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 – ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines – On February 2006, a remote village in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte hugged the global headlines when it was buried under mud and rubbles in a landslide killing thousands ...

GUINSAUGON, Philippines -- 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

GUINSAUGON, Philippines – High-tech gear detected "signs of life" Monday at the site of an elementary school buried under mud that swept down a hillside soaked by rain in the eastern Philippines, the ...

GUINSAUGON, Philippines — With estimates of up to 1,000 dead, the chances of finding any more survivors at the site of the landslide in Guinsaugon, Philippines, are fading fast, but the muddy rescue ...