Promoting Filipino cuisine as a top brand

MANILA, Philippines—Many foreigners get tongue-tied when asked to describe Filipino cuisine. There’s a hodgepodge of flavors that in the end translate to dishes without any real standards or possibly too much variety. Perhaps it is no wonder that the cuisine has yet to find an exalted position among its esteemed Asian neighbors such as Thai and Vietnamese cooking where flavors are more defined and distinct....


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Selling your Chinese antiques

MANILA, Philippines—You stare at the old blue-and-white ceramic jar displayed at your home office and start calculating the potential windfall at the next auction. You get all excited until the curator advises that you’re better off selling the item through a dealer or at the neighborhood flea market....


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