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Reclaiming Rizal for future generations

Biñanenses are bound to recall the day when their city government won for them a piece of history; a history that now beckons to define Biñan’s identity for generations to come. It began eight years ago, in 2010, when word got around that the...

Biñan: A city with a view to the new century

From a municipality that first came to the common man’s awareness by way of a delicious rice cake delicacy, the Biñan of today has shed much of its provincial, agricultural past to make way for a rapidly industrializing, modern city. Under the leadership of...

FEDERALISM 101 SERIES

  PHILIPPINES GRAPHIC: It has been widely reported that the Calabarzon provinces are in favor of Federalism. As a mayor of one of the top three cities in Laguna province, do you think that Federalism is feasible in the Philippines? Biñan Mayor Walfredo 'Arman' Dimaguila:...

Beyond the chrysalis: Philippines Graphic interviews Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza

People stand in awe of stories told and retold that border on the magical: an abandoned child, in the throes of death from advanced leukemia, with little hope of surviving as per doctors’ diagnoses, finding healing in a home for abandoned babies and,...

Federalism in three acts

The Philippines Graphic begins its launching, with this issue, of a massive information campaign on Federalism and the possible directions we might consider taking as a nation. The idea is to gather a significant number of mayors and former mayors to lend their opinion on the...

Prepping for Bicam: Improvements to the 1998 AIDS Law

If there was anything one could say about the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, it is that this law needed amending—especially in terms of protecting the privacy of persons living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, and improving support for...

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In dubious battle: Organized labor in the time of COVID-19

TOP PHOTO: Building workers. A young man, hoists a bucket of cement up during the rebuilding, renovation, of a building in Tabuk on the...

Focus on Ospital ng Lungsod ng Sto. Tomas

The City Government of Sto. Tomas has allocated P80 million to cover for the start-up operations of the Ospital ng Lungsod ng Sto. Tomas...

IT’S HERE!

Catch the January 2024 issue of the Philippines Graphic Reader featuring: SHORT STORIES Senior Momentous by Ceres P. Doyo The Lady of Sitio Kariktan by A.B. Abillar Eight...

Gov’t scraps talks with CPP, Yule truce in jeopardy

(Sung to the tune of Nat King Cole’s Christmas Song) Peace talks roasting on an open fire Armed troops fighting at the front Yuletide quarrels shutting down...