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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’...
South Africa must be good for the soul
South Africa. A place of raw, untamed beauty. Its cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town in particular, rise from the burrowed ground at once splendid and modern. Everything this side of the Cape of Good Hope stands as a fitting chrome and steel backdrop to...
