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Does anybody know the covid requirements for Filipinos traveling within country? Cebu Pacific website is not very clear. Is a 72 hour test required, or just show a vaccine record and wear a mask?...

I'm not surprised by this. Having been with Koreans doing the bar scene in Seoul I always sensed that much of the purpose was to show off arm candy to their friends.

I'd say Americans were the lesser of two evils--by a wide margin. It is also true that the US benefited substantially from Filipino guerillas, both in sharing intelligence and planning for the...

M, you're probably right about trikes and jeepneys, but maybe he should try each once, just to say he did. The jeepney is the more challenging of the two, because there's a steeper learning curve:...

You are correct about xenophobia, but I'm not convinced that Clark, Taft, and MacArthur are reflections of affection. There has long been an underlying resentment toward the US, and this was the...

Agreed Rog. It looks real ugly. Thanks for filling in the pieces. Soapy.

The xenophobia is tough to ignore. In the past I foolishly engaged him in conversations, including a silly discussion about the threats of serial killers hovering around sex worker establishments. I...

The Philippines has experienced its first major storm of 2022, Tropical Storm Megi, Philippine name Agaton. It hit over the past weekend but accurate reports on deaths and displacements are just now...

HK, here's a tip for using the reply with quote function. Usually, you don't need to leave all of the previous post intact. You can easily delete part of an earlier post. When you click on reply with...

AP has given a lot of good advice. I will add a few things. Take your American prescriptions. I suspect most pharmacies will recognize them. On the other hand, I have often walked into pharmacies in...

Or you might have been lucky. First time I took a p4p from LA Cafe about 15 years ago she told me I should be careful with my money. "Some of the girls will steal from you when you go in the CR. "...

Agreed, and the same holds for large sums of Philippine pesos. Hotel employees may well know how to defeat the hotel's own room safe.

I always carry a product called pac-safe. It's like a canvas...

I agree. Furthermore, these guys drive for a living and know their way around. And they speak the language to ask for directions to places they don't know. Most are decent chaps and some of them can...

I find this advice confusing. First, P10 K is only $200 US. My recollection is similar to MontanaMonger: a limit of the equivalent of $10 K US for entering the country.

Second, your "Do Not...

Good catch. Even more important, there's no specific mention of sex tourists. If they really wanted tourists back, surely they would have made reference to sex tourists. I guess we're back on hold.

I looked up your source. TeleSUR is an "alternative" "news" outlet hosted by the Venezuelan government and initially created by Hugo Chavez in 2007. I think it's helpful to consider the possible...

Considering the accomplishments of her parents, I suspect Vice President Harris is not retarded. And I suspect she knows the differences in meaning between "plane" and "plain." And there are, of...

Lots of reasons to criticize USAID. Like large international NGOs they are very Western in their thinking, and those models often do not match realities on the ground in developing countries. But...

As Datiao points out, I was a bit hasty in my claim that there's no international governmental assistance for Rai's devastation. For example, UNICEF claims to be on the scene:
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I think you missed the point. Some of the Southern Leyte family members had previously traveled several days all the way to Manila by bus, but not under these desperate conditions. The demolition of...

This story should give a sense of the desperate situation in the parts of the Philippines that were hit by the typhoon. I have friends in Southern Leyte in the municipality of St. Bernard. Their...

Sounds like she needs a more extended hospital stay than she originally anticipated.

The good fortune of that family, aside from losing part of their roof, was having concrete walls for the house. Imagine those whose walls are woven bamboo and coco wood framing. Some of these videos...

Another explanation is that Bohol and Cebu may not have heeded evacuation orders as seriously. Many of the 6,000 plus deaths from Yolanda, centered in Tacloban, were because squatters near the Leyte...

More recent reports say the toll is approaching 400. I have read reports about highest casualties in Bohol, and maybe Cebu second. I was surprised about this, because the map shows it was a category...