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 ...

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.

Baguio City in the Philippines. Photo by: Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez. Baguio City in the Philippines. Photo by: Chi Balmaceda Gutierrez. Before the Philippines became a US colony, they were ...

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 ...

Throughout Spanish colonization of the Philippines, jobs such as fishing and farming — which require people to spend hours under the sun and resulted in darker skin — became perceived as lower ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imported to the Philippine islands by Spanish imperialists, Catholicism has had complex and contradictory impacts on the nation’s subsequent evolution. Remembering 500 Years of Christianity in ...