WITH the canvassing of senatorial votes scheduled in Maguindanao today, poll watchdogs are set to file administrative and criminal charges against election supervisor Lintang Bedol, who is at the center of the controversial 12-0 win of administration...

SUGBUANON or Cebuano literature encompasses the "oral and written literature of speakers of Cebuano, the mother tongue of a quarter of the country's population who live in Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, Negros Oriental, and parts of Leyte and...

THSE hu thnk txtng s bd 4 r cmnktn skls rais yr thmbs. And those who are still wondering what the head and the first sentence are saying either have to go to their eye doctor really bad or were born in the same year as the T-Rex. Texting has become so...

BELOW is a chronology of events leading to the enactment of Executive Order No. 51, the Philippine Milk Code, and subsequent developments on the issue: 1981 Prof. Esteban Bautista of the UP Law Center drafted the Philippine National Code to regulate...

THE battle between breast and bottle saw its final showdown at the Supreme Court Tuesday, when the court en banc heard the oral arguments presented by the Department of Health (DOH) through Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera, against the Pharmaceutical...

THEY'RE relatively cheap, they're easy to read, and they are luring modern Pinays into bookstores. Not everyone may like chick lit, but in the last few years, enough young, urban Filipinas have been picking up the tales about well, themselves, really, and...

PINAKBET is a quintessential Ilokano dish. Made from a variety of vegetables mixed with bagoong (fish paste), this food aptly symbolizes Ilokanos, says poet Roy Aragon. Aragon has been writing poetry since he was a child. He says that his love of books...