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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...

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...

  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....

  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...

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...

He regards education as “the greatest equalizer.” And today, not yet 50 years old, Walfredo “Arman” Dimaguila, son of a municipal electrician and a laundrywoman, is the highest elected official in the city government of Biñan, Laguna. “I’ve seen it then that if I...