MANILA, Philippines - Cigars symbolize success, wealth and power. For Filipinos, cigars also connect the present with their nation’s past. No one did that better than former Philippine president ...

Only a small sign outside the three-storey office building  which says “Tabacalera Cigars” quite simply  gives passersby an idea that the place figured much in Philippine history.

Aside from Cuban cigars, President Kennedy is known to have enjoyed Philippine cigars, probably the Alhambra brand, one of the mildest cigars made by the Philippines’ largest cigar maker, La ...

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 ...