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Our friend Toym Imao, among our most talented and productive sculptors, also serves as dean of the UP College of Fine Arts where my wife Beng teaches art conservation.

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Today, April 8, or 505 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu, where he met Hari’ Humabon, and forged an alliance marking the first sustained Spanish contact with a Philippine polity.

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Taiwan’s tourism offerings took center stage in Cebu as the 2025 Taiwan Waves of Wonder Tourism Workshop unfolded at the Niña Ballroom of Radisson Blu Cebu on July 16.

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Pasigarbo sa Sugbo, the grand showcase of Cebu’s cultural dances and stories, will not be part of the province’s 456th founding anniversary celebration next month.

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I found myself wandering the streets of Kampong Gelam in Singapore on a quiet Sunday afternoon, waiting for time to pass before the opening plenary of the communication conference that I am currently attending.

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In his recent article published across several local newspapers advocating for participation of China’s Taiwan region in the World Health Assembly, Mr. Wallace Minn-Gan Chow, Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines, failed to make a case.

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Today, April 8, or 505 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan landed in Cebu, where he met Hari’ Humabon, and forged an alliance marking the first sustained Spanish contact with a Philippine polity.

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I found myself wandering the streets of Kampong Gelam in Singapore on a quiet Sunday afternoon, waiting for time to pass before the opening plenary of the communication conference that I am currently attending.

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When “Squid Game” premiered on Netflix in 2021, it became a global phenomenon that transcended language barriers, shaped cultural conversation and broke records, quickly becoming the world’s biggest TV show.

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