Roughly 700,000 children put at risk due to a previous administration’s decision to use a highly-criticized dengue vaccine. More than 10,000 killed in Duterte’s...
Does the Filipino child deserve incarceration?
The House committee on justice has recently approved a bill that would lower the age of criminal liability from...
Academician, writer, human rights and anti-crime activist Teresita Ang See described as “dangerous and unfortunate” the “baseless media reports” that speculated on “Chinese students as spies” in northern Philippines.
During a recent "Pandesal Forum" held at Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City, Ang See...
ABOVE PHOTO: Assistant Majority Leader and Chairman of the House Committee on Human Rights Jesus Suntay
For ‘requesting’ for the list of lawyers defending personalities and groups identified with the Left, Lt. Fernando Calabria Jr.—a police officer from Calbayog City, Samar—seems headed for an...
The previous weekend saw me and my wife in the middle of two very important events: a dinner invitation by none other than National Artist for Literature F. Sionil José, and a book launch-cum-birthday bash the day after of another National Artist for...
After three years worth of statements unleashed on the populace by none other than Pres. Rodrigo Duterte (you may throw in his minions as garnishing), what conclusions have I made so far?
The statements, for what they were worth in whipping up the Devil’s...
Growing old is not what I thought it would be.
As the Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert wrote, it’s like owning a dog-eared dictionary, published long ago, with absentee words clinging at the hem of its tattered cover jacket.
A new take on language...
We hear it often said how important press freedom is to the nation’s sociopolitical health.
The reason being is that information is currency, and with such currency in the hands of the people, their chances for survival are greater than without it.
Information in and...