THE responsibility of feeding thousands of Olympic athletes and officials in Beijing falls on the cooking hands of a Filipino chef — an Ilonggo.
Ryan Jaranilla is the senior executive chef of the Olympic Catering Services Project of the Athletes’ Village in Beijing.
Jaranilla said this is definitely not a picnic, as the kitchen will be open […]

The damage wrought by Typhoon Frank to the Tigum Bridge in Cabatuan showed how enterprising Filipinos, or the Ilonggos in particular, are. Residents in the area developed their own version of a Roll-on, Roll-Off facility to ferry motorcycles across the river. The rate is PhP 20.00 per motorcycle.

THE FIRST branch of the Hongkong-Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) outside Manila was opened in Iloilo City on 2 April 1883 to serve the growing sugar industry. HSBC is the oldest foreign bank in the Philippines, opening its doors in Binondo in November 1875.

ON 1 APRIL 1889, Graciano Lopez Jaena of Jaro, Iloilo founded the freemason Lodge Revolucion in Barcelona, Spain which counts among its members Jose Rizal, Mariano Ponce, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Jose Alejandrino, Antonio and Juan Luna and Pedro Serrano Laktaw. Later renamed Lodge Solidaridad, it is composed of intellectuals who petitioned the Spanish Parliament […]

GABRIEL M. REYES, the first Filipino archbishop of Manila, was born in Kalibo, Aklan on 24 March 1892. He died on 10 October 1952 in the US.

THE 19 MARTYRS of Aklan were executed on 23 March 1897 in Kalibo. They were all Katipunan members who joined the forces of Francisco Castillo in attacking the Spanish garrison on 17 March 1897.

EDUCATION PIONEER and Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Government Service in 1959, Jose Vasquez Aguilar was born on 23 March 1900 in barrio Caduhaan, Cadiz, Negros Occidental. Upon completing his secondary education in 1920, he left for the United States, where he worked his way through college. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy […]

LEANDRO FULLON, the commanding general of all Filipino forces in the Visayas during the revolution against Spain, was born on 13 March 1877 in Hamtik, Antique.

Binalaybay ni
Flavio Zaragoza Cano
Sugiran ta kamo,
kag akon isaysay
isa ka natabu
sa isa ka lin-ay

IN WESTERN VISAYAS, there are some towns named after animals:
Libacao – This place was formerly called Aglangka – from langka (jackfruit). It was said to be ruled by a woman named Abo-ab who spent her fortune on building roads and clearing the forest.