Manila toasts America at 250
At America’s 250th, Ambassador Lee Lipton used Manila’s 4 July stage to promise the alliance a more ambitious future.
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DECORATED EXIT
Lee Sang-hwa leaves Manila with a medal after helping turn South Korea from a cultural obsession into a strategic necessity.
MINDANAO MAKES MICHELIN
From Davao to Auckland, a Filipino puts Mindanao on Michelin map through Bar Magda’s bold, unmistakably Filipino cooking.
A PLATFORM, THEN WHAT?
If China fortifies Scarborough, the threat moves closer to Luzon and puts the Philippine mainland within easier military reach.
WHAT DID TRUMP SEND?
Trump’s new ambassador in Manila arrived making the case that America’s next move in the Philippines is economic as much as military.
TRAINING FOR THE ATOM
Before nuclear power arrives, the Philippines must first build the people trusted to touch it.
NATION, WOVEN
From malong to inaul, Filipinos showed Cairo a country that still knows how to weave itself together.
BRASS BATTALION
The US Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band recently brought America's "Freedom 250" celebration to SM Mall of Asia, marking US independence…
BOND IN BEETHOVEN
Seventy years of diplomacy ended where it probably had to: Filipinos hearing Japan through a poignant robot anthem.
U.N. AFTER SHOCK
A classroom can look standing and still be unsafe.
WAR CAN’T CANCEL HOME
The flag flew far from home, but in Tehran recently, Filipinos made distance look briefly beatable.
CEBU GAINS VIETNAM LINK
Cebu gets a direct line to Ho Chi Minh, turning two rising economies into neighbors by air starting 11 December.
EU WIRES BARMM
Bangsamoro went to Estonia to study the next battlefield: cyberspace.
NEW WATCH AT SEA
The U.S. gave the Philippines four sea drones built to watch waters too vast for ships alone.
KYIV’S PACIFIC ARGUMENT
Ukraine to Manila: If force can redraw borders in Europe, it can haunt every contested sea.
PRAGUE’S FILIPINO PRAYER
Right in the heart of Europe, in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, the Church of Our Lady Victorious can be found, open to…
FEST FINDS HARBOR
Nearly 400 members of the Taiwanese community, Filipino guests and public officials from Taiwan and the Philippines gathered in Manila on…
Asean gets real
Students saw how embassies help Filipinos abroad and how practical ASEAN decisions reach home.