Sampaguita Blooms in Japan

  Photograph by Wilma Mack. Sampaguita is the national flower of the Philippines, and a part of life among Filipinos. Sampaguita evokes the Filipino legend of true love -- "sumpa kita", thus the Filipino name, sampaguita. In cities, like Manila, it is not uncommon to encounter a young boy or a girl, braving the traffic to sell a necklace of sampaguita to passing motorists and tourist. Among ...
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The Pansit Gallery [Photos by MVI (Shubert Ciencia)]

Pansit  (Asian noodles) is integral part of quite a number of Filipino cuisines. both eaten daily and in almost all festive  occasions (birthdays, wed...

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Metro Manila

 

Metropolitan Manila ( Filipino : Kalakhang Maynila , Kamaynilaan ) or the National Capital Region (NCR) ( Filipino : Pambansang Punong Rehiyon ) is the metropolit...

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Breastfeeding more crucial in emergencies

Breastfeeding more crucial in emergencies

BANGKOK, 13 November 2009 (IRIN) - A recent spate of natural disasters in Asia has further underscored the importance of breastfeeding during emergenc...

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Ang Pilipinas Ngayon

 

Pinay student wins intl photo ‘democracy challenge’

A young boy, carrying a parol, walks to school along a dirt road pockmarked with puddles. What’s wrong — or rather, what’s right — with this picture? Everything, if we go by the US Department of State’s choice of winning photo.

Facts on Barriers to Contraceptive Use In the Philippines

Facts on Barriers to Contraceptive Use In the Philippines

The review and policy paper from Guttmacher Institute (New York) and Likhaan, May 2010. provides an overview and "facts" on barriers to contraceptive use in the Philippines that became the basis of their recommendations.

One key finding that was not g...

RP economy seen to do even better at 8%

THE PHILIPPINE economy is expected to grow by 8 percent this year due to favorable conditions that are seen to benefit emerging markets, according to Barclays.

The international finance institution recently upgraded the country’s growth forecast, a ta...

Philippines' "President's Fish" Faces Extinction

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MANILA, Philippines – The lobed river mullet, Cestraeus plicatilis, is seriously diminishing in number due to overfishing and is facing extinction, according to the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

The species is very valua...

Sober up, Aquino tells CBCP

Sober up, Aquino tells CBCP

President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Monday told the country’s bishops to be less confrontational with the government over th...

Christopher and Ma. Victoria Bernido won the 2010 Magsaysay Award

Christopher and Ma. Victoria Bernido won the 2010 Magsaysay Award

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation awarded the 2010 Magsaysay Award to the couple Christopher Bernido and Ma. Victoria...

Population Pyramid: The Philippines Remains a Nation of Young Filipinos

Population Pyramid: The Philippines Remains a Nation of Young Filipinos

The issue of reproductive health and population control have been in the news in the Philippines recently because it bro...

Obama appoints  two Filipino Americans to key posts

Obama appoints two Filipino Americans to key posts

Washington D,C, 16 Sept 2010 . US President Barack Obama appointed two Filipino-American rights advocates  to key governm...

$100M medical facility to rise in Makati

MANILA, Philippines—General Electric, the fifth largest company in the United States, through its healthcare subsidiary,...

Pinay student wins intl photo ‘democracy challenge’

Pinay student wins intl photo ‘democracy challenge’

A young boy, carrying a parol , walks to school along a dirt road pockmarked with puddles.

What’s wrong — or rather, what’s...

 

Ang Bayan Kong Pilipinas

Pilipinas Kong Mahal

The short song, written by Francisco Santiago, while not the official pledge of allegiance usually recited by Filipinos, is a more heartfelt declaration of one's love and duty to one's country.

Most Filipinos know this song by heart; and there are quite a few renditions of this song by different Filipino artists. Read the lyrics below.

 

 

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Sari-sari

 

Philippine Pygmy Flowerpecker

Philippine Pygmy Flowerpecker - Male (Dicaeum pygmaeum) Philippine Endemic Philippine Pyg...

 

Grey-Streaked Flycatcher

Grey-Streaked FlycatcherCainta-Antipolo Nov. 21, 2006  

 

Striated Grassbird

Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris Horsfield, 1821 Taxonomic Serial No.: 561016 ...

 

White-breasted Woodswallow

The image of the White-breasted Woodswallow, Artamus leucorynchus was captured with its wi...

APN NewsBriefs

RP Out of Tax Havens’ List

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has been removed from the world list of havens for tax evasion and money laundering by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Ako ay Pilipino

Obama appoints two Filipino Americans to key posts

Washington D,C, 16 Sept 2010. US President Barack Obama appointed two Filipino-American rights advocates  to key government posts as advisers on Asian-American issues. Both Rozita Villanueva Lee and Hector L. Vargas, Jr., were appointed members of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Fifteen other Americans were appointed to the Presidential Advisory Board.

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Josie Natori

  Josie Natori is the founder and chief executive officer of the Natori Company, a US$50...

 

Eusebio C. Kho

Dr. Kho was born in Jimalalud, Negros Oriental  in 1933 and pursued his dream to be a sur...

 

Cristeta Comerford

  Cristeta Comerford is the current White House Executive Chef. She is the first woman t...

 

Loida Nicolas-Lewis

Loida Nicolas Lewis is a lawyer by profession, a businesswoman, an author, a philanthropis...

This Month in Philippine History

September 22, 1943. Flag and National Anthem

September 22, 1943, the Commonwealth government adopted the flag and the anthem as national symbols.

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