This is basically a brief history of Philippine Airlines and my personal experiences with flights to and from the Philippines.

I'm not making this stuff up. Philippines flights both to and from the United States can get quite expensive as I found out when I got stuck using Continental Airlines in March of 2008. Not only was

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This is the story of how my son started in a nursing school in the Philippines in 2006 and is now in his third year. I then went on to mention some of the things he required, such as nursing shoes and then provided information on George Dewey Medical college.

This actually an example that I'll be using for the next installm

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This is the story of how Jollibee Philippines kicked the tar out of the intruding McDonald's fast-food franchise when it invaded the Philippines.

At present, there are four Jollibee stores in Olongao City, Philippines and many more in big locations like Manila. The Jollibee Food Corporation also owns "Chow King" and there

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This post is about the planner that the Belle De Jour team in the Philippines came up with which is called the Belle De Jour power planner. It is not just a planner. It also includes several discount coupons from the hippest establishments in the co

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My paternal grandfather is from this island, a place known for its stone houses and its incessant typhoons. It is also known for its people, whose daily lives are still lived in pure simplicity and honesty.Although Philippines is said to be one of the most corrupt countries in Asia, this island proves that there are places in the Philippines

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This is the story of how I learned to bank in the Philippines. Moving from the US to the Philippines is an ordeal in itself. Imagine how difficult it is to make sure you have access to money earned in the US, while living in the Philippines.

Banking in the Philippines isn't difficult if you know where to go to open a US dol

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Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz are two champions of the boxing ring squaring off on June 28 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Who will win? Just can't wait for the fight results. Fight fans have arrived and made this city a sort of a mecca for boxing. The Pacquiao Diaz fight is sure to be explosive as both t

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Well, if you are busy, young, or a professional from the middle class, poverty comes to mind usually when a community activity has been conducted in the slums, or when it is reported on TV - along the squatters’ areas, or in a far off barrio in the

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I've been in contact with two people who control media offline. One of them is an old Filipino friend of mine and he's planning to publish some of my Philippines-related articles in a print newspaper in the United States.

The other person is the celebrity known as Art Bell, a radio personality who went into retirement (at

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I did an exhaustive search for Philippines hotel and resort offering on the net to see if I could find a consolidated list and guess what? I couldn't find one.

I compared a lot of the websites I found with the hotels category in the local yellow pages and saw there were a lot of hotels that weren't listed at all and some o

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My paternal grandfather is from this island, a place known for its stone houses and its incessant typhoons. It is also known for its people, whose daily lives are still lived in pure simplicity and honesty. It was featured in a television show before that there is a store in Batanes where the owner leaves the store unmanned, the items are lef

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A Filipino walks into a bank in
New York City and asks for the loan officer.
He tells the loan officer that he is going to the Philippines on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer tells him that the bank
will need some form of security for the loan,
so the Filipino hands over the ke

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I was in front of my pc at 2:20 early this morning when i noticed that the table and monitor was slightly moving but i didn't gave it a serious thought for a second coz it coincide with the start up of the A/C's compressor from idle mode. I was thinking it was just due to the vibration on the bedroom walls created by the A/C.

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Willy Wang won the gold medal in the combined events of men’s nanquan and nangun (bare fists) held at the Olympic Sports Center. Wang scored 9.74 points during his performance and lead a close point against Brazil who was second with 9.72, followed by Macau at third with 9.71 and Taipeh in fourth with 9.70.

"We have a stron

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Started with 15 gorgeous male hopeful candidates of Mister Philippines International 2008 (Jefff Surio, Juan Lorenzo 'Enzo' Quitiquit, Leo Reyes, Christian Ang-Cayabyab, Bryan Baculi, Philip Ramos, Aaron Jimenez, John Bardo 'JB' Espiritu, Ian Leonel Porlayagan, Mike Lee, Ricswartz 'RS' Sibal, Dennis Torres, Ryan Roberts,

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The evening started with 88 delegates with a background of tourists spots of thier own native country as they introduced themselves in a video. The event were hosted by MTV Vj Greg "Utt" Uttsada and Miss Earth 2004 from Brazil, Priscilla Meirelles. Then, they announced the Special Awards:

Miss Friendship: LEBANON Amale Al-Khoder
Miss Ta

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Following the poor performance of the Philippines in the Miss Universe Pageant since 2000, there are reports that ABS-CBN is bidding to get the franchise from Miss Universe Organization to be the country’s national director who will get to choose and send delegates to the most prestigious beauty contest in the world.

Many pa

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