Delia Monleon, mayor of Jipapad, a town of 7,000 people in Eastern Samar province, said floodwaters were preventing people from getting to their homes there. "Our problem is power.

In Eastern Samar, the narrative of March 16, 1521 isn’t about the “discovery” of the archipelago by foreigners, but about the compassion of our ancestors. While textbooks credit Ferdinand Magellan as ...

GUIUAN, Eastern Samar (PIA) — Residents of Homonhon and Suluan islands in Eastern Samar who need emergency medical care will be ferried by a custom-built sea ambulance, which was recently acquired by ...

Despite enduring natural disasters, the people of Eastern Samar have shown remarkable resilience and found ways to rebuild and develop their communities after such tragedies. Considered one of the ...

TACLOBAN CITY — The three governors of Samar Island are pushing for the construction of roads and bridges to end poverty and insurgency in their areas. Governors Edwin Ongchuan of Northern ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taking a cue from the creation of the Negros Island Region (NIR), a measure has been filed in the House of Representatives seeking to establish the Samar Island Region, to ...

The same PSA data showed that poverty incidence among families in Samar province was at 24.9%; Eastern Samar at 24.7%, and Northern Samar at 21.8% — much higher than that of Leyte (excluding ...

The ever-worsening conditions due to mining operations on Homonhon Island and Manicani Island in Eastern Samar are a case in point,” he said in his pastoral letter entitled “Make a Firm Stand ...

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — Concerned by ongoing mining activities in Eastern Samar, Bishop Crispin Varquez of the Diocese of Borongan urged the faithful to vote for candidates who ...