‘No pain, no gain’ in education
As many would agree, surviving college is not
an easy task and completing a degree takes a significant chunk of this
challenge. We also know that...
The city’s changing skyline
Visitors coming to the city now will not recognize it when they come back five years from now if they just look at it...
DAVAO: FROM MURDER CITY TO ONE OF WORLD’S SAFEST CITIES
“MURDER City” -- that was how the defunct Asiaweek described
Davao City in the early 1980s. Each day, some two to three people
were killed and thrown in the...
DAVAO CITY: A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST
On March 16, 1521, the Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan (from which Magallanes Street was named after),
working under the auspices of Spain, rediscovered the Philippines (named...
Palatable Paradise: Davao embraces local flavours
Food speaks of an infinite language that only the palate understands. It speaks of life – the very reason that fuels one to go...
DAVAO CITY AS TOURIST DESTINATION
If there’s one
business that is profitable in Davao City, it’s definitely
tourism. It has already ready consumers – from local, national and
international.
Although 89% of those
who came...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH DATU BAGO LAUREATES
Before Davao City came into
existence, there was already Datu Bago who, according to some Spanish
documents, was a villain.
Datu Bago was
considered as such because he...
Governance and other things that foreigners like about Davao
BORROWING the
sobriquet bestowed by the defunct Asiaweek magazine, Davao City has become “one
of the most livable in Asia”.
Today, Davao City is
one of the country’s...
Araw ng Davao Supplement
This year’s 82nd Araw ng Davao celebration led by no less than City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is inspired by the people of Davao themselves.
No...
Mainstreaming the Halal industry
In
most tourist destinations in the world, among the come-ons are their culinary
industry.
In
Asia, even non-Islamic countries like Thailand and Singapore have ventured into
strengthening their Halal...