Archive for the ‘History’ Category

A Galleon museum in Manila

There’s a plan to build a galleon museum in Manila that will not only make Filipinos appreciate Philippine historical ties with Latin America but in the words of Mexico’s First Lady Margarita Zavala, “ could serve as an intercultural and globalization research center which will further help in uniting us.” Madam Zavala, wife of President [...]

November 28, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Arts and Culture, History, Malaya  6 Comments

Researchers discover fossil of human older than Tabon Man

By Howie G. Severino, GMANews.TV Move over, Tabon Man. Callao Man is here. Evidence has emerged that the islands comprising the Philippines could have been inhabited by humans more than a dozen millennia before the so-called Tabon Man of Palawan, long thought to be the archipelago’s earliest human remains. A team of archaeologists led by [...]

August 3, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: History  3 Comments

Between legend and truth

by J.B. Baylon Malaya This holiday season has allowed me to do something I like doing a lot – and which costs very little. I refer to my habit of going to a bookstore, and staying there for an hour or two, sometimes even three – while I browse the many books available, taking my [...]

December 27, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Governance, History  45 Comments