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...
“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...
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...
Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76, and had worked as a professor of literature at De La Salle University, Manila, eventually being named Professor Emeritus...
It was mid-morning of a torrid desert-like Monday, the 23rd of April, when, scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, an image wooshed past me. I scrolled back, and there it was: a magazine cover reputedly belonging to San Beda high school’s The Bedan Roar.
The...
To those who think that they have heard the last of Kris Aquino now that her brother is no longer President, they can now relieve themselves. She’s back. Not just with plain vengeance, but with a gadget I presume to be a smartphone which...
I. The Bombing
On the early morning of August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force coaxed his heavily laden B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay to the air, enroute to the city of Hiroshima 1,569...