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...
To celebrate its 52nd anniversary, Ikebana International Manila Chapter 108 held an exhibition of floral arrangements created by its members, the embassy of Japan...
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...
The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in a society, especially one that's quickly developing such as ours. Yet the irony of the times is that majority...
The boy who left was not the boy who came back.
As I looked at him, I remember that April night when he took me to the town's plaza to watch the annual salubong. The intensity of it all, the karosa holding Jesus and...
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...
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...
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...