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Philippines Graphic: 91 years of literature and the news

It all started in 1927 when a Filipino publisher named Ramon Roces put up a weekly magazine that offered considerable pages for Tagalog literary...

The law decriminalizing vagrancy amid the drive against tambays

Six years ago, an event heralded as a landmark accomplishment for human rights in the Philippines took place. On March 27, 2012, the law decriminalizing...

DepEd: Amendment needed for mandatory drug testing

PASIG CITY, June 21, 2018 – The Department of Education (DepEd) observed that the proposal of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Administration (PDEA) to test all students...

‘It feels like 1972 again’

I remember the political and social landscape of the time all too well. The previous months saw an increasingly restless activism take on line after...

Blunder bus

Okay.  My friend assured me that this story is true:  his friend who told him the story told him that it most assuredly was true and...

Speaking Genital in translation: Beverly Wico Siy’s ‘Pukiusap’

Where Eve Ensler gave us the freedom to use the many words there are for lady bits in “The Vagina Monologues,” Beverly Wico Siy...

Here there be dragons

The body washed onto the shore, lying on the tholin beach like the remains of a large blue fish. The suit itself was wrapped...

Sinigang

This is how you make sinigang:   Take a kilo of buto-buto, wash it under running water. Use your fingertips to grope each piece for stray shards of bone, and don’t...

Exciting times for Aliw Broadcasting on its 27th year

Aliw Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is on a roll on this first half of the current year. The latest additions to its flagship AM station...

Cyber attacks expected to spike during FIFA World Cup 2018

Football fans in the Philippines, beware of cyber-attacks during the FIFA World Cup 2018. Cyber-security solutions provider Fortinet​ made this warning amid expectations of...