More funds have been poured into the repair of damaged road sections of Pan-Philippine Highway in Eastern Visayas, including ...

Several local government units (LGUs) in Eastern Visayas have suspended classes on Thursday due to heavy rains dumped by Tropical Depression Crising. These LGUs include the towns of Naval, Almeria, ...

A total of 14 people died from landslides, two others of electrocution and two more of drowning in various parts of Leyte and Samar provinces when storm Seniang struck Eastern Visayas and caused ...

Thousands of people in Leyte and Samar who survived the devastation of super typhoon Yolanda four years ago will be joining the commemoration rites today (Nov. 8), in Tacloban City and nearby town ...

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines — Three Catholic bishops are calling for the creation of a Samar Island Region (SIR) in a bid to address widespread poverty and concerns about peace and order on ...

Leyte and Samar Islands include the provinces of Leyte, Southern Leyte, ... As a whole, the region is the second poorest in the Philippines with 45.2 percent poverty incidence.

Samar belongs to Eastern Visayas or Region 8, which has 6 provinces: Samar, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, and Southern Leyte. Tacloban City, the capital of Leyte, is the region ...

This is the San Juanico Bridge, which connects Samar and Leyte – two of the areas to be hardest hit by super typhoon Yolanda. PAGASA raised signal number four in the Eastern Visayas region ...

Rep. Marcelino Libanan of the 4Ps party-list said the approval of the NIR by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has encouraged officials from Samar Island to try to separate from Leyte, Southern Leyte ...

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the Eastern Visayas region has vowed to complete retrofitting work on ...

CATARMAN, Northern Samar – A group led by the three Catholic bishops of Samar Island is leading a campaign to declare the island a separate region from Eastern Visayas. This group, backed bylocal ...