(Editor’s Note: The following is just an excerpt of what the author wrote about former first Lady Imelda Marcos.) The official customs list drawn up when they arrived into exile in Hawaii reads like pure fantasy:
Category: Philippine History
Vote online for the Heritage City of Vigan
Help us make it to be one of the New Seven Wonder Cities of the World The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney wishes to inform the members of the Filipino community and media in New South Wales of the nomination of the heritage City of Vigan as one of the New Seven Wonder Cities of […]
Who is Harry Stonehill?
The “Y” generation will not know him but the Baby Boomers will surely remember him.
RIZAL – The second time around by Luis B. Lim
It was by compulsion of law that I first encountered [Jose] Rizal almost half a century ago. The year was 1965 and I was in my senior year in a Catholic university. Republic Act 1425 made the reading of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo in their unexpurgated versions a graduation requirement. The purpose of […]
Filipino Veteran’s Foundation presents Bataan Legacy
In commemoration of the 72nd Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan (A Day of Valor), the Filipino Veterans Foundation will present Bataan Legacy on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 11:00AM at the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, 1816 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. Admission to the Program is Free. Doors will open at 10:00 […]
The Rape of Manila
Manila. February 1945. World War II at its agonizing climax brought forth 100,000 burned, bayoneted, bombed, shelled and killed in the span of 28 days. Unborn babies were ripped from their mothers’ wombs. Babies were thrown up in the air and caught, impaled on bayonet tips.
Knights of Rizal to commemorate national hero’s execution
Rizal sowed the idea; Bonifacio brought it to fruition By Floro Quibuyen (30 Dec 2013) Rizal and Bonifacio are the founding fathers of the Filipino nation. Rizal sowed the idea and provided the vision for the Filipino nation. Bonifacio, whose sesquicentennial we are celebrating this year, brought it to fruition.
Memoirs of the Korean War
1,400 Filipino soldiers versus 40,000 communist Chinese They faced 40,000 Chinese soldiers with only rifles, machine guns, mortars and howitzers to stop the enemy. They also have 2 light tanks, a few bazookas which didn’t work and not of all them had winter clothing. The communist attack was so overwhelming that the British and the […]
July 4, not June 12
When did the Philippines really gain independence? by Felizardo M. Pagsanhan July 4 is the true [Philippine] Independence Day, not June 12. This can be gleaned from the history book titled “Philippine History and Government, Through the Years,” authored by Francisco M. Zulueta, and Abriel M. Nebres. Let me cite this book as reference in […]
Imelda Marcos: “I live in poverty in a 2-storey penthouse” by Luis B. Lim
“I’ve had the best, best, best and the worst, worst, worst.” The words were spoken by Imelda Romualdez Marcos as she shook my hand during our first meeting in that May morning of 2010. Two weeks before, I wrote a proposal which I submitted to my cousin, Sonya Mathay, wife of then Mayor Mel Mathay, […]
Final Hours in Malacañang
Col. Irwin Ver—son of Gen. Fabian Ver and commander of President Marcos’s guards—tells of the last hours in Malacañang in February 1986.
Memoirs of World War II by Jaime Kelly Pimentel
Sixty-eight years ago this month, General Douglas MacArthur’s vaunted US 1st Cavalry Division liberated my town of San Juan, Rizal, in mid-morning.