General Douglas MacArthur’s Personal Airplane Flies Again

When president Harry S. Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, then commander of the United Nations Command forces fighting during the Korean War, on April 11, 1951, for “failing to respect the authority of the President” the famed Army leader flew home from Japan aboard his personal airplane, a Lockheed Constellation he dubbed “Bataan”.

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Published on 30/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: History, Stories
Tags: Bataan, MacArthur, President, flight

Shipwreck Discovery Shines Light on Buffalo Treasure

A ship-wreck recently discovered off the coast of the Philippines, is shining a light on a dying breed of ships. The USS Johnston had not been seen in nearly eight decades and sits more than 20,000 feet under the water, deeper than the Titanic.

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Published on 11/04/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: History, Stories

Mysterious Monoliths Started Appearing on the Faces of the Earth

First, a mysterious silver metal monolith appeared in Utah desert after County Rangers have discovered in it a remote public land spotted on 18 November by state helicopter crews helping wildlife biologists count bighorn sheep. It appeared to be made of stainless steel. Since its discovery, curious crowds have gathered in this parcel of land to post on social media and investigate its true nature.

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Published on 01/12/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Stories
Tags: mystery

70 Dogs and Cats Rescued in Bulacan

At least 53 dogs, including four pregnant ones, and 17 cats abandoned by their owners on the island community of Taliptip in Bulacan before the onset of Super Typhoon Rolly were rescued last week by the Animal Kingdom Foundation and San Miguel Corporation.

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Published on 01/12/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Environment, Stories
Tags: Island, animals

Documentary on Marawi Wins 'Golden Hercules Award' in Germany

A documentary film on the Marawi Siege and its aftermath won the Golden Hercules Award, one of the top prizes of this year’s Kasseler Dokfest in Germany. ‘A House in Pieces’ made by Mindanawon filmmaker Jean Claire Dy and German national Manuel Domes, was chosen winner, because according to Franziska Wank, one of the jurors, the documentary “is just as moving as it is magnificent in technical design.”

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Published on 23/11/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, Stories
Tags: Marawi

A Philippine Community Sees Life-saving Payoffs from Restoring Its Mangroves

The initial 50 hectares has expanded to 220 hectares (544 acres), thanks to both ongoing planting efforts and natural reforestation. The Kalibo mangrove is considered a major tourist attraction; in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mangrove forest registered 38,455 foreign and local tourists, and the Kalibo Save the Mangrove Association (KASAMA), founded by the planters, has received several national awards.

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Published on 23/11/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Environment, Fauna and flora, Stories
Tags: Aklan, DENR, Kalibo, Program, Project, fishing, forest, illegal, mangrove, typhoon

The 'Slow Burn' of the Young

Chef Chryso Morales was executive chef of a resort-hotel in Boracay and consultant to a hospitality school that was thinking of putting up a culinary center. All was well until, well, the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Now, he is among those displaced in the tourism industry.

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Published on 14/11/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Food and Dining, Stories
Tags: COVID-19, economy

Earning from Learning, Living and Loving

Borongan City, Eastern Samar – Packs and jars of Triple L banana chips have been on the shelves of some I85 supermarkets all over the country since Sept. 2019, but only a few know that it comes from a factory in the remote village of Rizal in the 5th-class municipality of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar.

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Published on 15/11/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, People, Stories
Tags: Banana

Lost Surfboard in Hawaii Found 8,000km Away in the Philippines

When big wave surfer Doug Falter lost his board in a wipeout in Hawaii, his best hope was for a local fisherman to pick it up. He never imagined it would be found more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) away in the southern Philippines.

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Published on 22/09/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Leisure, Sport, Stories

Portrait of the Philippines: 500 Years Without Love

Five Hundred Years Without Love is the thought-provoking title of a new book launched on National Heroes Day, by bestselling author Alex Lacson.

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Published on 06/09/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, History, Stories
Tags: Filipino, Rizal, country, government, love, story

Netizens Help Consolacion Widow Care for Her Pets

Netizens heard her appeal for help. Nanay Natie received donations of food both for herself and the 10 pets that she is taking care of. Representatives of Hope for Strays, a group that solicits donations for stray animals, sent the donation to Nanay Natie’s place.

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Published on 24/06/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, People, Stories
Tags: Puto

From a Philippine Conflict Hotspot, a New Insect-eating Plant Emerges

Scientists have discovered a new insect-eating pitcher plant, Nepenthes cabanae, in the Philippines’ southern Mindanao region. Thriving in a small area within a known conflict zone, the pitcher plant has already been declared critically endangered.

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Published on 22/06/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Stories
Tags: Mindanao, mountains, mountains, tribal

Story of Survival Comes to Stony Plain

Gracia Burnham was a prisoner of Islamic militants in the Philippines and was constantly moved through the jungle in order to stay one step ahead of the Southeast Asian nation's armed forces.

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Published on 21/09/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: News and Events, Stories

That Jesuit Bell

Find out the story behind an ancient bell, thick with green patina, enshrined right at the entrance of Robinson’s mall on Padre Faura Street.

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Published on 28/02/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Stories

Pieces of the (Midnight) Sun: Sketches of an Alaskero

They were the summers of my youth, the summers of life. I started working in Alaska in 1966 when I was just finishing my twenty-first year. When I came home to San Francisco just before the Fall to start school again, I was a father. That was my first year in Alaska. It would be fourteen more consecutive summers before I would see what would become my final trip to South Naknek in Bristol Bay, the salmon goldmine of the world.

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Published on 28/02/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Lifestyle, Stories
Tags: Salmon