ILOILO CITY —The number of surviving World War II veterans in the islands of Panay and Guimaras have dwindled to just 46, the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) records show. Members of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit look for names of relatives who died in World War II at the Balantang...
Presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. believed the most important thing his late father did was "bringing a sense of nationhood" to the Filipino people during World War II. Presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) "The best thing, I...
This is part of a series reviewing local AV productions highlighting the best of Filipino creativity. The director’s latest feature film suggests that perhaps violence is the answer JAPANESE RIFLE Protagonist of Arisaka, Maja Salvador In the films following Mikhail Red’s debut feature Rekorder...
We have too much on our plate—climate change, COVID, Delta, Omicron… —but have we forgotten about the ‘Big One’? GOODBYE EVERYONE Could we be nearing the end of the world? Word on the street: “All of Taguig will collapse into the ground.” So will practically all of Metro Manila,...
A hero’s burial was given to Angono’s World War 2 guerrilla, who served as an intelligence officer during the Japanese occupation in the country, before noon on Friday, Dec. 24. Salome “Nanay Umeng” Calderon, 96, a member of the Hunters’ Reserved Officer Training Corps (Hunters ROTC), was...
While recognizing the importance of paying homage to three Filipino World War 2 heroes, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Monday, Dec. 13, expressed his reservations over replacing their portraits with the Philippine eagle in the new design of the P1,000 banknote. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno...
Myra Aquino's "Beauty Queen" is the Best Short in this year’s edition of the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. The biopic is set in the Philippines during World War II, where a Kapampangan woman, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso aka Kumander Liwayway struggles to find herself after losing...
Filipino-American Char McGinnis was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force just in time for the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM), the United States Embassy in Manila said in a post on Twitter Saturday, May 8. Filipino-American Lt. Col. Char McGinnis...
The Philippines is hopeful that the memory of those who died during World War II will serve as a reminder for the world of the cost of reclaiming peace and defending it in the present time. Photo from DFA Twitter account (@DFAPHL) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) made the statement as it...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are delighted that our son, Congressman Christopher de Venecia, spearheaded the restoration of the home economics building of our old school, the Dagupan Elementary School, now West Central Elementary School, which served as the brief...
Panic gripped residents in Batanes when a backhoe operator accidentally excavated an unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Basco town, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Friday, April 23. The PCG said the UXO was discovered by an unidentified backhoe operator in Barangay Chanarian during a clearing...
Hang back from the horrors of Covid life and take refuge in the metaphors for our larger fears, such as our fear of death or disease or isolation or life itself. Horror as a genre is built around one truth: that the world is full of fearful things. But the best horror tells us more. It tells us how...
