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Celebrate the return of Balangiga bells

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | November 16, 2018 - 12:00am

We’ll believe it when we see it” is the attitude of Filipinos toward the return of the Bells of Balangiga. Far too long has the US government hemmed and hawed about repatriation.

Opinion

Balangiga bells to be returned by December

By Bobit Avila | October 31, 2018 - 12:00am

I remember how many times I have written about the famous bells of Balangiga in this corner but for the sake of brevity, this time I went to Google and read the story on Wikipedia and this is what they wrote about...

Freeman Opinion

For history’s sake, keep the AFP museum open

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | February 3, 2016 - 9:00am

Remember the old saying by George Santayana…“Those who do not remember the past is doomed to repeat them.”

Opinion

Kahit pukpukan ang training Pacman sumama sa kampanya para ibalik ang Bells of Balangiga

By Salve V. Asis | April 1, 2015 - 10:00am

Nakiisa na pala si Manny Pacquiao sa maraming Filipino and American celebrities para sa kampanya ng pagbabalik ng makasaysayang...

PSN Showbiz

Teach the real Phl history, not US propaganda

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | December 18, 2014 - 12:00am

I got a lot of positive reviews and one very negative response via email and text from a good friend and faithful reader of mine about the column we wrote last Tuesday, which I based on the book “Imperial Cruise”...

Opinion

Primer on EDCA, by one of ‘Magnificent 12’

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | May 7, 2014 - 12:00am

“The  Americans  should  be asked to put troops in Ayungin and Scarborough.”  

Opinion

Bells in US sensitive in US-Philippine relations

June 8, 2012 - 7:56am

Military veterans are speaking up on the possibility that the U.S. might repatriate three church bells seized as war booty from the Philippines more than a century ago.

Mga kampanang kinuha ng sundalong Kano pinasosoli

By Gemma Amargo-Garcia | June 24, 2011 - 12:00am

Umaasa ang ilang mambabatas na tutugon si US President Barack Obama at ang buong administrasyon nito na ibalik sa Pilipinas ang “Bells of Balangiga” na kinuha ng sundalong Amerikano sa lalawigan ng Samar...

Bansa

When presidents meet

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | July 26, 2009 - 12:00am

It is interesting to speculate on what President GMA and President Obama will talk about when they meet on July 30.

Opinion

Balangiga bells battle reaches US Congress

By Jose Katigbak | April 18, 2005 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — The battle for the Bells of Balangiga, considered by Filipinos as symbols of their country’s struggle for independence, is spilling into the halls of the US Congress. Sonny Sampayan of New...

Headlines