Foreign Affairs Secretary Raul S. Manglapus talks on the US military bases, the tensions in Fil-Am relations, and the coming Pacific century.

Eight years ago, Rosario “Chat” Lachica, 58, made her first visit to the Libingan ng mga Bayani. She was there to pay her last respects to National Artist Nick Joaquin who died in his sleep on April 29, 2004.

“Our sense ... of our country is a sustained act of imagination. From that vantage, it can be said that our writers and artists, who are men and women of imagination, create our country (italics mine). That is to say: they evoke those images of ourselves as we live life day and night, those images of ourselves which we share and by which we recognize our nativity. We are our own best interpreters of our history and culture because it is we who have lived through that history and created our own values by which we live.” —National Artist for Literature Gemino Abad

For decades, mining has occupied a complicated place in the national conversation, caught in a tug-of-war between the promise of economic growth and the cost of environmental degradation.

It was the type of news that jarred the senses because it was the first time it happened in the country. Government officials called it an “unprecedented tragedy.” On the morning of June 22 of this year, two students, aged 14 and 15, bypassed the security checks of San Jose National High School in Tacloban City. One student carried in his bag a Glock 17 pistol, the other carried a .38-caliber revolver. At past 9 a.m. both opened fire indiscriminately inside the school’s crowded rooms and hallways. And then the shooting stopped, but not after killing three students and wounding 20 more.

While much of the world was fixated on the World Cup, Filipino fans gathered at PhilSports Arena on the evening of July 6 for a watch party supporting Gilas Pilipinas in Perth and tennis star Alex Eala at Wimbledon. Photo...

What is long and dear to the soul of Graphic for the past 99 years is the literary arts. In its first year as a magazine in 1927, the Graphic featured short stories in its pages. Since then, it has continued to promote the literary works of Filipino fictionists.

In 1922, Don Ramon Roces was plagued by an idea: Photo News. He believed that pictures conveyed messages and facts more clearly and more quickly; photographs reported the news better than text. He experimented with two publications that demonstrated his...

It could qualify as foresight. He saw the power it held 99 years ago. Technology—which in the time of Graphic founder Ramon Roces materialized as photography—was the ticket to news publishing that appealed to a mass audience more effectively...

I was once asked to write an “objective” account of Manila and the Philippines. This struck me as a curious request, because objectivity—poor thing—didn’t survive postmodernism. Everything nowadays is selection: facts, impressions, perspectives. And since we live in the...

A teacher conducts a lesson through a small LCD screen at Cainta Elementary School in Rizal Province. Beyond the classroom walls, the image evokes broader questions about the state of Philippine education, as recent local and international assessments continue...

For Sluggo Rigor, the stories of war were not something he read in textbooks: They were memories that his father—World War II veteran Col. Conrado Rigor Sr.—shared at home as the children grew up: the hunger, the fear, and the will to stay alive after the fall of Bataan.