Theo & Philo artisan chocolates are 100 percent Philippine-made: the founders are Filipinos, the ingredients are sourced from Filipino farmers, and the factory hires locals to handcraft quality chocolate bars in the tradition of the highest quality chocolates in the world. The chocolates use cacao from Davao and sugar from Bacolod. Founder Philo Chua’s welcome message […]
At a dinner with President Rodrigo Duterte at Malacañang’s President’s Hall, Ramon Ang of San Miguel Corp., Manuel V. Pangilinan of Metro Pacific and PLDT, Hans Sy of the SM Group, Tony Tan Caktiong of Jollibee and Ayala Corp.’s Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, among others, vowed to help the government promote peace, spur development […]
Dan Villegas’ (with a script from Palanca winner Yvette Tan) first horror film finds its terror in the neuroses of the modern family. “Ilawod” tells the story of dissatisfied journalist Dennis (Ian Veneracion) who mainly investigates supernatural claims. He’s tired of not being taken seriously as a journalist and is trying to get a promotion. But […]
In 1276 AD, Emperor Du Zong (度宗) of South Song (1127-1279) surrendered to the Yuan (Mongolian) army. The minister of Rites, Lu Xiu Fu (陸秀夫), refused to surrender. He left Lin An (臨安, the capital of South Song, now Hangzhou) with General Zhang Shi Jie (張世傑) and other officials, and installed the son of Du […]
News about the gruesome death of Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo, 53, abducted and killed by policemen under the aegis of the administration’s war on drugs, has caught international attention and has been the subject of a Senate investigation. Being an optimist, I did not believe we could sink any lower after the war on drugs or […]
Chinese and German archaeologists believe they have found images of what appears to be Arabian horses on some 2,000-year old cliff paintings in the Yinshan Mountains of North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Over 10,000 ancient cliff paintings have been found in the Yinshan Mountains. Wu Jiacai, director of the North China Institute of Cliff […]
No partner for Valentine’s Day? No problem. Rent-a-partner services provide a quick but expensive solution to young people pressed by families to bring home a partner. Such services increase in demand in China, with prices starting from RMB100 per day and running to as high as RMB3,000 daily. Websites offering “professional” rental services of girlfriends […]
Taiwanese founder of Pengyuan restaurants and the inventor of General Tso’s chicken (左宗棠雞), passed away in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov. 30. He was 98. Peng started out as an apprentice of Cao Jingchen, a famous early 20th-century Chinese chef. After his apprenticeship, he began developing his own takes on Hunan cuisine. Peng first cooked General […]
WeChat, China’s major instant messaging app, came up with a new holiday tradition: sending and receiving red packets via social media. On the eve of 2017 lunar new year alone, a record of 14.2 billion electronic red packets containing gift money were given and received, with people born in the 1980s being the most active […]
Hokkien, on the tongues of Tsinoys, has grown and evolved, taking on a life of its own. Sometimes words simply fail us. With some creativity, Tsinoys have strung together words to form colorful phrases that simply hit the bull’s eye. Here are some expressions unique to Hokkien as favored by Tsinoys. 長脚骨 teng k’a kut […]