Southern Leyte, particularly Maasin City, is currently celebrating as the “Maasinhon Trio” won the “Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3″ grandwinner title. They took home the grand prize of PhP 2 Million, last Sunday. The group is composed of Bonifacio Salubre, Andrew Sanchez and Licinio Lolo. They are all coming from Maasin City, Southern Leyte. Contestants [...]

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Agas-agas Bridge is in the mountainous terrain of Brgy. Kahupian, Sogod, Southern Leyte, in the Sogod-Mahaplag road section.

It is constructed by Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd at a cost of PhP1.024 Billion which is a loan by the Philippine government from the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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Macrohon is a 4th class municipality and one of the 18 municipalities of Southern Leyte in the Philippines.

The Municipality of Macrohon has a total land area of 12,639.47 hectares. It is bounded by the Municiaplity of Maasin in the north, Municipality of Burgos in the south and the Municipality of Malitbog in the East.

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Southern Leyte is a province in the southern part of Region VIII or Eastern Visayas that occupies about a fourth of the entire island of Leyte. It is bordered by the province of Leyte to the north, by Surigao Strait to the east, Bohol Sea to the south, and Canigao Channel, to the west. It has 18 municipalities and 1 city of which Maasin City is the capital of the province.

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This is how Southern Leyte looks during the 2011 new year celebration. Heavy rains started on the dawn of January 1 and it didn’t stopped up to the time of taking photos of those places. Update PIA reported five children confirmed dead due to flooding and landslide. Jordan Lakipon, 7 year old, of Barangay Bolodbolod [...]

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The Philippine Information Agency reported at its website the establishing of the two Gaisano malls here in Southern Leyte. A branch of the Metro Gaisano will be established in Maasin City and a branch of the Gaisano Capital in town of Sogod. According to the report, the building that is currently being built by the [...]

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The authorities here in Southern Leyte should be alarmed of the successful operations of the Akyat Bahay (housebreaker) group of thieves who are currently operating here in the Province of Southern Leyte. I heard from the talks of the residents in Malitbog, Southern Leyte that on these recent days, the Akyat Bahay thieves successfully broke [...]

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Foreign Tourists are very noticeable in the town of Padre Burgos in Southern Leyte not because of any interesting events that are happening at this town but because of the scuba diving resorts which are established in this area. If you will be traveling from Maasin City to the Eastern part of the province, you’ll [...]

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As of writing this post, residents of Southern Leyte are busy cleaning up the mess of the Tropical strorm “Lando” that hit the province yesterday, November 19, 2007 at 10am. The few hours stay of Lando left tons of trees uprooted, some areas are flooded and damaged the SOLECO lines. It even of course interrupted [...]

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