Stories
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Getting around
The jeepney is changing. Here’s what riders notice
Modern units, new routes and a fare card that doesn’t always work. A week on five routes, asking riders what is better and what isn’t.
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Events
Inside the Traslación: what the rope means
Every January, millions follow the Black Nazarene through Quiapo. For the devotees on the rope, it is a vow.
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Neighbourhoods
A slow Sunday in Binondo
Dumplings for breakfast, a church at noon and tea in the afternoon: the oldest Chinatown in the world, at walking pace.
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Food
A morning with a fishball vendor
Mang Edwin starts frying at six and pushes his cart three kilometres before noon. The economics of a ₱1 fishball.