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A comeback for the National Book Awards

By BREAKTHROUGH | By Elfren S. Cruz | June 9, 2022 - 12:00am

All lovers of Philippine literature need not continue to wonder whatever has happened to the yearly National Book Awards, a collaborative endeavor between the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development...

Opinion

National Book Awards

By Isagani Cruz | November 17, 2011 - 12:00am

Thirty years ago, in a cafeteria across the street from the back gate of the University of Santo Tomas, Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (+), Alfrredo Navarro Salanga (+), Alfred Yuson, and I met and talked about the...

Education and Home

NBDB now accepts applications for writing grants

June 2, 2011 - 12:00am

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) is now accepting applications for the National Book Development Trust Fund.

Education and Home

National Children's Book Award up

April 15, 2010 - 12:00am

Lovers of children’s books have cause to rejoice! The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) are happy to announce the fulfillment of a long-cherished...

Education and Home

Making way for readers

By Rey Gamboa | April 6, 2009 - 12:00am

Once again, we would like to give way to some of our readers’ comments, in particular, on two particular topics.

Business

Uplifting the standards of book publishing

January 21, 2009 - 12:00am

On 04 Jan. 4, 2009, The Philippine STAR came out with a story titled “CHED to review defective textbooks” and an editorial called “A Long Overdue Review”.

Letters to the Editor

National book board says it is not empowered to regulate textbooks

By Rainier Allan Ronda | January 6, 2009 - 12:00am

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) said it is not empowered by law to regulate the quality of textbooks used in public schools.

Headlines

DepEd to adopt IP rights lessons in HS curriculum

May 28, 2006 - 12:00am

The Department of Education is planning to integrate intellectual property lessons into the high school curriculum to instill IP rights protection in Filipino students. The department has tapped the National Book...

Cebu News

Textbook crusader slams NBDB anew

September 22, 2005 - 12:00am

It seems that the defective textbooks controversy is far from over. In a letter to The STAR, Antonio Calipjo Go, the academic supervisor of Marian School of Quezon City who first exposed that grade school textbooks...

Headlines

The Lone textbooks Ranger

By Ann Corvera | July 17, 2005 - 12:00am

They came. He saw. He corrected. "North is necessary in using a compass." "Ribs: bones at the sides of your chest." "Christmas is the Philippines’ all too brief yet the longest celebration...

Starweek Magazine