Celebrations are held worldwide for International Women’s Day which is growing in importance as evident in the Philippines where a ceremony will seek to set a record for largest human made female symbol

Philippines bid to set record for biggest ‘woman’ symbol

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Over 10,000 people gathered in the Philippine capital on Saturday in a bid to set a world record for the largest formation of the gender symbol for “woman”, as part of International Women’s Day. The event, sponsored by the government’s commission on

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