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Alma Anonas-Carpio

Lessons after 10 years and a day

By Joel Pablo Salud I didn’t get to spend 10 years working as editor for the country’s longest-running news and literary magazine without a harvest...

Note to summer swimmers

by Henrylito D. Tacio It was a warm Sunday morning in Davao City. Five-year-old Jane was swimming with other kids near the seashore. No adults...

#PlayItRight: 5 ways to know if a site is distributing content illegally

One of the most popular sources of entertainment in the Philippines is streaming videos online. However, many people think that everything available online is...

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PCSO consults STL operators on IRR revision

Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan together with members of the Board on Tuesday met with Authorized Agent Corporations (AACs) from all...

Pag-IBIG Fund recognizes South Luzon’s top partner-developers in 2017

Pag-IBIG Fund, led by its chief executive officer (CEO) Acmad Rizaldy P. Moti (top row, center), recognized its top 10 partner-developers in South Luzon in...

Manila Water bags 7 Anvils

Ayala-led Manila Water Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries Laguna Water, Boracay Water and Clark Water bagged seven honors in the 53rd Anvil Awards held...

National Book Store celebrates First European Literature Fair in Manila

The European Literary Fair to be hosted at National Book Store Glorietta will celebrate European literature at its finest. Dozens of new book titles will...

PCSO aiming for newer ISO certification

By Mylene C. Orillo   Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is currently gearing for a newer ISO certification that is risk-based and taking into consideration the...

News in focus / MARCH

Sereno’s march to impeachment, DOJ surprises, and other fantastic gambits by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Ides of March, in the time of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, meant...

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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....