Salt Manufacturing
by Jhaypee Guia on July 20, 2012The use of solar heat for evaporating sea water and crystallizing salt from the concentrated brine has been explored and developed by the coastal dwellers of Manila Bay.
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National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help (Baclaran Church)
by Jhaypee Guia on July 20, 2012The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, also known as the Redemptorist Church and popularly known as the Baclaran Church, is a prominent Latin-rite Roman Catholic church in the Philippines.
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Metro Manila Film Festival
by Jhaypee Guia on July 20, 2012The Metro Manila Film Festival-Philippines is the annual film festival held in Manila. The festival, which runs from the 25th of December to the first week of January, focuses on locally-produced films.
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Navotas, The Fish Capital
by Jane Dacumos on July 20, 2012Touted as the “Fishing Capital of the Philippines,” Navotas is considered to be a very important fishing community with 70% of its population deriving their livelihood directly or indirectly from fishing and its related industries like fish trading, fish net mending, and fish processing.
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Manila Film Center
by Jhaypee Guia on July 20, 2012The Manila Film Center is a national building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex in Pasay City, Philippines. The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong, where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles which reaches to the bedrock about 120 feet below. The Manila Film Center served as the main theater for the First Manila International Film Festival (MIFF) from the 18th to the 29th of January, 1982. The building has also been the subject of controversies due to an accident that happened during the final stages of its construction in 1981.
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