Natural disasters and war have destroyed many of the buildings erected in the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule. But in historical areas of the archipelago, impressive examples still stand.

Uncover the complex story of how America took control of the Philippines, tracing the history from the Spanish-American War through brutal conflict, colonization, and eventual independence from ...

The Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, is like Latin American countries a former colony in the Spanish Empire. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for three ...

Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed independence in Kawit, Cavite, ending over 300 years of Spanish colonization.

The Philippines' daily minimum wage is 537 pesos ($15.33) — about 16,500 pesos per month ($470.90).. The Guardian reported that average pay for call centre workers fluctuates between 13,000 to ...

The procession, called the “traslacion,” or translation, commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial capital of Intramuros, in present-day ...

There is no question that the greatest legacy that the more than 300 years of Spanish colonization of the Philippines was to introduce and spread the Catholic faith among the Filipino people. An ...