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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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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Walk down Dapitan in Quezon City in late August and the Santa Claus figurines are already hanging three deep from the ceiling. That is the signal. Ber months, parol lights on the jeepneys, and somewhere in the back of your head the thought you keep postponing: I should book that flight. Here is the uncomfortable
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In January 2025, Alex Eala played the qualifying draw at the Singapore Tennis Open and lost. She never made the main draw. Twenty months later she comes back to the same tournament seeded sixth, ranked 18 in the world, above the woman who won the title that year. And a session ticket starts at S$8.
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In 2012 Kach Medina Umandap was sitting in an office in Kuwait doing quality assurance paperwork, counting the months on a contract, doing the arithmetic every OFW knows by heart. Send money home. Renew. Repeat. On Thursday night she walks onto the Main Stage at SMX Convention Center Manila to launch a book with Penguin
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In August 2026, Alex Eala beat the world number three in a final and became the first Filipino ever to win a WTA Tour title. Two weeks later she was seeded 17th at the US Open. The part nobody is talking about is geography. Four of her next seven tournaments are in Asia, two of
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Cebu Pacific used to fly you straight from Manila to Siem Reap. That route has been gone since December 2019, and nobody seems to have told the blogs. Half the Filipino guides still ranking for this trip describe an airport that closed in 2023 and a nonstop flight that no longer exists. So before you
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