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25 years of feeding a city’s body and soul

25 years of feeding a city’s body and soul

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA IT is apropos that a café founded by artists, writers and other individuals who operate..

May 18, 2013
A festival to celebrate 133rd birthday of Sarung Banggi composer

A festival to celebrate 133rd birthday of Sarung Banggi composer

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN BICOL composer Potenciano Gregorio– who penned the famous Bicol love song, “Sarung Banggi”– ..

May 17, 2013
Filipino workers paying the price for Malacañang’s bungling

Filipino workers paying the price for Malacañang’s bungling

  By ELLEN TORDESILLAS. IT took a week for President Aquino to realize that the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by a member of the..

May 17, 2013
Hot  water treatment  produces sweet, juicy  mangoes

Hot water treatment produces sweet, juicy mangoes

  By LEILANIE G. ADRIANO AT the warehouse of  farmer Ricardo Tolentino in Laoag, Ilocos Norte are the  sweetest and juiciest..

May 17, 2013
Daisy Hontiveros Avellana: A lifetime of theater

Daisy Hontiveros Avellana: A lifetime of theater

  BY PABLO A. TARIMAN THE First Lady of Philippine Theater, Daisy Hontiveros-Avellana, made her last true-to-life stage exit on a..

May 16, 2013
Lessons learned from the Taiwan shooting incident

Lessons learned from the Taiwan shooting incident

By HARRY L. ROQUE, JR. Chair, Center for International Law THE recent shooting by the Philippine Coast guard of a lone Taiwanese fisherman..

May 16, 2013
Pen Medina and the state of Philippine politics

Pen Medina and the state of Philippine politics

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN CHANNEL 7 was running its landmark teleserye, “Bayan Ko” on the day of the elections. With reports of..

May 16, 2013
Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS THE great thing about last Monday’s election is that, Grace Poe topped the senatorial elections. It must be..

May 15, 2013
A special child isn’t an accident

A special child isn’t an accident

By ELIZABETH LOLARGA FAR from being “a chromosome accident,” a child with Down syndrome is not Nature’s mistake. And it is likewise..

May 15, 2013

So many early birds in Bgy Talon V, Moonwalk Subdv., Las Pinas.

Voters in Barangay Talon V in Moonwalk,Las Pinas polling center  came early. Even before the 7 a.m. opening of the polls, there were a lot..

May 13, 2013
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Founded in March 2008, VERA Files is published by veteran Filipino journalists taking a deeper look into current Philippine issues. Vera is Latin for “true.”
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