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7 Mistakes Tourists to the PH Make on Vacation
7 Mistakes Tourists to the PH Make on Vacation
The Philippines is one of Asia's top tourist destinations. In 2019, some 8.3 million people visited the country. It's known for its gorgeous natural landscape including white-sand beaches in Boracay, the Chocolate Hills in Bohol, and some of the best dive sites in the world in Palawan. These are just a few of the reasons why so many Americans have chosen to settle down here.
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Published at 2023-06-21 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Opinion, Travel
Tags: Manila, language
P1,000 Bill Named 'Bank Note of the Year'
P1,000 Bill Named 'Bank Note of the Year'
Bank note collectors and researchers around the world picked the Philippines’ polymer P1,000 bill as its “Bank Note of the Year 2022” in appreciation of its “eye-pleasing” design as well as its underlying promotion of ecological conservation. The Philippines' successful design in eye-pleasing blue combines an endangered species with an environmental motif.
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Published at 2023-05-04 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Business, Opinion
Tags: Polymer
The Power of Millennial Votes in Southeast Asia
The Power of Millennial Votes in Southeast Asia
In early 2019, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will go to polls in elections that will either continue the populist/authoritarian dynamics that has gripped the region, and the world, over the past few years or begin to halt it. All three countries have reached a critical crossroad with poll choices that could influence the destiny of the country for decades to come.
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Published at 2023-03-05 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Opinion, Politics, Society
Tags: Duterte, President, country
'Silence is No Longer an Option'
'Silence is No Longer an Option'
Nimfa Lanzanas is a model mother. Eversince the government imprisoned her son Edward, she attended court proceedings and also joined relatives of other political prisoners in a common cause.

Exactly what crime Nanay Nimfa has committed, only the government knows. But on what is now infamously known as Bloody Sunday, the government had her arrested and turned Nanay Nimfa into a political prisoner herself.
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Published at 2021-03-13 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Opinion, People, Society
Tags: Cavite, government
Opinion: Death in the Family
Opinion: Death in the Family
What were the top killer diseases? There was no update for the years 2019 and 2020 but in the year before that, the PSA reported that heart diseases, cancer and cerebrovascular diseases alone accounted for more than a third of those who died in 2018.

Based on our estimate, COVID-19 might explain only about 1.5 percent of total mortalities. Therefore, what is the big deal about the coronavirus? What is the urgency of getting effective, safe and available vaccines?
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Published at 2021-03-11 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Opinion, People
Tags: COVID-19, family
The Other Side of the Vax
The Other Side of the Vax
At the beginning of August, 2020, we wrote in this column the imperative to think and act outside the vax. If other nations’ authorities managed to mitigate the pandemic’s ruthless consequences on their people’s lives and livelihood, keep recession relatively mild and prevent joblessness from leading to suicide without vaccines, it is difficult why the Philippines has failed to do it.
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Published at 2020-12-03 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Opinion
Tags: COVID-19, Health, government, vaccine
Saying No to an Unjust System
Saying No to an Unjust System
Growing up in a poor family, I have always wanted to become rich and successful. I remember my childhood years when my relatives would often ask me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would eagerly answer, “I want to become a businessman and become rich.” I would assume that most people desire prosperity and abundance.
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Published at 2020-11-15 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Opinion, Religion
Tags: poverty