woman and six Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) members – were cornered several hours after a customer of a night...
Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) called for stronger regional cooperation and faster implementation of sustainability initiatives amid ongoing energy and economic pressures across Southeast Asia. The call was made during the ASEAN-EU...
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — President Marcos on Friday, May 8, formally opened the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit here, calling on Southeast Asian leaders to respond with unity and resolve to the escalating crisis in the Middle East and its growing impact on the region....
LAPU-LAPU CITY – With heads of state arriving one after another, the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Summit went full swing here on Thursday, May 7. As of 5 p.m. on Thursday, 10 of the 11 heads of member states have flown in for a series of high-level meetings. Amid...
CEBU CITY – More than P1-million worth of suspected shabu was seized from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Babag here on Tuesday night, May 5. Joel Plaza, regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7), identified the suspect as Darwin, 29....
ILOILO CITY – Real estate services company Colliers International said Iloilo has outpaced Cebu in office leasing in the first quarter of this year. “Outpacing Cebu meant that outside of Metro Manila, Iloilo recorded the highest number of office transactions for the first quarter of 2026,”...
CEBU CITY – People of a barangay in Minglanilla, Cebu scored an important victory in their fight against a company they blamed for ground cracks in their area. The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 76 in Naga City, Cebu has issued an ex-parte Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO)...
CEBU CITY – Strict austerity measures will be enforced when the Philippines hosts the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and related meetings from May 6 to 8 in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu. Maria Hellen de La Vega, director-general of the ASEAN National Organizing Council (NOC), said the...
CEBU CITY – Normal working schedules are back at the Cebu Provincial Capitol after Gov. Pamela Baricuatro issued an executive order (EO) lifting the four-day work week starting Monday, May 4. Baricuatro issued an EO last March imposing a compressed working schedule as part of the austerity...
CEBU CITY – A province-wide gun ban will be enforced as part of the strict security measures that will be enforced for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Summit on May 7 and 8 in Lapu-Lapu City. The total gun ban will be in effect in the cities of...
