How Eastern Samar and most of Leyte look like today found a haunting musical equivalent in an Antonio Molina composition, “Oras Mangitngit” (Dark Hours), interpreted by a distinguished soprano from Leyte, Salvacion Oppus Yniguez.
Virgilio “Gil” Yuzon was more than halfway through the ride of his life—an epic, cross-country motorcycle journey from the northernmost tip of Luzon to the end of Mindanao—when the unexpected happened.
About 100 fashion designers, models will come together under the joint direction of Jackie Aquino and Robby Carmona to stage a fashion fundraiser for the devastated provinces of Leyte and Samar.
While many young women from privileged families would grace society magazines that depict their glamorous lifestyles and careers, Ma. Michelle...
We just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the historical landing in Leyte. Has it been that long? Unlike with more recent headline events, there are not too many people I can ask, “Where were you when it happened?”
It’s been three weeks since “Yolanda” swept away his parents, and Aaron is now talking like a reporter—narrating facts in an almost clinical manner, his description so detailed that it brings you to the scenes of devastation in Palo where his family is from, and in Tacloban where his parents died.
This story ends with a family reunion. But it revolves around a man who made the reunion possible—by hand-carrying 18 liters of diesel to destinations guided only by cell phone numbers, in the chaos and trauma following Supertyphoon “Yolanda’s” destruction of the Visayas.
I have this image of myself as a five-year-old, a white handkerchief tied around my tiny wrist, the other end tied to my mother’s.
On the day a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Cebu and Bohol, these islands landed in the Top 5 Islands in Asia list of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
Jerby Santo, a former radio DJ in Tacloban, Leyte, who was working in Cambodia when Super typhoon Yolanda struck Eastern Visayas on Nov. 8, 2013, is back in his hometown to help in rebuilding efforts.
