BAUTISTA, PANGASINAN—A historical shrine honoring the town where the lyrics of the national anthem “Lupang Hinirang” was written, was unveiled with a historical marker on Monday by Mayor Amadeo Espino ...

Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III recently made the suggestion that the last two lines of “Lupang Hinirang” be changed. Sotto referred last Sept. 18 to the lines “Aming ligaya na ‘pag may mang ...

Quite different from the 1956 version adopted by the Department of Education that we all know today as “Lupang Hinirang” or “Bayang Magiliw” because of the first line that goes: “Bayang magiliw/ ...

EXCEPT for its residents, hardly would anyone know that it was in Bautista, a southeastern town in Pangasinan, where poet Jose Palma wrote the original lyrics of the Philippine national anthem more ...

The Philippines is commemorating the 119th anniversary of its independence on Monday, with Filipinos proudly raising the Philippine flag from Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and even in tumultuous Marawi ...

What does Lea Salonga think of Senate President Tito Sotto’s proposal of changing the last line of “Lupang Hinirang”, the country’s national anthem? “I don’t think that it’s necessary, per se,” ...

The Misamis Oriental local government unit is in hot water over a video showing a flag ceremony with the Philippine national anthem sung with Bisaya lyrics. A 24 Oras report by Cedric Castillo showed ...

The last line of the Lupang Hinirang about giving one's life for the country isn't defeatist. According to a historian, it's the ultimate sign of patriotism. “Any changes can be proposed, but the ...

The national anthem has undergone changes since Julian Felipe wrote the melody in 1898 and Jose Palma wrote the original lyrics in Spanish in 1899. Apart from being translated into English and finally ...

Lea Salonga on proposal to change the last line of the Philippine National Anthem: "I don't want any of those lyrics to be watered down in any way only because they spur on the greatest of our heroes ...