As Jeff Masters blogged today Super Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda as it was named in the Philippines) was the most powerful typhoon on record to strike the nation and one of the, if not the, strongest ...
Installation view of Kidlat Tahimik: Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso: 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars at the Palacio de Cristal, Madrid (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) MADRID — ...
Abroad, India’s RSS Speaks of ‘Love.’ At Home, Its Affiliates Attack Christians. Imported to the Philippine islands by Spanish imperialists, Catholicism has had complex and contradictory impacts on ...
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his father’s brutal declaration of martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., arrived in New York for the 77th session of the United Nations General ...
THE Philippines is one of Asia’s two archipelagic states (Indonesia is the other), comprising more than 7,000 islands dividing the Pacific Ocean from the South China Sea. Those islands are divided ...
A dig in Luzon, an island in the northern Philippines, has uncovered fossils of an “Ice Age” rhinoceros that was butchered around 700,000 years ago. It’s the first evidence demonstrating the presence ...
Uncovering the rich tapestry of arts, traditions, and culinary heritage across the Philippine archipelago. In the quiet of dawn, the first light diffuses through Basilica Minore del Santo Niño’s ...
Seventy years after the end of World War II, Japan's relations with neighbors South Korea and China continue to be strained by wartime grievances, while the Philippines, which Tokyo dominated for ...
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...