Chinese and Muslim settlements in pre-colonial Cebu?

Jobers R. Bersales 06/14/2017

The recent soft opening of the Rosita Rodriguez Arcenas Gallery of Chinese and Southeast Asian Ceramics at the University of San Carlos Museum occasioned a rekindling of questions whether there was a thriving Chinese settlement in Cebu…

Chinese investors to pour $1.38B into Visayas projects

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/04/2017

Chinese investors will be pouring $1.38 billion worth of environmental waste-to-energy and housing projects in the Visayas region. In a press conference late yesterday evening at the Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino in Mactan, officials of Anhui…

Chinese investors to present $1.38 billion proposed projects to Duterte

Doris C. Bongcac 06/04/2017

CEBU CITY–A group of Chinese investors is scheduled to make a presentation on their proposed waste-to-energy and mass housing projects worth $1.38 billion to President Rodrigo Duterte during his scheduled visit to Cebu on late Sunday afternoon.…

Duty Free launches newest outlet at Mactan-Cebu Int’l Airport

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/27/2017

State-owned Duty Free Philippines (DFP) on Thursday opened a “destination boutique” featuring the region’s best local products in response to the growing number of foreign tourists visiting Cebu. DFP inaugurated its newest outlet at the Mactan-Cebu International…

Unity against coercion

04/24/2017

There can be no discounting the importance of the challenges that confront Southeast Asia today. This week, as Asean leaders converge in Manila for the 30th Asean Summit; the evolving difficulties in the South China Sea will…

HOT PURSUIT ON

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Edison Delos Angeles, Nestle L. Semilla 03/19/2017

ROAD RAGE SHOOTING IN CEBU Police on a hunt  for a scion of a prominent Chinese Cebuano family who shot and wounded a nurse over a traffic altercation A scion of a prominent Chinese Cebuano family is…

Officials study WTE facility for Inayawan

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/12/2017

Cebu City officials, led by Mayor Tomas Osmeña, are checking a waste-to-energy (WTE) facility operated by a Chinese firm in Bangkok, Thailand to determine if such could be applied in the city’s Inayawan landfill. “WTE doesn’t create…

Exporters urged: Get ready for the rebound

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/20/2017

Philexport Cebu official shows guarded optimism on sector’s growth, gives advice As the country’s export sector faces challenging times, local businessmen are encouraged to prepare themselves when the rebound will happen in the industry. Federico Escalona, Philippine…

Family of missing Chinese tourist calls for help

Aileen Garcia-Yap 02/19/2017

The family of a female Chinese tourist who went missing in Cebu since Saturday morning is asking for help from everyone who could give them information and help them locate her. Weiying Gu, 72, who was in…

An auspicious feast at Tin Gow

Aissa A. Dela Cruz 02/04/2017

TIN GOW, the premier Chinese restaurant of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino (WCCHC) has been satisfying the discerning palates with its refined Cantonese cuisine since it opened in the convention hotel in 1999. Its dim sum,…

New year notes

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/27/2017

We are not a Chinese family. But Chinese New Year, which falls on January 28 and will usher in the Year of the Fire Rooster, is a special celebration in our home because Jeff lived and worked…

Enriched by the Chinese

Sofia Aliño Logarta 01/25/2017

Let us celebrate Chinese New Year, with some thoughts on the Chinese in our history. “Whenever they bought a Chinese porcelain vase or jar or plate they brought into their house, something of that grand civilization. That…

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