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Holiday and hospitality in an age of uncertainty

As Covid-19 is showing us, these fantastic creatures of our wild imaginings are way less scary than we've always thought they are.

When was the last time you visited a museum?

‘When I first started doing this, taking black water photographs, I often shared what I found with my friends. All my friends were amazed. No one believed that there were such mysterious creatures in our seas—creatures that look like aliens.’

Journeying to the depths of the Philippine seas.

The underwater Eden that is the Verde Island Passage.

After all, we shouldn’t forget that it does take a lifetime to live a life.

The rewards of being a senior citizen in the Philippines.

A letter to our veteran lolos at lolas.

Clarissa Delgado of Teach for the Philippines is ready to take on the monumental challenge of uplifting the education quality of the country

The Philippines was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when my aunts started to teach me how to read, using their handwritten English prayer booklets as books were not easy to come by. I was four years old, and the only other reading materials were Tagalog komiks, which I loved for their beautiful illustrations and imaginative stories. I read everything I could lay my hands on.

In today’s age, when technology has rampantly taken over, the importance of reading is not lessened.

Pitong Gatang was among the 24 chiefs of present-day Metro Manila, Rizal, Bulacán, and Pampanga who in 1587-88 plotted the first uprising against Spain and certainly suffered more grievously than the nonentities who seek to perpetuate themselves by renaming wider and longer streets.

Rizal opted to devote his time learning and using the Spanish language for his writing and his poetry because it was the language he needed, both in his studies and in becoming a full-fledged propagandist, the keenest, most heard voice of the movement.

Did you know that the revolutionary yellow at that time was derived from the 1973 song “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree?”

Unearthing the friendship between Ninoy Aquino and Salvador Laurel.

Here are the reasons why you should advocate Filipino translations along with must-read Aklat ng Bayan titles for educators and literati alike.

National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario shares his view on the state of the Filipino language in line with this month’s celebration of "Buwan ng Wika."