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Save the Children, child rights groups urge solons to unite for positive parenting bill

Dahlia, a 16-year-old student from Parañaque would scream each time her mother burns her arm with mosquito coil for household chores left undone. Whenever she passes by her mother’s stall in the market, she would overhear her mother’s gossiping, calling her “prostitute” for...

SBMA, DA sign MOA for P509-M agri border control facility in Subic

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the establishment of a control facility for fresh and frozen agri-fishery commodities entering the country through the Subic Bay...

A new Bahay Kubo for the World

TOP PHOTO—Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children Song is sold at Savage Mind Bookshop, located at 5 Peninsula St. Mayon Avenue, Tinago, Naga City. To order please message https://www.facebook.com/SavageMindBikol/ or email us at savagemindbokshop@gmail.com or text at 09167615121. Folk songs like our folk stories are...

Tale of an Enchanted book

“What is a city without enchantment?” asks Dr. Mary Jane Guazon-Uy in “The Book of Pedro Bautista” recently launched by Ateneo de Naga. This novelist happens to be an untypical physician who heals with science while consorting with magical realists like Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and...

Portrait of the journalist as poet

To the uninitiated, poetry and journalism appear to be opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. In reality, this is not so. Poetry is the mother root of all written language. It is the point of origin and common ancestor of prayer, prose,...

Town and Country from the Pen of Three Women

I collect rare books not only for that old-world scent trapped between their pages, but for that splendid bit of humanity revealed in each story—all told in exemplary prose. Three authors of what seems to be out-of-print books come to mind: Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas’...

Random Pickings

Jover Laurio’s RESIBO ni Pinoy Ako Blog

Pinoy Ako Blog started as an anonymous blog critical of the Duterte administration. Much has been said about it,​ particularly by the administration’s most die-hard supporters. The...

Elmer Ordoñez’ “Father’s Doppelganger”: Old friends & memories of war on a rainy afternoon

Photos courtesy of Arkibong Bayan, Dr. Elmer Ordoñez, and Ishmael Ordoñez Maybe, it is his favorite—dark pants and that green-ochre polo shirt with vertical black...

Che Sarigumba’s Puso pa rin ang Nagpasiya Todavía El Corazón Decidió: Putting Philosophy into the Romance Novel

Conjuring an image of love is not a skill that I believe can exist; until I savoured Che Sarigumba’s spells in Puso pa rin...

Speculating the speculative

by Jonah Basanta García Striping the wands and the sages for the conventional magic show, Dean Francis Alfar’s Salamanca contextualized mysticism for the Philippines. It...