MANILA, Philippines — Top business leaders, government officials and dignitaries came together to celebrate the historic 125th anniversary of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (La ...

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 ...

BALER, AURORA – The National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, in partnership with the Municipal Government of Baler, Aurora; the Department of ...

Ambassador Philippe J. Lhuillier delivered his closing remarks for the 11th Philippines-Spain Forum to a packed audience of leading figures from the diplomatic, economic, academic, and cultural sectors ...

In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island ...

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 United States, ...

America's "splendid little war" with Spain may have been "little" in one respect — as a military conflict — but its historical consequences have been anything but small. With its victory and ...

December 31, the last day of the year, has often served as a day of closure, decision, and transition in Philippine history.

More than 7,000 islands make up the Philippines, but the bulk of its fast-growing population lives on just 11 of them. Much of the country is mountainous and prone to earthquakes and eruptions from ...