The Timeless Nora Aunor
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The sudden rise, eventual fall and rebirth of an enduring star of stage and film, and ultimate survivor.
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Proudly PWU
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The nearly hundred-year-old educational institution, Philippine Women’s University, is already building the scaffolding for another hundred years.
Read MoreIn Search of the Cupang I Used to Know
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They say you can never go home again, but writer Ed Maranan has kept going back to his hometown of Cupang, Batangas since the 1950s.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon
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Vegan Filipino Chicharon is a fun little snack that has dried shiitake mushrooms coated in rice flour and sweet rice flour then deep-fried. Another way to make it is by deep-frying dried yuba skin.
Read MoreThe Wacky 1978 Chess World Championship
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How the Conjugal Dictatorship’s international public relations baby, the 1978 World Championship in Baguio, turned into an opera bouffe—with a lot of logistical, pre-match posturing and chess rivals Korchnoi and Karpov trying to rattle each other.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Buko-Pandan Gelatin (Young Coconut-Pandan Gelatin)
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The green gelatin and the vanilla ice cream make an attractive combination. The coconut juice sweetens the gelatin, and sugar becomes unnecessary.
Read MoreRoot of the Philippines’ Pork Shortage
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The meat for the pork adobo or sisig you just ordered at your favorite Philippine restaurant may have been imported.
Read MoreO.M. France Viana’s Ube Art
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The lowly tuyo, tasty ube, and the Filipino habit of pointing with the lips all make star turns in O.M. France Viana’s art.
Read MoreWatch Out World: Roni Bandong Dreams of Filipino Adobo in Every UK Home
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Chef Roni Bandong has begun making the UK take to Filipino food one chicken relleno at a time.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Rellenong Manok
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This is UK Chef Roni Bandong’s prize-winning recipe for Rellenong Manok which was judged “Best Alternative Christmas Dish” on the TV Show “Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas” with celebrity host Kirstie Allsopp.
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