MANILA – “The Philippines is no one’s chess piece. We are an independent country.” Undersecretary Claire Castro of the Presidential Communication Office made that remark in a briefing on Thursday in ...

The Philippines is no one’s chess piece, we are an independent country.'' This was the response of Malacañang on the statement of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun that the Philippines ...

When Netflix created The Queen ... in chess in 2020 — exacerbated by the pandemic — might have been a global phenomenon, but it interestingly coincided with the efforts of local stakeholders in ...

Juan Gómez-Jurado’s thrillers “Red Queen” and “Black Wolf”—published in Spain in 2018-19 and subsequently translated into English—introduced readers around the world to the Red ...