Annual rate of price increases in this highly urbanized city and in Negros Occidental province both accelerated to 2.4 ...

The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) enters June 2025 with rising stakes, emotional rivalries, and a packed ...

The winning float of Bago City, Negros Occidental during the Parada ng Kalayaan 2025 Independence Day celebration at the ...

Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality Tourists are cancelling trips to the US – here are three reasons why Artificial tears, other eye products recalled; consumers urged to ...

Philippines – The second installment of HOMESTRETCH’s Bacolod series features a few icons from the City of Smiles. Show host Pató Gregorio continues to unpack untold stories about the famous ...

THE smiling faces on the masks of Bacolod's Masskara Festival performers have a deeper story. These smiles were originally meant to conceal the hardship the city faced in the early 1980s. Bacolod, the ...

BACOLOD CITY—This Negros Occidental capital, the country’s “City of Smiles,” is in the thick of preparations for the culmination of the MassKara Festival but authorities are on the lookout ...

BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — Learn the history of the City of Smiles as well as its famous festival through a 150-meter-long street mural. The “Bacolod WallStory” mural ...

Bacolod, known as the “City of Smiles” and located in Western Visayas, is a leading producer of sugarcane, contributing 1.34 million metric tons—approximately 47.2 percent of the total ...

ON Lacson Avenue, Bacolod City's main street, Citadines Bacolod offers guests a view of massive Mount Kanlaon in the distance, the volcano that holds dominion over Negros island, a glistening blue ...

Fireworks greet the grand opening of Citadines Bacolod City (Photos courtesy of The Ascott Limited) The City of Smiles just got another big reason to keep on smiling. With the recent launch of ...