Coming up on Thursday, June 19, is the birthday of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), whose heroism makes it difficult for people to refer to him by his nickname Pepe Rizal. Pepe is a nickname found throughout ...

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) announced its lineup of activities for the commemoration of Rizal Day on December 30, marking the 128th death anniversary of Gat Jose Rizal ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – More than 130 years ago, Dr. Jose Rizal came to several cities in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire to meet with his close confidant, Austrian ethnographer Ferdinand ...

For more than a century now, Filipinos have been told of the life of Jose Rizal, especially his last 24 hours, his execution and his last poem, “Mi Ultimo Adios.” Late afternoon the day before his ...

Urban legends are like amoeba: They divide and multiply. The urban legend about Rizal being the father of Adolf Hitler, for example, is easily dispatched by counting back nine months, from April 20, ...

December 30 of this year will be the 125th anniversary of the execution of Filipino nationalist, writer, revolutionary and National Hero Jose P. Rizal. Almost every city or town plaza here in the ...

ELEVEN years after the execution of José Rizal, Wenceslao Retana, a Spanish Filipinista who worked for the colonial government between 1880 and 1886, published the first biography of Rizal. This ...

It was my grandfather who introduced me to Jose Rizal when I was maybe six or seven years old. By then, I had learned to read and write. I knew that Baac, that is what we called him, could also write, ...

The Rizal bust in Tokyo’s Hibiya Park was erected in 1998 at the site of what used to be the Tokyo Hotel, where Rizal stayed. The resulting manga, which first appeared in Japanese on the sukima.me ...

Filipinos continue to honor the life and works of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, whose words had outlasted his own life, influencing many generations following his death in 1896. As we commemorate the 158th birth ...

The Rizal Monument in the 58-hectare Rizal Park holds a special meaning to Filipinos. Essentially, the monument is a tribute to the martyrdom of a great man, who, though wrongly accused, accepted his ...

MANILA, Philippines - National hero Jose Rizal, whose 118th death anniversary was commemorated Tuesday, was also an inventor, although he had filed no patents on any of his inventions, according to a ...