The lower chamber has approved on third and final reading a measure mandating higher education institutions or HEIs to integrate a comprehensive study of Philippine history during World War II into their respective curriculum. Battle of Manila (Wikipedia) With a nominal voting result of 275-0-0...
Ayala Museum opens a new exhibit the recounts stories of World War II By Dexter Matilla Images by Noel Pabalate “In Liberation: War & Hope,” the exhibition launched recently by the US Embassy in the Philippines and Filipinas Heritage Library at the Ayala Museum, the World War II is shown...
Every April 9, the country celebrates Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) in honor of the Filipino and American soldiers who bravely fought for the Philippines’ freedom from the Japanese invaders during the World War II in 1942. The war culminated in the fall of Bataan where approximately 75,000...
DOHA, Qatar -- The Ukraine conflict has unleashed a "Third World War" over misinformation, an official from the beleaguered country said Saturday, while experts warned of the difficulty in convincing Russians what their army is doing. Russia's war on Ukraine has also forced a profound change in the...
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...
