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Bangsamoro Basic Law: Round 2

It’s Round 2 in the grueling attempt to pass a new law to replace the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao. The first attempt, which was...

The science and politics of Halal

In 2015, then Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez—in a talk with editors and reporters of the Philippines Graphic, BusinessMirror, View Magazine, Pilipino Mirror, TV9 and CNN Philippines—confirmed that the...

Federalism: How other countries did it (Conclusion)

What is federalism? It’s word that needs to be properly defined especially with the current moves to amend the Constitution, a move that is being...

The trouble with water

In the past, you could drink tap water directly from your faucet. Such is not the case anymore.  More and more people are buying...

Goodbye Pitoy!

Fashion stalwart Pitoy Moreno dies at 92. The local fashion industry’s proverbial flag flew at half-mast following the announcement of Pitoy Moreno’s passing at approximately 2:48 pm on Monday,...

The fall of the house of writer

I woke up last week, the 24th of January, faced with a world where my hero-writer Ursula K. Le Guin is dead. It was the...

One Hundred Ways to Skin a Cat

There’s this hallowed chestnut in law which says that “what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.”  (It sounds more impressive in Latin,...

Of restless news and spews

Erratic would be an understatement to describe the days leading to this very moment, this tranquil, chilly January dawn moment as I sit here...

Lisandro Claudio’s Basagan Ng Trip

I have a particular fondness for essays that probably very few readers share. My year takes me from the narratives of Orwell—a fixture on my...

A tale of two tickets

His chat: Can we meet tonight? Seisha around 9? Mine: Sure. See you. ( Really, Seisha? Flavored-smoky Seisha. But why there? We never dated there?) 8:30: the now-faulty...