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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Looking back at the future of Filipino writers

One day, toward the end of 1967, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera sat down to look critically at the state of Philippine literature and what sorts of styles and literary figures have come to the scene.  Lumbera’s particular interest was with the outputs that came out in...

Iteration of a Theme’s Variation

End with everything. Keep nothing. Then own it all again.Find a bad man on a good day. Lose a worse man,then reclaim five friends fleeing him. Forsake to lose as ifyour death discounted it, that your death depends on it.Discard it like self-defense, like crashing a bike....

Maynilad offers desludging services this June

via GRAPHIC PLUS — West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) is offering septic tank cleaning services to its residential and semi-business customers this June in select parts of Caloocan, Las Piñas, Manila, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Pasay, Quezon City, Valenzuela, and Cavite Province at no extra cost. Maynilad’s...