The summer capital’s next-door neighbor gets its share of summer tourists each year because of strawberries. In 2003, strawberry farmers helped La Trinidad bake the world’s largest strawberry cake as its entry to the Guinness Book of World Records, hoping to draw attention to the berrys’ potentials.
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—A probinsyano (someone who grew up in the province) understands the needs of a fellow probinsyano. This has been the mantra of GoshenLand Capital Inc., a Baguio-based real estate company that has been attracting niche markets in its developments in the summer capital and nearby regions in northern Luzon. Lawyer Alexander [...]
Despite the Aug. 1 spill at its waste facility that polluted a major river traversing Benguet and Pangasinan, Philex Mining Corp. was honored with the best mining forest award in this year’s annual National Mine Safety and Environment Conference here.
A bus company servicing routes in northern and central Luzon has entered the express service market to offer Baguio residents, tourists and business travelers a choice in a market dominated by a 60-year-old company.
After a three-year negotiation, a group of singers and songwriters and the association of hotels and restaurants here have signed an agreement on the use of Filipino music in establishments in the city.
It took 10 years to build but The Forest Lodge, Camp John Hay’s newest 208-room hotel, expresses what its owners have said all along: the Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevco) will fulfill its promise to create a tourism estate in this former American rest and recreation baseland.
This city’s longganisa (native sausage) is traditionally small, but it is big in history. And one business establishment that has lived up to its name as the maker of the city’s well-loved, bite-sized breakfast fare is the Enriquez Baguio Longganisa, a family-run enterprise that started in a meat stall in the city market about 60 years ago.
BAGUIO CITY—Dairy products from the Philippines have great potential to penetrate the Asian market due to the country’s strategic location and the increasing demand for milk and dairy products in the region, said an investment consultant during the recent Dairy Congress here. Marshall Mays, director and co-founder of the Emerging Alpha Advisors, a risk advisor [...]
It’s time for carabao meat (carabeef) to get some respect in the domestic market, an agriculture official said during the recent Dairy Congress here.
The business of caring for the dead is both a science and an art.
The summer capital’s best native chocolate drink is served in a small restaurant at the Igorot Garden in Camp John Hay.
Some of the walls of the Catholic Church’s biggest downtown properties may be toppling down this month, but that’s part of the church’s plan to improve the Puso ng Baguio building and “bring fresh investments to downtown Session Road.”
