Early Philippine-Indonesia relations
The Maritime Museum or Museum Bahari in Jakarta, tucked away in an 18th-century Dutch East India Company warehouse far from the usual tourist and shopping areas, reveals many…
Ambeth R. Ocampo
Rats among us
Rat campaigns provided alternative employment in the Philippines. It was so lucrative that someone harvested many tails from a Manila rat farm.
Using Caloy: Celebratory or predatory?
We should separate the sincere and celebratory from the predatory messages. Carlos Yulo reserves all rights to his name, image, and likeness for commercial purposes and should…
Typhoons: The future of history
The writer, an esteemed Filipino historian, gives a brief walkthrough of the history of typhoons in the Philippines.
Why Filipinos don’t read
Much of what is read today is delivered by social media. According to a report, seventy per cent of adults had a device, none of which are good for long-form reading in print.