72-year-old Nepalese man claims to be shortest man
A 72-year-old man from western Nepal is hoping to prove to Guinness World Records that he’s the world’s shortest man.
A 72-year-old man from western Nepal is hoping to prove to Guinness World Records that he’s the world’s shortest man.
An ad hoc committee to raise funds to save jailed overseas Filipino worker Dondon Lanuza from beheading was formed on Feb. 12.
Sixteen gecko smugglers have been jailed for up to two years in Bangladesh following a police crackdown to help save the lizard whose numbers have fallen dramatically, police said on Wednesday.
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Since her teen years, Lyna Larcia Calvario has been her family’s designated and volunteer party planner—for babies’ baptisms, kids’ birthdays and teens’ sweet sixteens. She would always come up with nice details to make the parties look unique and feel personal.
Pilloried by neighbors, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.
A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people, including 11 Filipinos, during last year’s New Zealand earthquake did not meet construction standards, according to a government report released Thursday.
One of the world’s smallest primates, the Philippine tarsier, communicates in a range of ultrasound inaudible to predator and prey alike, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Guinness World Records experts said Thursday they are to travel to a remote valley in southwestern Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world’s shortest man.
Billed as a Filipino culinary showdown, the 2nd annual “Kulinarya” was held last Saturday, January 21st, at Carnelian-By-The-Bay, a charming two-story restaurant right behind a San Francisco landmark, the Ferry Building. And during this balmy day, with the sun out, and just a touch of cold in the air, the organizers couldn’t have picked a better day. People streamed to the venue, packing the restaurant to the rafters. The main dining room was transformed to three mini kitchenettes where the contestants prepared their menu; while in front of them a gallery looked with interest at the proceedings. Each of the contestants seemed to have a whole “barangay” cheering for them.
Instead of relying on survey results of foreign travel websites, like the Guide to Sleeping in Airports and Frommer’s, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) has been conducting its own in-house surveys of passengers using the Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s (Naia) four terminals.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is set to raise to No. 3 (voluntary repatriation) the alert level for the over 470 remaining overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Iraq, citing the “escalating bombing incidents and the apparent diminution of security” in the war-torn country.
