Lapu-Lapu is hailed as the first Filipino hero, though very little is known about him. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

What comes to mind is the 1939 song “Strange Fruit,” made famous by Billie Holiday, which is a haunting metaphor that refers to the victims of racial violence against African Americans in the US. The ...

Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The festival ...

The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honours Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of ...

ON April 26, the Filipino immigrant community in Vancouver, Canada, held a festival honoring Lapu-Lapu, the Mactan chieftain who vanquished Ferdinand Magellan and his men in battle in April 1521. What ...

The Lapu Lapu Festival is a Filipino block party that honors Lapu-Lapu, the chieftain who led native forces in the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan in 1521 ...

The incident happened as the Filipino community in Vancouver celebrated Lapu Lapu in remembrance of indigenous chief Lapulapu who led the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in a battle ...

The Filipino community had gathered there for Lapu-lapu Festival, which commemorates a 16th century anticolonial chief who killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. “My heart goes out to ...