Seasoned Editor Gets AP's Highest Honor

Seasoned Editor Gets AP's Highest Honor

A Filipina reaches the summit of the world’s largest news agency.

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Book Review: A Village in the Fields

Book Review: A Village in the Fields

By focusing on the UFW strike in the 1960s and ‘70s, Patty Enrado’s debut novel, A Village in the Fields, picks up where Bulosan’s 1946 novel, America Is in the Heart, leaves off.

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The Happy Home Cook: Lenguas de Gato - Thin Butter Cookies

The Happy Home Cook: Lenguas de Gato - Thin Butter Cookies

Weeks before the holidays I am busy baking. After baking dozens of ensaimadas and several llaneras of leche flan, I always have an excess of egg whites and have to come up with creative ways to use them. So I bake these thin buttery slivers of cookies called "lenguas de gato" which translates to ‘cat’s tongues’ perhaps because of their slim, long shape.

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Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson and Manila’s Kids

Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson and Manila’s Kids

Lakers starter reconnects with his grandma’s homeland.

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[PARTNER] Why is There Still No Justice for Victims of the Maguindanao Massacre?

[PARTNER] Why is There Still No Justice for Victims of the Maguindanao Massacre?

On November 23, 2009, a hundred armed men kidnapped and massacred 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the town of Ampatuan in Maguindanao province in the Philippines. The brutal crime shocked not only the people of the Philippines but also the world and confirmed perceptions that our country was one of the most dangerous places on earth for journalists.

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Climbing Uluru

Climbing Uluru

The psychological reason for why people climb mountains is a riddle in an enigma.

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The Happy Home Cook: Suman sa Ibus - Sticky Rice Logs

The Happy Home Cook: Suman sa Ibus - Sticky Rice Logs

It isn’t the holidays if we don’t have some form of ‘kakanin’ or rice cakes on our table. Suman sa Ibus are Filipino sticky rice logs.

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Lewanda Lim’s Socially Conscious Art

Lewanda Lim’s Socially Conscious Art

How artist Lewanda Lim gives you a kick in the conscience.

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When Russians Came to Tubabao

When Russians Came to Tubabao

Not to be confused with the Kahlua cocktail, White Russians were those who sided with the tsar against the Reds; some of them, as refugees, became temporary residents of a Philippine island.

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My French Village

My French Village

Filipina writer finds small joys in faraway French village.

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