Cebu City execs off to Netherlands to strengthen sister-city relations

Inna Gian Mejia 06/05/2017

CEBU City officials headed by Mayor Tomas Osmeña will fly to the City of Haarlemmermeer in Netherlands today to celebrate the silver anniversary or 25th year of sister-city relations between the two cities. Osmeña will be traveling…

Cebu-Netherlands ties get boost

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/21/2017

The Kingdom of the Netherlands saw strengthened ties with Cebu as it reopened its honorary consulate here last week. Marion Derckx, ambassador of the Netherlands to the Philippines, said they hope to forge new connections and business…

PH bet Kylie Versoza wins sixth Miss International Crown

Apple Ta-as 10/27/2016

THE PHILIPPINES’ bet Kylie Verzosa brought home the crown in this year’s Miss International pageant held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan last Thursday (Oct. 27). Kylie is the sixth Filipina to bring home the…

Youths build health center in Mandaue relocation site

Norman V. Mendoza 08/04/2016

Twenty-three youth volunteers from Belgium and The Netherlands and Cebu City help construct the multipurpose center and health center at a 6.5-hectare relocation site in Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City. The project’s construction started last Aug. 2 and…

The Netherlands jails’ accommodate asylum-seekers as prisoners decline

05/17/2016

Haarlem, the Netherlands — With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fill its prisons. The government has let Belgium and Norway put prisoners in empty cells and now, amid the…

Fire in Amsterdam

Jason A. Baguia 12/13/2015

Be careful. Killers roam the streets of Amsterdam. So said the driver as our bus rolled into the capital of the Netherlands in mid-November. The warning, he explained, referred not to reapers on the loose but to…

UP students explore school break options

06/29/2015

SCHOOL is out at the University of the Philippines (UP) and students are scrambling for ways to spend their two-month break. Over 1,200 students at UP College Cebu are on their first school break since the state…

Cebu a ‘trafficking hotspot’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/09/2015

DUE to its status as a center for shipping and tourism in Central Visayas and the rest of the southern Philippines, Cebu remains vulnerable to foreign sex predators, an international non-government organization (NGO) said yesterday. Dr. Alwin…

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