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An ukay-ukay ( Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky ), or wagwagan (Ilocano pronunciation|wɐgˈwaːgɐn}} wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are ...
S&R Membership Shopping was established in 2001 as S&R PriceSmart, a franchise of American membership warehouse club chain PriceSmart. [ 1][ 2] The name "S&R" stands for American businessmen Sol and Robert Price, founders of Price Club and PriceSmart. [ 1] PriceSmart was the first major foreign retailer to enter the Philippine market since the ...
A passport office at Robinsons Starmills mall in San Fernando, Pampanga DFA CO Pampanga signage at the entrance to Robinsons Starmills DFA CO Cebu in Mandaue City. A Philippine passport is a document issued by the Government of the Philippines to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines requesting other governments to allow them to pass safely and freely.
A balikbayan box ( lit. 'repatriate box') is a corrugated box containing items sent by overseas Filipinos (known as balikbayan literally "returnee to the country/nation"). Though often shipped by freight forwarders specializing in sending balikbayan boxes by sea, such boxes are also commonly brought by Filipinos returning to the Philippines via ...
Banaue, Batad rice terraces with homes c. 2000. The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are a World Heritage Site consisting of a complex of rice terraces on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, the first-ever property to be included in the cultural landscape category of ...
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
The National Museum of the Philippines ( Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas) is an umbrella government organization that oversees a number of national museums in the Philippines including ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological, and visual arts collections. From 1973 until 2021, [ 3] the National Museum served as the regulatory and ...
Gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar, a former U.S. national team member who now represents the Philippines, said she suffered a "severe allergic reaction" in the Olympic Village on Monday.