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A cup of Turkish hospitality

A Filipina expat teacher learns how to drink Turkish tea and discovered how the country’s…

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Summer in Holland (for a Pinay expat mom)

Summer. This season brings out so many childhood memories of growing up in Marinduque, one…

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10 Things Pinoys need to know about Kenya

Our Nairobi-based columnist Agatha Verdadero has been living in Kenya for two decades. Yet she’s…

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Halo-halo: the perfect summer dessert

“Dig deep, then you hit a delicious stratum of red beans, white beans, and chickpeas,…

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TFEM partners with Beagley Copperman for European distribution

The Filipino Expat Magazine is proud to be partnering with Beagley Copperman, one of the…

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A failed job hunting in Barcelona

The job hunting adventure of two Filipino students in Spain, and how they ended up…

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Column: I wish I was furloughed

The Covid-19 pandemic cost millions of people their jobs. But there are some, like our…

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Some things only happen in the movies

Untitled articles of my year in León: Part Two In this second installment of his…

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Raising Kids Abroad: Should We Still Teach Them Filipino?

When an Italian teacher told columnist Elisha Hidalgo that her child should only speak Italian,…

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Fourteen Years and Seven Houses, Part 2

In the second part of her house hunting experience, columnist Agatha Verdadero tells of a…