TECHNICIANS wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) suits stand behind a biohazard sign inside a molecular laboratory facility set up to test for the monkeypox disease during its inauguration at the King Institute in Chennai, India Thursday, July 28. (AFP) SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union (PNA) –...
DAGUPAN CITY -- One person was reported dead and 39 were injured in Ilocos region after the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon on Wednesday morning, July 27, according to authorities. Photo from PNP The Ilocos Sur Police Provincial Office said the lone casualty was from Sitio Baudan,...
Over 2,000 personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), including medical doctors, were dispatched to the earthquake-hit Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to provide the necessary assistance to the region’s distressed areas. BFP chief Director Louie Puracan said at least 25 fire trucks...
TUPAD workers clean the street in front of the Vigan Cathedral in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur Thursday, July 28. (DOLE photo) SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Workers under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Worker (TUPAD) program were deployed for earthquake clearing and cleanup...
PEOPLE in Abra spend the night in makeshift shelters out of fear from aftershocks following the earthquake Wednesday, July 27. (Photo courtesy of PIA-Abra) BAGUIO CITY – A total of 7,691 families or 36,972 individuals were affected by the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27, in six...
ONE of the old houses damaged by the earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. (Vigan City Cultural Affairs and Tourism Office) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City and Cebu City will send aid to the quake-hit Ilocos region. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said they will check their calamity fund and will conduct...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) celebrated Wednesday, July 27, the eighth birth anniversary of the six 100-millionth symbolic babies in the region in terms of population count. PopCom-8 Director Elnora Pulma said this year's...
AERIAL photograph shows the flood that hit Capiz due to rains from tropical depression ‘Agaton’ last April. (Capiz Kabalaka Information Center) ILOILO CITY – An official of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has said that massive flood control projects are needed in three major river systems...
THE body of construction worker Aron Cul-iteng is loaded into an ambulance after his remains were recovered in a building that collapsed in La Trinidad, Benguet. BAGUIO CITY – Three persons died in the Cordillera Administrative Region from the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27. Eight...
LOCAL government employees in Santo Tomas, Pangasinan take cover as a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hits the Ilocos region Wednesday, July 27. LGU employees have been trained what to do in case of an earthquake. (LGU photo via Liezle Inigo) DAGUPAN CITY – People here and the province of Pangasinan...
At least one person was injured while a number of major roads at the Cordillera Administrative Region were unpassable as a result of the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit most of areas in Luzon on Wednesday morning, July 27. Police Capt. Marnie Abellanida, spokesperson of the Police Regional...
Five local government units (LGUs) in Pangasinan provided funding to the programs of the Innovation, Science and Technology for Accelerating Regional Technology-Based Development (iSTART) under Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region I. (Photo from DOST Region I) The iSTART program aims...
