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This may well be the last piece of this column that you are seeing on print as your favorite newspaper, the Cebu Daily News, will be closing its printed version on Monday. The timing is symbolic as,…
While stuck in the middle of Christmas rush traffic somewhere in A.S. Fortuna in Mandaue, I saw this group of workers coming out from the gate of what looks like a factory or warehouse. They were all…
The Filipino nation was jubilant over the recent return of the historic bells to the church of Balangiga in Eastern Samar, after American soldiers took them away 117 years ago as war booty after they razed the…
We came last Thursday to the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, at the time when the whole campus was still grieving over the loss of its basketball varsity team, the Fighting Maroons, to the…
Those regularly reading the national broadsheets must have noticed the constant appearance of China-related stories in the form of advertorials. In journalistic jargon, advertorials are advertisements or paid content that are deliberately made to appear like regular…
Two recent news that delved on separate historical events brought me back to my own research work at the archives of the Cebuano Studies Center in the University of San Carlos. First of all, there was that…
Among the dead that came to our minds during the Halloween break was Rico J. Puno. The singer succumbed to cardiac arrest last October 30, on the eve of Halloween, so TV interspersed sad tributes on him…
More than the delight in finding literature disguised as journalism or history, it’s also the sheer pleasure of going through how a great mind works. Cebu’s small community of writers is elated over the awarding of one…
We have been so frustrated at how slow justice works in our flawed democracy that we are willing to let the one with iron hand rule with the law crumpled in a fist. When it first came…
Learning from history, Duterte understands the importance of war in ensuring public support for his claims to eradicating criminality and terrorism. The first year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration was rocked by various controversies, such as his…
Amid the reports of rampant killings here in Cebu last week came the equally tragic news about four elderly siblings who died in a dawn fire in Camiguin. It was a shock to us in the art…
Unveiled at Palm Grass Hotel in Saturday, September 22, was my sculpture “Ang Sangka sa Mactan” (“The Battle of Mactan”), a four feet by three feet wood relief or carving. It is the second of a series…
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