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The donor by Louse Ann Maca
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...
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...
