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Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Editor-in-Chief of Philippines Graphic
Literature

Paz Marquez-Benitez: Between literature and history

Philippine history boiled, bubbled, and spewed trouble in the years that marked the birth and growing up years of Paz Marquez-Benitez. The future short story...
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NJLA 2023: Return of a Literary Tradition

For 75 years since it first became a magazine in 1927, the Philippines Graphic has featured the literary works of Filipino short story writers...
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12 years later, revisiting Marcel

The years snap back to the past like a terribly stretched rubber band suddenly released to hit the wrist. It’s been 12 years, Marcel....
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Duterte’s battle for narrative

You either love him or hate him. There seems to be no middle ground in perceiving Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte as he went about...
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Marra comes back to Philippines Graphic

She was there when Philippines Graphic was born in June 1990. In those early days, Marra PL Lanot and her husband Jose “Pete” Lacaba...
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Graphic days & nights with Frank Sionil Jose

On the last day of his 97-year stay on earth, National Artist Frank Sionil Jose wrote about the Philippines and his hometown of Rosales,...
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A NEVER ENDING STORY: Lumads of Mindanao & their fight to keep their ancestral land

From 19 October to 02 November 2015, the Philippines Graphic ran a three-part feature on the Manobos of Mindanao. Below is the COMPLETE SERIES PART...
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Of Labor & Literature

It is a tale of conflict as old as societies and governments. In the age of antiquity, it was between master and slave. During...
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2 writers : Manuel E. Arguilla & Edgardo M. Reyes

They were never part of the trade union movement. In the labor-management schism that afflicted workers in their millions, the likes of Manuel E....
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In dubious battle: Organized labor in the time of COVID-19

TOP PHOTO: Building workers. A young man, hoists a bucket of cement up during the rebuilding, renovation, of a building in Tabuk on the...
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They came before the day began,before I was ready to be seen.Pink lilies, shyly unfoldingagainst the raindrops of morning.Too early,and yet, how touching,that someone remembered,and could not wait.A student once,her handwriting still a little unsure,has sent these blooms ahead of time,as if to say: I’m still thinking...

Satellite data show earthquake damaged areas, coastal uplift, and return of nighttime lights

Via GRAPHIC PLUS | Quezon City (16 June 2026) — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is currently analyzing available satellite data on the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the southern portion of Mindanao on June 8. PhilSA produced maps showing damaged structures in General Santos City, with areas in...

SM extends aid to earthquake-affected families in General Santos City

via GRAPHIC PLUS — SM Foundation and SM Cares mounted a relief response in Barangay Balite, Lagao, General Santos City following the recent earthquake that affected communities in the area. Together with UNIQLO Philippines, the initiative provided immediate assistance to 821 heavily affected families as part of...

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