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Philippines Graphic: 91 years of literature and the news
It all started in 1927 when a Filipino publisher named Ramon Roces put up a weekly magazine that offered considerable pages for Tagalog literary pieces.
Edited by Tagalog novelist Agustin C. Fabian, the Graphic popularized this literary tradition until it was shut down during...
The law decriminalizing vagrancy amid the drive against tambays
Six years ago, an event heralded as a landmark accomplishment for human rights in the Philippines took place.
On March 27, 2012, the law decriminalizing vagrancy, Republic Act 10158, was signed into law.
“There are numerous reports of arbitrary arrests by police as a result...
Mirror Images: My interviews with two Presidents
I wouldn’t call them friends, but neither were they mere acquaintances. Presidents Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III and Rodrigo Roa Duterte will forever stand in history as heads of state, two of a long line of 16 powerful Chief Executives that had served...
In my life: young stories
Of all the opportunities that writing for Philippines Graphic has brought me, it is the chance to interview people that I cherish the most.
No, I do not mean persons of stature and consequence. Rather, I refer to ordinary folk like you and me....
Unraveling the secret of the mysterious fuel leak
A mystery needs to be solved. That has always been a human instinct. It’s a like a scratch that needs to be scratched. And the peskier the itch, the greater the need for it to be scratched.
That was on my mind when I...
Newsroom geek
Let me begin this story by saying I am not tech support. Most technology reporters and editors have been known to say this to the other newsroom denizens who, for some odd reason, think that being a tech journo immediately makes them the...
