By Ambeth Ocampo
PRAGUE—Readers who are growing tired of this series tracing Jose Rizal’s footsteps in foreign lands will be relieved to know that all this comes to an end this week. Seasoned columnists advised me to take a break when traveling, but with handy Internet connection almost anywhere on the globe, there is no excuse [...]

By Rodel Rodis – This is a speech I delivered after receiving the Dr. Jose Rizal Achievement Award at the induction of officers of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California (FBANC) held on April 25, 2008 in San Francisco.
This award holds special significance to me as my mother was born and raised in Calamba, [...]

Photo: Sir Carlos Arnaldo, KCR, Chapter Commander dubs
Sir Dominique Lemay, Knight of Rizal.
Paris, 24 April 2008 – Dominique Lemay, Founder and current Director of Virlanie Foundation, Makati, Metro Manila joined the ranks of the Order of the Knights of Rizal. He was formally inducted today at the Philippine Embassy in Paris, as member of the [...]

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.

By Ambeth Ocampo
VIENNA, Austria—While there is not much funding available to support high-profile cultural projects, here the Philippine Embassy under Ambassador Linglingay Lacanlale has initiated contact with the Austrian National Library and Austrian National Museum of Ethnology. The National Library has a small but significant collection of rare Filipiniana, from 18th-century imprints like Jesuit reports [...]

The Rizal Monument pen and ink drawing is composed of the National Hero’s thirty-nine (39) poems and one song, “A Orillas del Pasig”, translation into English by my late friend, Alfredo Veloso.

By Ambeth Ocampo
via Inquirer
MADRID, Spain—Spring may be a nice time to be in Europe, but early in the season the weather is variable: cold one day, pleasant the next, and you can have sun one day, rain the next. Many Filipino travelers feel at home in Madrid unlike any other European capital. Were it not [...]

Today is the deadline for filing nominations for the 6th Dr. Jose Rizal Awards for Excellence, a biennial event organized by The Manila Times and the Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran Inc. The awards was envisioned by Dante A. Ang, former chairman of The Times and now chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), to [...]

By Ambeth Ocampo via Inquirer
PARIS, France—Some of the main sources for this column have been European travel accounts that describe the Philippines and the Filipinos over time, beginning with Antonio Pigafetta’s chronicle of the ill-fated Magellan expedition to current Tourist Guidebooks to the Philippines written and published by foreigners. In the age before YouTube, digital [...]

By Regina Layug
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines – What was the encounter at the Battle of Pinaglabanan all about? What happened in Tirad Pass? Who was the combat award recipient after whom Boni Serrano Ave. in Quezon City is named?
For many young Filipinos today, the reality of these significant events in Philippine history have been tragically [...]

By Ambeth Ocampo via Inquirer
PARIS, France—Despite the wintry cold and occasional drizzle, the French like to speak their mind publicly. What we thought to be a parade on our first day out turned out to be a demonstration for Ingrid Betancourt, a French citizen who was kidnapped and has been held captive in Colombia since [...]

By Henry Funtecha - There are lots of ways in which Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the Philippines’ foremost national hero, is being honored. His monuments are almost everywhere, and provinces, towns, barangays, streets, parks, schools, banks, and other institutions are named after him.
In Iloilo City, Rizal Street, considered one of the longest and busiest commercial [...]