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  • Road safety website launched

    17 May 2012

    Text by REYNARD MAGTOTO, Photos and Video by VINCENT GO
    ROAD safety advocates launched on Sunday morning a websitein commemoration of the first year of the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DARS), which coincided with the first death anniversary of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estellawho died in a road accident a year ago. »Read More

  • Road safety awareness run to mark Chit Estella’s 1st death anniversary

    12 May 2012

    By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
    GOVERNMENT and private groups are coming together to promote road safety on May 13, the first death anniversary of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan, who died in a road accident last year. »Read More

  • The Online Chit Estella Reader

    10 May 2012

    YONIP.COM, "The Philippine Peace and Sovereignty Website," has created The Online Chit Estella Reader to keep alive the "spirit, memory and legacy" of journalist Lourdes "Chit" Estella-Simbulan who died in a car accident on May 13, 2011. »Read More

  • Bus driver in Estella’s death pleads ‘not guilty’

    25 January 2012

    By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
    THE driver of the Universal Guiding Star bus accused in the death of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan on Wednesday pleaded not guilty before a Quezon City Regional Trial Court. »Read More

  • Documents

    11 January 2012

    Download documents in connection with the Chit Estella case »Read More

  • Judge orders arrest of bus driver in Chit Estella death

    9 November 2011

    A QUEZON City regional trial court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of bus driver Daniel Espinosa charged in the death of journalism professor and VERA Files trustee Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan after he was a no show at his arraignment. »Read More

  • Chit Estella Awards for Journalism launched

    22 June 2011

    THE family of the late VERA Files trustee and journalism professor Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan and VERA Files launched Tuesday the Chit Estella Awards for Journalism. The launching was timed with the commemoration of the 40th day of her death and her interment at the San Agustin Church columbarium. »Read More

  • Living and Loving Chit Estella

    21 June 2011

    By ROLAND SIMBULAN
    YOU were snatched from us "as swift as the wind" as you were on your way to meet your high school batchmates that fateful evening of May 13, 2011. Your life and character, as eulogized by so many, personified you as "gentle as a forest, fierce as fire, firm as a mountain," to borrow from Sun Tzu.  »Read More

  • Other bus in Chit Estella’s death known

    21 May 2011

    By MARC CAYABYAB and GIAN GERONIMO
    (UPDATED) The lawyer of the Universal Guiding Star (UGS) Bus Line has identified the bus that first hit the taxi ridden by journalism professor and veteran journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan. »Read More

  • Celebrating Chit’s life

    20 May 2011

    A DAYafter she was cremated, the ashes of veteran journalist and VERA Files trustee Chit Estella were brought to the College of Mass Communication in UP Diliman, where she served as a full-time professor since 2005.  »Read More