A recent, terrifying discovery in the Philippines is shaking the foundations of what we know about ancient human history. The ...

THE chief obstacle to social and political progress in the Philippine Islands is “caciquism,” the term by which “bossism” is known in those regions. Bossism, as it is now applied in the ...

The Philippines was under Spanish rule for 333 years. Through colonization, the country was able to learn and imbibe Spanish and Mexican culture. Many Filipino words have Spanish or Mexican origin… ...

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 ...

IN the first part of this column, I discussed the "regalian doctrine," which asserts that all lands during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines belonged to the "crown," or the King of Spain. I ...

In a throwback to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines (1565-1898), three cities bear the name Magallanes. The largest is a second-class municipality in Sorsogon Province with 34 barangays; ...