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Nery's book is a declaration that fence-sitting or being politically ambiguous isn't a life option.

During in the Cold War, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?

The Hukbalahap rebellion played a huge role in the Philippines' fight against Japan in World War II. This article takes a closer look.

Family’s version According to “Lost Graves, Found Lives,” the family of Agapito “Pitong” del Rosario has disputed the separate accounts of his last days narrated in “Born of the People” and in “Honor.” In “Born of the People,” his uncle Pedro quoted Pitong as having allegedly used the word “fascists” in describing his Japanese captors.

PAGBABAGO The passing of Jose Maria Sison, founding leader of the 54-year old Communist Party of the Philippines, one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies, makes us pause with the query – “Who will fill the empty chair?” Who can match Joma’s charisma, passion, and fearlessness? Much had b

LANDSCAPE The spokesman of Filipino farmers, Ka Rene Cerilla of PAKISAMA, lamented that farmers are never consulted, much less invited to significant policy-making meetings. He was one of the panelist-reactors at the “21st Jaime V. Ongpin memorial lecture on Public Service in Business and Governm

<p>It was a vital community to me. It nurtured me, and the memories are very powerful and very, very strong to this day. Some of my friends are emailing me about the book and I respond: “Hey, it's not my story. It's our story.”</p>

Sangil: Kaniya kaniyang kursunada. Respect personal choices, please

Twenty-five years ago, I took on the first of what would become many biographical assignments: the life story of the Lava brothers.

Sometimes, a search-and-destroy approach is not the best course of action when you want to defeat your enemies.