• Libagon, Southern Leyte suspended classes Thursday after a magnitude 4.4 earthquake to inspect school buildings for damage, ensuring safety before classes resume Friday.
• The Leyte board urges the ERC, DOE, and IEMOP to reform pricing and refund consumers amid rising grid congestion charges that are inflating power bills.
• Congressmen Nonoy Libanan and Sheen Gonzales spearheaded ESSU Guiuan’s Maritime Building turnover, turning a shared vision into reality, providing local maritime education and proving that purposeful leadership builds futures.
• For Calbayog tour guide Jimmy Baleros, Tarangban Falls is a livelihood. He worries about how wind turbine projects and forest changes could affect those who depend on it.
• DOH starts full operations of an upgraded regional blood center in Eastern Visayas, targeting 47,000 blood units annually, or one percent of the region’s 4.7 million population.
• PSC considers Ormoc City as possible host for the 2027 Batang Pinoy national youth championships, its chairman said at the Eastern Visayas Sports Summit.
• Five Eastern Visayas local governments on August 11 signed an agreement with the DOE to join a solar and energy-efficiency program to cut power costs in government offices.
• DOH aims to vaccinate 445,961 children aged 6–59 months in Eastern Visayas against measles-rubella from Aug. 10 to 28, including those previously vaccinated.
• Police arrested a high-value drug suspect, ranked No. 8 on the regional target list, in a buy-bust in Zumarraga, Samar, on August 10.
• Samar board member Beethoven Bermejo Sr. criticizes power distributors for failing to explain high electricity bills, saying they alone have the database to justify costs.
Libagon Suspends Classes as Engineers Check Schools After Quake 
‘Stop making us pay for grid congestion’ – Leyte board to ERC 
DOH Targets 47,000 Blood Units in Eastern Visayas 
PSC Eyes Ormoc for 2027 Batang Pinoy 
DOE, 5 Eastern Visayas LGUs Team Up to Lower Power Bills 
DOH Targets 445,961 Kids in Eastern Visayas Measles-Rubella Drive 
Rank 8 Drug Target Nabbed in Zumarraga Buy-Bust 
Unmasking the Black Box