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Cyclists go vegan for 5 days while biking PH’s most difficult mountain passes

Meat-eating cyclists of Cycad (Cycling Adventures and Advocates) recently went on a 100% plant-based diet for five days while biking the most difficult mountain passes in the Philippines. On their fourth day, these cyclists pedal on for another 100 kms, from Bontoc, Mountain Province to Cervantes, Ilocos Sur. The “Project V360” has been envisioned to […]

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Sure and steady run through the course, and to the toilets, on Day 2 and 3

Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines—Some noticeable effects of a 100% plant-based diet were already being felt as early as the 2nd day of the 5-day  “Project V360: The Bicycle and Vegan Food Trip”. And, shall we say, those effects are truly relieving. Apart from the noticeable energy boost the cyclists felt during the arduous climbs in

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Day 1 of Project V360 a lung-busting, lip-smacking success

Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya—The first day of a one-of-a-kind ecotourism project has just wrapped up. Despite a few minor hiccups in scheduling and route coordination, the group of cyclists and support crew comprising the first “Project V360: The Bicycle and Vegan Food Trip” arrived in this first-class municipality happy, and hungry for more 100% plant-based food after

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Apart from ‘brain drain’, PH also bound to suffer ‘muscle drain’ if the minimum wage for construction workers isn’t increased

The party-list group ACTS-OFW on March 2 has called for a P900-daily minimum wage for construction workers to help address a looming shortage due to migration. “We are losing a great deal of good construction laborers to other countries that are paying up to 10 times the P537 daily minimum wage in Metro Manila,” said

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More than 10K nurses sought jobs in the US alone in 2018, and that’s worrisome if you’re a PH resident needing nursing care

Last February 5, the ACTS-OFW Party List of the Philippine Congress revealed that in 2018, a record number of nurses sought jobs in the United States–the highest in 9 years. According to the group, a total of 10,302 Filipino nurses hoping to practice their profession in America took the US licensure examination for the first

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Bamboo: The worthy alternative to rapidly disappearing wood

The search for alternatives to wood for handicraft, furniture, and construction industries is intensifying, thanks largely to the dawning realization that wood products are quickly becoming depleted as the world’s forested areas inevitably give way to human development. The remaining naturally forested areas and timber lands, at least in the Philippines, have become protected by

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Global Pinoys are among those most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS

According to a recent announcement by the Philippine National AIDS Council, every day, an average of 32 Filipinos are tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the infection that would most likely lead to full-blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). On the occasion of World AIDS Day this December 1, the party-list group ACTS-OFW

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