Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met the man he calls his hero, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and unburdened his gripes about US "hypocrisy," "bullying" and foreign wars. Duterte, who has ...

August 25, 2025, is celebrated in the Philippines as National Heroes Day, a regular public holiday. In Tagalog it is known as Pambansang Araw ng mga Bayani, observed on the last Monday of August. The ...

Tribal leader Datu Julito Ahao has dedicated nearly 40 years of his life to protecting Philippine eagles, a critically endangered national bird, in the wild. Considered an “unsung hero” by ...

Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, a Silicon Valley giant as the Founding Father of Personal Computer Hardware, was a most practical but quiet nationalist who deserves recognition as a Philippine hero in the ...