Christmas comes twice in Belgrade. The Western calendar has it on 25 December, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates on 7 January, and the Serbian New Year gets its own fireworks on the night of 13 January. For anyone raised on the Filipino Christmas season, the one that starts in September, a city that stretches the […]
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A Manila to Caticlan seat on Friday 30 October was going for PHP 3,704 when we checked fares on 18 October. The same route on Sunday 1 November? PHP 2,238. Same route, same island, 40 percent cheaper, just because most of the country will be at the sementeryo that day instead of at NAIA. That
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The job offer says EUR 600 a month. That’s about PHP 42,300, more than double what a minimum-wage job in Metro Manila pays. It sounds like a lot, until you remember that rent, food and winter clothes in Europe are not priced in pesos. So how much of that EUR 600 do you actually keep?
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Your first foreign client pays USD 900 for the month. At today’s rate that is about PHP 56,000, more than a lot of office jobs in Manila, and suddenly the laptop-on-a-beach thing feels close. Then you look up Malaysia’s nomad visa and see USD 24,000 a year. Thailand’s wants half a million baht sitting in
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The cheapest return seat from Manila to Osaka was PHP 18,438 when we checked, on Cebu Pacific for 17 to 19 November. A dorm bed in Namba can cost under PHP 1,200 a night. A bowl of Sukiya gyudon is ¥480, about PHP 191. And still, plenty of first-timers come home from Osaka having spent
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In 2025, 885,100 Filipinos flew to Japan, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. That is about 2,400 Filipinos landing in Japan every day, and almost all of them needed a visa first. The route to that visa looks very different from when we wrote our first Japan guides in 2022. There is a visa
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Two OFWs in Dubai send their padala on the same Monday morning. One pays AED 2,005 through Remitly and her mother in Batangas gets PHP 33,860 in her bank account. The other pays AED 2,000 on Wise with a debit card, and his family in Iloilo gets PHP 32,564. That is a PHP 1,296 gap
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She walked away from a WTA 1000 in Beijing to wear the flag at the Asian Games, reportedly willing to eat a $10,000 fine for it. That tells you who someone is. It also means the Chinese city worth flying to this October is not Beijing. It is Wuhan, where a round trip from Manila
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Ten route pages. One number. Manila to Cebu, a 90 minute hop, says book 40 days ahead. Manila to Los Angeles, seventeen hours with a stop, says book 40 days ahead. Cebu to Singapore, Manila to Dubai, Manila to Tokyo, all 40 days. That is not analysis, that is a template with the route name
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The Philippine Arena is not in Manila. It is in Bulacan, about 30 kilometers north of EDSA, past the Marilao exit on NLEX, in a 140 hectare complex with almost nothing around it. Fifty thousand people are going to find that out on the same night. Three nights, actually. If you got a ticket to
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