What first caught my eye was the chaos – books everywhere, piled like memories. In a quiet corner in PH’s business district, Mang Nanie offers something rare: a place to read, to belong, and to believe in stories again.
Here’s the story of Mang Nanie.
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Happy Easter, everyone! 🙏🏻🐣
Voted early today as a journalist!
I’m standing with leaders who choose honesty, justice, and the common good — those who listen, and fight the right battles with us.
Vote wisely, folks! Damay-damay tayong lahat dito 🇵🇭
What did 2022 teach us? A purist mindset loses elections. Politics is addition. Strategic alliances aren’t always pretty – but that’s how you win.
A Jesuit Pope always felt right. Pope Francis walked with the poor, the queer, the women, the cast aside. He faced fire among the conservatives, but he never wavered. He's a moral compass in a dark, chaotic world.
Rest easy, Lolo Kiko. Thank you for giving us hope.
In the Philippines, well-entrenched dynastic clans have co-opted the party-list system that was meant to keep them in check.
The same families are set to dominate the May midterm polls.
On the @straits-times.bsky.social with Angie de Silva
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LOOK: The US’ anti-ship Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) missile system arrives in northern PH on April 26 for the maritime key terrain security operations, part of the Balikatan exercises between American and Filipino troops.
📸 LtC John Paul Salgado
I’ve wrestled with my faith, wounded by archaic teachings & scandals that rocked the Catholic Church.
But Pope Francis made me believe again.
Even when the Church felt distant, he stayed close to the least, the lost & the doubting.
Maraming salamat.
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In Hegseth’s visit to Manila today, the US was out to dispel doubts in its reliability as an Indo-Pacific security partner. But analysts remain cautious if the Philippines can fully depend on its longtime ally under Trump.
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Defence Sec Pete Hegseth tells US allies Japan and the Philippines that ties remain “iron-clad,” but he skips South Korea in his maiden trip to the Indo-Pacific. @straits-times.bsky.social’s Walter Sim, Wendy Teo, and I look into what this means for the region.
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