Pinoy Pedal Powered Washing Machine
I heard of foot pedalled washing machines before but it is quite unique to find a video of a pinoy seemingly happy with his "invention" and was even offering his services for a "name your price fee" or even for…
Filipino driver becomes company owner in Dubai
For many Filipino expats around the world, owning a business is a sign of success and a visible reminder of all the efforts and hardships that they have been through. This sentiment rings true for the estimated half a…
Rhino Bones Show Signs of Hunting by Early Humans
A 700,000-year-old butchered rhino carcass in the Philippines is rewriting the history of early human migration around the globe, and telling us more about a tool-using human relative that lived long before Homo sapiens ever existed. Researchers recently unearthed a rhino skeleton…
The Philippines Genocide 3 million Filipinos Killed
The Philippines Genocide is the genocide history forgot, you will find in history books the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902 but they fail to mention the genocide carried out by the United States of America on the people of the…
Filipino words in the Oxford English Dictionary
MANILA -- Did you know that more than 35 Filipino words have made it to the Oxford English Dictionary? In its 2016 update, words uniquely coined by Filipinos like “aggrupation,” “yaya,” and “tabo” were added to the international dictionary. In…
Pinay joins Israeli army unit that rescued her grandmother
JERUSALEM - Filipina Joana Chris Arpon's unusual journey to becoming one of the few non-Israeli and non-Jewish volunteers in Israel's military began with an earthquake - in the country her parents migrated from. The disaster in 2013 struck a region…
Comelec janitor-turned-researcher passes 2016 bar exams
Rommel Comendador – a 35-year-old husband and father of two who worked as a janitor and then legal researcher at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) – said he could not believe how lucky he was to pass the 2016 bar…
Filipina lawyer tops UK school
LONDON —Lawyer Rhio Fuentes-Nuylan walked up the stage of the esteemed Queen Mary University of London Tuesday afternoon after a year of postgraduate studies under the equally prestigious Chevening Scholarship, which is under the auspices of the British government. Graduating…