Foreign Affairs Secretary Raul S. Manglapus talks on the US military bases, the tensions in Fil-Am relations, and the coming Pacific century.
On May 19,...
War spares none, and forgives few... Japan learned this the hard way after Emperor Hirohito announced the country’s surrender in August 1945. Atomic bombs...
Nearing the turn of the 20th century, Filipinos stood at the precipice of an uncertain future. Even as the country successfully overthrew a dictator, instability persisted in society for the years that followed.
In the province, far from the bustling and sleepless Metro Manila where there exists a strange mix of “everyone-ness,” lies a certain magic that the country’s capital city, no matter how hard it tries (if it dares), won’t be able to replicate.
There is a famous story of a wager between the Roman politician Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The condition was simple: to host the most expensive feast.
The Philippine archipelago, with a coastline much longer than that of the United States, has some of the world’s richest and most diverse coral reefs. Of the 500 known species in the world, 400 are found in the country’s 7,100 islands—a fantastic collection even greater than that of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
because a wounded rosebudtaunts the harvest moonand a failed moonbeamlimps among the dewdropswaltzing on the evening grassmy soulis searedin the embersof a brown passion
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