#eastern visayas

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BALITANG REHIYONAL: A middle-aged man in the Samar Region was stabbed to death by an Adolescent Teenager

(Prepared by Carlo Sales Sarino / Radio Reporter of DYTY-FM 93.5mhz's BNFM: Tacloban)

SANTA RITA, SAMAR -- One middle-aged victim dies after stabbing an adolescent boy in Brgy. Binanalan, Sta. Rita, Samar. The victim was identified as Rohelio Ancheta, whose a local farmer, resident of the said barangay at the age of 50 y/o and single without children. While the suspect also identified as Jason Kahefe, a 19 y/o resident of the said same place.

(PHOTO REPRESENTATION via Sta. Rita Municipal PNP / FB Photo)

In the exclusive radio interview of Brigada News FM: Tacloban with PMaj. Rex Baysa Pabunan, chief and police of Sta. Rita Municipal Police Station (SRMPS) around 9pm last Thursday (June 22nd, 2023 -- Samar local time), the suspect of Kahefe was about to sleep, along with his sister and nephews in their house when he heard someone crying from his sister's bed.

Suddenly, there was a person sitting on top of his sister. He quickly went through it and that's when he saw a victim lying on top of his brother. He also pushed immediately with a vulgaritive commotion when the suspect Kahefe punched him in the stomach and it ended up in the kitchen where he used a traditional Bolo Knife or Itak, where he was used to hit Ancheta's chest which caused the instance of death was located. The suspect immediately surrendered to the SRMPS after what he did to him that night.

Kahefe is facing charges of homicide under Article #249a or The Revised Penal Code as sentenced for a Reclusion Temporal, and the authorities of Samar are continuing to investigate the said incident.

SCREENGRAB COURTESY: Google Maps BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XI2WCfW-II [Referenced News Item via Brigada News Philippines]

-- OneNETnews Team

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Borongan City to become the first Smart City in Eastern Visayas

Borongan City in Eastern Samar took a major step towards becoming a smart city after the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in collaboration with Isabela State University (ISU) – Cauayan Campus and LGU-Cauayan City, conducted a Smart City Assessment and Roadmap Formulation from May 10-12, 2023. The three-day event aimed to harness smart and sustainable technologies and practices in the…

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Miss Universe Philippines 2023 at the San Juanico Bridge

Here are some photos during the Miss Universe Philippines 2023 candidates’ cruise to San Juanico Bridge for the light and sound show. The 38 candidates arrived in Tacloban City yesterday for the 5-day tour in Leyte and Samar with the main event on May 4 for the national costume competition at the HRDC Hall, Leyte Normal University. Photo credit: PIA…

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San Juan by the Bay, Samar

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Gold ring, Eastern Visayas, The Philippines, 10th-13th century

from The Ayala Museum, Manila

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Gold stud, Eastern Visayas (The Philipinnes), 10th-13th century

from The Ayala Museum, The Philippines

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To pursue poetry, I left Cebu a number of times, set out to literary spaces, moved to Manila, moved to New York; after each time, I would return to Cebu, the province where I was born and where I grew up in, which also happens to be the Philippines’ cultural and economic center in the Visayas region. Living in one of the many islands in an archipelagic country with more than a hundred languages, there is always a distinct sense of leaving a center and of reaching another every time I travel, such that the country’s capital Manila is not only a geographically different space but also a linguistically and socially different world as New York, too, being in a country an entire hemisphere and ocean away, is another world. In these worlds that are not the world I first learned to inhabit, I was as an outsider constructed in ways such as being assumed to be a cisgender woman who is heterosexual and fluent in Cebuano, and also one who would write, perhaps with nostalgia for belongingness, about my hometown and the ethos of my Visayan peoples. [...]

For although I recognized I may be from another “world” I found that, nevertheless, I felt a sense of affinity almost akin to belongingness in these spaces and places that were different and away – perhaps, precisely because they were different and away – from the actual place of my origin conventionally perceived as my home. This is not to mean the inverse that I am not at home in Cebu is also true; rather, that my cognition of being at home in a world and my sensibility of affinities have grown expansive by the lived pluralities of my identities.

By “world” I mean something modified from how María Lugones thought of it as one that is inhabited by actual people whether it be a few, as in a fraction of a society, a particular society in itself or even larger to include several peoples within the realm of animating principles. A world, to my sense, also includes an affective dimension in relation to a kind of durational and geographical-spatial zone that “homes” such world and the individuals inhabiting this world. In this way, a world may be thought as a relational, rhizomatic center of affect. It can be created temporally such as when individuals are brought together by circumstances; when diverse writers come together in workshops, residencies, fellowships, or festivals that, although may seem momentary, could be enduring in its subsequent forms as their meeting of persons may take place not only within the experienced physicality of the moment but also, among others, at the intersections of a language, at the contiguous borders of coloniality, in an interlude of what may later be understood as a lifelong advocacy, in the liminal spaces where nuanced interconnections are made as writers draw from where they have been, where they are at, together at the moment, and where they intend to move towards dreamed futures.

It is in these encounters that I found my selves in worlds with Merlie Alunan, with writers from eastern Visayas who write in their own local languages similar but different from Cebuano, with literary communities in Cebu such as Women in Literary Arts and Bathalad, as well as writers from other regions across the country through which I “became” a writer from the South. South, where Cebu is cartographically located in relation to the capital, Manila, less a geographical marker of where I am from as it is, to my sense, an identity, a position by affiliation or affinity, a kind of belonging, and complicated alliance to bring the idea of “nation” outside its conception within the confines of the country’s capital. That this world, mostly populated by writers from or writing in the Southern regions of the Philippines, may also nuancedly expand to include the entire country and even the Global South, gesturing at the irreducible variation of worlds that allows a world to be a kind of center in itself, created and grown within the labile self who provisionally inhabits this world through nodes of self-identifications and self-determinations.

A world, then, is never stagnant; it is mutable. It is also interconnected in myriad of ways to many worlds that a self has previously traveled and inhabited, corporeally or otherwise. It may be first cognized through mediated introductions: overheard from someone; read from a book; seen on-screen; reimagined constantly into becoming real enough to be inhabited by a self.

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All text above by: shane carreon. “Archipelagic Interiority: Notes and Reflections on Poetic Voice and Trans Writing in the Philippines.” Kohl. Volume 9 Number 1. Special Issue: Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries. Winter 2023. [Some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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Binibining Philippines 2022 National Costume Contest-Tacloban City 

Embellished with authentic materials produced in Eastern Visayas, her costume is a representation of Tacloban City. Symbolizing Taclobanons journey towards sustainable socio-economic development as represented by the lighted San Juanico Bridge, The Bridge of Love.

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AUSTRONESIAN RESOURCES

The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.

The Austronesian people are an ethnolinguistic group that speak an Austronesian language. These include the people of Maritime Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Polynesia.

BALI ─ “The Balinese people are an Austronesian people. They are native to Bali.” ─ Balinese Language ─ Balinese Traditional Architecture

BICOLANO ─ “The Bicolano people are an Austronesian people. They are native to Bicolandia in the Philippines.” ─ Bicolano Culture ─ Bikol Language ─ Bikol Dictionary

HILIGAYNON ─ “The Hiligaynon, or Ilonggo, people are an Austronesian people. They are native to the Western Visayas in the Philippines.” ─ Hiligaynon Culture ─ Hiligaynon Language ─ Hiligaynon Dictionary

JAVA ─ “The Javanese, or Javan, people are an Austronesian people. They are native to Java island in Indonesia.” ─ Javanese Information ─ Javanese History

MALAGASY ─ “The Malagasy people are an Austronesian people. They are native to Madagascar.” ─ Malagasy Culture & History ─ Malagasy Language ─ Malagasy Dialects

MALAY ─ “The Malay people are an Austronesian people. They are native to the Malay Peninsula, eastern Sumatra, and coastal Borneo.” ─ Malaysian Information ─ Malay Dictionary

MARANAO ─ “The Maranao, or Meranao, people are an Austronesian people. They are native to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.” ─ Maranao Language ─ Maranao Grammar ─ Maranao Dictionary

MELANESIA ─ “The Melanesians are an Austronesian people that share the Melanesian culture. They are native to Melanesia.” ─ Melanesian Oral Tradition ─ European Cartography of Melanesia ─ Anglican Texts of Melanesia

NAGE ─ “The Nage people are an Austronesian people. They are native to the eastern Indonesian islands of Flores and Timor.” ─ Nage Language

PHILIPPINE ─ “The Filipino people are an Austronesian people that share the Filipino culture. They are native to the Philippines.” ─ Filipino Culture ─ Filipino History ─ Filipino Folktales

SIRAYA ─ “The Siraya people are an Austronesian people. They are native to southwest Taiwan.” ─ Indigenous Taiwanese Languages

THE SOLOMON ISLANDS ─ “The Solomon Islands are a group of Oceanian islands.” ─ The Solomon Islands Information ─ The Solomon Islands Religion ─ The Solomon Islands Language

SUNDA ─ “The Sundanese, or Sunda, people are an Austronesian people. They are native to western Java.” ─ Sundanese Literature

TINGUIAN ─ “The Tinguian, or Itneg, people are an Austronesian people. They are native to northwestern Luzon in the Philippines.” ─ Tinguian Culture ─ Tinguian Religion

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The Heights and Depths of Our Three-Day Mt. Pangasugan Climb

Mt. Pangasugan was a dream waiting to happen. Deemed “The Last Frontier in Eastern Visayas”, this notorious mountain range has been hibernating on the waiting list—yearning for the day that it’d become a reality. It all began almost a decade ago when I first stepped into Baybay City, Leyte, the hometown of our OG travel buddy, Badeth. Back then, we were just crazy weekend travelers who were…

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THIS JUST IN: ABS-CBN Corporation and Zoe Broadcasting Network Inc. terminates its Licensing Agreement on Both Networks for DTT while PRTV Tacloban is soon to be an Independent Station of PCMC

QUEZON, MANILA -- Two corporate networks have now recently ends a licensing agreement of Zoe Broadcasting Network Inc. (ZBNi) in connection for ABS-CBN Corporation last Tuesday (November 1st, 2022). DZMM-TV 26's ABS-CBN TeleRadyo & DZOE-TV's A2Z: Channel 11 in Metro Manila to be axed out for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and was decided not to be renewed as effective immediately.

In an exclusive report from our news team of OneNETnews, the Free TV on DTT will no longer planned to air on both channels. Cable and Satellite providers like SkyCable and Cignal for example will not be affected from a transmitter source in Quezon City, Manila and in Antipolo City, Rizal. This was after many televised viewers asked why both networks have unexpectedly disappeared from their digital TV boxes like ABS-CBN TVplus and GMA Affordabox. Shortly after the dead air on both networks per DTT, it will automatically replace a religious and news station of DZOZ-TV's Light TV Network Ch. 33, a parent sister station of ZBNi.

As of this writing, TeleRadyo can still be watched on Cable and online digital platforms via ABS-CBN News and DZMM TeleRadyo's Facebook page, along with TeleRadyo's YouTube Channel to look back what you've missed upon continuing to deliver the latest news and information for the Kababayans and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) abroad. You can also download via the mobile app of ABS-CBN Radio Service and AlTo to listen LIVE wherever you go.

Meanwhile in Eastern Visayas, Philippine Collective Media Corporation (PCMC) had now exclusively announced that the same day at the end of October 2022, ZBNi and DYPR-TV's PRTV Tacloban are in parting ways to end also its blocktime licensing agreement of A2Z in Tacloban City as according to their social media accounts. A2Z is the only parent company with a partnership of PCMC and was owned by House Speaker named Ferdinand Martin Gomez Romualdez, who was a political party at present with Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (L-CMD).

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) had now already applied to air its regional channels, including A2Z in Eastern Visayas through DTT Ch. 20. It is roughly undetermined if PRTV Tacloban will soon to be an Independent TV station of PCMC, instead of ZBNi alone. A locally flagship radio station known as Favorite Music Radio (FMR) 100.7mhz DYDR-FM: Tacloban will be replaced and combined as a TeleRadyo style video format thru Facebook LIVE.

Both of its corporate networks to be accepting a final decision despite for the expiration of Free TV per blocktimer of ZBNi is at risk without advertisers and cost-cutting measures.

SHORT FYI: ABS-CBN Corporation and ZBNi is an affiliated broadcast firm on this Internet TV station of OneNETtv Channel and OneNETnews in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

SPECIAL THANKS to Lyza Aquino of DZMM-TV 26's TeleRadyo: Manila via ABS-CBN News for sending us an exclusive news tip.

STOCK PHOTO COURTESY: Abante

SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/100063884991453/posts/547238437415651 [Referenced FB News Article #1 of Hola! News] https://www.facebook.com/100057928455908/posts/552354543372156 [Referenced FB News Article #2 of JeffOligarTV] https://www.facebook.com/100066860646132/posts/462585165980168 [Referenced FB News Article #3 of TelePinoy News Blitz] https://www.facebook.com/groups/606546093348272/posts/1055627538440123 [Referenced FB News Article #4f from Rob Caluag] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS86JGsznH8 and https://www.lionheartv.net/2022/11/abs-cbn-zoe-broadcasting-network-terminate-licensing-agreement-on-digital-tv-for-teleradyo-content/ [Referenced News Article from Lion Heart TV]

-- OneNETnews Team

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Tiamzons, Catbalogan 10 were held captive, tortured and cowardly killed by the AFP in US-directed operations

Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party of the Philippines

April 20, 2023

The entire leadership and membership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for the brutal torture and cowardly killing of Party leaders Benito Tiamzon (Ka Laan) and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon (Ka Bagong-tao), together with eight other revolutionaries after they were captured in Samar province on August 21, 2022.

At the time of their murder, Ka Benito, 71, was the Chairman of the CPP Executive Committee, while Ka Wilma, 70, was the CPP’s Secretary General. They were travelling with Ka Divino (Joel Arceo), a subregional secretary in Eastern Visayas, along with Ka Yen, Ka Jaja, Ka Matt, Ka Ash, Ka Delfin, Ka Lupe, Ka Butig (Catbalogan 10), who all belonged to the guerrilla force of the central headquarters.

In a report, the Political Bureau said the Tiamzons were travelling on two separate vans along the national highway eastwards towards Catbalogan City. They were flagged down between 12:00 noon and 1:00 in the afternoon, after which all communications with the group were lost. They were unarmed.

It explained that it took several weeks to establish the veracity of the reports which the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) released around that time. It also had to conduct months of investigation to piece together the details of the capture and subsequent massacre of the Tiamzons.

According to the information gathered by the Central Committee, the Tiamzons suffered severe beating in the hands of their captors. Internal reports cited witnesses who saw how the faces and bodies of the victims were smashed, apparently beaten with hard objects.

The CPP PolitBureau disputed the report of the AFP suggesting that the Tiamzons were killed after their supposed boat exploded while engaging in a firefight with forces of the Joint Task Force Storm, the 8th Infantry Division and the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trident—a unit trained and commanded by the US military—during the early morning hours of August 22, 2022 off the coast of Catbalogan.

The claimed mid-sea firefight and explosion were all a drama hatched by the AFP and its US military advisers, to hide all evidence of the ignominy of their fascist crime. In truth, the already lifeless bodies of the Tiamzons and their group were dumped on a motorboat filled with explosives, and tugged from Catbalogan midway towards Taranganan island before it was detonated. Only eight bodies were subsequently retrieved by the military.

The murder of the Tiamzons follow the pattern of the wilful killings perpetrated by the AFP against captured revolutionaries. The same cruel and cowardly methods were used in the killing of Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Menardo Villanueva (Ka Bok), Antonio Cabantan (Ka Manlimbasog), Julius Giron (Ka Nars) and a number of others.

The Party demands justice for the August 21 massacre of the Tiamzons et al. Their capture, torture and killing were directed by the top officers of the AFP. The CPP holds the following directly responsible for the dastardly crime:

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, commander-in-chief of the AFP, Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bacarro, then chief-of-staff of the AFP, Lt. Gen. Edgardo de Leon, then head of the JTF-Storm and the 8th Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen. Marceliano Teofilo, head of the Intelligence Service ng AFP, as well as the US military advisers behind the Task Force Trident.

The CPP demands justice for the Tiamzons and the Catbalogan 10, and calls for their indictment in all relevant courts.

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DELICACIES IN LEYTE

"The foods that you must try!"

Leyte is the largest of the six provinces of Eastern Visayas. It lies adjacent to the island of Samar, connected by the San Juanico Strait, and east of the islands of Cebu and Bohol.

The province of Leyte has it's own delicacies and Leyte is famous for its delicious delicacies like the Moron, Binagul, Roscas, Suman Latik, and Bukayo. When you hear the word Leyte, the first thing that would come to your mind is Binagol and Chocolate moron. These delicacies give the province its identity.

Don't miss the opportunity to try those foods because "Once you try it, you will love it".

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Mga opisyal sa Eastern Visayas police, nagsumite ng courtesy resignation...

[ricisidro]

Stay safe everyone in the affected areas ⛈️ #AghonPH

18 areas now under Signal No. 1

Luzon:

Sorsogon

Albay

Catanduanes

Camarines Sur

Camarines Norte (San Vicente, San Lorenzo Ruiz, Basud, Daet, Talisay, Mercedes)

Masbate including Ticao and Burias Islands

Visayas:

Eastern Samar

Samar

Northern Samar

Leyte

Southern Leyte

Biliran

Cebu (San Remigio, Tabogon, City of Bogo, Medellin, Daanbantayan, Borbon) including Camotes Islands, Bantayan Islands

Bohol (Pres. Carlos P. Garcia, Bien Unido, Trinidad, Anda, Candijay, Ubay, Mabini, Alicia, San Miguel, Talibon)

Mindanao:

Dinagat Islands

Surigao del Norte including Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands,

Surigao del Sur

Agusan del Sur (Sibagat, City of Bayugan, Prosperidad, San Francisco, Rosario, Bunawan, Trento),

Agusan del Norte