Baguio Social Services: Baguio
City, Islands Philippines
The health situation in the city has been steadily and satisfactorily
maintained at normal levels over the past decade. This can be attested
by widespread control of epidemics and communicable disease.
Improvements in the performance of the city's vital health statistics
over the five year period is partly attributed to the intensified
Population Control Program.
In terms of education, the City of Baguio has maintained its prominence
as a center of education for higher learning in Northern Luzon.
It has sustained a high literacy rate of 97.6% in 1990 and increased
to 97.64% in 1996.
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Travel Quotes:
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber
Central Philippine Cuisine
Bicol is noted for its gastronomic appetite for the fiery or chili-hot dishes. Perhaps the most well-known Bicolano dish is the very spicy Bicol express. The region is also the well-known home of natong also known as laing or pinangat (a pork or fish stew in taro leaves).
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In Mindanao, the southern part of Palawan island, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, dishes are richly flavored with the spices common to Southeast Asia: turmeric, coriander, lemon grass, cumin, and chillies — ingredients not commonly used in the rest of Filipino cooking. Being free from Hispanicization, the cuisine of the indigenous Moro and Lumad peoples of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago has much in common with the rich and spicy Malay cuisines of Malaysia and Brunei, as well as Indonesian and Thai cuisines.
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