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May 15, Monday, marks the 97th birthday of Karel Aster, the last Czech defender of Bataan. Born on 15 May of 1920, he is to this day the last living survivor among all the Czech defense volunteers who took part against the Japanese Invasion during World War II. Aster was awarded the Medal of Victory and the Medal of Defense in recognition of his honorable civilian combat service in the Philippines by the order of […]
MANILA, Philippines –Czech and Filipino organisations opened new tourist trails equipped with international marker systems in Mt.Kanla-on Natural Park, Negros Occidental.Promoting the beauty of less known parts of the Philippines, three color- coded trails using the colors of the Philippine flag were opened from Guintubdan to Buslugan Falls in red, to Oro Falls in yellow and to Salas Park new Pavillion in blue. The system is unified across a number of countries, but is entirely new to the Philippines. The […]
Following the Japanese attacks on the Philippines in December 1941 the entire community of the Czechs in Manila volunteered to join the ranks with the Philippine and US forces as their own homeland was already occupied by the ally of Japan, the Nazi Germany as they wanted to hold off the forthcoming Japanese invasion. They did this despite assurances it was only a matter of time before U.S. forces would succumb to the invading Japanese […]
Initiated by Czech Embassy in Manila in cooperation with the Film Development Council of the Philippines, this year’s FilmAsia premieres six Filipino feature films, old and new. Among the films brought to Prague are the recently rediscovered and restored classic Genghis Khan (1950) directed by Manuel Conde which opened the festival on December 4, 2015, and the acclaimed political family drama Dekada ’70 (2002) based on acclaimed novel by Lualhati Bautista—a film which mirrors similar, […]
Ondřej Neff, notable Czech writer, journalist and photographer, author of more than two dozen science fiction books, visited the Philippines to launch his short story collection in English translation. At Uno Morato café and bookshop, the premier speculative fiction hub in Quezon City, he met with local writers and readers. Published by Anvil Press in cooperation with the Czech Embassy, the book entitled “The Fourth Day to Eternity and Other Stories” featured four of Neff’s […]
