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He was the writer as columnist, earning his large and loyal audience through sheer skill in writing. But the power of his prose depended on the clarity of his thought.

Philippine Canadian Inquirer Why Writers Write Maria in Vancouver

Today, Valentine’s Day, I talk about my first love – journalism.

Antonio Katigbak, former managing and business editor of The STAR, died on Monday at his home in BF Homes, Parañaque. He was 77.

ENDEAVOR Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 23, 1972, I was arrested at home by officers of the Philippine Constabulary’s Metropolitan Command (Metrocom) and brought to the Camp Crame gymnasium. The arresting officer sat on the front seat. My mother sat beside me on the rear seat. The Met

Can we understand our leaders through their appetites? It’s an intriguing question, and one raised during the Presidential Speaker series at Samira, Chele Gonzalez’s restaurant at Tagaytay’s Anya Resort, where, for the first edition held on Aug. 19, President Manuel Quezon’s birthday, his grandson, writer Manolo Quezon III, spoke about the former president’s appetites and favorite dishes.

Similarities between a photo of Sri Lankan clergy forming a human barricade and scenes during the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines have

While attending a memorial service for a very young man of 30 years, I was approached by a pastor-friend to catch up and to get ideas on what people or pastors should start doing right after the recent presidential elections.

It’s intriguing that President Duterte and his faction of the PDP-Laban appear to have lost interest in supporting a candidate for president, although the party has come out for his daughter, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, in her bid for the vice presidency.

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jnr, the 64-year-old son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, faces several petitions seeking to stop him from running to become the Philippines ' next president. One says he's a convicted tax cheat, another that he's morally unfit. But surely the most unusual charge is that he's dead. That allegation was filed by a man who also has...