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Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Editor-in-Chief of Philippines Graphic
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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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Samia Khatib: Channeling peace through sports in Lebanon & the world

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) reported it as “the most powerful non-nuclear explosion of the 21st century.” It even had its own “mushroom cloud,”...
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All about sparking hope: Will a vaccine see an end to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Pfizer Senior Director Dr. Amgad Gamil put it succinctly: “We don’t know up until now everything about the virus. We don’t know everything until...
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A last look at 2020

Australian bushfire A raging bushfire engulfed Australia’s Kangaroo Island on Jan. 3. For five months, from October 2019 until March 2020, several bush fires blazed...
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National Arts Month 2026 opens with a grand concert in Luneta

The National Arts Month (NAM) 2026 celebration officially opened with a grand concert, “Ani ng Sining: Konsiyerto ng Katotohanan at Giting,” held on Sunday, February 1, at the Rizal Park Open Air Auditorium in Luneta Park. The opening concert set the tone for this year’s observance by underscoring the vital...

Manila to host largest ASEAN-Korea music festival “ROUND” this April at Araneta Coliseum

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES | 28 January 2026 — A two-day free concert will be the centerpiece of the regional music calendar as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and KBS WORLD TV officially unveiled the complete lineup for the 2026 ROUND Festival on January...

VLF 2027 calls for submission of ‘virgin’ scripts

The Virgin Labfest (VLF), since its establishment in 2005, has grown into a garden of gripping narratives and socially-relevant storytelling. For its upcoming 22nd season, the annual theater festival is now accepting submissions of unpublished, unstaged, untried, and untested one-act plays. The deadline is February 28, 2026, at...

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