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This 2009, the Chinese Lunar Year Festival will start from 26 th of January. Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and …

Every last week of September, the bucolic and laid-back municipality of Lobo, celebrate it’s annual Anihan festival. This was incepted in 1999 by then Mayor Dr. Renato Perez. The festival aims to showcase the bountiful harvest of this another agricultural town of Batangas. At the same time, this is Lobo local …

  Ateneo de Manila University School of Business in now in Lipa City. The MBA in Lipa City is said to be designed mainly for Chinese professionals currently doing business in the Philippines and mainland Chinese students wanting to pursue their MBA at the Ateneo. Meanwhile, Mr. Albert Buenviaje, dean of the Ateneo …

January 20, 2009 is not only a day for the inauguration of the now, US President Barack Hussein Obama, but here in the local setting, it is also the celebration of the feats of the Lipenos patron, St. Sebastian. Early birds as what most of the people call the organizers …

Regarding job and working possibilities, do you want to have a job now at your young age? Or at your age, do you already ask yourself of how to still get a job? Apparently, people nowadays are really looking for a job which is easier to apply for and at …

One Friday morning, I went to visit my friend in Padre Garcia. I really miss this friend who’d been away for like a year now. I paid him a visit for I am into another agenda and that is to request him to write a song for me. (laughs) We were supposed to meet …

The heritage town of Taal is not just known with its balisong, the town is also the home of the bestest yet affordable wedding gowns and barong. What is burdang Taal? Burdang Taal refers to the long tradition of hand embroidery since the turn of the century executed on fabric, especially …

Today, January 1, 2009, the STAR Tollway Corporation (along with Coastal Road management) has increased the toll rates to about 18-25%. The STAR Tollway (Southern Tagalog Arterial Road) is the alternative way most Batanguenos use coming from and going to Manila. The main stops of STAR, also known locally as CALABARZON, are Lipa …