Tagalog
Tagalog is an Austronesian language with about 57 million speakers in the Philippines, particularly in Manila, central and southern parts of Luzon, and also on the islands of Lubang, Marinduque, and the northern and eastern parts of Mindoro. Tagalog speakers can also be found in many other countries, including Canada, Guam, [...]

An overseas Filipino teacher has been inducted into one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of adult and continuing education.
Mumbai-based Maria Lourdes Almazan Khan was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame last December 4 in Budapest, Hungary, becoming the first and only Filipino to be given the [...]

Ronnie Dabal needed a miracle to survive the cold and treacherous waters of Puerto Bay that fateful Monday, December 8.
Early in the morning while fishing for tuna in the choppy waters of Puerto Princesa Bay, a squall came upon him and turned his boat upside down.
After battling with punishing waves for the next 24 hours [...]

A new Filipino tech company unveiled the prototype of an LCD interactive television (iTV) set, claiming to be the first of its kind to be produced in the Philippines. Dubbed “Ilumina”, the LCD iTV was described by its creators as “a television set with the brain of a personal computer.” The Ilumina contains a flat-screen LCD display, a hard drive and a multimedia center that allows owners to see movies, listen to music, watch and record TV shows, and even surf the web.

The world’s third-biggest shopping mall will open in Metro Manila this Friday, a vote of confidence on the country’s economic prospects amid a global slowdown, its owner said Thursday.
The launch of a 90,000-square-metre annex will make the SM City North EDSA mall in Quezon City the third-biggest in the world with a gross floor area [...]

The Vienna Ethnology Museum, in cooperation with the Austrian-Philippine Society, initiated on November 30, 2008 the Sungka Tournament which was held at the Völkerkunde Museum (National Ethnic Museum) in Vienna.
“Sungka” is a Filipino version of the board game called Mancala.
“Our main idea why we staged this tournament is to open the awareness of the Filipinos [...]

Frances Reyes Aquino, the legendary “Mother of Philippine Dancing,” was born in Lolomboy, Bocaue, in the Philippine Province of Bulacan, on March 9, 1899. She was the eldest of three children of Filipe Reyes and Juliana Santos Reyes of Manila.