A six-year fishing ban has done wonders for the 129-hectare Colorada Point Marine Protected Area in Aroroy town in the province of Masbate, Philippines, as corals are thriving and the fish are back with sea turtles, lobsters, giant clams and other creatures.

The photograph shows a giant golden-crowned flying fox, a large bat native to the Philippines, which can have a wingspan of up to 5ft5in but is only around one foot in height Although the flying mammals can have wing-span of up to 5ft5in, slightly above the average height of women in the UK, the bats only grow to a height of around a foot.

The Exhibit, that is. Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms opened on September 10, 2015, in New York City at the Asia Society museum. The exhibit features exquisite pieces of gold jewelry and adornments found by one Berto Morales in a shallow mound in Surigao del Sur sometime in 1981.

It has raked in billions of dollars in foreign investments and attracted the biggest BPO companies of the world to set up camp here: Accenture and Transcom, just to name two. Moreover, the Philippines is slated to overtake India, currently the world’s BPO capital, in the near future.

The year was 1960, my dad had passed away the preceding year and my mom continued to manage our jewelry store, the Gem Gift Shop, on the Escolta. She was an ambitious entrepreneur. Realizing that the halcyon days of the Escolta were numbered, she decided to establish branches of our store in different locations.

"I don’t have to tell you that this is a day that is long, long overdue,” said U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan as he opened the ceremony honoring the Filipino veterans of World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award given by the U.S. Congress.

BAGUIO CITY — A treasure hunter asked the local government to allow him to dig up alleged truckloads of gold believed to be part of the World War II loot supposedly left by Japanese forces in a tunnel between the Baguio Convention Center and the University of the Philippines-Baguio residence hall for girls. Eliseo Cabusao Jr. who has written the city to exempt him from a local law banning treasure hunting, reportedly got a go signal from the National Museum last October to look for treasure.