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In presentations like these, I always get asked one question in the open forum afterwards: "Is Taglish or Filipino itself the cause of the deterioration of our people’s skills in English? Shouldn’t we ban the use of Taglish and Filipino in schools to improve those skills?"


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Two top officials have just been axed allegedly in connection with the disappearance from the records of a P70-million liability owed by a company in terms of unpaid leased line charges.


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Students honor Rizal in YGC-led competitions

September 22, 2011 - 12:00am

Over 200 students from several public high schools in Metro Manila livened up a week-long series of competitions called the Rizal Youth Program that was designed to honor the values of our National Hero and commemorate...

Education and Home

Adopted school tops 2010 NAT in Sta. Rosa

October 14, 2010 - 12:00am

Pulong Sta. Cruz Elementary School (PSCES) topped the 2010 National Achievement Test (NAT), ranking first among all public schools in the City of Santa Rosa in Laguna. PSCES Grade VI student Mary Grace Valdez also...

Education and Home

Better than banning

By Butch Dalisay | October 9, 2006 - 12:00am

These past couple of weeks, I’ve had two opportunities to give lectures on a pet topic of mine, "English in the Philippines," at St. Norbert College and at the University of Michigan. In presentations...

Arts and Culture

Poetic justice

By Butch Dalisay | June 26, 2006 - 12:00am

What a difference a merienda makes. One afternoon a couple of years ago, some writer-friends and I hosted a merienda for a visiting Albanian poet who’d been brought over by some friends from Italy, where the...

Arts and Culture

Leisure Farms opens new way of learning

October 2, 2005 - 12:00am

Leisure Farms Adventures, an agricultural theme park, welcomes flocks of little farmers to an interactive farm theme park waiting to be explored. Composed of a series of small farms, Leisure Farms Adventures showcases...

Agriculture

Exfoliated

By Butch Dalisay | July 19, 2004 - 12:00am

An eagle-eyed reader we’ll call Moonie spotted a possible problem in last week’s column having to do with Latinate English, in which I equated an "express exfoliation" with a "quick haircut."...

Arts and Culture

From bad to worse

July 4, 2004 - 12:00am

Things are getting worse at BayanTel. Two top officials have just been axed allegedly in connection with the disappearance from the records of a P70-million liability owed by a company in terms of unpaid leased...

Business

Can a nonconfrontational citizens’ lobby succeed?

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | July 3, 2004 - 12:00am

So far, so good. President GMA has laid out a 10-point program by which we can judge her government. These may be broad strokes and do not tell us anything about how she will fulfill these promises. But hold your...

Opinion