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The Czech Embassy in Manila commemorated on Monday Philippine national hero Jose Rizal's 162th birth anniversary. The embassy remembered Rizal's friendship with Czech-born Ferdinand Blumentritt, which can be likened to the current relationship between Prague and Manila. Blumentritt, who...

Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala ended his two-day visit to the Philippines by laying a wreath to honor national hero Dr. Jose Rizal at the Luneta Park in Manila. Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Rizal Park in Manila. (Photo by Noel...

Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala took pride in being the first European prime minister to visit the Philippines under the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala signs the official guest book of Malacañang during his official...

REMEMBRANCES OF BLUMENTRITT From Left: Military host Captain Junjie Tabuada, National Parks Development Committee’s Reina B. Jara, deputy head of mission Dalibor Mička, National Historical Commission of the Philippines’ Carminda R. Arevalo, and NHCP’s Gina C. Batuhanposed in front of the...

It is a charming and, in its own way, fascinating correspondence... the letters they exchanged also illustrate something that is very rare, the evolution of a purely intellectual friendship. —Leon Ma. Guerrero THESE CZECHS LOVE THE PH  Jaroslav Olsa Jr., former Czech ambassador of the...