Filipino residents and groups are rallying to restore a traditional Filipino country hut honoring immigrant sugar cane workers at Kepaniwai Park after it was nearly destroyed by September’s torrential ...

IT takes an anthropologist, a good one, to restore “my nipa hut” into its proper place in the cultures of the land. Romanticized as a poor but “authentic” symbol of the country and simplified as the ...

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — While other local governments are building modern COVID-19 quarantine facilities, a town in Iloilo province has built the quintessential “bahay kubo” for its ...

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FILIPINOS of this generation associate nipa palm with the rooftops of old farm huts in the middle of fields tended by their grandparents. But villagers of Cabaggan in Pamplona town, Cagayan province, ...