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PUP marks 120th founding year with climate, mobility, history ride

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) launched Sintang Lakbay today, a pioneering initiative integrating inclusive mobility, culture, and history. The move highlights the school’s resolve to demonstrate the relevance of its academic philosophy in the face of current climate-constrained realities. [...]

2026-03-02T16:03:09+08:00March 7, 2025|

Street names and the persistence of memory

Life reveals far greater pleasures when we use our sense of curiosity more often. This is so for travelers and it’s something any Filipino can enjoy when they start asking about the origins of street names. For instance, Magsaysay Boulevard was named after The Guy, Ramon Magsaysay, one of the country’s more popular presidents. [...]

2026-03-02T16:04:25+08:00March 7, 2025|

Cycling through the fabled history of an opera house, now a hotel

ON the corner of Rizal Avenue and Doroteo Jose stands the Manila Grand Opera Hotel, a fabulist if the establishment were a person.This is about the history of a place that has gone through many costume changes, a story bursting with intersectionality, with a past so implausible it should be celebrated annually by poets and climate activists alike. [...]

2026-03-02T16:04:18+08:00March 7, 2025|Tags: |

Second #SintangLakbay

#SintangLakbay was welcomed so warmly by BJMP officials. They were so warm and professional; they gave us a tour of Old Bilibid where Sakay was hanged, a preview of the museum they'll launch end June, and the Gola, the tower of the city jail built in 1847. [...]

2026-03-02T16:22:11+08:00March 5, 2025|Tags: |
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