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NegOr needs tourism reset

  On the last day of July 2023, a Monday, all the roads in Dumaguete led to the Negros Oriental Provincial Capitol where—in the forecourt...

Nick Joaquin and me, and other confessions

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">I’m back in Dumaguete after a brief visit to Manila, and everything still feels surreal. And wonderful....

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<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">The term “O.B.T.”–for one big tuyok–was probably first used by Dumaguete resident Raffy Teves in 1982. It...

‘F*ckboy consumers’

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">Scene: Caña at The Bricks Hotel along Rizal Avenue, Dumaguete, Thursday, 3 p.m. A table overladen with...

The darkness we don’t talk about

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">In 2008, a sort of funny thing happened. It was the second year of the Man Asian...

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NIR leaders meet with Sen. Zubiri

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Comelec acts versus premature campaigning

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Unity, progress, and the NIR

  Last week, Senate President Migz Zubiri announced some positive developments in the creation of the Negros Island Region. In a...

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