A park named after Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal will soon be constructed in New South Wales in Australia. Balitang Australia reported that a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Campbell town to signal the start of construction to transform a 2.6 hectare property into Rizal Park.
By Brady Eviota
Few stopped by to read the small marker in English on a wall near the main train station here in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
But thanks to ceremonies by Philippine and Swiss officials on the occasion of Rizal’s 148th birthday last June 19, that marker now reminds viewers of the travel that Philippine national hero, Dr. [...]
By A.Z. Jolicco Cuadra
Penguin Books has published the newest translation of Jose Rizal’s hefty, sententious, incendiary novel, “Noli Me Tangere” for world consumption. This establishes the Rizal novel as one of the world’s classics, an epic novel that contends with Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”
By HECTOR PASCUA
ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
Noted Filipino historian and newspaper columnist Dr. Ambeth Ocampo gave a lecture in Vienna clearing up the roles of the Philippine’s national heroes, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau reported.
Former Supreme Court chief justice Hilario Davide Jr. on Sunday took his oath as the Philippines’ permanent representative to the United Nations, replacing Ambassador Lauro Baja Jr., ANC reported.
By Josh Grossberg - Jose Rizal helped start a movement to secure Philippine independence. He’s a national symbol, a martyr to revolution and an intellectual giant who helped lead his country to independence.
Jose Rizal was many things to the people of the Philippines and on Saturday, residents of Carson, which has a sizable Filipino population, [...]
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