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Cherry Ann Lim
Cherry Ann Lim
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Cebu
Covid-19 lockdown creates 'perfect storm' for sexual abuse of children online (2nd of 2 parts)
July 27, 2020
MOTHER MOST FOUL. Authorities arrest a mother in her house in Barangay Sangat, San Fernando, Cebu following an entrapment by operatives of the Women and Children Protection Center-Visayas Field Unit on May 16, 2018. The mother allegedly sent sexually explicit photos of minors and offered to livestream the sexual abuse of her 15-year-old daughter and other minors to online predators in exchange for money. (International Justice Mission)
Cebu
Filipino children most appealing to global online sex predators (1st of 2 parts)
July 25, 2020
TOPPING THE LIST. Houses stand shoulder to shoulder near murky water in Sitio Alaska, Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City. Of the 38 villages in the city with Covid-19 cases, Mambaling ranked first with 619 cases as of May 22, 2020, its situation not helped by asymptomatic residents positive for the coronavirus disease refusing to go to the barangay isolation center. (SunStar Photo / Allan Cuizon)
Cebu
Anxiety as decision day nears again on Cebu City’s reopening
May 23, 2020
TIMING LOCKDOWN’S END. Rapid mass testing is conducted in Barangay Apas, Cebu City on May 8, 2020. Mass testing is being conducted in Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu Cities to help gauge the scale of Covid-19 infection in these areas and guide local chief executives on setting a timeline for the lifting of the lockdowns in Cebu. (SunStar Photo / Amper Campaña)
Cebu
The first patient
May 10, 2020
PLAYGROUND FOR A VIRUS. Houses abut each other in Barangay Luz, Cebu City. Hardest-hit Sitio Zapatera (foreground), with little breathing room between houses, is a virus’s dream. With the new coronavirus now popping up outside the sitio, the rest of the barangay, visible in the background, can only wait with bated breath for what might come. (SunStar photo / Allan Cuizon)
Cebu
In the eye of the Covid-19 storm
April 25, 2020
SIMULATION. The Cebu City Government conducts a simulation exercise on Feb. 4, 2020 to check the city’s readiness to deal with any patient who should test positive for the coronavirus disease. (Cebu City PIO photo)
Cebu
Outbreak City
April 18, 2020
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Cebu
From Prince to Prime minister: The ‘politics’ of Covid-19 infection
April 12, 2020
DESERTED, BUT NOT BY HOPE. The Duomo square in Milan, Italy, is practically deserted, except for pigeons, on March 15, 2020, with most people staying home on government’s orders, as the country grapples to slow down the spread of the new coronavirus that has claimed thousands of lives. (AP photo)
Cebu
100 days on a rampage
April 12, 2020
LONELY STREETS. Motorists dreamed of a day like this, when they would no longer be stuck in traffic on Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue and Salinas Drive in Cebu City. But on March 26, 2020, the breezy ride through the streets brought no comfort. Ten days earlier, the city had been placed under General Community Quarantine and residents advised to leave their homes only for work, to buy food, medicines and necessary supplies and to go to medical centers in a bid to defeat the new coronavirus. (SunStar photo / Allan Cuizon)
Cebu
Road to lockdown
April 11, 2020
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Cebu
Over 300,000 passengers lost in 3 weeks
February 19, 2020
DENIAL. Pastor Joel Apolinario denies having any connection with Kapa Credit Cooperative, which is said to have been put up by one of the group’s leaders, Jun Ferolino, in General Santos City. (SunStar file)
Cebu
Discord within Kapa amid legal woes
August 18, 2019
MANILA. Former Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. is the chairman and founder of the Pimentel Institute for Leadership and Governance. (SunStar Photo/Cherry Ann T. Lim)
Manila
Social injustice to 'worsen' under federalism
July 05, 2019
PROJECTS. Duke Frasco, representative-elect of Cebu’s fifth district, has lined up projects to improve infrastructure and the delivery of health and other services in the 10 towns and one city in his district, even if he has allies in only two of the towns. (SunStar Photo)
Cebu
Dearth of allies won’t stop rep from serving 5th District
May 25, 2019
Jigokudani or Hell Valley. (Photo / Melanie Lim)
Cebu
Hokkaido unbridled
November 21, 2018
Living on the edge. Houses in Barangays San Vicente, Sambag, Gairan and Sto. Niño lie on the coast in Bogo City, exposing their residents to the risk of storm surge during typhoons. (SunStar Foto / Allan Cuizon)
Cebu
Special Report: Technology, barricades to save Cebuanos during storms (Part 3)
November 10, 2018
Special Report: Help for toddlers stalled by politics (Last of three parts)
July 28, 2018
Special Report: Investing in 2 kitchens a win for 5,000 children (Second of three parts)
July 28, 2018
Special Report: ‘Busy’ parents, convenience fuel child malnutrition (First of three parts)
July 27, 2018
Sharing power without splitting the state
July 01, 2018
Battle of the sexes in Iloilo
June 20, 2018