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Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Editor-in-Chief of Philippines Graphic
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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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President Marcos Jr. convenes Philippine Space Council, approves programs on satellite development and key space initiatives

Malacañang Palace, Manila (June 4 2026) — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. presided over the 9th Philippine Space Council (PSC) meeting on Tuesday and set plans to strengthen the country's space capabilities through satellite development and space data utilization. As the Head Secretariat and Presidential Adviser on Space...

Beyond the frame: Mapúa MCL’s “Still, She Breathes” rules Southville’s Cinemulan 2026

The student-led short film “Still, She Breathes” from Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna emerged as the big winner of the Cinemulan Film Festival 2026 held last May 30 at the Southville International School and Colleges (SISC) Luxembourg Hall. Led by director, writer, and editor Charles Urbano, “Still, She Breathes”...

Pag-IBIG Fund offers payment moratorium, housing loan insurance following Mindanao earthquake

Via GRAPHIC PLUS — Pag-IBIG Fund is offering a one-month payment moratorium and reminding borrowers of their Housing Loan insurance coverage to help members recover from the devastation caused by the recent magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Mindanao, officials announced Thursday. Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Secretary...

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