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Several streets of downtown Cebu City will be temporarily closed starting 5 p.m. today for the annual “Gabii sa Kabilin.” Joy Tumulak, Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) operations chief, said the night market will be cancelled…
Hundreds of spectators lined the shore of Larawan Beach in Talisay City watching rubber boats filled with armed soldiers in camouflage uniforms approach from the open sea. Near the shore, student cadets playing the role of Japanese…
Cebu City’s population increased by at least one more person last Saturday with the conferment of the title “Adopted Son of Cebu City” on US-based historian Michael Cullinane. No less than hizzoner the mayor, Michael Rama, graced…
I wish to welcome back to Cebu Dr. Michael Cullinane, a long-time Cebuanist, to coin a term, whose life has been without doubt tied directly to Cebu through its political history. Mike, who’s an associate director of…
I received some reactions regarding the three latest topics I wrote about in this column that I would like to highlight here. The first is from Dr. Lawrence Liao all the way from Hisroshima University (HU) in…
Posted on YouTube and Facebook is a video titled “The History of Cebu.” On Facebook, it is posted under the name “I Am A Cebuano” and on YouTube, under the username “The Island Bookshelf”. Friends in the…
Shoe lovers, check this out! A museum in Switzerland has managed to gather more than 220 pairs of shoes to highlight footwear fashions of the last 3,000 years. As part of the “History under your feet–3,000 years…
In 1565, while Miguel Lopez de Legazpi was waging war against the king of Cebu, his men accidentally stumbled on a rich source of booty courtesy of the goldwork that the Cebuanos of the time buried with…
No less than Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama minced no words by calling the chaotic traffic along the Banilad-Talamban corridor a disaster, a calamity. Living in one of the subdivisions near the University of San Carlos-Talamban Campus,…
The Office of the Mayor, through the Downtown Revitalization Project, in cooperation with the HAMBIN, will showcase the pictures of old Cebu during the pre-war era which form part of the collections of the Uytingchua family. Witness…
Manila — After almost 500 years since Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philippines, the place where he was born— Sabrosa municipality, Portugal—and the place where he died—Cebu, Philippines— are set to be reconnected as sister cities. “We…
In a few years’ time, on 2021 to be precise, we will be celebrating the fifth centenary of the “discovery” of the Philippines. Why the word discovery is in quotations is because it is still a contentious…
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