Discover the history of the Chinese Battalion, the Chinese Filipino soldiers who fought during World War II and contributed to the Philippines' defense against Japanese invasion. Read more »
Workers died building Imelda Marcos’s film palace by the bay, and nobody agrees on how many. Here’s what the record shows, what the ghost stories say, and why the two keep getting mixed up. Read more »
Open Pulitiklan.com and the country turns into a field of colored dots. Each one is a province or city, and each opens into a list of surnames and the relatives in public office who share them. “Kapag ang public office, family business,” the site says under its logo. Read more »
The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Monday, Oct. 5, rejected allegations that Beijing had channeled money to a Philippine political faction, calling them a “false narrative.” Read more »
Authorities arrested 244 foreign nationals during simultaneous raids in Zamboanga Sibugay, in what the Bureau of Immigration (BI) described as the country’s “largest Pogo bust” since the government banned Philippine offshore gaming operators. Read more »
The mermaid’s scaly, less charming counterpart has a name borrowed from Hokkien and a surprising second life in Filipino grammar. Here’s what the syokoy is, what old stories say about it, and why you might want to stay away from its river. Read more »
