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Twin blasts at Jolo Cathedral leave 21 dead, dozens wounded

Twenty-one people dead. Ninety-seven injured. That was the toll when two bombs exploded at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo...

Thai PM ends presser by spraying reporters with disinfectant

TOP PHOTO: Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha sprays alcohol mist on a front row of reporters sitting inside the press conference room at the...

The princess and the corn

by Marie Yuvienco There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to...

COVID-19 and the Filipinos in Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria—there was no report of Filipinos getting infected with the coronavirus during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in this city. Until late summer...

Go, girl

Apparently, Melania did not get along with one of her husband’s hires, a woman named Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser who is a top aide of John Bolton, the head of the National Security Council. The Office of the First Lady...

The pajama games

I think, if President Duterte’s attendance at international summits is to be guaranteed, whoever is hosting should consider holding sleepovers instead of boring old meetings.  Meetings are boring—only grown-ups go to them to do, ugh, Business. A pajama party, now, that’s a different...

British author in Manila: A conversation in Solidaridad

  James Hamilton-Paterson, if National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose’s word is to be taken as it is meant, is one of the few non-Filipino authors who has written about the Philippines with a very level view of our people and this archipelago...

Fighting Maroons outlasts Soaring Falcons for championship date with Blue Eagles

The last time the University of the Philippines fought for the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the Philippines) basketball crown, I was a sophomore in UP’s Diliman campus. That was in 1986. A long 32 years later, on Nov. 28, 2018, UP once again...

The sisterhood of the childbearing scrubs

Are women doing it for themselves or are they doing it to themselves? Nothing sets a movement back like heresy among its members, so when women themselves act contrary to what feminism considers in the best interest of other women, there is a jarring...

From the outside looking in… Trump and the U.S. midterms: My dire point of view

The bitter fight contest over the U.S. midterm polls has ended with the Democratic Party regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican Party cementing their hold in the U.S. Senate. The result can be seen as a concrete victory for...

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