Resorts closing due to heat wave? Not true, says DOH

04/03/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Resorts in the country are not closing because of the heat wave, said the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, April 3, as it warned the public against such a claim being circulated through…

Creative lessons from Korea

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 02/21/2023

It seems hard to believe now, but Filipinos on the average were twice richer than South Koreans back in 1965. Data from countryeconomy.com show average income (GDP per capita) in the Philippines then at $211, and $108…

Jockeying Filipino creativity

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 02/07/2023

The members of the globally popular K-pop boy band BTS have begun their military conscription, and the South Korean economy is set to lose at least an estimated $5.9 billion, based on estimates reported by CNBC. This…

Bus driving through flooded street, damaging resto, bank prompts call for probe

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Jerry Guardo is calling for an investigation on a bus that drove at high speed through waist-deep floodwaters at General Maxilom Avenue creating a huge wave in its wake that…

Cebu superheroine Wave joins ‘Marvel Future Fight’ game

Raul Constantine L. Tabanao 08/01/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu represent! After Marvel introduced Pearl Pangan, aka Wave, as one of the newest superhero in Marvel Universe, the Cebu superheroine will join the superhero crew of the action-RPG (role-playing game), Marvel Future…

Filipino tapped to write Marvel comics of Cebuana superhero Wave

07/25/2019

  An Asian-American writer is behind the adventures of new Marvel superheroes Wave and Aero, who hail from Cebu and Shanghai respectively. Alyssa Wong’s work will appear in the “Aero” comics, which follows the eponymous superhero. Aero…

Vertex Coast: Ride the Wave of Potential Returns 

PR 07/24/2019

Following its successful launch of the second Priland Residences brand, Vertex Central in Cebu City, Priland Development Corporation is announcing another development under the same umbrella, Vertex Coast at Punta Engańo. Situated along Cebu’s most premier beach…

Marvel’s Filipina superhero ‘Wave’ to debut in Marvel comics on May 8

Immae Lachica 05/07/2019

Cebu City,  Philippines—Watch out for Marvel’s Filipina superhero who will be making her Marvel comics debut on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.  This was divulged in a tweet posted by filmmaker and comic book writer Grek Pak. “Reminder…

THE NEW WAVE Kyoto Ramen

Doyzkie Buenaviaje 10/19/2018

RAMEN is probably the Japanese dish most of us Filipinos know of. Whenever I visit a new city in Japan, I never fail to taste its version of the ramen. In Kyoto, traditional ramen is made with…

5 killed, 44 others shot in wave of violence in Chicago

AFP 08/06/2018

FORTY-FOUR people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago Sunday, US media reported, with five killed in a wave of violence police branded “totally unacceptable.” Chicago Police chief of patrol Fred Waller told a press…

Riding on Cebu’s tourism wave

Jose Santino S. Bun-achita 07/27/2018

Developer to build 37-storey hotel-condo property to cash in on tourist-fueled accommodation demand More and more developers are seeing the need to invest in tourism-related projects especially with the continued increase in tourist arrivals in Cebu. Among…

Osmeña decries ‘wave of violence’ in Cebu

Ador Vincent S. Mayol and Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/26/2018

A WAVE of violence. This was how Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña described the continuing spate of killings in Metro Cebu — a situation that he said has created fear among Cebuanos. “It’s not safe (anymore). That’s…

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