MANILA, Philippines — Every August, the Philippines celebrates Buwan ng Wika, or Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Month). A month-long celebration, it promotes the importance of ...

Buwan ng Wika has become a yearly opportunity to celebrate not only our language but also our identity as Filipinos. But for some, it’s unnecessary – even a pretense – to celebrate a ...

MANILA, Philippines — Jun Robles Lana's award-winning play "Anino sa Likod ng Buwan" will be staged once again, over 30 years after its debut. The 1993 original production won the grand prize of ...

This year’s annual observance of Buwan ng Wika, Aug. 1-31, will be highlighted by three competitions. Theme of this year’s Buwan ng Wika, according to the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF), is ...

It's still Buwan ng Wika and even foreigners are celebrating our language. The Philippine Embassy in Germany on Facebook shared a video where two Germans Maik and Sergio gamely sang lines from three ...

And Buwan ng Wika would have made for a good rallying point. More than 80 years since President Quezon declared two national languages that were not Cebuano, so many among us here in Agusan still bear ...

Not long ago, you were just a kid in school reciting poems and dancing to folk songs for the Buwan ng Wika celebration. You wore a traditional Filipino attire like Filipiniana, baro’t saya ...