Scaling new heights in Kota Kinabalu

By Carla Mortel
Well, that?s one way to conquer a mountain.
Last Jan. 11, the Philippine Everest Team scaled new heights when it ascended the world?s highest (and Asia?s first) via ferrata on Mt. Kinabalu?s Mountain Torque.

The Russians are coming!

By Mila C. Espina
As predicted by the Tourism Department and Russian Consul Armi Garcia, the arrivals of Russian tourists in Cebu will definitely increase. This forecast was lengthily discussed in the CBM Tourism Congress in June 2008. The two trade missions conducted by the province of Cebu made this positive perspectives very fruitful manifested by an increasing interest in business and academic changes between Cebu and Russia.