The month of February 2018 was again the occasion to commemorate the Battle for Manila, the largest mass killing and...
This year marks the sesquicentennial of the birth of Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine revolution in 1896 and president of Asia’s first democratic republic in 1898.
The first post-liberation concert of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) under conductor Dr. Herbert Zipper was given in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church on May 9, 1945. It was described in the Sunday Times Magazine in May 1970 as the most unusual concert ever given in Manila.
An article by Irene C. Perez on the newly opened restaurant Casa Roces (“Roces clan opens ancestral home for dining,”...
Today is Friday, Feb. 3, 2012—a Day of Remembrance. Flashback to Feb. 3, 1945—a day that brings to mind the stark events of a war that begs not to be forgotten.
The passing of Ambassador Juan José Rocha—Johnny to his family and friends—on July 20 was a lamentable loss to Manila’s...
It is the month of February again, the month in 1945 when the Japanese chose to turn our fair city into a battleground and killing ground, as Ambassador Juan José Rocha has said, leading to the death of some 100,000 noncombatant civilians, the destruction of irreparable heritage, and the near-obliteration of public utilities.
A RECENT exhibit at Ayala Museum celebrated the birth centennial of León Ma. Guerrero III, diplomat, lawyer, newscaster and writer....
News of the passing of Carmen “Chitang” Guerrero Nakpil reached me while I was visiting my daughter and her family in Boston, Massachusetts.
A new book on the fabled Manila Galleon Trade was launched in Hong Kong in February and in Manila recently...
