Cagayan de Oro City’s luxury boutique hotel and the Philippines leading food service company have been undertaking the enviable goal to level up Northern Mindanao’s culinary experience. For the last decade, Limketkai Luxe Hotel and Unilever Food Solutions Philippines (UFS Philippines) have been conducting product demonstrations and trainings to make life easier in the kitchen for …
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Putting Science on the Folklore of Kagay-an’s Big Fish
One of Cagayan de Oro’s legends which persists to this day tells of the Big Fish that inhabits the Cagayan River. Even as early as the Spanish colonial period, tales of the denizen of the deep abounded, such as one which relates how the priests from St Augustine Church once took care of it before …
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A Life of Art – TRES MARIAS exhibition at Xavier Ateneo Museo de Oro
A family of artists are holding an art exhibition from August 9 to September 6, 2025 at the Fr. Demetrio Art Gallery of XU Museo de Oro, Xavier Ateneo Downtown Campus, Corrales Avenue, Cagayan de Oro City. Opening reception is on August 9, Saturday, at 3pm. Everyone is encouraged to visit the gallery and enjoy …
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A Brief History of the Catholic Diocese of Cagayan de Oro
During the time of the great explorations, Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies (the Americas) in 1492, with the support of the King and Queen of Spain. In this venture, the territory of Spain expanded and the Catholic faith was propagated to the different places of the globe as far as the Philippines. Mexico was …
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Zubaibai Seafood Restaurant opens at the 5th Floor of SM CDO Downtown
Bigby’s Quality Food Corporation, the mother company behind a group of Cagayan de Oro-based restaurants, has just opened its latest one at the 5th Floor of SM CDO Downtown. Dubbed “ZUBAIBAI” Seafood Restaurant, gourmands can immediately discern the link to its progenitor Boy Zugba, the group’s Kusina Bisaya “serving best Kagay-anon grilled home-cooked meals in …
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Iligan @75—The First Ten Years
The passage and subsequent signing by President Elpidio Quirino on June 16, 1950 of RA # 525—the Iligan City Charter— was a coming-of-age event for a town that for decades played second fiddle only to neighboring Dansalan City. Afterall, the latter was capital of Lanao. Dansalan had it all especially before the outbreak of WW …
Recuerdos de Ayer: The salad days of Nene Pimentel, journalist
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Even before he was cutting his teeth as a lawyer and teacher, Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr., without question one of this City of Golden Friendship’s Golden Boys, started out as a cub reporter for the Mindanao Star, then the No. 1 weekly newspaper in the city. The late Manuel Quisumbing, Sr., …
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Pitching Mindanao Heritage Dishes to our Gatekeepers of History
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY- Last weekend we had an opportunity to present Mindanao’s Heritage of its Indigenous Dishes to the highest government agency charged with the stewardship of Philippine history and cultural heritage. In town at that time were the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Chair Regalado Trota Jose, Jr.; Executive Director Carminda …
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A Shared Journey to raise the Kagay-anon Literary Scene
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, PHILIPPINES – I recently attended a one day forum urging Kagay-anon writers to have more of their stories published with Kagay-anon publishers to increase awareness about the literary scene in Cagayan de Oro, and couldn’t help but reminiscence about the last four decades I’ve spent spreading the good news about this …
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Historic Jasaan Church finally gets a historical marker
Previously Recognized as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum JASAAN, MISAMIS ORIENTAL-The historic Immaculate Conception Parish Church of this elder municipality of Misamis Oriental finally got a historical marker from the National Historical Commission of the Philippines recognizing its historical significance. On April 23, 2025, the NHCP marker was unveiled and turned over …
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