A one hundred year old great-great grandfather celebrated his birthday last April 18 in brgy.Pasay, Maasin City. read more

City Zoo now open

The Maasin City Zoo was officially declared open last Thursday. A joint effort of the City Government and the Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry the zoo already has 3 Bengal tigers, 21 salt water crocodiles, a gray back gorilla, giant snakes, tarsiers, monkey eating eagles, ostriches and other wildlife...read more

Reyes re-elected to National Press post

In the recently concluded National Press General Meeting and Forum of the country's national and provincial newspapers at the Traders Hotel in Metro Manila, Southern Leyteño Ruevivar Markines Reyes of the Southern Leyte Times was re-elected by the delegates of the Visayas based newspapers as the Visayas region's sole representative to the Philippine Press Council and the Philippine Press Institute's Governing Board...read more

Extinct frog found

SOUTHERN LEYTE- Two species of frogs belonging to the Genus Platy-mantis were yesterday displayed at the National Museum in Manila. The frogs were discovered deep inside the rain forests of Hinunangan, Southern Leyte during a biodiversity survey conducted there last November 2011...read more

Two students electrocuted

BARANGAY SAN VICENTE, SAN JUAN, SOUTHERN LEYTE - Two students were killed here last Wednesday at around 7 a.m. while trying to install a post for their television antenna when the bamboo poll they were using touched a SOLECO live wire...read more

SOLECO to return excess charges to members

MAASIN CITY - Here's good news for electric consumers. The Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative (SOLECO) has petitioned the Energy Regulatory Commission to refund 10 million pesos to its 60,000
consumers in the province...read more

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