Manila-City

Manila and Pasay folks, get ready! The last weekend of April still has lots of things in store for us — just look at these two events which will be held on the same weekend. Pinoy Gaming Festival 2019 Summer Assembly April 26 to 28, 2019 — Music Hall, SM Mall of Asia This year, Globe Telecom and Cyberzone will be co-presenters to bring out more summer gaming goodness at the event. It will be a 3-day weekend filled with games, activities and sizzling hot esports action courtesy of Playbook Esports, plus some surprise goodies from our event partners. And to continue the long tradition, PGF Summer Assembly 2019 will be a FREE ADMISSION event. ...

What Binondo looks like in the start of the Lunar New Year? - Lunar New Year in Binondo Manila 2019 Kiong Hee Huat Tsai! February 05, 2019 marks the start of the Lunar New Year (most of us know that it’s being celebrated by the Chinese, but it’s also being celebrated in Korea as Seollal, so I’ll start with that). In the Philippines, this day has been declared a Special Non-Working Holiday, which means I get to have a day off from work and tag along my friend and online media colleague Christian Mack’s journey into Binondo, which is the oldest Chinatown in the world, having been established in 1594 (16th century). ...

Inside Meiwaku MNL**, Manila’s latest anikura** It was the afternoon of Sunday, the 25th of March. The sun has set. I sought for the Tiger’s Den. It somehow took me a while to get my way there — even if I am somehow familiar with the place, it took me a wrong time to drop off to face the jungle that is called the “Wrong Way.” Moments passed, I was able to enter the cave — Asian Social Institute. ...