A South Korea prototype could provide a 12,000-person floating neighborhood.
Feel free to bicker about the name floating city vs. floating district, but for the 12,000 people expected to live on a floating pontoon design off the coast of Buson, South Korea, the project continuing to move forward may provide the ...
Margarita Hiroko Koyama, 82, waited decades before being recognized as a Japanese by the Japanese government. But when she got a Japanese visa, the Philippine government fined her P2 million.
A Filipino-Japanese woman, 82, returned home to Japan after her Japanese father left her in the Philippines during World War II in 1945.This is the story of Margarita Hiroko Koyama, who lived in Digos, Davao del Sur.She returned home ...
A thrifter who loves buying second-hand items bought this old trunk at an antique shop for just $90 (P5,000). It turned out to be a designer item valued at $20,000 (P1 million).
It was a lucky day for one particular shopper when she got her hands on a limited edition designer items at a bargain price in an antique shop.The branded luggage, which was initially thought to be fake, was revealed to have ...
The Iniistius Bakunawa is the latest species of Razor Wrasse, and it's named after Philippine mythology's great moon eater.
Researchers from the Australian Museum, the National Museum of the Philippines, and the University of the Philippines have just discovered an interesting new species of Razor Wrasse fish. The Iniistius Bakunawa happens to be a fish that has been named after Visayan ...
Meet Dalbong, the Filipino corgi who's become an international sensation.
Dalbong, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, has been making headlines all over the world recently, and for good reason. He just became the Best of Breed champion in his class at the World Dog Show 2023 held in Geneva, Switzerland.The Swiss Champion ...
Quezon City ranked top 1 in Asia, and top 2 in the world.
Quezon City has been named Asia's top destination for architecture lovers, according to a study by Buildworld. The city also ranked top 2 in the world for the best destinations for architecture lovers.Quezon City Memorial Shrine"Buildworld identified the top ...
The brains belonged to indigenous Filipinos who were brought to the U.S. for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair as part of its human zoo.
The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington are reportedly working together to bring home the Filipino remains stored in the latter's controversial "Racial Brains Collection," the Department of Foreign Affairs ...
A sea snake that doesn't live in the sea, the Taal Lake Sea Snake is one of only two true freshwater sea snakes in the world.
Taal Lake has one of the more peculiar ecosystems known to man. It has once been home to bull sharks and still has a considerable population of Maliputo and Tawilis in it. And even has snakes, a particular species that is among ...
No matter how much you love your cat, try not to smother them with love and affection. They need their space.
Cat energy is on a whole other level. If dogs were addicted to love and affection, cats couldn't care less. In fact, a study found that cats adore people who can't stand them.According to animal behavior scientists at Nottingham ...
Masungi Georeserve is not only a rich biodiverse sanctuary. It is also a rich site containing pieces of earth's prehistoric past, preserved in fossils.Early in July 2023, Masungi's defenders and some researchers from the UP National Institute of Geological ...
The Ayta Magbukun, who mostly occupy the Bataan Peninsula, carry more Denisovan DNA than the Papuan Highlanders.
The Denisovans only become known to science in 2010, when their finger bones and teeth were found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia. They happen to be our extinct relatives, and that's about all we know.Most of their people's ...
They used it to communicate feelings away from the prying eyes of men.
It's not uncommon to see women having a bond so enduring and impenetrable that it transcends even blood relations and friendships. We're talking about sisterhood, the universal language of female solidarity, a shared principle born out of the necessity to ...
Could our islands really be the ancient city of Ophir?
On Monday (July 30), Rep. Dan Fernandez of the lone district of Santa Rosa, Laguna delivered a privilege speech that was noteworthy mostly because he gave credence to theories that the Philippines is, in fact, the biblical city of Ophir. Ophir what?! ...
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