The Department of National Defense on Saturday defended the country’s Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the United States, just as it expressed concern on the remarks of Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian against the Filipino workers in Taiwan.
Here is a list of music offerings, poetry reading, and books that celebrate the strengths and achievements of Filipinas this International Women's Day and Month.
This topic wouldn’t have occurred to me to write about if I hadn’t come across – in my meanderings online as a collector of antiquarian books and papers – a copy of a slim pamphlet published by the University of the Philippines Press in 1936, titled “Courtesy Appeals by the President’s Committee on Courtesy.” But as soon as I saw that title, I knew I had to get that pamphlet and reflect on the observance (most likely in the breach) of its prescriptions today.
NDF-Negros spokesperson Bayani Obrero said in a statement that Acosta and a companion were captured alive at around two o’clock in the morning of November 30 but were announced as casualties in a “fake encounter” a few hours later.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines through the Intertextual Division, together with the Pinoy Reads Pinoy Books (PRPB), will hold a book discussion of RM