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The Noli Me Tangere Garden was inaugurated in June 2011 in time for Rizal’s 150th birth anniversary. A bust of Rizal’s close friend, Czech intellectual Ferdinand Blumentritt, can also be found in the garden.

Why this writer refuses to accept that women are useless for deciding not to ‘go forth and multiply’

Filipinos and the Japanese have something so profound in common—pottery.

Why we still need diplomats abroad after having them work from home during Covid.

Now on its fifth generation, the business is being headed by a woman, Olivia Limpe-Aw, who’s steering the company into embracing modern techniques while maintaining some of its well-loved traditions.

The Korean Cultural Center is ready for its next chapter.

Ending Women’s Month and celebrating the golden jubilee of PH-Bangladesh relations.

There’s been a lot going on the past week as 2022 is proving to be a year that brings forth lots of things to celebrate.

The newest embassy in town restarts major diplomatic events in Manila after a two-year drought, no thanks to a pandemic.

Men are providers, women are at home. Men who move abroad on their own are adventurous, go-getters. Women who go about this by themselves must be lonely and they deserve it for choosing a career over finding a spouse and having kids.

Over at ITV, a female journalist said on a live report: ‘The unthinkable has happened and this is not a developing, third-world nation. This is Europe!'

Ana Algabre-Hernandez paints a full and fulfilling life.

Believe me when I say that people around you are always watching how you treat others.

Diplomatic spouses often meet over brunch, cultivating a network. Those who have kids will have them off their hands thanks to school (at least, pre-pandemic) and those who are childfree would have already rolled out of bed and done some of their tasks for the day.

Prior to joining Miss Universe, Corrine was living in Spain as an English teaching assistant, which allowed her to see more of Europe while earning a little bit of money.

Back in November, the Caribbean nation of Barbados announced that they would be opening its first embassy in the metaverse, Decentraland.

Top diplomats look beyond COVID-19 and the challenge of rebuilding.

We all have something we’re proud about. A new job, a raise you totally deserve, a new property or a car, even a career milestone you worked so hard for. While it’s human to be proud, it’s often considered pathetic to seek attention or validation for one’s achievements or good fortune. This, especially in an Asian society where we’re expected to never want or openly go for things. They just have to land, quite effortlessly, on our laps. Or at least appear like it did.