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Quo Vadis, Marawi?
Marawi refugees want to go back home but cannot. Is this a smokescreen for Chinese corporatism using Muslim extremist strife? By Marivir R. Montebon New York – How are the indigenous people in war-torn Marawi in southern Philippines coping after it was declared under Martial Law in order to wipe out Muslim extremists? Are […]
Diverse Philippine Languages: Funny, Fascinating, Formidable
Editor’s Notes By Marivir R. Montebon It is August, the month of Philippine languages. Do not be lost in translation, or try not too. If the 7107 islands of what compose the Philippine archipelago is spectacular, wait till you hear our 120 plus native languages or dialects. You will be fascinated. Our native […]
Internatl Women’s Day: Salute to Giging, Berta, Jolene, Olivia, Leani, Ayah, and more
Editor’s Notes By Marivir R. Montebon Now, she has a bodega of eggs. She will never know that her story would change me as a person. I remember Giging Canonigo, among the last women fighters I encountered before […]
Hope Floats…for Mother Earth
By Easter Canoy Bukidnon, Philippines As I step into the big and solid Ministry buildings here in Berlin where the board meeting of the Green Climate Fund takes place, I imagine what it would have felt like if the grand elders and shaman of the mountains of Kitanglad would have joined me. True, in my […]
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