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Kris Lanot Lacaba

Kris Lanot Lacaba is a poet and freelance journalist. He co-scripted Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) and the Nick Joaquin biopic Dahling Nick, a Cinema One nominee for best picture and Gawad Urian nominee for best documentary. He is co-recipient of the 2016 Catholic Mass Media Awards special citation for Investigative Reporting for a 10-part martial law series in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, with authors Ceres Doyo, Susan Quimpo, and Monica Feria.
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Ode to Lope K. Santos: writer, poet, labor organizer, and father of Filipino grammar

Sometime before Lope K. Santos passed away on May 1, 1963, he paid a visit to a cemetery with his wife, to the grave...

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Maynilad joins UN Global Compact, strengthens ESG governance

VIA GRAPHIC PLUS — West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), committing to further align its business practices with globally recognized principles on human rights, labor, environmental responsibility, and anti-corruption. The UNGC is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative,...

The World in the time of Nick Joaquin

Europe, the seat of everything that was grand, powerful, and prosperous, was caught in the teeth of the First World War, the year Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was born on May 4, 1917. It was half a world away from a boy who would emerge half a century...

Giant clam shells and shipwrecked ivories: The enduring allure of Philippine craft

When I visited the Sagrada Família, I noticed six giant clam-shell holy-water stoups from the Philippines installed near the rear of Architect Antoni Gaudi’s basilica. Each shell is accompanied by a plaque inscribed in Filipino and Spanish reading: “Alay ng Sambayanang Filipino/Ofrenda del pueblo Filipino.” According to numerous reports...