From Aparri in the north to Zamboanga in the south, Filipinos went to the polls last week. The election was, in some cases, quite literally a matter of life or death. Before the polls even opened, 96 ...
In February 1945, War Correspondent William Gray reported for TIME the destructive battle in which MacArthur’s troops freed Manila from the Japanese. Last week Gray, now an editor of LIFE, cabled from ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines is imposing a “weed bond” on One Direction. The Bureau of Immigration has asked Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson to post bonds worth nearly $5,000 each, which ...
President Benigno Aquino compares China’s offshore assertiveness to Hitler’s Sudetenland grab. At an April 2012 protest in Manila, demonstrators demanded that the Chinese government pull out from the ...
WHEN General MacArthur waded ashore on the east coast of Leyte on October 20, 1944, a brownskinned Filipino knelt and kissed his hand. Fifteen million other Filipinos soon went wild with joy. Their ...
Location: An archipelago east of Vietnam, between the Philippine Sea and South China Sea, the Philippines cover an area slightly larger than Arizona. Capital is Manila. Language: Filipino and English ...
Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Romualdez, center, answers questions from reporters during a news conference with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines in Manila, ...
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TRUST-BUSTING has been a favorite sport in America. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, we attempted to break up Europe’s monopoly of ‘imperialism.’ Under the ægis of the Monroe Doctrine we ...