A bowl of halo-halo emerged as an unexpected symbol of Philippine-Japan friendship during President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s state visit to Tokyo after Japanese Emperor Naruhito revealed a fondness for the iconic Filipino dessert. Marcos shared the story with members of…
More than three decades before he would become president of South Korea, Lee Jae-myung was a young human rights lawyer representing some of the most vulnerable workers in the country’s industrial zones—many of them migrants from across Asia seeking opportunity…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s three-day state visit to Cambodia, the first by a Philippine leader in nearly a decade, is being cast as “highly important” by Manila’s diplomats. But its real weight lies not in protocol or photo opportunities. The…
