Following his victory at Manila Bay, Commodore George Dewey became an overnight sensation in the United States. His picture appeared everywhere, and young people, like those seen here, honored and ...

Built around 1880, the 144-year-old house of General Anecito Lacson, president of the short-lived Republica Cantonal de ...

Statistically, over half of the people reading this article live in a city, with a higher population density than rural or suburban areas. For instance, New York City has nearly 27,000 people crammed ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

These territories were “bought” for $15 million after it defeated Mexico. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, the Philippines was ceded to America for the sum of $20 million, even though ...

No matter how you look at them—as outstanding examples of John Browning's genius, an interesting phase in American firearms ...

He was an obsessive collector of antiquities as seen in the objects displayed in his London home now a museum whose main attraction is the couch where his patients lay and poured out the stories that ...

THE National Historical Commission of the Philippines will unveil a historical marker for the San Diego de Alcala Parish in the city of Valenzuela on the occasion of the feast day of its patron saint ...

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro says he doesn't expect U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration ...

China is putting ever greater pressure on the Philippines to cede its sovereign rights in the South China Sea, Manila's ...

BEIJING (AP) — China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former President Rodrigo Duterte will be skipping another hearing of the House Quad Committee’s investigation into the extrajudicial killings of his drug war campaign ...