60,000 individuals receive sacks of rice from ACTED
TACLOBAN CITY- The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) in coordination with the United Nations (UN) and World Food Program (WFP) continue its rice distribution in the province of Leyte.
In an interview, ACTED...
Director San Juan new DA-8 chief
TACLOBAN CITY- Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has appointed a new regional executive director for DA-Region 8,Bernadette San Juan, the first-ever lady director to assume as DA-8 Chief.
In a simple turnover ceremony which coincided with...
Football superstar Beckham visits Tacloban, Tanauan storm victims
TACLOBAN CITY- Football superstar David Beckham visited this city and the nearby town of Tanauan, this week and in the process providing comfort and cheer to the victims, particularly children, of supertyphoon Yolanda.
Beckham arrived...
Chinese group to construct houses for Yolanda survivors in Palo town
TACLOBAN CITY– A “Filipino-Chinese Friendship Village” will soon rise in Barayong, Palo, Leyte with the construction of 500 houses and five units or 10 classrooms under the Operation: School for the Barrio Project.
Palo Mayor...
DTI extends loans to Yolanda hit businessmen
TACLOBAN CITY – The Small Business Corporation (SBC) reported a total of P200 million loan applications from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Visayas regions displaced by super typhoon Yolanda.
SBC president and chief...
DAR help Samar farmers hit by Yolanda
CATBALOGAN CITY- It is over three months since super Tyhoon Yolanda wrought havoc in the Visayas regions that cost lives and leaving severe damages to the economic livelihood and properties in these regions, yet,...