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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...

The right to privacy is considered sacred. It is what allows people to sleep at night and feel secure in their communities, in their own homes, in their own skins. Here is what the 1987 Constitution has to say about that under Article III,...

It’s inevitable: Rodrigo Duterte and the press will never see eye to eye. There’s simply no way around it. Not now, and perhaps, not ever. No reconciling the hunger for truth with the capriciousness of government power. No union between the facts and the...

Before the Philippines gained its name as a nation, and before the centuries of colonization, females wielded as much—if not more—power in the communities of our archipelago as the males did. Why, back in the pre-colonial days, the men walked two steps behind their...

Photos by Maria Kristelle C. Jimenez Nestled under a large bridge in Hensonville Riverside, Barangay Malabañas are thousands of informal settlers who have made the searing pavement of Abacan River’s dike their home. True to its old Spanish name, El Pueblo de los Ángeles...

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 why Barangay Malabañas in Angeles, Pampanga is called the “Land of Entertainment.” Entrepreneurs and tourists embrace the scene nightly,...