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Calauit Island, former home to Tagbanua people turned Marcoses’ safari, reopens to tourists

Located in Palawan, the 3,700-hectare island/wildlife park is home to giraffes, zebras, waterbucks and elands that the Marcos family original shipped from Kenya

Jones Bridge before the WWII fallout as seen in Juan Arellano’s original design

The original signed print by the notable architect shows French influences on this gilded neoclassical masterpiece

5 homegrown fiction novels to boost your political knowledge

For years, the Philippines’ political environment has been a melting pot of social injustices and…

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Learn about heritage conservation through these NHCP activities lined up this August

When the first of August marks the calendar of any Filipino household, we usually start…

LIST: Where to shop for rotary phones, turntables, and other vintage items

As ironic as it sounds, vintage will never get old. The mystique of antiques won’t…

Tour and tinker around 1600s Binondo in Chinatown’s interactive museum

The world’s oldest Chinatown is known for a lot of things: authentic Chinese cuisine, a church…

Ayala Museum is now on YouTube, uploading videos on PH art and ethnography

It may have closed its museum doors for renovations, but that won’t be stopping Ayala…

Sa langit mong bughaw: Tracing the many shades of blue of the Philippine flag

The flag’s horizontal blue field has actually been the subject of many debates in history

Salvaged materials helped save severely damaged Bohol churches

When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Bohol and other parts of Visayas on Oct. 15,…

IN PHOTOS: Centuries-old church artifacts fill three-story Museo de Intramuros

The famous walled city of Manila, which is already bursting with historical sites, has a…