How times have changed! Some theories, once accepted as fact in my lifetime, have been debunked. In pre-history studies: The once very popular “Waves of Migration” theory of Dr. Otley Beyer—first Negritos, then Indonesians, then Malays—according to later anthropologists, is just too simplistic.
Maria was an only child who lived in a big house with her widowed father, but he somehow fell into dire straits and mortgaged all they owned to a rich widow with a flourishing pawnshop business, but then he lost all including his house and everything in it, even his daughter Maria, to the pawnshop owner, and then she married him, and shortly after he died.
Recognizing the importance of reading and literacy especially among the country’s youth, President Benigno Aquino III has signed a law designating the birthday of his martyred father, former Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr., a reputed wide reader, as Araw ng Pagbasa or Day of Reading.
Authors including Salman Rushie are appealing to China to live up to its own constitution and laws guaranteeing freedom of the press on World Press Freedom Day.
Agencies, academic departments in Filipino, organizations and language centers who seek the development of the Filipino language are requested to enlist in the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino’s (KWF) registry program.
I was curious to find my own place among all the sorts of “Writers’ Wives” described by author and literary critic Malcolm Bradbury in his piece “The Spouse in the House.”
Bone remains of Chilean Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda will be analyzed in the United States as investigators seek to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death.
The remains of Chilean Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed Monday to determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned, according to the judge on the case.
Last week I received a beribboned gold box. It looked like a gift. But it was an invitation to witness the unveiling of Solaire.
Children from Tuloy sa Don Bosco Street-children Village in Alabang, Muntinlupa City were treated on Friday to two stories of brave women—a grandmother who tried to save everybody from a tragedy using her extraordinary hair and a queen who helped a problematic tribe.
To mark International Women’s Day, stories emphasizing women’s strength of character were read at the Inquirer Read-Along session held Saturday at the newspaper’s main offices.
