Over 3.4 million foreign tourists have visited the Philippines between January to May of 2019, a marked improvement on the visitor arrivals for the same period in 2018. The 2019 rate is 9.76 percent higher than last year’s figures, according to the Department of Tourism (DOT) industry performance report. “The numbers are very encouraging. From […]
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Nicole Anne D. Del Rosario is a fresh AB Communication graduate with specialization in Public Relations. She is a former campus journalist and Rappler intern who loves to contribute to the society by writing the history-in-the-making. Nicole believes in the power of journalism and supports a free press.
Palawan voted World’s 2nd Best Island, Boracay, Cebu among Asia’s Best
Palawan once again joins the list of the Top 15 Best Islands in the World in the annual World’s Best Awards (WBA) of Travel + Leisure Magazine. The Lonely Planet top pick in the Philippines ranked 2nd on this year’s WBA with a score of 90.87, higher than last year’s 6th place with 90.04. The […]
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Suntrust is lone Filipino firm in Forbes Asia’s Best Under a Billion companies
Real estate firm Suntrust Home Developers Inc. has made it as the lone company from the Philippines to land on the top 200 top-performing public companies in the region of this year’s Forbes Asia’s Best Under a Billion list. Suntrust has a net income of $2 million, sales of $11 million, and a market value […]
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Ramon Lijauco Jr. wins Most Outstanding Conductor award in 2019 Choir of the World
Ramon Lijauco Jr., Thailand’s Suanplu Chorus’ Filipino conductor and music director, won the Jayne Davies Prize for Most Outstanding Conductor during the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Festival’s Choir of the World 2019 held in Wales, United Kingdom. Lijauco also led Thailand’s Suanplu Chorus to win the 1st Prize in the Open Category of the competition […]
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Philippines ranks 3rd in CEOWorld’s Best Countries to Invest in 2019
The Philippines ranked as the 3rd best country to invest in or do business for 2019, according to CEOWorld survey results. The Philippines named one of Expat Explorer’s best places for expats, ranked in the Top 3 out of 67 countries, following Malaysia (1st) and Polland (2nd) with only 0.6 difference in their average scores. […]
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Australian pop-rock band 5 Seconds of Summer love Philippine experience
Australian pop-rock band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS), surprised their Filipino fans as they posted a video of them riding the iconic Philippine jeepney in Manila. The four-man band composed of Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, Luke Hemmings, and Ashton Irwin toured Manila on board the local jeepney before they held their “Just Woke Up In […]
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Keiko Necesario’s “Both Sides Now” cover featured in British TV hit drama Ackley Bridge
Filipina singer-songwriter Keiko Necesario’s version of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” was featured in the British TV hit drama series, “Ackley Bridge.” United Kingdom’s longest running television series featured the Filipina musician’s song cover in Episode 8 of Ackley Bridge’s third season which premiered on June 18. Necesario confirmed on social media that her 2016 […]
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Rebisco-Philippines snatches bronze medal in 2019 Thailand Open Volleyball Championships
Rebisco-Philippines Men’s Volleyball Team finished strong with a bronze medal win at the 2019 Thailand Open Volleyball Championships. Rebisco-Philippines was able to steal the game and scored an upset against Thai-Denmark Saraburi, 22-25, 27-29, 25-18, 25-18, 26-24, at the competitions held at the Wee Sommay Gymnasium in Sisakaet. The Philippine team redeemed itself from two […]
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Benguet State University student creates lure trap to beat coffee pests
Benguet State University (BSU) student Jimmer John Bisaya has built a Filipino adaptation of the Hawaiian lure trap for coffee pests. The Agriculture Entomology major of BSU built the special trap for his undergraduate thesis supervised by Dr. Bonnie Ligat. The trap is made for berry borers (CBBs), a one-millimeter-long pest, which reduces harvest of […]
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Filipino kids win 7 Golds in Taekwondo Championship tourney in Hong Kong
Filipino kids in the Philippine taekwondo team brought pride to the country as all of its members secured medals during the 2019 Taekwondo Color Belt Kyorugi and Hanmadang Championships held in Hong Kong. Set in Siu Sai Wan Sports Center, the 10-member Philippine team was able to bag seven gold medals, two silvers, and a […]
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Bongga to Kilig Filipino-coined words in the latest edition of Oxford English Dictionary
A new set of Filipino-coined words are included among the 1,400 new words, senses, and subentries that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) June update. The new quarterly update on the Third Edition of the OED includes Pinoy terms such as the popular shaved ice dessert “halo-halo” and the Philippines’ touted new […]
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Pinoy social enterprise HOME Plush Toys creates indigenous Lumad Dolls
Filipino social enterprise Handcrafters of Mary Enterprise (HOME) Plush Toys has created a Lumad Collection of their handcrafted dolls. The Lumad (Visayan word for native or Indigenous) tribes such as the Aetas, Bontocs, Ibaloi, Kalinga, Manobo, and Talaandig were the inspiration of the doll collection. HOME Plush Toys provides a sustainable livelihood for mother artisans […]
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