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New thinking for Philippine Agriculture

Q&A with Agriculture Secretary William Dar William Dollente Dar was only seven months in office as Agriculture Secretary when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country in earnest and plunged the entire Luzon into Emergency Community Quarantine (ECQ) during the first month of the pandemic....

Writers in a time of lockdown

Seven weeks into the lockdown of Luzon with a bit less than two more weeks of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) to go and the world looked like it had come uncomfortably close to the fictive realm of several dystopian stories—yet the apocalypse in...

Quarantine Chronicles: ‘A Stranger’s Love’

Carla Villanueva Manas was no stranger to a stressful but well-managed life.  As former general manager of media outfit CNN Philippines, she’d had a taste of the daily grind. Each day, she slogged it out in a 21st-century newsroom with more than the average...

The plight of ABS-CBN: Of dual citizenship and foreign ownership of mass media

By Justice Noel Gimenez Tijam (Ret.) Robust debates recently sparked following the renewal initiatives of the congressional franchise of a mass media giant that is ABS-CBN. Some propose a rather simplified solution to the controversy by invoking past legislative acts where the lower House...

We will survive

The Philippines Graphic is once again at a critical juncture. Thirty years ago, my father, the late ambassador and business mogul-philanthropist Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, helped resurrect a magazine that had lived through various owners since 1927. It was a time of great hopes and...

The colors of hope

On the morning of Apr. 19, on that cramped space by the porch where I comb the internet daily for news on the COVID-19 pandemic, a document came to my attention. From the looks of it, the paper was released on Apr. 17 by...

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The story of the Balangiga bells

On Dec. 11, at 10:30 a.m, the three Balangiga Bells arrived at Villamor Airbase. These were the bells that US troops took as war...

The other “Big One”

In case of soil movement inducing a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, can the Angat Dam survive this intact? Thus, Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado of Bulacan raised the issue...

UHC Now

On December 13, health advocates organized a webinar to build up momentum on the country’s journey towards Universal Healthcare, as well as showcase best...

The Cartography of Slums: Malabañas’ Hidden Backbone

text and photos by Maria Krystelle C. Jimenez With its dazzling lights and more nite clubs that you can count, it’s not hard to imagine...