Model Mom

Model Mom

Meet the mom behind California’s first Filipino-American legislator, Rob Bonta.

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To Our Parents, With Thanks

To Our Parents, With Thanks

Deep down, this is how some young people really feel about their parents.

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My Mother, Who Wanted to Live to Be 100

My Mother, Who Wanted to Live to Be 100

A widow’s lust for life left her children spellbound.

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The Holy Mountain of Tawi-Tawi

The Holy Mountain of Tawi-Tawi

Meet the guardians of the sacred mountain of Bud Bongao.

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Lovelier the Second Time Around

Lovelier the Second Time Around

When these seniors got married, they partied like teenagers.

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Legal Warfare Between Philippines and China

Legal Warfare Between Philippines and China

Is it really useless to negotiate directly with China over disputed islets?

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She Kissed Elvis and Lived to Tell the Tale

She Kissed Elvis and Lived to Tell the Tale

Marya Coburn’s life as a young actress in Hollywood—the only Philippine-born artist to have worked with six film legends.

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She Answers the Call of Duty

She Answers the Call of Duty

Who animates those macho war video games? Forty-two-year-old Marla Rausch’s Animation Vertigo, that’s who.

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State Dinner from Hell

State Dinner from Hell

That unpleasant aftertaste from the Malacañang dinner for President Obama

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My Uncle, Nick Joaquin

My Uncle, Nick Joaquin

The inimitable National Artist for Literature was self-educated, shy and a loyal acolyte of San Miguel Beer.

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