At last year's Penang World Music festival I had the opportunity to talk to Grace Nono, a most versatile singer, researcher and writer from the southern Philippines. After the event she sent me a copy ...

A visually impaired Babaylan—or pre-colonial Filipino shaman—has a vision of her seafarer son in danger, and so summons her ancient power to try to save him.

While Philippine society became heavily patriarchal under Spain, a balance between the roles of male and female was more evident during pre-colonial times.

MANILA, Philippines - “If there are issues that concern Filipinas in any part of the world like labor, violence, we are on that,†the 66-year-old Hoegsholm tells STARweek. In 1997, Hoegsholm, along ...