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Free education and the road to progress

by Joel Pablo Salud   Raising a little over PhP50 billion for the Free Higher Education Law is no easy feat. By the time the Universal Access...
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The Nick Joaquin Literary Awards Asia-Pacific

We at the Philippines Graphic and our sister-broadsheet, the BusinessMirror, are very pleased to announce the expansion of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards to...
Editor’s Corner

ICC and the rigors of curbing crimes against humanity

by Joel Pablo Salud   How effective is the International Criminal Court (ICC) in curbing crimes against humanity? A better question, perhaps, should be: is the...
Essay

The Prez and the showgirl

by Marie Yuvienco   The bad puns are flying low and fast as the pants are coming down. The pants belong to Donald Trump, who was...
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Revolution

by Earl Carlo Guevarra Back when I was a child I thought revolution was a product Of blood, sweat, tears and steel   I thought that it was about...
Book of the Week

ELITE: A voyeur’s peek into the darker realms of the principalia

by Joel Pablo Salud Elite. The word hums as if it were a bomb waiting to be donated. In the Philippine context, the word is...
Review

Timeless: Musing on music and Rizal

by Sampaguita B. Flores-Nepomuceno Music is timeless in our environment—from informal noises that do sound musical to the classical music and the modern music of...
Lifestyle

Crossword 45

by Rene Sebastian ACROSS Sheen Bargain Remedy Icepack Royal Society Derogator United Artists Dined Italian river, Caesar’s? Assc. Degree in Nursing Tagalog poem Mr. Donald...
Consumer Post

Chicken facts

  by Henrylito D. Tacio Believe it or not, there are more chickens in the Philippines than Filipinos.  As of July 1, 2017, there were 181.05 million...
Lifestyle

Coins.ph and beep partnership ​help save time 

In a collaboration aimed at helping Filipinos skip the lines, Coins.ph, the leading digital wallet and mobile payments app, and contactless payment provider, beep...
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“The Pramoedya Affair”: More on the controversial Magsaysay Award

(Editor's note: In response to an article by Linda Bolido entitled "The controversial Magsaysay award" published in our August 28, 1995 issue, Filipino novelist and Magsaysay awardee F. Sionil Jose sent in this reply: "Below is the rationale for the RM Award. Please print it in full so...

WEARING BLACK ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

jet-blackmy get-up today, from the upperto the underwear:black shirt, the color of mourningon this loveliest of mornings.black denims, the hue of rue.black shoes and socks.black briefs, the shade of grief.black heart i wear on my sleeve—and all because i can't have you! Written by Ralph Semino Galan. February...

“Canticle for Dark Lovers” displays Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s mastery of the short story form

Exploding Galaxies announces its sixth title and short story collection, Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s Canticles for Dark Lovers. Nolledo is also the author of But For the Lovers, the first novel republished by Exploding Galaxies when they launched in 2023. WHO IS NOLLEDO? Born in Manila in 1933, Wilfrido Dayo...

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