Filipino music icon Freddie Aguilar dies at 72, leaves behind a legacy that touched the worldFreddie Aguilar, the iconic Filipino singer-songwriter renowned for his global hit "Anak," has passed away at the age of 72. A key figure i...
27 May, 2025, 10.42 AM IST
Oxford English Dictionary announces new inclusions with cultural terms like Spice Bag, GigilThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added spice bag, Ireland’s beloved fast-food dish, and gigil, a Filipino word describing...
28 Mar, 2025, 01.27 AM IST
3 Indians, 4 Egyptians detained in connection with massive fire that killed 50 people, mostly IndiansThree Indians, four Egyptians, and a Kuwaiti national have been detained in connection with a fire that killed 50 people, including 46 Indi...
20 Jun, 2024, 07.30 AM IST
Caught up in war, Israel's migrant workers face tough choicesThe recent conflict between Israel and Hamas has led to the deaths and injuries of migrant workers in Israel. Thailand and the Philippines,...
25 Oct, 2023, 10.16 AM IST
India-Philippines connection from Jataka Tales to national flower“Yoga, India’s civilizational pathway to holistic wellbeing, continues to attract enthusiasts in the Philippines cutting across gender, cla...
28 Jul, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
We need to be more inclusive, says Aditi Rao Hydari on north-south cinema debateThe Hyderabad-born actor said she doesn't discriminate between films from different languages.
23 May, 2022, 03.46 PM IST
A web designer called Macaroni with love for the internet names his newborn son 'HTML'"What's in the name", you say, but for this Filipino man, everything.
17 Jun, 2021, 04.25 PM IST
Horror high: 32nd Tokyo film festival unveils a new brand of Asia’s scariest moviesThe film fest, being held from October 28 to November 5, is delving deep into the culture of making scary movies in Asia.
02 Nov, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
Making credit access easy for small farmersFrom a loan book of a little under Rs 2 crore, Jai Kisan is looking at around Rs 30 crore by the end of the year.
03 Mar, 2019, 11.33 AM IST
The unbearable lygge of borrowing & lendingThere is a move to promote lygge (yes, loo-kah) which means happiness in the same language, though it is uncertain whether products will al...
22 Nov, 2017, 11.18 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi’s Manila visit in November to be big on historical, cultural tiesWhile Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand’s links are documented, it’s a little known fact that 400 Sanskrit words are still ...
18 Oct, 2017, 07.59 AM IST
Uniphore aims to raise women workforce to 50% in a yearUniphore Software Systems, which has Infosys co-founder Krish Gopalakrishnan among its investors, said it plans to enhance its women employ...
05 Oct, 2015, 09.34 PM IST
Google Translate app gets updated for 20 new languages, slower networksThe company has made use of neural nets, an image recognition technology that is an interconnected network of nodes like the neurons in the...
30 Jul, 2015, 10.23 AM IST
Smigin lets you build and learn useful phrases in different languagesAvailable only on iOS currently, the multi-language app even prompts the correct pronunciation of the words.
13 Nov, 2014, 02.05 PM IST
- Twitter now in Hindi
This means users can now choose to read instructions on the micro-blogging site in the national language.
15 Sep, 2011, 11.14 AM IST
- Diverse heritage: Plenty of familiar flavours in cuisine of Philippines
ET found plenty of familiar flavours in the cuisine of the Philippines, thanks to its diverse heritage.
23 Jun, 2011, 06.47 AM IST
Manila’s cross-cultural symphonyAn archipelago of over 7,000 islands, one gets a whiff of the Philippines's diversity in the capital of Manila where different worlds colli...
12 Nov, 2009, 05.43 AM IST