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Compiled by Graphic Editorial “Our sense ... of our country is a sustained act of imagination. From that vantage, it can be said that our...

The Philippine archipelago, with a coastline much longer than that of the United States, has some of the world’s richest and most diverse coral reefs. Of the 500 known species in the world, 400 are found in the country’s 7,100 islands—a fantastic collection even greater than that of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. 

BUILDING A SITE Manila took a long time to make. What is now its ground used to be sea. The sea reached as far as...

because a wounded rosebudtaunts the harvest moonand a failed moonbeamlimps among the dewdropswaltzing on the evening grassmy soulis searedin the embersof a brown passion Written...

An Asian Renaissance must involve cultural rebirth and empowerment, not simply cultural jingoism. In 1886, a young Asian student wrote from Europe the following lines...

By 4 p.m. the clouds had dispersed and the sun shone over Manila Bay. This looked like a good omen on the historic birth...

An author is confronted by the protagonist of her 32nd fiction. She had written a story about the incident, more or less an undisguised one,...

AUGUST 6, 1927 — IF THE Laoag-Vintar irrigation project has proved a disappointment to Representative Confesor and other public officials, it has, so far,...

JULY 30, 1927 — Representative Confesor of Iloilo, on July 21, kept his colleagues at the lower house speechless and open-mouthed while for nearly...