New favorite food place! Palenque in Gateway (Cubao) has a ton of amazing regional cuisine. Pictured below are the Kahawa Malimu Iced Coffee and Sambal Squid from Palm Grill.
Pests destroy rice fields in Mindanao, Philippines
"Zamboanga del Norte's agriculture chief says armyworms have so far damaged at least 445 hectares of the province’s more than 16,000 hectares of rice fields in at least seven municipalities and Dapitan City."
#MANILA, #Philippines – A low pressure area (#LPA) located east of #Mindanao developed into a tropical depression at 2 am on Sunday, December 17, and was given the local name #Kabayan.
Tropical Depression Kabayan is the Philippines’ 11th tropical cyclone for 2023 and the first for December.
The blast in #Marawi, a city besieged by pro-Islamic State militants for five months in 2017, followed the killing of 11 combatants in a military operation on Friday in #MaguindanaoDelSur some 200 km (125 miles) away. #Philippines#Mindanao
Per US Tsunami Warning Center, there is NO tsunami threat to Hawaii..
" A TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS FOR PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER
TO THE EARTHQUAKE. HOWEVER... BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA...
THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. BASED ON ALL
AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII."
Palestinians in #Gaza expressed disbelief at the infiltration into #Israel. "It is like a dream. I still can't believe it," said one Gaza shopkeeper.
The attack came a day after Israel marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that brought the country to the verge of catastrophic defeat in a surprise attack by #Syria and #Egypt. #YomKippurWar
Just in case anyone has any illusions that what's happening in #Israel & #Gaza won't spillover to our neck of the woods - keep watching what's happening in #Indonesia, #Malaysia and #Mindanao. The word "contagion" doesn't only apply to diseases & financial systems. #Philippines#TootSEA
Do you know that there's a variety of ampalaya known as Paria/Pariya that's popular in Northern #Mindanao , and often mistaken for tomato they look like one?