BEFORE becoming a highly urbanized city, Las Piñas was once a fishing settlement on the southeastern part of Manila Bay. The ...

Over the years, through projects such as the Green School and homes at the Green Village, bamboo has become an increasingly popular material in Bali, Indonesia. While design firms in Bali such as ...

Living fences can be a great way to give your backyard privacy without the hassle of building an actual fence, and bamboo can be one of the best living fence options around, thanks to its fast ...

Cobras, with their signature hood and venom, are among the most fearsome snakes. The article explores seven of the most ...

By recognizing and analyzing the multiple architectural possibilities of bamboo—a construction material mostly native to warm and tropical areas—the following questions arise: How can we take ...

The Philippines achieved full independence from the US in 1946. This history is writ large across these 7,641 islands, and told in more than 120 native languages. Today, 17 million Filipinos are ...

In recent years, the Philippines has actively promoted its diverse natural attractions and green ... The eco-tourism park features a 1.3-kilometre bamboo trail, several species of mangrove trees, ...

The Philippines Economic Update is biannual publication of the World Bank. It summarizes key economic and social developments, important policy changes, and the evolution of external/global conditions ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

MANILA, Philippines — For the fifth time this year, warships of the Philippine Navy, United States military and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) sailed the high seas together within the ...