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Workers Party of the Philippines (WPP) launches bid for 2025 Senatorial polls
FFW president Sonny Matula leads WPP senatorial slate
Labor leader and Federation of Free Workers (FFW) President, Atty. Sonny Matula, officially assumed the leadership of...
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Boy in the Forest
Small step by small step I walk slowly toward the edge of the forest. It is early morning. I can hear familiar morning sounds. This is where Father takes me sometimes to gather firewood, herbs and edible mushrooms while I hold on to him. This time I am alone....
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Literature
Palihang Rogelio Sicat to hold its 17th workshop in June; political detainee among its 15 chosen writers for 2024
The prestigious Palihang Rogelio Sicat (Rogelio Sicat Writers Workshop) will hold its 17th iteration at the Clark Free Port Zone in Mabalacat City, Pampanga,...
Edith L. Tiempo: Up close and personal
I met Edith L. Tiempo on the night I won my first national literary award in 1979, from Focus Philippines. She headed the panel...
Literature
Boy in the Forest
Small step by small step I walk slowly toward the edge of the forest. It is early morning. I can hear familiar morning sounds. This is where Father takes me sometimes to gather firewood, herbs and edible mushrooms while...
Graphic Reader trilingual editor takes home the Premio Antonio M. Abad Award
For her arresting collection of poems, Soy (I am), multi-awarded poet, essayist, and trilingual writer Marra PL. Lanot won the Hispanic-Philippine Literature Award at...
The humor of D. Paulo Dizon
A Google-search of his name will not yield much data or information. He is probably one of the Filipino fiction writers from the 1950s...
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Pete Lacaba & Marra Lanot: On marriage and the muse
This Valentine’s month, we present to our readers a time capsule; a love story first put into words by noted journalist Pablo A. Tariman in a 1981 article published by the defunct Celebrity Magazine. It speaks of a time...
Pete Lacaba & Marra Lanot: On marriage and the muse
This Valentine’s month, we present to our readers a time capsule; a love story first put into words by noted journalist Pablo A. Tariman...
The full circle of Tony, Nick & Pete
Photo by Bernard Testa
The last decade of the 20th century saw the third re-emergence of the Philippines Graphic—this time, under the ownership of the...
Project Coffee
When God created the world in seven days, probably, there was already coffee on the third day. To fast forward human existence, coffee was...
Red Is the River that Runs
Blood has a peculiar, coppery taste in the mouth. Carmen smells it first, a familiar metallic tang from rusted iron reminiscent of white sartin...
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The full circle of Tony, Nick & Pete
Photo by Bernard Testa
The last decade of the 20th century saw the third re-emergence of the Philippines Graphic—this time, under the ownership of the...
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UP atmospheric physicist takes to the skies with NASA: Monitoring air quality on NASA817
Dr. Gerry Bagtasa of the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Science–Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (UPD–CS IESM) took flight with the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) recently, as part of an air pollution measurement campaign called ASIA-AQ...
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“No patent, no right”: UP lawyer highlights scientists’ need to protect inventions
In the ‘90s, Dr. Neila Cortes-Maramba of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila led a team of scientists investigating 10 medicinal plants in the Philippines.
Two of these...
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A PINOY PHOTOGRAPHER IN AMAZING CHANG MAI
Every year, some 20 to 24 million tourists visit one of the oldest kingdoms in Southeast Asia—Siam, presently referred to as Thailand.
Located at the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand...
Wellness
Novartis offers solutions to medicine access problem through its access principles
A major problem emerged at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFMA) reported at that time, the COVID-19 vaccines were not...
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A Prayer for Leni Robredo
Lord, there’s no day that can carry the load
Of living without the help of your grace.
No sun will shine on a land without hope.
The morning there will have nowhere to go,
Like a child who loses sight of its mother,
And...
Igorot without Thorns
It happened at the clearing booth of NAIA flight station. She was bound for Thailand for a five-day trip to join a cultural immersion...
Bunót
My tongue used to be made up of copra,
salivating oils that indicate who I am and where
I’m from. A place where coconut husks roof
people’s...
Safety is a Hole in the Ground
Beth woke up with a start to the unearthly screams of a pig as it was being lashed to the long wooden bench in...
Philippines Graphic Reader
Naked
We have our palms embedded in the trunks
of trees, embroidered in its leaves were desires
left seasoned by the worms. That the fruits were
products of...
