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A matter of social justice: Women in radio and television in a time of conflict and crisis

The gloom cast by an overcast sky proved no match to the bright, spirited, and at times, belligerent voices of the women in the room. Inside the Microtel by Wyndham hotel at the UP Technohub in Diliman, Quezon City, a function hall became...

Babaylan: Migration and Filipino women in Europe

Last October, the Philippine women’s network Babaylan Europe celebrated its 25th year, with the theme: “Building Women’s Capacity in Response to Global Challenges.” Founded in Barcelona, Spain in 1992, Babaylan derived its name from the women who acted as priests and who struggled and...

Terrorism, North Korea top issues in regional meet

The issue of how to deal with the terrorist threat from extremist organizations in Southeast Asia is among the issues that President Rodrigo Duterte will raise during the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and Related Meetings to be held in Manila this...

The War After

Sandra Damon a veteran television reporter of an international news network based in New York looks out the window of the plane about to land at the regional airport of Legaspi. She is obviously fascinated by the view on the ground and of...

Is the “Second Christmas” at hand?

But Jaime Cardinal Sin says we are already into Kingdom Come. DECEMBER 24, 1990 — Christmas is like that “fabulous invalid,” the theater—always rumored to be in a bad way but always bouncing back amaranth.  Since October yet, the news columnists have been keening in...

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Babaylan: Migration and Filipino women in Europe

Last October, the Philippine women’s network Babaylan Europe celebrated its 25th year, with the theme: “Building Women’s Capacity in Response to Global Challenges.” Founded in...

Tilly’s birth will do us part: AI actor and the doomed commerce of inauthenticity

Previous era of the arts had subversiveness, vulgarity, and blasphemy as its main problems. Now its inauthenticity—the single remaining line that shouldn’t be crossed. In...

Just as you are

I need more proof.  A Chilean guy named Juan Carlos Cruz claims that Pope Francis told him during a private talk in the Vatican,...

A Memoir of World War II

Before the Japanese attacked the American naval base in Hawaii on December 8, 1941, their invasion of the Philippines was expected. By then, the...