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Speaking of tyranny: Manuel C. Lahoz’s ‘Of Tyrants and Martyrs”

Reading Manuel C. Lahoz’s political memoir took me back to some of my earliest bad memories. I was born in 1972, just a bit...

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Beer, books and music: Czech Ambassador Jaroslav Olša, Jr.

A small archipelago in Southeast Asia and a small country in Central Europe—that’s how geography pinpoints the Republic of the Philippines and the Czech...

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National Hero, moving forward: Launching Rizal +

Before he was shot dead at dawn on Bagumbayan Field, Dr. Jose Rizal was a doctor—and he was a writer. Before all this, he...

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Literature

Literary harvest: The 37th National Book Awards

Pomp and circumstance is rarely a thing in local literary circles. Writing is often lonely work, punctuated by bursts of frenetic production and post-production...

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British author in Manila: A conversation in Solidaridad

James Hamilton-Paterson, if National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose’s word is to be taken as it is meant, is one of the few...

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Lifestyle

Portability: Keeping your mobile number (Conclusion)

Mobile number portability (MNP) reduces the switching costs of customers desiring to switch their subscriptions from one operator to another. These switching costs include...

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China in the mix: Third telco’s the charm? (CONCLUSION)

Hijacking exposes a network to potentially critical damage, Demchak and Shavitt wote in their study, “because it is not a hack of the endpoint...

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Portability: Keeping your mobile number (First of two parts)

Some 60 million of the country’s 100 or so million citizens own mobile phones, and about half that number of mobile phone users are...

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Lushly a biography Alfred A. Yuson’s “Lineage, Vision, Empire: Don Francisco ‘Paquito’ Ortigas, Jr.”

One would think that lush storytelling and adroit turns of witty phrase belong in fiction rather than in the creative non-fiction required to tell...

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Measure for measure

Better luck next round. Automatically re-nominated for National Artist honors, actress Nora Aunor was again dropped from the list of new National Artists who were...

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Health

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