EARLIEST oral traditions suggest that Maynila was founded as a Muslim principality as early as the 1250s. Rajah Sulayman was the chieftain of the polity by the time Spanish conquistadors – led by ...

As it reached its bloody end 75 years ago, the Battle of Manila – a brutal fight in America’s only colony, the Philippines - left more than 100,000 civilians dead, killed in some of the heaviest urban ...

MANILA, Philippines — NLEX (North Luzon Expressway) Lakbay Norte expanded beyond North and Central Luzon with NLEX Lakbay Manila — a special trip into the heart of the country’s lively capital.

In 1635, María, a slave woman from the Indian sub-continent living in the Spanish-controlled Philippine Islands, enters the historical record. We know that women as well as men were involved in forced ...