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Maria Ressa shows us how to stand up to a dictator

The Rappler CEO, PeopleAsia People of the Year 2022 awardee and Nobel Peace Prize winner released her new book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator, which chronicles her life and career as a journalist and what she has learned so far in her fight to uphold the truth against…

ALI, MACEA launch coffee table book celebrating Makati CBD’s 50-year journey

Fifty Years and Forward, a handsome 300-page coffee table book written by Lisa Guerrero Nakpil, with photos by Wig Tysmans, Patrick Diokno and Paul Quiambao, chronicles the development of the country’s leading central business district from a huge, nearly empty field of rice paddies and grassland, to what it has…

Rep. Loren Legarda pushes for PH to be ‘Guest of Honor’ in Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

The three-term senator believes that the book fair will do for Philippine books and authors, what Venice Biennale has done for Filipino visual artists, including architects. The Philippine publishing industry, including authors of fiction and non-fiction books as well as graphic novels, will get a much-needed boost in the global…

The UN in the eyes of Filipinos through the years

How big of an impact has the Philippines, a developing country, left and continues to leave on a world body such as the United Nations (UN), which marks its 75th year in 2020? Filipino Footprints on the United Nations: Contributions to Sustainable Development, a recently launched hardbound book, tries to…