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Global HIV funding crisis risks rising deaths

The Manila Times 08 Aug 2025
THE issue of human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) never really left the Philippines. Our country now has the highest risk of HIV infection in East Asia and the Pacific ... And we may be in for tougher times ... ....
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Gift of grit

The Manila Times 06 Aug 2025
I WAS ill the past week and had time to monitor the social media landscape ... I saw one astute commentary on the fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. last July 28 ... * * * ... Thumbs up to you on that point ... I buy that ... Mr.
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The SONA from another lens

The Manila Times 30 Jul 2025
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, July 28, at the Batasang Pambansa. It is an important event because it’s his midterm report to the nation, with his term ending in 2028 ... ....
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‘America is in the Heart’

The Manila Times 25 Jul 2025
THAT is the title of Carlos Bulosan’s foundational work, a semi-autobiographical novel that’s in the literary canon of major Asian-American and postcolonial texts ... His family of tenant farmers is at the mercy of landlords and loan sharks.
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‘More Postcolonial Than We Admit’

The Manila Times 23 Jul 2025
THAT is the title of the latest anthology of Charlie Samuya Veric of Ateneo de Manila University. It comes from the Academica Filipina imprint of Vibal Foundation, and its subtitle is “Producing the Filipino After 1946.” ... Reyes wrote ... ....
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MDCC cuts ribbon on new Thompson-Dantone men’s dorm

The Enterprise-Tocsin 21 Jul 2025
Mississippi Delta Community College celebrated the opening of its new residence hall, Thompson-Dantone Hall, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, July 10, at 3 p.m ... Tonya Short and Frank Dantone, Esq., along with College President Dr.
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The apartment

The Manila Times 18 Jul 2025
I ONCE lived in an apartment in Cubao. It was near three bus stations ... They looked no older than 16 ... It was my friend Jay ... Danton Remoto’s books are the novels “Riverrun and BoysLove,” as well as “The Heart of Summer ... ....
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And quietly flows progress

The Manila Times 16 Jul 2025
I WAS at the mall last week when I saw that they were still showing “Mission Impossible.” I remember the TV series when I was a young boy growing up in Basa Air Base, Pampanga ... So, I lined up to pay for my admission ticket ... *** ... *** ... ....
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Shadowlands

The Manila Times 11 Jul 2025
I AM a joint editor of Men Matters Journal with Professor Emeritus Malachi Edwin Vethamani, formerly of the University of Nottingham in Malaysia ...How to Say Goodbye” by Andrew Edwards has clipped sentences that mask the pain within ... ***.
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A fresh wind blows in Cebu

The Manila Times 09 Jul 2025
IN 2021, I was living in Cebu and unfortunately met with an accident at San Remigio. My friend brought me to the Bogo City Hospital, a new hospital with an x-ray machine and competent medical staff ... Well and good ... * * * ... [email protected] ....
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Writing the short story

The Manila Times 04 Jul 2025
THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel ... Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant and Raymond Carver easily come to mind ... The first literary genre I wrote was the essay ... B ... Danton Remoto’s books of fiction include “Riverrun ... ....
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Introduction to ‘Green Roses’

The Manila Times 02 Jul 2025
MY latest book is a collection of stories written in the past 30 years ... desire, doom or damnation? ... Danton Remoto has published “Riverrun,” “The Heart of Summer” and “BoysLove” with Penguin Southeast Asia.
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Gay tempest in a teapot

The Manila Times 27 Jun 2025
RICKY Reyes and Renee Salud are longtime faces of gays in the Philippines. Ricky has set up many branches of his beauty salon all over the Philippines ... Gays now are CEOs, doctors, lawyers and professors with PhDs.” ... “Let us not vilify them.
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Snow carefully descending everywhere

The Manila Times 25 Jun 2025
I was there for the winter semester. The morning after, the grass was gone, covered by an immense whiteness that hurt the eyes ... New York City was worse ... Danton Remoto has published three books of fiction with Penguin Random House Southeast Asia ... ....
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A Malacañang dinner to remember

The Manila Times 20 Jun 2025
CULTURE and the arts have always been our strongest suits as a nation. Layers of colonization sitting on the bedrock of indigenous cultures have produced a richness and color to our ways of being ... Philip Rodriguez is the pride of Cebu fashion ... She said.
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