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The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax a la Yoda, who is probably the wisest mentor in nine galaxies. Expressed normally, the statement would not have made...

Book hunter and epic poet: Cirilo F. Bautista by Ramil Digal Gulle

Poet Cirilo F. Bautista, way back in 1991, taught me his method of hunting books at a second hand bookshop. As we walked from the Siliman University campus to the bookshop outside the university grounds, he told me, “Tingnan natin sino sa atin ang...

You better work by Marie Yuvienco

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its provisions virtually a re-hash of pertinent sections of the Labor Code.  Contractual employees who had pinned their hopes of...

The fox and the pitbull by Marie Yuvienco

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of a 71-year-old Australian nun.  Patricia Fox, a superior of the Notre Dame de Sion who has been living in...

Covering the Marawi siege

“War cannot be reported as breaking news.” This was one reminder emphasized during a forum organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) in Quezon City recently. During the conference, Melinda Quintos de Jesus, the executive director of the CMFR, presented a study...

Hiroshima’s Legacy of Peace (Part 2) by Jose Antonio Custodio

III. Surviving As an occupied country, the immediate postwar relief efforts for Hiroshima were saddled by inefficiency and a slow pace. Although there were many Americans who worked for the rehabilitation of Hiroshima, in some cases it appeared that there were other American efforts...

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Hiroshima’s Legacy of Peace (Part 2) by Jose Antonio Custodio

III. Surviving As an occupied country, the immediate postwar relief efforts for Hiroshima were saddled by inefficiency and a slow pace. Although there were many...

Lumad Displacement: a continuing social crisis

With little more than skin and bones to call their own, some makeshift schools for their children, and a patch of forest as source...

Say I do

I’ve been wanting to devote a column to the happy betrothal of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle.  The Prince and the Showgirl was long...

You better work by Marie Yuvienco

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its...