Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
At the corner of Don Apolinar Velez and Archbishop Santiago Hayes streets stands an unimposing two story brick building which has withstood ravages of time, the Philippine Revolution, the Philippine-American War, and World War II. It’s perhaps unfortunate how today, despite the quantum gains made by modern communications, few of Cagayan de Oro City’s growing …
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If you’ve always wanted to travel Asia but find the odds stacked up against you daunting, why not take a culinary tour instead? That’s what we managed to do in a mere 60 minutes (give or take some minutes for those who were tardy, ha ha!) at SM CDO Downtown’s Food Hall last weekend. With …
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Cagayan de Oro City – The Mindanao Development Authority pressed its urgent call for energy stakeholders to proactively accelerate the targeted energy mix of 50/50 fossil/renewable energy mix in Mindanao by 2030. In his keynote speech read by Director Olie B. Dagala during the opening of the Mindanao Clean Energy Forum 2024 held 12 September …
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Barely a year before Cagayan de Oro is projected to become the Philippines fourth metropolitan center, the tourism and hospitality industry appears to have the inside track to being first on the finish line with three international chain hotels, an international branded apartment hotel, and a resort hotel by a local brand with a decades …
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Forty six years after I first heard it, I finally found the composers and the group which played a tune I first heard as a college student in Zamboanga City and decided then and there, this was going to be played during my wedding in the future. “Sweet Summer Love” is the 2nd cut …
