Filipinos are among Asia’s most optimistic about aging but remain structurally unprepared for longer lifespans, a disconnect that underscores how lifestyle aspirations are changing faster than the country’s savings habits. A new Manulife study shows retirement planning in the Philippines…
Long after most travelers would consider their life list complete, Miami-based Filipina-American Luisa Yu has refused to slow down. At 81, the woman who finished visiting all 193 UN-recognized countries in 2023 has instead sought out even harsher frontiers and…
As 2025 comes to a close, Google’s latest Year in Search offers a sharp look at the questions, obsessions, and cultural shifts that shaped how Filipinos navigated an unpredictable year. Rather than tallying the most common searches, Google tracks the…
Swiss luxury watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre’s latest Made of Makers collaboration foregrounds a Filipino creator: Cebu-based webcomic artist Olivecoat (Lily Mae Young-Catan) was commissioned to reimagine the Reverso’s origin as a vertical-scroll, archive-inspired webcomic. The project reframes the Reverso not as an…
As artificial intelligence blurs the boundaries between inspiration and imitation, the Philippines’ creative sector is facing a new urgency: protecting the very ideas that fuel its growth. During the opening of Design Week Philippines, Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines…
Bamboo scaffolding was being pointed as the main culprit in the deadly Tai Po fire in Hong Kong. That accusation, made as flames raced up seven residential towers, killing 151 people, including a Filipino domestic worker, and leaving 40 missing,…
Investors navigating the Philippine market are behaving as if they are changing lanes on a busy highway: even as stocks slow to a crawl under the weight of a deepening flood-control scandal, traffic in government bonds is moving steadily—and in…
Today, November 30, Bonifacio Day, we remember Andrés Bonifacio as the “Father of the Philippine Revolution”. But did you know that before he became the country’s proto–revolutionary icon, Bonifacio lived another life—one strikingly familiar to the world we inhabit now?…
The Mariners Club in Hong Kong reopened on November 18 after seven years of redevelopment and a 2023 construction-site fire that nearly derailed the project. Its return revives a long-standing haven for international crews, among them the many Filipino seafarers…
Most people discover their culture through school lessons, family keepsakes, or childhood rituals. Robert Lane found his by choice, devoting his life in the Philippines to a decades-long mission to document and protect a heritage not originally his own. At…
