IT’S that time of the year again when the temperature dips to chill the bones and the festive fever rises to its peak. Panagbenga indeed can be called the festival of festivals when colors of fire and hues of pastels swirl in street dances and barren grounds in the city…
The Philippines is a country that loves its culture, its crops and celebrations! Take part in the dancing, the eating and the partying this 2023. Here are upcoming festivals celebrating a province’s best crop or giving thanks for an abundant harvest.
Banana Festival | Baco, Davao del Norte
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TURNING 'SPIDERMAN'. Mau Victa, a photojournalist based in Baguio City changes his outfit to become Spiderman to give joy to people, like this little girl in an evacuation center in Poland during a July 2022 visit sponsored by the European Union. Victa said the Spiderman mask is always in his bag and brings it out whenever necessary to lighten the mood or to bring out a smile from a sad face. (PNA photo courtesy of Mau Victa) BAGUIO CITY - A photojournalist in the city is dressing up as the fictional superhero "Spiderman" not to catch bad guys but to give joy to the public on Sundays, when the Session Road becomes exclusive to pedestrians for a weekend market. "Diversion ko ito kasi masaya ako na nakakapagpasaya ako ng ibang tao, lalo na ang mga bata (This is my diversion because I am able to make other people happy, especially kids)," said Mau Victa, a correspondent of the national broadsheet Business Mirror and the local weekly newspaper Baguio Chronicle i
Another 28 areas will be placed under Alert Level 3 from January 14 to 31, according to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), which issued its Resolution No. 156-C on Thursday. Among the areas to be placed under the higher Alert Level 3 are Benguet, Kalinga…