Online gaming exploded in the Philippines following the broad adoption of mobile Internet gambling during the pandemic. It rose 30% to 201 billion pesos ($3.3 billion) last year.
For hundreds of years, a trade route between Mexico's Pacific coast and the Philippines brought a ferment made of palm sap. It's experiencing a revival in the state of Colima.
BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) -- Devout Catholics smeared their bodies with mud and wore banana leaves as they participated in an annual festival in Bibiclat, a village in the Philippines, on ...