It was a typical day at a cigar factory in 19th-century Philippines. The pounding against wooden tables echoed through the halls of the tabacalera. Inside were women, seated on the floor, in front of low tables. On one hand, a sheet of tobacco leaf; on the other, a rock. The cigarreras spent their day beating […]
A land dispute that hundreds of years, a revolution and a world war failed to resolve has apparently been settled by the stroke of a pen with the signing of Republic Act 11454. Long-time residents of Krus Na Ligas, once regarded as “illegal settlers’’ on property owned by the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, will soon become rightful owners of the land that their ancestors had occupied long before the city or the university even existed.
The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.
