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Remember Teachers Camp?
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines -- Who does not remember Teachers Camp? For the past five or six generations, almost every Filipino teacher or student has had a Teachers Camp experience, spending a few education-enriching days or even a fortnight, for the fortunate few, in green-and-white pre-war cottages under the pines in cool
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A calendar of heritage updates
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines -- The latest in the series of desk calendars and postcards published by the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) where proceeds go to fund the Society’s projects, “Heritage Recycled,” the 2008 edition of the calendar is ready.
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Macau’s different realities
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines - Macau is a place of many contradictory realities, all happening simultaneously and almost independently of each other.
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Quiapo and the Filipino: Not exotic enough?
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines - Fernando Nakpil Zialcita, a true Manileño from Quiapo, heads the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University while being deeply involved in Bahay Nakpil-Bautista, his family’s 1914 landmark house in the heart of Quiapo, now a museum and community center.
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Escape city blues at Montecito and Hacienda Escudero
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines - Two upscale developments to watch are Hacienda Escudero near San Pablo City in Quezon, and Montecito in Canlubang, Laguna, both outstanding but each demonstrating a different approach to offering quiet getaways from city life.
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Building green
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines – The buzz about being sustainable grows louder because our environmental choices are now dwindling to critical proportions from repeated human abuse of natural resources.
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What are we to do with heritage white elephants?
by Augusto Villalon
MANILA, Philippines -- Despite the growing campaign to save Philippine heritage, the honest truth is that a lot (or most) of the heritage structures we campaign to save are really white elephants.
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