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Jeepney phaseout: Modernization for whom?

by Michelle Lado Last March 17, various jeepney drivers and operators in the country conducted a transport strike to protest the PUV modernization program of...
Editor’s Corner

Primus Inter Pares

by Joel Pablo Salud The bosses one gets to laugh with from time to time, share a drink or two even in the thick of...
Essay

Just what the doctor proscribed

by Marie Yuvienco The judge, rather.  Ignorance of the law excuses no one from complying therewith is the bedrock of practically all legal systems of...
Book of the Week

On education and seduction: a harvest of prose

by Joel Pablo Salud, Manila Critics Circle There’s a growing fan base on the lookout for nonfiction books these days, and not without good cause:...
Poetry

The Measure of A Man

By Jonathan Aquino I. Any fool can carry a weapon and even a coward can kill. I told the warrior as he rose, drawing his sword as I sat...
Essay

Writing in the Age of Tokhang: Message to the Fellows of the recently-concluded 57th U.P. National Writers Workshop for Mid-Career Authors

by Rolando B. Tolentino *Photos used with permission from Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. Vlad Gonzales is this year's director of the...
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Graphic contributor wins two Binhi Awards

Philippines Graphic contributing writer Henrylito D. Tacio bagged twin honors at the recently concluded Binhi Awards of the Philippine Agricultural Journalists (PAJ). The annual awards,...
Lifestyle

Crossword48

by Rene Sebastian ACROSS 1.  Stanza 5.  Mate 11. South Dakota State 14. Lake Albert Negro 15.  Foreign diplomatic offices 17.  Incite 18.  Staple food 19.  One memo (2 wds.) 20. Elysium 22.  Fence steps 23. ...
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Cash-on-Delivery, fueling the growth of online retail

by Ofri Kadosh In today’s digital shift, Filipinos are getting more hooked up with purchasing products and services online. In fact, the user penetration is at...
Lifestyle

Kitsho’s summer of freshness

by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza   With a welcoming smile and the tinkle of a bell, a seated Chef Masahiro “Hiro” Mizumoto beckons guests to enter one of...
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STILL LIFE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS, AFTER SCROLLING

Van Gogh’s sunflowers  — all twelve of them  — so lively, lush, standing, bending; they do not submit to ikebana’s poise and posture — golden — no — bronze — beautiful yet strange. I am certain this is the color of grief thick as impasto, of desire leaping like a gazelle, beyond the canvas’s frame — wedged in the folds of saffron — of...

The Weight of Small Things

Fear is at the back of her mind, a shimmering heat in the distance, a glowing ember in the dark. Silently acknowledged but never confronted, because naming might push her off the deep end. But it is there, biding its time, like a half-remembered pain faintly throbbing...

Megawide Foundation creates sustainable spaces for people and the environment, turns over two new community projects

In another step towards building better communities, Megawide Corporate Foundation, Inc. (“MCFI” or “the Foundation”)—the corporate social responsibility arm of Megawide Construction Corporation (“Megawide”)—recently completed two sustainability projects, embodying its mission to build sustainable, inclusive spaces. A renewed home of hope and care for children in need On 16...

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