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Filipinos helping Filipinos : AGRI EYES OVERSEAS WORKERS TO FINANCE POOR RICE FARMERS

By Manny Piñol Inspired by the success of a group of Dubai-based Overseas Filipino Workers who financed organic rice farmers in North Cotabato, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) is now...

Pangasinan hosts Luzon cluster

SECOND MANGO STAKEHOLDERS FORUM SET IN LINGAYEN AUG. 11 By Manny Piñol The Second Regional Mango Stakeholders Forum aimed at crafting a 5-Year Road Map for the Philippine Mango Industry will be held...

22 Chefs cook off at 2017 Global Taste of Korea

Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, in partnership with Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) Culinary Institute recently held the 2017 Global Taste of Korea Cooking Contest at LPU Culinary Institute,...

Unity in diversity among Marawi evacuees

MANILA, July 28 -- For several weeks now, the gymnasium in Maria Cristina, Lanao del Norte has been home to hundreds of evacuees who fled the armed conflict in Marawi City. The...

Who’s smuggling carrots?

Who's smuggling carrots? SURPRISE VISIT IN TANAUAN MARKET CONFIRMS SMUGGLING IS THRIVING By Manny Piñol Tanauan City, Batangas - In the first leg of my 3-province swing for the Biyaheng Bukid, I made an alarming...

Massacre of 50,000 Samareños : PRES. DUTERTE’S BALANGIGA NARRATIVE A REPLY TO U.S. CONGRESS RIGHTS PROBE

By Sec. Manny Piñol Early in September of 2016, while I was in Borongan, Eastern Samar, I received a call from President Rody Duterte instructing me to proceed to Sulu to check...

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