LEGAZPI CITY—Toppled electric poles, fallen tree branches and leaves, and debris littered key streets of the city after Supertyphoon “Uwan” surged past Albay on Sunday on its way to northeastern Luzon. Uwan (known internationally as Fung-wong) unleashed powerful winds and heavy rains that brought floods to neighborhoods, farms and commercial districts in many areas in...
Author: Raymond Aldo M. Mina
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Longganisa Festival In Albay is both a culinary celebration and economic boost
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Atin Ito starts campus caravan to provide correct info on the West Philippine Sea
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Genuine reform still nowhere 39 years after Edsa, says ex-detainee Judy Taguiwalo
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