UP Sunflower Run in honor of women and children
"Pagpugay sa Kababaihan, Pag-asa Para sa Kabataan". The first ever UP Sunflower Run was held last March 11, 2023 at the Academic Oval of Diliman...
Love in the legal profession
“Love is useless unless it is shared with another. Indeed, no man is an island.” This pronouncement in the case of Chi Ming Tsoi vs....
CCP Pasinaya features Spanish influence in Philippine culture
With the popularity of the TV series “Maria Clara at Ibarra”, the grounds of Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) during the Pasinaya Open...
Festival hopping in the Philippines in honor of Black Nazarene and Sto.Nino
Filipino Catholics are known for having sincere, enormous, and extreme expressions of piety considering that the country is the third-largest Catholic population in the...
Eraserheads and nostalgia of UP college life
The reunion concert of the Eraserheads dubbed “Huling El Bimbo” is peppered with elements associated with our college life at the University of the...
“UP Fight” reverberating during UAAP games
Securing tickets for the University Athletic Association of the Philippines ( UAAP) games became a challenging feat due to the increasing number of enthusiastic fans eager to shout “UP...
Busan as a mecca for movie buffs
Busan, South Korea-Busan became a byword to many because of the 2016 South Korean film "Train to Busan". It is an action horror film that...
Red-tagging as an attack on the independence of the judiciary
Red-tagging, also known as red-baiting, is a pernicious practice as part of the government’s counterinsurgency efforts that targets individuals or organizations critical or not...
Films on Mindanao conflict win major Cinemalaya awards
Films on troubled relationships and shattered dreams due to the Mindanao conflict won major awards for this year’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. “The Baseball Player”...
Roe vs Wade and abortion debate in the Philippines
Aside from politics, nothing has polarized nations more than the issues of population growth control, abortion, and contraception and their perceived consequences. Abortion again became...
Breach of a Promise to Marry
A mere breach of a promise to marry is not an actionable wrong, as long as it is not of such extent as would...
Basketball as a nuisance sport
Basketball is everywhere in the Philippines: on public sports complex, on street corners , and on television screens from north to south of the...