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Former Sagada’s Town Mayor Pooten, Retired St Lukes Hospital Nurse, 2 others dies in a Canada car crash just few hours after a cryptic post
Just few hours after her cryptic post, a retired St Lukes Hospital Nurse, her husband former Sagada Town Mayor James Pooten Jr and 2 other relatives die in a car crash, just a week after their arrival in Canada; adding to the more than 10 Filipinos who died involving car accidents in Canada within the…
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Philippines sends fighting team, 22 Athletes to Paris World Olympics 2024
The Philippines sends its 22 delegates as fighting team for its participation at the 2024 Paris Olympics games. The Paris Summer Games opens early Saturday (Philippine time) and the 22 Philippine athletes from athletics, boxing, fencing, golf, gymnastics, judo, rowing, swimming, and weightlifting will give their best shut to bring home medals. Olympic silver medalists…
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Sen. Robin “Bad Boy” Padilla, The Adopted Igorot, a Tagalog Muslim Honorary Kailian of Baguio
Robinhood Ferdinand Cariño Padilla , aka Robin Padilla, is a Filipino actor, film director and politician. He was born on 23 November 1969 in Daet, Camarines Norte to Casimero “Roy” Padilla Sr. and Lolita Eva Cariño. Many people in Cordillera lead to believe that Padilla is a half-Ibaloi from his mother’s side; however, no evidence supports it, although Ibaloi representatives of…
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Super Typhoon tried and tested BBM’s 5500 Flood Control Projects. It’s weak!, says Filipinos.
BBM presented with pride his 5500 flood control projects worth P244B during his SONA, and after 2 days, it was tried and tested by Super Typhoon Carina.The weakness were witnessed by at least 31M Filipinos, seeing the massive floods across the country. Philippines indeed has money. Philippines is not poor. It can buy and build…
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“Babaklaem ya”- LBTQs, How we treat them in Cordillera
We can call them bakla, bading, shokla, antey, tita and even SIR, or tomboy with respect, confidence and acceptance. There had been no problems no matter how we call the LBTQs in the Cordillera. It’s because they never demanded respect from the community, instead they feel already well-privileged to be accepted in a conservative Cordilleran…
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Alex Eala, the first Filipino player to win a junior Grand Slam singles title wins both Single & Double titles in International Tennis Federation Tournament 2024
Alexandra Eala, the first Filipino player to win a junior Grand Slam singles title in 2022, took another significant forward stride on the ITF World Tennis Tour this weekend after winning both the singles and doubles titles in the tournament held in Spain. The 19-year-old from the Philippines previously won four professional titles. Although, her win were outside the entry…
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Session Road, Baguio City- The Art Street of the Philippines
Session Road, Baguio City- has become the art street of the Philippines, not because of historical artistic obras of known artists but for serving as an open medium for everyone to express their artistic minds thru visual and performing arts. Despite the traffic problems, the City Government of Baguio has opened Session Road to the…
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“Gawin mo yan sa Mindanao” challenge
“Gawin mo yan sa Mindanao” is a comment we see on social media which confuses readers on what it really means. Knowing most people from Mindanao who migrated to Baguio are entrepreneurs, we could understand it as, like in this picture, “buy one, take one.” Although it is obvious that the comment has a double…
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Ilocano not Igorot, not an Aeta, Krishna Marie Gravidez wins Miss World Philippines 2024
Not Igorot, not Aeta but an Ilocano of Baguio wins Miss World Philippines 2024, following the recent public anger when Aetas were mistakenly said to be in Itogon, Benguet by a popular blogger and a veteran broadcaster. A perfect example of point of view of humans, disowning what they hate and embracing what that gives…
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Ilocanos and Igorots treat animals equal
Ilocanos and Igorots, being regionally close to each other, have a lot in common. They share commonalities on their language hence they can understand each other. They also share the same attitude towards animals. They don’t discriminate dogs, from goats, pigs, cows, cats, chicken, carabao, etc. They treat them all the same and equal. This…