A national land use code can help prevent tragedies such as the one that visited the village of Guinsaugon in 2006 (Editor’s Note: This story is first published by Newsbreak.) MANILA, Philippines – ...

Under a light rain, intense emotions flowed in yesterday's commemoration of the February 2006 landslide in barangay Guinsaugon, St. Bernard Town, Southern Leyte, as some survivors apparently still ...

9 years after the tragic landslide, the orphans of Guinsaugon already lead different lives. Some have success stories but there are also those who never got to move on from the tragedy. SAINT BERNARD, ...

Exactly a year ago today, massive boulders of rocks and soil covered an entire barangay in St. Bernard town in Southern Leyte, killing at least 100 people and leaving hundreds of families homeless.

GUINSAUGON, Philippines – The village of Guinsaugon disappeared on Friday. And so did nearly every man, woman and child who lived in this eastern Philippines farming community of 1,857 people. Only a ...

2006-02-20 04:00:00 PDT Guinsaugon, Philippines-- On Sunday afternoon, after nearly three days of digging in the shifting sea of mud from avalanches that buried this farming village of 1,800 people on ...

They come from all over. Survivors from evacuation centers, neighbors from other villages, family from distant cities. About 100 cars drive in a sad, slow procession to Guinsaugon to pay respects to ...

The village of Guinsaugon disappeared on Friday. And so did nearly every man, woman and child who lived in this eastern Philippines farming community of 1,857 people. Only a few jumbles of corrugated ...

The soldiers shouted and pounded stones on boulders, hoping that anyone still alive in the mud-covered elementary school would hear and signal back. But on a day filled with disappointment, misery and ...

A landslide on February 17, 2006 almost wiped out this community south of Manila, killing more than a thousand people. Among the survivors 21 young students who, thanks to the intervention of a local ...

The suggestion was mooted by the president of the Filipino Red Cross: it's too difficult and dangerous to recover bodies. More US troops have arrived in Leyte and President Arroyo has called for a map ...

MAASIN CITY—Barangay (village) Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte. Population: Zero. Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA): Zero. After half of a mountain collapsed and buried the entire village in ...