President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. made a significant announcement that could reshape the future of tourism in Eastern Visayas: Maasin City, along with the municipalities of Macrohon and Padre Burgos in Southern Leyte, has been officially declared as tourism zones.

Maasin City and Two Southern Leyte Towns Declared Tourism Zones

TACLOBAN CITY – After years of lobbying for its enactment, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law a bill declaring the waters around Panaon Island in Southern Leyte a Protected Seascape on Friday,  August 29, 2025.

Marcos signs Panaon Protection Law

TACLOBAN CITY – Almost seven in every ten mobile phone and internet users in Eastern Visayas, or at least 2.58 million ICT users, have fallen victim in various forms of cyber incidents, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Tuesday.

2.5-M residents in EV suffer cyber scams

It’s not just flood-control projects: every building, every structure constructed by the government, whether national or local, should be put under intense scrutiny.

Who’s at fault over unsafe Laguna University?

Isang lalaking namaril umano ng dalawang tao sa Santa Rosa, Laguna ang napatay matapos makipagbarilan sa mga rumespondeng pulis ngayong Linggo, August 31.

Suspek sa pamamaril, nanlaban sa pulis, patay

At the recently concluded press conference for the launch of the 2025 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival held at the Shangri-La Plaza East Atrium in Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City, Carlos Siguion-Reyna announced the ten finalists in the Full-Length Film Category and the Short Films Category, respectively.

Filmmakers from Bicol, Mimaropa and the Visayas at Cinemalaya 2025

Whenever I see and look at multimedia artist Laurice Guillen I always associate her with a chameleon.

Visayan artist Laurice Guillen wears many hats

Denies actor-congressman received kickbacks from controversial Discaya couple

The other half of AlDub, Yaya Dub, played on "kalye serye" TV by Maine Mendoza, has spoken about the implication of, no, not her reel love interest Alden Richards, but, real life love team Arjo Atayde.

Maine Mendoza comes to hubby Arjo’s defense

Isang bagay na maaaring hindi alam ng mga nagbebenta ng produkto online ay ang tungkulin nilang sumunod sa mga patakaran ng Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) sa pag-iisyu ng mga resibo.

BIR: Mga online seller, kailangang mag-isyu ng resibo

Regino Flores, also known as Reggie Flores of “Magandang Gabi, Bayan,” “Rated K,” “Balitang K,” among others and I, an original field reporter, writer, VO, co-producer for the “Star News” segment of “TV Patrol” have always been running the same wavelengths.

A reunion of 2 ex-ABS-CBN writers makes history

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