Chilean poet Neruda to be exhumed Monday
The remains of Chilean Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed Monday to determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned, according to the judge on the case.
View ArticleChile’s Neruda bone remains to be analyzed in US
Bone remains of Chilean Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda will be analyzed in the United States as investigators seek to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death.
View ArticleA writer’s wife
I was curious to find my own place among all the sorts of “Writers’ Wives” described by author and literary critic Malcolm Bradbury in his piece “The Spouse in the House.”
View ArticleKomisyon sa Wikang Filipino puts up registry program; holds essay contest
Agencies, academic departments in Filipino, organizations and language centers who seek the development of the Filipino language are requested to enlist in the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino’s (KWF)...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day: Authors say protests help
Authors including Salman Rushie are appealing to China to live up to its own constitution and laws guaranteeing freedom of the press on World Press Freedom Day.
View ArticleNinoy Aquino’s birthday is ‘Day of Reading’
Recognizing the importance of reading and literacy especially among the country’s youth, President Benigno Aquino III has signed a law designating the birthday of his martyred father, former Sen....
View ArticleMariang Alimango (Remixed)
Maria was an only child who lived in a big house with her widowed father, but he somehow fell into dire straits and mortgaged all they owned to a rich widow with a flourishing pawnshop business, but...
View ArticleThe changing of the guard
How times have changed! Some theories, once accepted as fact in my lifetime, have been debunked. In pre-history studies: The once very popular “Waves of Migration” theory of Dr. Otley Beyer—first...
View ArticleSpeakers of endangered languages converge in Washington
They traveled far from the Tuva Republic, a predominantly rural region of Russia, to the United States in hopes of saving their culture from slow extinction. The group of eight musicians and craftsmen...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? Mary better than Latrina, Eula
As Prince William and wife Catherine mull over names for their royal offspring, they would do well to heed mounting evidence that a name can influence everything from your school grades and career...
View Article‘Wild Swans’ author Jung Chang speaks of China dream—interview
It may be unclear what exactly Beijing means by its aspirational "China Dream" slogan, but for banned "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang it's a positive step. "It's good to have a dream," she says. "My...
View Article‘Language Month’ exhibit at DFA celebrates people’s dynamism, others
The many languages of the Philippines are a reflection of the Filipino people’s dynamism, flexibility, and adaptability, Felipe de Leon Jr., chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts...
View ArticleNew English-language bookstore a 1st in Havana
Cuba's first English-language bookstore offers a selection that would just about stock the lobby of an average Vermont bed and breakfast. Next to what's available in English elsewhere in Havana, it...
View ArticleNobel-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney dies at 74
To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 years after he won the Nobel Prize in literature...
View ArticleWhat would you go out on a limb for?
What does it mean to “go out on a limb”? Where does the expression come from? You have heard it, used it, and maybe even been out on one yourself.
View Article‘Gets mo ba?’
I love Filipino English—it is so wrong! There are Filipinisms that someone who did not grow up in the Philippines may have difficulty figuring out.
View Article12 storytellers enter Read-Along semis
Twelve young storytellers made it to the semi-finals of this year’s Inquirer Read-Along Festival Storytelling Contest after an elimination round held on Saturday at the Inquirer main office in Makati.
View ArticleJamie Oliver’s Cantonese draws giggles in Hong Kong
Hong Kong fans of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver fell about laughing on Wednesday after he announced a new Italian restaurant for the city in Cantonese -- with a few slip-ups.
View ArticleKWF, indigenous groups: Filipino is language of peace
The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) and 100 representatives of cultural communities nationwide have passed a resolution urging that every peace agreement and law be written in Filipino and the...
View ArticleWorld’s most-used word turns 175, OK?
Whatever you’re doing this Sunday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?
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