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PHLPost: Staying relevant in the age of electronic communication

by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza At no time has the power of man to communicate been this fast and pervasive. Latest figures supplied by the global conversation...
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Bangsamoro watch: House joint committee adopts BTC version

by Fil V. Elefante One major stumbling block to getting the draft bills for the Bangsamoro Basic Law passed was hurdled last week in the...
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Losing Face(book)? Part 2

by Alma Anonas Carpio     Facebook began notifying users whose data had been used by Cambridge Analytica on April 10, concurrently with the start of the...
Editor’s Corner

Fourth Estate as Empire?

By Joel Pablo Salud In Eric Gamalinda’s novel, Empire of Memory (First Edition, 1992), the author quotes the words of Dr. José Rizal in his...
Essay

The princess and the corn

by Marie Yuvienco There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to...
Book of the Week

Where light walks: “Finding the Sun”

By Alma Anonas-Carpio In a world where aging is feared and held off for as long as possible, it is refreshing and heartening to see...
Poetry

My heart, wasteland

By Rachel Salud My heart is a wasteland Of cigarettes smoked to the hilt, And walls that bear the shadows of rain; Of tree stumps that never grow, And...
Consumer Post

Have a cup of coffee

Text and Photos by Henrylito D. Tacio Consumer reports say eight out of 10 adults in the Philippines drink an average of 2.5 cups of coffee every day. In...
Lifestyle

Time to go scuba diving

by Fil V. Elefante Summer’s here again. And it’s time to beat the heat.One great way to do that is to go scuba diving. For those...
Lifestyle

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by Rene Sebastian ACROSS 1. Church rite 5. Drew blood 9. Unruffled 13. Blue-pencil 14. Ordinance 17. Phil. leprosarium 18. Albay town 19. Sooner 20. Pagoda 21. Passion 23. Food fish 24. Direct 25. Sepia 26. South Amer. 27. Give...
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GUERILLA DOWNPOUR

There is no warning— the sky, a sudden insurgent, opens with                     guerrilla downpour. Torrential rain, an unrelenting witness, assaults the fragile spines of trees and the quiet bones of houses. Water spills, not as mercy, but as a force that shatters the brittle calm we cling to. In the heart's small orchard, the fruit sags                beneath shadowed weight, and...

Salt Prayer

"There must be something strangely sacred about salt.It is in our tears and in the sea."from SAND AND FOAM (1926) by Khalil Gibran Matthew 5:13— "You are the salt of the earth. But ifthe salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made saltyagain? It is no longer...

Something more

BY THIS TIME next year, Teresita could be elsewhere, unmindful of the biting cold. She could see herself walking along a cobblestone path strewn with scattered leaves from maple trees that lined the streets. It would be October, and the foliage would be nothing short of magnificent....

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