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Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos

English Version: To the Young Women of Malolos

Buod: Sa kanyang liham sa mga kadalagahan ng Malolos na sinulat noog 1889, ipinahahayag ni Jose Rizal ang kanyang papuri at paggalang sa katapangang ipinamalas ng mga …

Rizaliana Radio Festival in Sydney airs radio dramas

We have recently launched a website dedicated to the efforts of a group of Filipino Australian community radio broadcasters, announcers, technicians and producers in Sydney as they pay homage to the Philippine national hero, Dr …

Is this website, Philippine Studies, anti-Filipino? Be the judge.

We have received an email from a certain “Ji” of Hotmail concerning the article “Anti-Filipino Remarks“.

On reading the message, we thought we misread it.

Our reader was claiming that the article is …

General Carlos P. Romulo – ‘Mr United Nations’

This month of October as the world observes the day (October 24) on which the foundational treaty of the Charter of the United Nations became in force, Philippine Studies pays tribute to a great Filipino.…

Martial laws in the Philippines

September 21, 1972 is the date many remember as the date Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under martial law.

But unknown to many, there were two other …

Philippine Arena – world’s largest domed arena

We don’t normally include in this site news about developments in the Philippines including politics, economics, technology, education, and property developments.

But the news that in the Philippines will soon rise the world’s largest domed …

Jose Rizal

Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era [...]

Notes on the history of Chinese Christians of the Philippines (Part III)

The first Filipinos were, of course, the vassals of King Philippe the Second of Spain and the Philippines (el Rey Felipe Segundo de España y de Filipinas). Among those vassals were the Peninsulares that settled in these Islands called “Felipenos” [...]

Balintawak Arnis Escrima, A Filipino Martial Art

Like all cultures around the world, the inhabitants of the Visayas already had a martial system. Magellan and his crew, who wore armours of steel, confidently took on Lapu Lapu and his men, who only wore cloth. Early scribes reported that the natives were proficient with "esgrima", fencing [...]