“Bagong Lipunan” is the hymn of the New Society Movement founded by Ferdinand Marcos and played during the imposition of martial law in the Philippines from 1972 to 1981. Here it gets the TikTok ...

MANILA, Philippines—President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has issued an order to government offices and public schools to include the singing of the “Bagong Pilipinas” (“New Philippines”) hymn and reciting ...

CEBU, Philippines — Malacañang has ordered all national government agencies and instrumentalities to include the recital of the Bagong Pilipinas hymn and pledge in their weekly flag ceremonies, a move ...

SAMAL, Bataan: As the sun rose on Thursday, a familiar song during the administration of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was played through an interconnected sound system in different sitios of an agricultural ...

Whoever urged President Marcos Jr. to issue that memo mandating all government agencies and schools to sing the new “Bagong Pilipinas” hymn and recite the accompanying pledge at flag ceremonies should ...

MANILA, Philippines — For a piece of music intended for community singing, it may still be far from being catchy, memorable, or inspiring. The melody is “awful,” the lyrics “forgettable” and the ...

BAGONG Pilipinas is probably a reiteration of Bagong Lipunan. Probably because it was formulated even before the culture of excellence was made, unlike Bagong Lipunan, which was launched in 1975, a ...