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Designer highlights: What to expect at rebranded Manila Fashion Week 2025
October 5, 2025 | 11:50am MANILA, Philippines — Brandishing its bold new identity, BYS Fashion Week is seamlessly morphing into Manila Fashion Week (MNLFW). The new shows, happening on October 16 to October 19, will have a single location — SM...

Zero Waiting, Zero Risk: Candy Dart Series Solves Filipino Families’ Bathing Challenges
MANILA, Philippines, Oct. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In the Philippines, unstable voltage, occasional power outages, and high electricity costs often make daily showers stressful. With nearly 80 years of Italian expertise, Candy introduces the Candy...

Play to invest: Philippine Stock Exchange to launch gamified stock trading for Filipino students
Share Post Viber icon Viber Email Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) President and Chief Executive Officer Ramon S. Monzon, who has championed the exchange’s investor education roadmap and digital initiatives aimed at expanding financial literacy...
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[REFLECTION] Notre-Dame and Filipino migrant workers in Paris
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. 'The reopening of the cathedral coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Filipino Chaplaincy in Paris, which has served as refuge for many...

Rain or shine, Filipino Swifties prove the show must go on
Taylor Swift's Filipino fans gather at the MOA Amphitheater to celebrate 'The Life of a Showgirl' together MANILA, Philippines – The last time pop superstar Taylor Swift lit up the Mall of Asia (MOA), it was inside the arena in 2014, where she...

My Own Home: Filipina entrepreneur lives with her mother in Dh750,000 Dubai Sports City apartment
My Own Home takes you inside a reader-owned property to ask how much they paid, why they decided to buy and what they have done with it since moving in Filipina entrepreneur Giebeth Laxamana, who runs a short-term property rental company, has been...
10 Essential Things to Know Before Visiting the Philippines
The pristine postcard images, full of emerald seas, enthralling limestone cliffs, and rainforests, have always lured us into hatching a dream journey to the Philippines. Though magical as it may seem, like most other countries, it doesn’t come...
Haas’ desperate plea to free father from Philippines detention facility
In a recent interview with this masthead, a candid Payne spoke about his father’s plight, as well as the death of his ventilated quadriplegic brother and the incarceration of his mother, Joan. “I can’t control what is alleged against my dad,” he...

Myanmar participates in 47th ASEAN Agriculture and Forestry Meeting in Philippines
At the invitation of the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines, a Myanmar delegation led by Union Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation U Min Naung attended the 47th ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) Meeting...
From curious consumer to innovator: Redefining Philippine coffee
October 5, 2025 | 10:35am Back in 2008, while still in college, Kert-Jan M. Tabaña was just another coffee drinker. He enjoyed the beverage but never gave much thought to its flavor complexities or the industry behind it. “I was a typical coffee...

World : Top News Headlines In The Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia & Thailand: Oct 5, 2025
PHILIPPINES 1. COMELEC LIFTS BARMM GUN BAN AFTER SC POSTPONES POLLS -- THE PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has lifted the gun ban across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the Supreme...

Top News Headlines In The Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia & Thailand: Oct 5, 2025
PHILIPPINES 1. COMELEC LIFTS BARMM GUN BAN AFTER SC POSTPONES POLLS -- THE PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has lifted the gun ban across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the Supreme...

Delicioso! La Socarrat Paella Bar & Grill celebrates Spanish-Filipino
La Socarrat Paella Bar & Grill, a Spanish-Filipino haven along Acropolis Greens in C5, Quezon City, is a celebration of flavors, community, and life’s simple pleasures. It’s a casual-dining restaurant that serves soul-warming dishes – delicioso! –...

Air India resumes direct New Delhi-Manila flights
The Philippines and India marked the return of direct air service with Air India’s inaugural New Delhi-Manila flight from Indira Gandhi International Airport on October 2. Philippine Ambassador to India Josel Ignacio said the launch reflects...

DOH launches 2-day national health fair in Metro Manila
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday kicked off its two-day national health fair at Burnham Green in Rizal Park, Manila, providing free medical services to the public. The “PinaSigla: Isang Flex para sa Masiglang Pilipinas,” which runs until...

Celebrating Filipino American History Month in Hawaii
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - October is Filipino American History Month, with several events happening across the state, including: OCTOBER 4: 9 a.m.: 4th Annual Filipino Cultural Summit and 43rd Sariling Gawa Youth Conference “Weaving Cultural...

'If we die tonight, do you think that Meghan will come to my funeral?': Why drinking PG Tips with Thomas Markle as his 19th-floor Philippines apartment was rocked by an earthquake was the most surreal moment of my life, writes CAROLINE GRAHAM
As reunions go, it was not at all what I expected. Two hours after greeting my friend Tom Markle, the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father, in his 19th floor apartment in Cebu in the Philippines, on Tuesday night, the building started to sway...

ROI hails diplomatic breakthrough as lifeline for Filipino migrants
The Reformed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Initiative or ROI welcomes the latest diplomatic development following the apology from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Qatar’s Prime Minister and minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh...

Goulburn’s road less travelled leads to Filipino comfort food
Jonathan Manglinong cooks dishes from his home country, the Philippines. Photo: Tenele Conway. When one of Australia’s leading food publications ran a headline stating that Goulburn’s Tambayan Grill is serving some of the most exciting food in...