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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

Of That Other Country We Now Speak: Fiction worthy of its calling

As a bar room skylark, Charlson Ong can pretty much handle the microphone with the ease and flair of a Grammy winner. As a...

J. Eduardo Malaya’s Frontlines of Diplomacy back-to-back with Forging Partnerships

  Written over a span of eight years, these two books are really roads to discovering and understanding how the Philippines relate to other countries...

Laughing while love wins: Zsazsa Zaturrnah’s trip to Manila

When I first read Carlo Vergara’s comic on gay superhero Zsazsa Zaturrnah, it was two in the morning and I woke my neighbors with...

The tremendous power of secrets: Cecilla Manguerra Brainard’s ‘Magdalena’

The first call of a novel is to tell a story. Not just any story, mind you, but the story only the author of...