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Alma Anonas-Carpio

MSMEs in the export business

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez led the formal opening of the just concluded Manila FAME. He cited the bi-annual buying event as an embodiment of...

BDO Foundation helps improve healthcare for Pilareños

The health workers of Pilar, a municipality in the province of Capiz, aspire to achieve a noble goal. Led by their municipal health officer...

Balutan: ‘Every parent’s dream is to see their children go to school’

“No parent in his right mind would not like to send their children to school. Every parent’s dream is to see their children go...

Ang lumbay ng Mayo ni Louie Jon A. Sánchez

In Memoriam, Cirilo F. Bautista (1914-2018)     May lumbay ang Mayo na ito— Naglilimas, unti-unti, ng búhay Upang igiit yata ang likás Na panglaw ng mabuhay. Ano pa ba'ng dapat...

Kamakalawa (kay Cirilo F. Bautista) ni Santiago Villafania

1.   kagabi ay hinimayhimay ko ang bawat taludtud ng aking tula binaybay ang mga malalalim na kataga hanggang sa dumugo ang pahina   noon ko lang unang natikman ang tamis at...

A still point (For Cirilo F. Bautista, Paalam, Toti) by Albert B. Casuga

  Sense and notion meld where sound is sight, and stillness is moving. It completes an oxymoron for the day: What crack of thunder and flash of lightning would slice this mid-morning...

When a writer dies by Ramil Digal Gulle

when a writer dies maybe the silence grows just that bit longer   or darkness fattens one globule more as it turns in its sleep, eyes closed yet tearing   up in happiness moist smile...

Going Nova by Alma Anonas-Carpio

  They say you slipped away In the glorious morning sun. Yet even the quietest leave-taking Is beyond you who are now purest light.   All that you held Barely contained Burst...

Losing Cirilo by Joel Pablo Salud

  *My humble tribute to Poet and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista   nothing comes easy nothing by way of gain or loss, neither in this life nor...

Poems by Cirilo F. Bautista

  Exile By: Cirilo F. Bautista I want to write about life and deathlessness and the sea, the rampage and calm and full flow of blood and bread   on...

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Americana, on his back

My grandfather was shipped out of the Philippines in the 1920s, and landed in Stockton, California—less as a starry-eyed immigrant, and more as imperial cargo.  The Americans needed hands, and the Philippines—trophy from the Spanish-American War—had plenty to spare. Men like him crossed the Pacific not on a...

Of ‘balimbing’ and coup

It is balimbing season once again. Balimbing is a fruit with many sharp sides, so that it has been popularly used to describe agile politicians who are able to change sides quickly everytime there is a change in the political weather. It is the local term for...

4th Refugee Film Festival champions youth voices, stories of solidarity

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Philippines celebrated World Refugee Day by hosting the 4th Refugee Film Festival at the Natividad Fajardo-Rosario Gonzalez Auditorium of De La Salle University Manila last June 20. The film festival aimed to foster global awareness, build empathy, and mobilize meaningful action...