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The crazy life of Rodrigo Duterte — the Filipino President who claims to have thrown an enemy out of a helicopterTom Murray
British bookmaker William Hill had Parolin out in the front with 9/4 odds - a safe bet. At his heels was charismatic moderate Luis Antonio Tagle - a Filipino who could be the first Asian pope - at 3/1. L-R: Cardinals Francois-Xavier Bustillo, Domenico Battaglia, Robert Francis Prevost...
It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by humanitarian work that affected people all around the world.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines-- Soon after it became apparent from election results thatRodrigo Duterte would be the next presidentof the Philippines, he drove at 3 a.m. Tuesday to a cemetery to visit his parents' tomb. And there he wept.Gone was the rough, tough-talking, vulgar personality that...
Peter Aquino Aduja (19 October 1920 – 19 February 2007) was the first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States. He was elected as a representative in the Hawaii Legislature in 1954.Born in the Philippines, Aduja emigrated to Hawaii in his youth, and then served in...
Naturalization examiners later returned to the Philippines to process the applications. But by then, many of the men had returned to civilian life and were no longer eligible for U.S. citizenship, which was limited to those on active duty. Later, President Harry S. Truman declared Filipino vet...
In the Philippines, National Heroes' Day ( Araw ng mga Bayani) is a regular holiday and celebrated on the last Monday of August. It is the celebration for all the Filipino heroes who had put courage to fight for independence from Spaniards.
in the period after the nearly 50-year colonization of the country by the United States had come to an end. Supporting his Filipino First Policy to strengthen and grow the economy, the President and his administration invested in garment manufacturing...
Indonesia and the Philippines signed a deal on Friday to repatriate a Filipino death-row drug convict, as the new administration of President Prabowo Subianto seeks to shore up diplomatic ties with neighboring countries.