TACLOBAN CITY – Inspired by the approval of the Negros Island Region (NIR), a party-list representative from Eastern Samar has decided to refile a bill creating the Samar Island Region (SIR).

Because of these reasons, Samar has a bigger budget this year—P1.6 billion of the P2.6-billion budget. The big irrigation projects on the island include those in Calbiga, Basey and Sta.

HAILING from Borongan City, Kathreen Kaye Dacanay is set to represent Samar Island in the highly anticipated Miss Universe Philippines national pageant. Dacanay told The Manila Times in an ...

LEYTE, Philippines – It is the turn of Leyte and Tacloban, Ground Zero of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), to help neighboring Samar island after it was hit by Typhoon Ruby on Saturday night ...

A CONGRESSMAN last week filed a bill that seeks to combine the provinces of Samar Island in central Philippines into one region as part of efforts to improve National Government administration. House ...

For a time, Tinago Ruins in Samar was one of the most visited panaaran or pilgrimage sites in the country, drawing pilgrims from all provinces. Jhonil Sy-Bajado, a historian from Samar State Unive ...

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 ...

Only four and three years after Supertyphoon Yolanda and Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) devastated it, Samar island has embarked on cultural regeneration to fire up its Waray heritage consciousness.

A MAGNITUDE 4.6 tremor shook the island of Samar yesterday, March 5, at 9:05 a.m., with epicenter around the town of Llorente in Eastern Samar province. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

Its location on Samar Island’s southeastern tip, in many ways, had been Guiuan’s greatest blessing. When Super Typhoon Haiyan came ashore early Friday – bringing sustained winds of 315 kph ...

MANILA, Philippines — State weather bureau PAGASA hoisted Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 over parts of Samar island due to Tropical Depression Paeng. Paeng was last seen 660 kilometers east ...