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Women's World Cup: Euphoria in Philippines After Historic Campaign

The Philippines has bowed out of the Women's World Cup after a euphoric campaign that united a country where football is not the national sport. It was a "magical" debut that saw the country's first World Cup goal and gave birth to new sport idols, the Philippine Football Federation said.

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Published at 2023-07-29 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Entertainment, Recreation, Sport

Tags: Filipino, country, football

New Immigration Operation Centre in Philippines Part of Canada’s Bid to Attract

Canada has opened a new immigration operation centre in the Philippines to get ahead in the global race for health care labour even as the Southeast Asian country struggles with an exodus of its workers.

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Published at 2023-03-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Legal

Tags: Filipino, Global, Health, Manila, Workers, immigration

Bryan Adams Shares What He Thinks of Filipino Fans

Bryan Adams would love to hear recommendations from Filipino fans on which of his songs they want him to play at his upcoming Manila concert. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter is currently doing the Asia leg of his So Happy It Hurts Tour and he’s visiting Manila again for his March 15 show at the Araneta Coliseum. And if fans have any suggestions and requests, they can just send them to him via Instagram.

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Published at 2023-03-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Leisure

Tags: Filipino, love

Audacity of Austerity: the Art of Arturo Luz

National Artist for Visual Arts Arturo Luz, who passed away on May 26 at 94, was known for his pictorial severity and muted elegance. His acclaimed paintings and sculptures are geometric and linear explorations that reflect his spartan but celebratory aesthetic. In his art is the audacity of austerity.

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Published at 2021-06-03 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts

Tags: Filipino, National

Musician Troy Laureta Honors Filipino Roots with a New Album

Filipino-American Musical Director Troy Laureta is using the success he's found in mainstream music to put Filipino music in the spotlight - a genre known as O.P.M., which stands for Original Pilipino Music.

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Published at 2021-06-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Leisure

Tags: Filipino, music

‘Pastillas’ Scam ‘mafia’ Tagged in Trafficking of Filipino Women

The group at the Bureau of Immigration allegedly behind the controversial “pastillas” scam was tagged in another scheme, this time, involving the outbound trafficking of Filipino women to Syria.

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Published at 2021-03-24 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Legal, News and Events

Tags: Filipino, country, immigration, women

Pope Praises Filipino Catholics as Joyful Witnesses of the Gospel

The joy of the Gospel has been an integral part of the Filipino identity since the arrival of Christianity in the Southeast Asian country five centuries ago, Pope Francis said.

Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines March 15, the pope told members of Rome’s Filipino community that evangelical zeal is a “part of your genes, a blessed ‘infectiousness’ that I urge you to preserve.”

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Published at 2021-03-15 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Religion

Tags: Filipino, love

PH's Grade 4 Students Lowest in Math, Science Around the World — Int'l Study

Filipino students ranked lowest among 58 countries in an international assessment for mathematics and science for Grade 4 students, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 (TIMSS) uncovered.

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Published at 2020-12-10 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Technology

Tags: Filipino, international, science, students

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 at 2020-09-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, History, Stories

Tags: Filipino, Rizal, country, government, love, story

Search on for 14 Missing After Boat Collision

Rescuers from the Philippine Coast Guard on Monday were searching for 14 people who went missing after a local fishing boat collided with a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel and sank off the coast of Mamburao town in Occidental Mindoro province early Sunday.

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Published at 2020-06-30 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, News and Events, Politics

Tags: Chinese, Filipino, fishing

Why the F in ‘Filipino’ and How Did It Get There?

"Purist” Tagalog speakers, the superannuated academic, and sometimes the man on the street, will all insist that the letter F does not exist in the Tagalog language. One can never hear it, they say, in everyday speech. On the other hand, the same speakers whose parents were more or less educated in the old Hispanized orthography, or later in American English, do in fact use the letter F in pronouncing surnames like Fernandez or first names like Fidel.

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Published at 2019-08-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Humor

Tags: Filipino, Tagalog, language

Pakikipagkapwa-tao

Pakikipagkapwa-tao means relating to someone else as a fellow human being. Filipinos most evidently exemplify pakikipagkapwa-tao through the practices of bayanihan and the ‘boodle fight’. The former is more widely done in rural areas of the country. When one person needs to accomplish a task (such as moving house) for example, the whole community pitches in to help – no questions asked.

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Published at 2019-04-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Society

Tags: Filipino, people

11 Things You Should Know about Filipino Culture

What is it about the Philippines that makes it different from the rest of the world? Well, for one thing, it is all about their culture. Here are 11 things you should know about Filipino culture that sets them apart from any other nation on the planet.

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Published at 2018-09-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Society

Tags: Filipino, Filipino, family

11 Things You Should Know about Filipino Culture

What is it about the Philippines that makes it different from the rest of the world? Well, for one thing, it is all about their culture. Here are 11 things you should know about Filipino culture that sets them apart from any other nation on the planet.

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Published at 2018-09-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Society

Tags: Filipino, Filipino, family

Speaking in Tongues: How Storytelling Shapes Philippine Languages

'People contextualize their language when they tell a story'

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Published at 2018-08-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Opinion

Tags: English, English language, Filipino, culture