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The machines—likely for use in bars and restaurants across the island—recycle empties right before your drunken eyes.

We look at our beaches today all along the West Coast following Cyclone Butchoy over the weekend. It is like the ocean has just had enough and regurgitated the froth of its stomach back up to show us what we are doing beneath its surface. Of the estimated 5.2 Trillion pieces of plastic debris in our seas, only 269,000 tonnes floats on the surface, while four billion plastic microfibres per square metre litter the deep sea.

Always been known as a largely Christian country and home to people who love to have fun, it comes as no surprise that the Philippines has a festival slated for every month of the year. Sinulog in January, Panagbenga in March, and Kadayawan in August, it’s clear to see, the Pearl of the Orient Seas never runs out of reasons to throw city-wide events.

The Philippines will host its first full Ironman triathlon in 2018.

The Subic Bay Hostel & Dormitory, a sister company of The Sun Plaza Subic Hotel, is actually the first ever Capsule Hotel here in Subic. It is located just across Baypointe Hospital, in front of Sun Plaza Hotel.