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                    [Title] => The gifting market: On the rise
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Gift giving, especially among Christians, started more than two thousand years ago.

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Valentine’s Day is love day.

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The number of Filipino travelers to Korea has surged, an official from the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) recently revealed.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1405019 [AuthorName] => John M. Destacamento [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908785 [Title] => How you and your family can have a joyful, meaningful Lent [Summary] =>

It is Ash Wednesday as I write this, and the season of Lent has just begun. For many Catholics and Christians, Lent is a time for deeper prayer, sacrifices (usually involving but not limited to fasting and abstinence), and almsgiving or doing works of charity.

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Ash Wednesday and Lent symbols, as characteristic of gestures in Catholic rites, are rife with meaning though often misunderstood. Here are a few known symbols and the facts behind them.

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On the 60-foot high Shrine hill considered an open-air basilica is where we welcome the yearly Easter pilgrimage to the Mt. Pinatubo Hidden Temple Shrine.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376300 [Title] => New Year, new Bora [Summary] => It’s no secret to my friends that I firmly believe that part of the fun of any journey should be getting there. Once getting to Boracay was a sort of trek, almost religious in a sense: an arduous plane ride, followed by a long, bumpy automobile ride towards Caticlan and a languid boat ride towards the island itself. Getting to the powdery white sands of Boracay used to take hours, but today with so much demand for R&R, progressive companies like Asian Spirit make it a snap to get a tan and make it to that Monday meeting.
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And that is bad news for most Filipinos. For Hong Kong is the favorite destination of many Filipino tourists. Go around Tsim Sha Tsui (the shopping district in Kowloon) during Easter and Christmas breaks and you will feel like you were in Baguio in summertime. And why not? With all its tempting food and till-midnight shopping, it is the perfect place for the Pinoy food lover/shopaholic bargain hunter.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 1536981
                    [Title] => The gifting market: On the rise
                    [Summary] => 

Gift giving, especially among Christians, started more than two thousand years ago.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-27 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134218 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317599 [AuthorName] => Fidel O. Abalos [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1424341 [Title] => The gifting market: Relevant facts & figures [Summary] =>

Valentine’s Day is love day.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134218 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317599 [AuthorName] => Fidel O. Abalos [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1200731 [Title] => January to August period: Filipino tourists to Korea up 30% [Summary] =>

The number of Filipino travelers to Korea has surged, an official from the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) recently revealed.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1405019 [AuthorName] => John M. Destacamento [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908785 [Title] => How you and your family can have a joyful, meaningful Lent [Summary] =>

It is Ash Wednesday as I write this, and the season of Lent has just begun. For many Catholics and Christians, Lent is a time for deeper prayer, sacrifices (usually involving but not limited to fasting and abstinence), and almsgiving or doing works of charity.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-14 15:16:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772953 [AuthorName] => Tina Santiago-Rodriguez [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908369 [Title] => 'From dust to dust' and other Ash Wednesday symbols [Summary] =>

Ash Wednesday and Lent symbols, as characteristic of gestures in Catholic rites, are rife with meaning though often misunderstood. Here are a few known symbols and the facts behind them.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-13 14:48:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Lifestyle Features [SectionUrl] => lifestyle-features [URL] => http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6808/ussnavy.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 562741 [Title] => The living gospel of the Mt. Pinatubo Hidden Temple Shrine [Summary] =>

On the 60-foot high Shrine hill considered an open-air basilica is where we welcome the yearly Easter pilgrimage to the Mt. Pinatubo Hidden Temple Shrine.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376300 [Title] => New Year, new Bora [Summary] => It’s no secret to my friends that I firmly believe that part of the fun of any journey should be getting there. Once getting to Boracay was a sort of trek, almost religious in a sense: an arduous plane ride, followed by a long, bumpy automobile ride towards Caticlan and a languid boat ride towards the island itself. Getting to the powdery white sands of Boracay used to take hours, but today with so much demand for R&R, progressive companies like Asian Spirit make it a snap to get a tan and make it to that Monday meeting.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133192 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804717 [AuthorName] => Celine Lopez [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 266570 [Title] => Worthy lives [Summary] => First, it was Ariel Sharon’s dramatic announcement to pull out of Gaza, then Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat’s illness, making it necessary for him to leave his virtual imprisonment. It is a strange confluence of events that seems outside the power of man – American, Israeli or Palestinian – to direct and dictate.
[DatePublished] => 2004-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 171165 [Title] => Hong Kong is still a gourmet’s paradise [Summary] => Hong Kong is today’s most expensive city in the world, followed by Moscow and Tokyo, according to a recent report in the business section of the Philippine STAR.

And that is bad news for most Filipinos. For Hong Kong is the favorite destination of many Filipino tourists. Go around Tsim Sha Tsui (the shopping district in Kowloon) during Easter and Christmas breaks and you will feel like you were in Baguio in summertime. And why not? With all its tempting food and till-midnight shopping, it is the perfect place for the Pinoy food lover/shopaholic bargain hunter.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) ) )
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