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Baguio City gets ASEAN stamp of approval as Clean Tourist City awardee

Baguio, dubbed the City of Pines in the Cordillera Region of Luzon, added another item to its credentials as an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Clean Tourist City award recipient. The new award tags...

PHL improves World Talent Pool Ranking, soars 6 places

The Philippines had one of the the biggest climbs in the 2019 World Talent Ranking report from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). The country rose six places to 49th place from 55th in...

Philippines wins 4 golds, bags overall Silver at 2019 World Para Bowling Tour in...

Team Philippines won 4 gold medals and bagged the overall Silver podium finish at the 2019 World Para Bowling Tour leg held in Manila. The country's para-athletes in bowling produced 4 golds, 3 silvers, and...

Pampanga transforms PHL’s biggest ferris wheel into giant Christmas lantern

Pampanga, known as a culinary hotbed and renowned as the Christmas Capital of the Philippines, has turned the country's biggest ferris wheel into a giant "Parol" - the dazzling handcrafted Christmas lantern symbolizing the...

Philippines beats China, 11-1, to win Asian Baseball Championships Bronze in Guangdong

The newly formed Philippine Women's Baseball Team beat host China in a tourney sweep, 11-1, to bag the overall bronze medal at the Women's Baseball Asian Cup of the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA)...

Parangal Dance Company celebrates 455th Manila-Acapulco galleon trade anniversary in Mexico

The Parangal Dance Company of California is set to represent the Philippines in the celebration of the 455th anniversary of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade. The 2-day event slated on November 20 to 21 will serve...

2019 foreign tourist arrivals soars to 6.16 million, up 14 percent from last year

Foreign tourist arrivals in the Philippines has reached a record 6-million-plus mark in the first nine months of the year, registering a 14%+ improvement on last year's numbers. The 3rd Quarter Tourist Arrival Data from...

Philippines’ Dr. Yanga Colleges scores Gold in World Robot Olympiad in Hungary

The Philippine Robotics National Team represented by Dr. Yanga Colleges Inc. (DYCI) took the GOLD at the World Robot Olympiad in Hungary - out classing 74 countries with over 2700 participants in the most...

Google, IdeaSpace partnership to boost Philippines’ startup industry

Google has partnered with IdeaSpace in a bid to boost the Philippines growing startup industry. Google Developers Launchpad is set to connect non-profit organization IdeaSpace, the Philippines' largest private sector-supported organization for early-stage technology entrepreneurship,...

Philippines’ Sycwin is world’s 1st company with industrial brands certified lead-safe paint

Philippine paint manufacturer, Sycwin Coating & Wires, has been declared the world's first company to have its industrial brand paints certified lead-safe. Sycwin's entire portfolio of architectural paints of 10 brands and 590 paint products...
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Philippines advocates disaster-preparedness, World Tsunami Awareness campaign

The Philippines, through the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS), is advocating disaster-preparedness and is joining the Tsunami awareness campaign on November 5 - a day designated...

BPI builds digital ecosystem for more convenient banking in Philippines

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) has taken its digital innovation a step further by building a digital ecosystem. BPI launched on October 29 its digital ecosystem to make everyday financial transactions more convenient...
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