Europe, the seat of everything that was grand, powerful, and prosperous, was caught in the teeth of the First World War, the year Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was born on May 4, 1917. It was half a world away from...

Compiled by Graphic Editorial “Our sense ... of our country is a sustained act of imagination. From that vantage, it can be said that our writers and artists, who are men and women of imagination, create our country (italics mine)....

It’s a four-year-old book of poetry—a slim book, all of 90 pages, with 55 poems published in 2022, ready to be read and absorbed. And for English-proficient third-millennium Filipinos—whether aspiring for comfort or already living in ease—the images spun by...

It was the type of news that jarred the senses because it was the first time it happened in the country. Government officials called it an “unprecedented tragedy.” On the morning of June 22 of this year, two students, aged...

In August 2025, an 82-year-old man named Jose Takei boarded a flight from Manila to Osaka, carrying with him eight decades of an unanswered question. Takei was born in Laguna near the end of World War II, the son of...

DON RAMON PARDO ROCESPublisher, Graphic & Graphic Weekly1927-1941; 1948-1965 In the early decades of American colonial rule in the Philippines, there were rich and influential Hispanic-Filipino families who invested in publishing. One of them was the Roces clan. The family pioneered...

I have always been interested in where modern Philippine culture began, how it spread, and what images were used to represent the nation. Print media is central to that history. Before television and the internet, magazines helped Filipinos imagine the...

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.

The Philippines Graphic, alongside the BusinessMirror, the Pilipino Mirror, and the entire ALC Media Group, deeply mourns the passing of Philippines Graphic Literary Editor Marra PL. Lanot.

What a lakeside island community reveals about learning, resilience, and reform in the Philippines Seen from the shores of Laguna de Bay, Talim Island rises from the country’s largest lake, cut off from the mainland with no bridges linking the...

There is a certain rhythm to Batangas City—one that reveals itself in the steady movement of people, services, and systems that increasingly seem to work in sync. 

With YAKAP now in place, Dr. Mercado says his hope for the years ahead is not simply better coverage figures, but a deeper sense of peace of mind among Filipino families.