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The Tagalog word for “news” is balita.
Nagbabagang Balita means “Hot News.”
May 2022: Bongbong Marcos has been elected the next president of the Philippines.
As of 2017, more than two percent of Californians speak Tagalog, making the language native to the Philippines the most common foreign dialogue spoken in the state of California, after Spanish.
There are about 832,024 Californians who speak Tagalog at home.
Tagalog is also the most commonly spoken foreign language after Spanish in the states of Washington and Nevada.
Continue reading “U.S. Company Pirates Filipino Brand Magnolia”
On the butter, margarine and cheese (BMC) issue, San Miguel wins in court against Ramar Foods, the USA company that pirated the Magnolia brand from the Philippines.
Despite that victory on the BMC issue, San Miguel is still prohibited by United States law from using the Magnolia brand name for ice cream and related frozen dessert products in the United States.
Any “Magnolia ice cream” you see in the USA is not produced by the company from the Philippines. It is the OMGpeke version manufactured by Ramar Foods of California.
To add to the ludicrousness of the situation, a representative of this OMGpeke company Ramar Foods registered “Filipino Food Movement” as a corporation in California in 2015.
There are very few international news stories that mention Filipino food, compared to other cuisines. Here are recent articles from an automatically generated feed.
New commemorative stamps featuring the Filipino culinary icon Teresita “Mama Sita” Reyes have been issued by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) for the year 2018.
Ramar Foods, the Northern California company known for pirating food brands from the Philippines, has again been suspended by the USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service upon examination of their meat processing plant. (2017)
Accused of Wage Theft Over The Years, Filstop Closes Both Jersey City and Clifton Locations, Online Store (2020)
Clifton Plaza (Levin Properties) demands $38,000 from Filstop Inc. in Passaic County, NJ
How Chef Tatung Sarthou is merging traditional and contemporary Filipino cuisine
And his thoughts on the evolution of the regional fare
Petition on Change.org to have USPTO cancel Ramar Foods’ Magnolia Ice Cream Trademark Registration
https://www.change.org/p/united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-have-uspto-cancel-ramar-foods-magnolia-ice-cream-trademark Continue reading “Filipino Food In the News”
Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act
In August 2017, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law that makes education at all state universities and colleges in the country tuition-free.
President Duterte’s final state of the nation address (SONA) was on July 26 (Monday), 2021.
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