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“The times they are a-changin,’ come gather round people, wherever you roam...” Bob Dylan No doubt those lyrics of Bob Dylan were progressive and attuned to the zeitgeist of 1960s America. Yet poetically inspiring as they were back then, its context in the age...

Our house in Provident Village, Marikina City, was first occupied by my son Kim, who was then studying Industrial Engineering at the Ateneo. He stayed there for four years while my husband Willie and I could not yet settle down there, but where...

This essay is the first of many written during a Memoir Writing workshop at Sunshine Place under the mentorship of Dr. Oscar Peñaranda, a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas awardee. An educator, author, and advocate of Filipino-American studies, Dr. Peñaranda’s work includes “Seasons...

From 19 October to 02 November 2015, the Philippines Graphic ran a three-part feature on the Manobos of Mindanao. Below is the COMPLETE SERIES PART 1: "I am Roland Dalin, Talaingod, Manobo"October 19, 2015 On the Talaingod side of the majestic 12,600 square-kilometer Pantaron Mountains,...

The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has been generating interest on the life and times of the late Rafael “Paeng” M. Salas, first executive director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and creator of the first population program of...

Fifty years ago, on the night of Aug. 21, 1971, two grenades were lobbed at a Liberal Party rally at Manila’s iconic Plaza Miranda, killing nine people and nearly wiping out the then-opposition’s top guns. Among the wounded: Jovito Salonga,  who would become the...