via abs-cbnnews.com – Wikileaks has released more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s. Some of the documents reveal US embassy officials were disgusted by the ostentatious display of wealth by former President Ferdinand Marcos and former First Lady Imelda Marcos during the late dictator’s Read more »
By Cecilia I. Gaerlan/Rappler.com – Two years ago, while doing public readings of my World War II novel “In Her Mother’s Image,” I discovered that not too many people in this country have heard of the Fall of Bataan. My father, Luis Gaerlan, served in the the 41st Infantry Regiment Read more »
via malaya.com.ph – After the release of the Philippine national anthem in 2010, GMA Network launches another theatrical rendition of “Lupang Hinirang,” expected to capture the attention of TV audiences and moviegoers alike as it hits TV screens and movie theaters. The 2013 version pays tribute to the Read more »
By Angela Casauay/Rappler – The Philippines will ask the US Navy to pay fines of about P58-M over the damage it caused the Tubbataha reef, Rappler learned on Friday, April 5. The USS Guardian damaged about 2,345.67 square meters of the reef when it ran aground the Unesco World Heritage Read more »
By Adam Hetrick/playbill.com – Filipino political leaders Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos take center stage in the new David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, an immersive 360-degree theatrical experience, which begins its world-premiere engagement April 2 at The Public Theater. Tony Award-nominated Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Peter and Read more »
CARMELA G. LAPENA, GMA News Online Rogue Magazine will no longer publish an excerpt of fiction by Man Asian Prize winner Miguel Syjuco, amid controversy on social networking sites, and complaints from Syjuco himself. According to the award-winning Filipino writer and author of “Ilustrado”, Rogue had not obtained his Read more »
