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(New York Public Radio) A pound of red onions now costs more than a pound of beef in the Philippines.

It’s a problem because onions are a staple in Filipino cuisine.

The country is facing a national onion shortage as inflation hikes prices and climate change continues to wreak havoc on crops.

As of Wednesday, local red onions cost as much as $4.50 per pound — 550 Philippine pesos per kg — according to the Department of Agriculture.

“Beef Rump” costs up to $3.96 per pound — while a whole chicken goes for up to $3.99.

Onions are in almost every Filipino dish, said Marilene Montemayor, a senior assistant at the World Bank focused on East Asia and the Pacific. Montemayor works in Washington, D.C. but is from the Philippines. “How can you taste the food without onions?”.. Read More

(Interaksyon) A Dominican priest and archivist unearthed old footage of adorable puppies at an unidentified place in the Philippines.

Archivist Gregory Schnakenberg of the Dominican House of Studies posted the black-and-white recording on Twitter on January 7.

In his tweet, Schnakenberg said that he found this footed by accident.

He was working in their archives when he discovered a long-form roll of silent 8mm film marked with “The Philippines 1942”. The film was inside an old metal box.

Schnakenberg said that he initially expected it to be unseen war footage.

“Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization,” the priest tweeted.

What came out of the restoration was more than what he had hoped for.

The short video showed a group of puppies doing normal puppy stuff—playful shoving, running after one another, tumbling and sniffing their environment… Read More

(CTV News Canada) From salads to stews, the humble onion is a key ingredient in nearly every Filipino dish. But now, the vegetable costs almost three times more than chicken in the Philippines.

Red and white onions were selling for as much as 600 Philippine pesos (US$11) per kilogram (2.2 lbs) on Monday, compared to 220 pesos ($4) per kilogram for chicken, according to the country’s Department of Agriculture.

Even beef brisket is 30% cheaper than onions by weight as the price of a kilogram of the allium has soared higher than the daily minimum wage.

Joey Salceda, resident economist at the Philippine House of Representatives, lamented Sunday that the country now has the “world’s most expensive domestic onion prices,” while Filipinos have flooded social media to complain about the sky-high prices… Read More

(Time) Soaring prices of onions in the Philippines led agriculture authorities to announce this weekend that the country would have to resort to importing around 22,000 tons of the vegetable by March, to augment dwindling domestic supply and arrest rising costs.

Onion is a staple of the Southeast Asian nation’s local cuisine—often coupled with garlic as a base of many dishes. The country’s average monthly demand for the vegetable is around 17,000 metric tons.

But as of Monday, Jan. 9, red and white onions in the Philippines were sold for as high as 600 pesos ($10.88) per kilogram, or about $5 per pound, based on the agriculture department’s monitoring of Manila-area market prices… Read More

(Interaksyon) MANILA — Gross international reserves for the Philippines PHFXR=ECI slightly increased to $96 billion at end-December, from $95.1 billion a month earlier, the central bank said on Friday, citing preliminary data.

The latest forex reserves represents a more than adequate external liquidity buffer equivalent to 7.3 months of imports of goods and payments of services and primary income, it said in a statement… Read More

(Philstar) MANILA, Philippines — Next Sunday, January 15 (Manila time), the Philippines will know if it will have its fifth Miss Universe title courtesy of Filipina-Italian Celeste Cortesi.

Her popular name might not end with the letter “A” like the previous four Miss Universe winners from the Philippines (Gloria Diaz, Margarita Moran, Pia Wurtzbach and Catriona Gray), but her grit has been one of her outstanding qualities since she decided to fly all by herself to the Philippines five years ago barely speaking fluent Filipino or English.

Born Silvia Celeste Rabimbi Cortesi on December 15, 1997 in Pasay City, the recently turned 25-year-old spent her growing up years in Parma, Italy after her family moved to her father’s native country when she was just six months old. .. Read More

(Jersey Evening Post) INQUESTS into the deaths of the two Filipino fishermen who died after the L’Ecume II trawler collided with the Condor Commodore Goodwill last month were opened this morning.

Deputy Viscount Mark Harris, the presiding coroner, explained that the purpose of the hearing was to formally release the bodies of the deceased to allow applications for repatriation and funeral arrangements to be made.

He adjourned the inquests until a later date to allow further investigations to take place.

The L’Ecume II, skippered by Michael Michieli, sank after colliding with Condor’s Commodore Goodwill freight ship off Jersey’s west coast at around 5.30am on Thursday 8 December.

On Boxing Day, the police confirmed that two bodies recovered from the wreck by an unmanned craft several days after the incident were those of Filipino crewmen Jervis Ramirez Baligat and Larry Simyunn… Read More

(PR Newswire NY) BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — China and the Philippines on Wednesday vowed to promote their comprehensive strategic cooperation, with cooperation documents being signed in various areas such as the Belt and Road cooperation, agriculture and fisheries, infrastructure, finance, customs, e-commerce and tourism.

The agreement was reached during talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., who is the first foreign head of state China has received in the new year.

This is also President Marcos’ first visit to China after taking office and his first official visit to a non-ASEAN country, which fully demonstrates the high importance China and the Philippines attach to bilateral relations.

In 1974, Marcos accompanied his mother, former First Lady Imelda Marcos, on a trip to Beijing. The two countries established diplomatic relations in the following year… Read More