Filipino pride swelled when gamers around the world found that beloved national hero Jose Rizal would be represented in the popular 4X strategy game Civilization’s newest installment. With an affinity ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Those are the words of Dr. Jose Rizal, accomplished author, scholar, polyglot, and venerated hero of the Philippines. The moment I heard those ...

MANILA, Philippines — As part of the cultural program Ni Hao Philippines, Chinese students in Beijing were introduced to Pepe — the young Jose Rizal. The Philippine embassy in Beijing said Ni ...

Jose Rizal was no stranger to epidemics and quarantine. In 1888, as he was about to land in San Francisco from Japan en route to Europe, he was trapped inside the ship for six days. In 1889, the ...

Looking stressed, she asks him to carry Dylan and gives him their ... At one point, he even held an “anti-selos” class at Jose Rizal University. On TikTok, the hashtag #antiselos has already become a ...

MANILA, Philippines — Jose Rizal belongs to the Filipino people, said one of his descendants during the commemoration of the national hero’s 127th death anniversary. Paolo Lopez Azurin is the ...

PHOTO: Ambeth Ocampo File Photo . Today, most of Jose Rizal’s remains are in his monument in Luneta. One other relic, a piece of his backbone, was kept by the Rizal family.

In a previous article, I wrote about Josephine Bracken, Jose Rizal’s last love. For today, we talk about another woman in Rizal’s life. This week, on April 11 in 1867, Leonor Rivera was born ...

Museo ni Jose Rizal at Fort Santiago —PHOTOS BY EDGAR ALLAN M. SEMBRANO. Also in attendance during the event were Rizal’s relatives, led by Bea Bantug Tan, Rizal’s sister Narcisa’s descendant.

THE best thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has done to me is the realization that in the past six decades, Dr. Jose Rizal somehow touched my life. It happened when, while in the process of decluttering ...