Katapangan. Kabayanihan. Pagsisilbi sa bayan. Ano nga ba ang kabuluhan ng pagiging Medal for Valor awardee? Pakinggan ang kwento ni retired colonel Ariel Querubin, isa sa most bemedalled officers ng Armed Forces of the Philippines dito sa What The F?! Podcast.
Kung nabubuhay si Rizal sa kasalukuyang panahon, ano kaya ang mensahe niya sa mga kabataan na minsan n’yang tinawag na “pag-asa ng bayan”?
Many Filipinos were shocked to see images of the historic Manila Central Post Office building in flames when they woke up on Monday, May 22. The fire started shortly before midnight on Sunday but the highest fire alarm level was raised six hours later. Photojournalist Bullit Marquez took photos of the charred iconic structure for VERA Files.
Dalawang araw bago salubungin ng bansa ang panibagong taon, gugunitain ng mga Pilipino ang pagbitay kay Jose Rizal noong Dis. 30, na unang idineklara na holiday ng yumaong pangulong Emilio Aguinaldo noong Dis. 20, 1898.
Two days before the nation welcomes another year, Filipinos will commemorate Jose Rizal’s execution on Dec. 30, which the late president Emilio Aguinaldo first declared a holiday on Dec. 20, 1898.
Inulit na naman ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, na kamakailan ay inilarawan bilang isang "makabagong Lapulapu" ng kanyang tagapagsalita na si Harry Roque, ang hindi napatunayang pahayag na ang Mactan chieftain na namuno sa 1,500-kataong hukbo nang talunin ang mga explorer ng nagsisilbi sa Espanya noong 1521 ay isang mandirigmang Tausug. Hindi bababa sa 20 beses na itong sinabi ni Duterte.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who was recently described as a “modern-day Lapulapu” by his spokesperson Harry Roque, repeated for at least the 20th time the unproven claim that the Mactan chieftain who led a 1,500-strong army to defeat Spanish-serving explorers in 1521 was a Tausug warrior.
Sa pagtatanggol kay Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, iginiit ng aktor na si Robin Padilla na "mayroong historical fact" sa pahayag ng senador na si Lapulapu, na itinuring na unang pre-colonial na bayani ng Pilipinas, ay isang Muslim-Tausug na lider mula sa dating Sultanate of Sulu.
Taking up the cudgels for Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, actor Robin Padilla asserted “there is historical fact” to the senator’s claim that Lapulapu, regarded as the Philippines’ first pre-colonial hero in recorded history, was a Muslim-Tausug leader from the defunct Sultanate of Sulu.