San Francisco’s historic Old Mint building (88 Fifth Street), is the venue for Undiscovered SF, an innovative new monthly night market that celebrates the evolution of Filipino cuisine, commerce and culture and highlights SOMA Pilipinas as the city's Filipino Cultural District (Inquirer.net).
Fil-Am teacher Yvette Felarca
A Filipina American schoolteacher in Berkeley, California faced assault charges in court Thursday, Aug. 10, for punching a neo-Nazi, but she says assault charges against her should be dropped, reports Inquirer.net.
In the face of the first-ever outbreak of avian, or bird flu, markets in Metro Manila have reported slumping prices of dressed chicken and chicken meat, as well as eggs, reports InterAksyon..
Ingemar Macarine (Source: inquirer.net)
Environmental lawyer Ingemar Macarine, also known as the “Pinoy Aquaman,” was about 3.8 km (2.3 miles) from this southeastern coastal town on Sunday morning when he was made to stop because of bad weather, reports Inquirer.net.
Diosdado Banatao
Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and IT pioneer Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, chairman of the PhilDev Foundation, launched an incubation program to support early-stage startups “with deep technology, science, or engineering solutions to the neglected problems of the emerging world,” reports Entrepreneur.com.ph.
The peso on Friday touched the 51:$1 level, hitting an intraday low of 51.08:$1 during the Aug. 11 morning’s trade. The local currency opened at 50.9:$1, weaker than Thursday’s close of 50.795:$1, reports Inquirer.net.
The University of the Philippines system will not collect tuition and other school fees from undergraduate students for the first semester of this academic year, reports ABS-CBN News.
Philippine students displaying their medals at the 13th International Mathematics Contest in Singapore (Source: Manila Bulletin)
Filipino elementary and high school students captured 245 medals and 111 merit awards to emerge as the most bemedaled country at the 13th International Mathematics Contest (IMC) Singapore held from Aug. 4-7, reports the Manila Bulletin.
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