Euronews, Europe’s 24 hours news channel, broadcasts a series of short documentaries: “Philippine Life”. Each on-line available movie lasts for about 5 minutes. The first video was titled “Manila: the Melting Pot“. The second...
Dan Brown’s description of Manila as “the gates of hell” in his new novel “Inferno” has upset lots of people in the Philippines. Following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost...
This morning French/Greek composer and singer, Georges Moustaki, passed away at the age of 79. Georges Moustaki composed many many songs for Yves Montand, Henri Salvador, Dalida, Françoise Hardy and Edith Piaf. Georges wrote more than...
Supermarket chain Puregold Price Club Inc. has teamed up with Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. to launch a credit card which will be available for sari-sari store owners. A sari-sari store is a convenience store found in the Philippines....
Yesterday our guests Simone and Stephan hiked up on Hibok-Hibok volcano. They were lucky because they had one of the best guides available: Heinz Althuser. Heinz, a part time Swiss expat, knows Mount Hibok-Hibok...
The Cebu Pacific Air flights from Cebu to Camiguin are a great success. Cebu Pacific Air started this flights on April 15, 2013. See also here The 3 weekly flights are always fully booked. This...
Northern Panay is being upgraded. Northern Panay? Panay is the island from where you get to Boracay – there is no other way. Whether you land in Kalibo or Caticlan, you pass through Northern...
The rate of global mean warming has been lower over the past decade than previously. It has been argued that this observation might require a downwards revision of estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity, that is,...
Saturday morning I went to Balbagon port in Camiguin to fetch friends. There I saw an astonishing kind of bus: The Justice on Wheels is an access to justice programme which was commenced in...
After the ridiculous air-condition problem in NAIA-3, we reported some days ago, Manila’s airport makes people laugh again. The newest staff to be hired will be goats! Photo courtesy of www.grit.com Goats to replace mowers...
Felipe Tacogdoy or Mang Peping, also known as the Buko King from Sevilla, Bohol got a competitor in Panama, Andres Gardin also known as Mr. T. The Bohol Buko King has the amazing talent of taking...
NAIA is the best symbol of what is incorrigibly wrong about our country. NAIA stands for something no self respecting Filipino can be proud of. Mention NAIA and our heads bow in shame and...
No, I am not writing about the elections in the Philippines. They are not interesting because the results had already been known before the elections. That’s the Philippines – hmm, not much fun. Actors...
Reading and learning are dangerous. It needs just a little article on facebook and your curiosity triggers. Today one of my linked “fb friends” called “Hibok-Hibok Rocks” wrote about Hibok-Hibok volcano. In his text he mentioned a book...
Yesterday power generation problems in 5 Luzon power plants triggered a nearly island wide brownout. Just five days to the mid-term elections, electricity consumers in Luzon, including Metro Manila, were gripped with 4 and...
The next 5 days parts of the Philippines will be dry. From Thursday, May 9, until Monday, May 13, residents of Metro Manila are prohibited from selling, buying or consuming, particularly in public places,...
They are beautiful, they are intelligent, they are entrepreneurs – and they are blondes. I met Simone in Boracay. She created the Funboard Center on Bulabog Beach. Simone does surfing and interior design. I winter...
While CAAP is still struggling to bring the Philippines’ airspace out of Cat.2 and black-lists, a new airline announces its launch – “Fil-Asian Airways”. Well, it’s not really a new airline but a re-branded...
Mayon Volcano at 8:00 AM today, produced a small phreatic event that lasted about 73 seconds. The gray to brown clouds reached 500 meters above the summit and drifted west southwest. No volcanic earthquake...
Camiguin is known for its outstanding nature conservation, for its beaches and mountains and for its waterfalls and springs. Among the best known springs are the Ardent Hibok-Hibok Hot Springs, the Bura Soda Pool...
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