Von Zyron Alimorong

War spares none, and forgives few... Japan learned this the hard way after Emperor Hirohito announced the country’s surrender in August 1945. Atomic bombs...

As complicated as it may sometimes be, there used to be a time when Philippine politics was a little bit simpler. Politicians were simpler...

In 1922, Don Ramon Roces was plagued by an idea: Photo News. He believed that pictures conveyed messages and facts more clearly and more...

It is “the brief stretch of Mendiola that can claim to have been the starting point of the U-Belt” Any Filipino who studied in Metro...

Nearing the turn of the 20th century, Filipinos stood at the precipice of an uncertain future. Even as the country successfully overthrew a dictator, instability persisted in society for the years that followed.

In the province, far from the bustling and sleepless Metro Manila where there exists a strange mix of “everyone-ness,” lies a certain magic that the country’s capital city, no matter how hard it tries (if it dares), won’t be able to replicate.

There is a famous story of a wager between the Roman politician Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The condition was simple: to host the most expensive feast. 

In the history of mankind, wars have taken away far more than it created anything. The 1945 Battle of Manila and the recent attacks...

Indulge me for a while and let me make the roughest of conjectures: The lowest possible estimate for the total number of oral literary...

One day, toward the end of 1967, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera sat down to look critically at the state of Philippine literature...