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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...

China in the mix: Third telco’s the charm? FIRST OF TWO PARTS

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has named the “New Major Player (NMP)” in the local telecommunications market: The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Selection Committee declared Mislatel-led consortium as the provisional NMP on Nov. 7. The consortium is made up of Mindanao Islamic...

Four Sundays and a funeral

What is the proper term for someone who is taking the bar exam? I was going to suggest barista but I re-thought the thought after realizing that law graduates might take offense at being associated with slinging lattés, which are scrumptious, at a Starbucks. Not...

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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...

The Belle of FFH

She is the co-founder of Football for Humanity (FFH), an international non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization that focuses on community development and peace building. An immensely...

As it is hereby resolved

An easy-peasy pie crust recipe will call for mixing, oh, two-and-a-half cups of flour and a teaspoon of salt, to which you add butter—unsalted,...

Comeback to the future!

Last week, the government and local health authorities green lit the immediate downgrade of quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila to the lowest alert level....