The call came unexpected. Just seconds after arriving at the newsroom, I stumbled out and rushed to the fourth floor.
The Ambassador sat serenely on his dark leather swivel chair, looking out his venetian blinds-shaded window. I sat in front of the old table...
I had the honor, these past two days, to sit as juror in the Luzon-wide competition for campus publications. Several observations came immediately to mind:
(1) I was happy to note that many of the editors and writers of these publications did not shirk...
It was Jan. 2017 or was that 2016? I was told it had been raining in Lucban, Quezon for the past three months without letup. It was so cold I remembered hoping for snow.
Inside the function halls of Batis Aramin, close to a...
Even then I knew it was a firestorm in the making.
In 2012, under the Benigno Aquino III administration, the anti-cybercrime bill (or what is now known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 or Republic Act 10175) was enacted into law.
Crimes mentioned within...
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Southern Illinois in the US shows people imprisoned on terrorism offenses stand a better chance of being rehabilitated when placed in general prison populations, than when kept in isolation or in...
Three claps silenced the whole place. Everyone transfixed their gaze to the person on the stage, the Executive Director of Alliance Française de Manille, Jean Pierre Dumont. He announced that the show will start in a while.
I proceeded to my seat right after...