May 17, 2025 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine flag is now flying over Philippine Rise as the country’s assertion of sovereignty, on the eighth anniversary of its renaming yesterday.

As The Philippine Star reports, Facebook’s celebratory graphic featured an image of the Philippine flag with an inverted color scheme — red on top, and blue on the bottom.

Honor the flag’s seamstresses: The proper protocol for retiring worn or damaged national flags involves a lady official representing the “Inang Bayan” during the flag-burning ceremony. Her role is to ...