In 2025, 885,100 Filipinos flew to Japan, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. That is about 2,400 Filipinos landing in Japan every day, and almost all of them needed a visa first. The route to that visa looks very different from when we wrote our first Japan guides in 2022. There is a visa […]
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Undas long weekend trips need sharper timing this year. All Saints’ Day lands on a Sunday this year, so the “long weekend” everyone is planning is really Saturday 31 October to Monday 2 November, three days, with most families spending at least one of them at the sementeryo. That leaves a tight window for a
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This post is sponsored by Preply. We were given access to the platform to try it for ourselves, but all opinions and experiences here are our own. I’ve been trying to learn Spanish, on and off, for years. And when I say trying, I mean I’ve done a little bit of everything. I’ve used language
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Two OFWs in Dubai send their padala on the same Monday morning. One pays AED 2,005 through Remitly and her mother in Batangas gets PHP 33,860 in her bank account. The other pays AED 2,000 on Wise with a debit card, and his family in Iloilo gets PHP 32,564. That is a PHP 1,296 gap
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She walked away from a WTA 1000 in Beijing to wear the flag at the Asian Games, reportedly willing to eat a $10,000 fine for it. That tells you who someone is. It also means the Chinese city worth flying to this October is not Beijing. It is Wuhan, where a round trip from Manila
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You get the notification, you drop everything, you fight the queue, and you win. Manila to Cebu, base fare PHP 1. Then you reach the payment screen and the number says PHP 903. You did nothing wrong. That is what a piso fare costs. The gap is not a trick and it is not hidden,
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After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have spent a lot more time outside Canada than the average vacation allows. We spent about five months in Australia, months at a time in other countries, and long enough in places like Spain, Portugal and Costa Rica to settle into some pretty ordinary routines.
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Ten route pages. One number. Manila to Cebu, a 90 minute hop, says book 40 days ahead. Manila to Los Angeles, seventeen hours with a stop, says book 40 days ahead. Cebu to Singapore, Manila to Dubai, Manila to Tokyo, all 40 days. That is not analysis, that is a template with the route name
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A Filipino developer I know spent four nights in a Bangkok hospital last year after a scooter clipped him on Sukhumvit. The bill came to about 380,000 baht, roughly PHP 660,000. He had PhilHealth. He had a travel policy he bought online before he flew out, eight months earlier. Neither one paid the hospital. He
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The Philippine Arena is not in Manila. It is in Bulacan, about 30 kilometers north of EDSA, past the Marilao exit on NLEX, in a 140 hectare complex with almost nothing around it. Fifty thousand people are going to find that out on the same night. Three nights, actually. If you got a ticket to
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