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Rosa May M. Bayuga

Rosa May M. Bayuga writes for a living and for the love of writing. She has won the Palanca awards and the National Commission on the Arts and Culture Writer’s Prize for her fiction. She explores the “dark side,” whenever she can. She cares for cats and roses, talks to long dead and dying stars, and writes when her spirit compels her to do so.
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Ninay and the Spirits

The summer Ninay turned ten, her elder sister told her that she should learn to help around the house. Housework should be done the...
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THE EXILE

It was Christmas break. Susie and I had all the time to do whatever we wanted to do. The one thing we had long wished for, since her uncle told us the man’s story, was to see the bearded exile who lived in the house across our homes. The front of the exile’s house faced our front door. Its back side faced Susie’s huge window in their house along the bay.

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Sir, you speek Tagalog?

I was once asked to write an “objective” account of Manila and the Philippines. This struck me as a curious request, because objectivity—poor thing—didn’t survive postmodernism. Everything nowadays is selection: facts, impressions, perspectives. And since we live in the age of entertainment, algorithms, and political agendas, what...

NCCA, UNESCO challenge teachers to turn living heritage into classroom lessons

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is inviting Grade 7 to 12 teachers across the Philippines to participate in the Bringing Living Heritage into the Classroom (BLHC) in the Philippines: National Competition...

Binan City Mayor Angelo ”Gel” Alonte: When the obstacle is the way

One could tell a lot of things about an elected government official by looking at his desk nameplate. This is what first crossed my mind inside the office of Biñan City Mayor Angelo “Gel” Alonte.