In fact, my late father named me Paciano after the late President Jose Paciano Laurel, the great Laurel patriarch. The Laurel leadership is best characterized by unyielding patriotism yet astute ...

As puppet president of Japan’s Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila’s ornate Malacanan ...

IF one must describe a true Batangueño "barako," he can completely describe it with one word — Laurel. Batangueños hold such a name in great reverence and admiration. In fact, my late father named me ...