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 [...]

SEATTLE–On its home ground, the Philippine national language is mangled in online chats and text conversations or spoken in hybrid fashion with the widely used English, if not considered inferior to the latter.
But in a major university here, the Philippine mother tongue is studied with intense focus, attracting more students than any other Southeast Asian [...]

Ayala Corp. chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala was conferred the Harvard Business School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, by the school’s dean Jay Light in a special ceremony before some 900 MBA students.
Zobel de Ayala the first Filipino to receive the award was cited for “his innovative, entrepreneurial style of management [...]

MANILA, Philippines–The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) says it is making progress towards its goal of making public high school education completely accessible over the Internet.
A project by the commission called “e-eskwela” (electronic school) aims to digitize the entire high school curriculum as an alternative to taking it in the normal classroom setting.
The [...]

THIS year’s elite, multiracial class of Harvard law graduates may have found their best speaker in a young Filipino lawyer of Chinese descent, one obviously honed for the global stage but who hopes to pay back “the nameless farmers and fishermen” who partly paid for his studies.
Oscar Franklin Tan, 27, earned the rare honor of [...]

A Filipino teacher of English, Warren Ambat is the Innovative Teacher of the Year at the 2007 Microsoft Regional Innovative Teachers’ Awards.Ambat, received the trophy at the awards ceremony in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Ambat, who teaches English literature at the Baguio City National High School-Main, bested 250 other teachers from 23 countries for the award, which [...]