This coming June 12, 2009, the Philippines will celebrate the 111th Independence Day, a remarkable celebration to rejoice the freedom of the Republic of the Philippines from all the invaders from other countries. We’ve been captured by the Japanese, controlled by the United States until the day when we’ve finally been granted something, that our ancestors have so long fought and sought for, the Philippine Independence and hey,...

The Philippine Declaration of Independence occurred on June 12, 1898 in the Philippines, where Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo (later to become the Philippines’ first Republican President) proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain after the latter was defeated at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. The declaration, however,...