DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 July) — Nearly half of Filipino learners are unable to read at grade level by the end of Grade 3, according to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2), a learning crisis the commission
BOOK REVIEW | Witnessing: Three Decades of FaithBukas Loob sa Diyos Catholic Covenanted Community-District of DavaoEdited by Nikki Gomez and Des Mendoza-LopezPublished by BLD Davao Foundation, Inc., 2026 TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews / 6 July 2026) — Many anniversary books fail
(Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar wrote ‘Glocal Mining Interests Face Local Resistance’ as foreword to the book,“To Mine or Not to Mine: Tampakan’s Copper-Gold Deposit.” Written by MindaNews’ Bong Sarmiento, the book chronicles at least 25 years of coverage on the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 May) – Want to know what books have been written about Mindanao and what books Mindanawons have written across the years? Come to the 3rd Mindanao Book Festival on May 21 to 23, initiated by MindaNews
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 March) — The coffee table book chronicling the making of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), a cornerstone of peacebuilding in Mindanao, brings renewed attention to a process often sidelined in national narratives, following its win
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 March) — A Mindanawon anthology framed as part of a broader project of “transitional justice in Mindanao” has brought renewed attention to the role of regional scholarship in shaping national academic and literary discourse, following
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 March) — Mindanawon writer and professor John Bengan was recently recognized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) during the 18th Ani ng Dangal Awards which honors Filipino artists whose work has
TAGUM CITY (MindaNews / February 26) — To memorialize veterans, publishing of books about their life stories by military historians will be an ongoing effort. “Through this kind of program, we remember them, and we give them our respect and
To open Kape Blak’s Elyen Ka is to witness the drafting of a spiritual death certificate. The text does not dramatize a conflict between the human and the industrial; it stages the eerie stillness that comes after the battle is
Growing up in a town that sat squarely between the mountains and the sea, my friends and I spent our nights waiting for something to happen. We sat on the concrete barriers of an unfinished bridge, swinging our legs over
To open Aleah Sulaiman Bantas’s Tademtademan is to consent to a haunting. This is a text made from fractures, a landscape where geography does not cradle the body but hunts it. Thirty kilometers to Kuyapon. Thirty more to Kidapawan. The
I am reading Aswangism and thinking that the monsters we know have evolved. They no longer hide under the bed or wait in the balete tree, but have moved into the subdivision, taken jobs, and succumbed to the same wet,
“The body is not a temple, but a cage,” is a thought that often intrudes when one is alone in the kitchen, staring at leftovers that have turned a shade too gray. It is a feeling of being trapped not
Classmates of the late Lorenzo Mendoza de Vera at the Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao campus (Batch 2013) gather in Casa Munda, Davao City at the launching of his book, “The Start of the New” on 04 March 2025. MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
Ah, once more moving are his hands,Turning the seasons, changing the lands.At work is Janus the great,Bringing end, yet he creates. Thus is the great cycle of everything,There is no death nor living.One truth we only find, That forever entrances the
ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews / 13 October) — GenSan-based publisher Aklat Alamid announced on their Facebook page that “Gusto Maglupad ni Bangsi” (Bangsi wants to fly), written by Xaña Angel Eve Apolinar and illustrated by Dom Ochotorena, is included in this
Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory, 2nd editionAuthor: Macario D. TiuResearch and Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University, 2021, 571 pages Postcolonial feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman’s revelatory essay titled “Venus in Two Acts” (2008) probes the politics and limits
BOOK REVIEW: San Rafael by Leila Rispens-Noel8 Letters Bookstore & Publishing, 2023 One sweltering afternoon, Isabel headed for the lagoon. She walked through a rocky narrow track with dense cogon and other grasses on either side. Ice-cold water cascaded down
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 December) – Six Mindanao books are among 35 winners in the 41st National Book Awards. The Best Anthology in English is “Kalandrakas Part 1, 1890-1945: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990” and “Kalandrakas Part
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 November) – Nine Mindanao books are finalists in ten categories in the 41st National Book Awards. The annual prize, initiated by the National Book Development Board (NDBD) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC), honors the most
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 August) – Two Mindanawon writers are among 21 finalists in the 17th Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards: Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar of Davao and children’s book writer Mary Ann Ordinario of Kidapawan City. Gaspar’s “Diwang Balaan/Banal:
SARANGANI (MindaNews / 27 August) – Members of the Sarangani Writers League (SWL) showcased their work and promoted the thriving literary scene here at the Philippine Book Festival in Davao City last week. Held from August 18–20, 2023, at the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 3 June) – “Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader” is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST PHL). Edited by Mindanawon professors Jose Jowel Canuday and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 May) – Experience Mindanao’s architectural diversity through a coloring book. Balay Kulayan Coloring Book is a 70-page interactive book that brings to life the dwellings of five different Mindanao Ethnolinguistic groups and offers the perfect
(Dr. Jose Jowel Canuday’s opening remarks at the launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s book, “The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903” at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City on 04 May 2023. Canuday, who hails from
(Delivered online by Dr. Steven Rood at the book launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s ‘The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines’ at the Ateneo de Manila University
(Remarks of Maria Karina Africa Bolasco, Director of the Ateneo de Manila University Press, during the lau\ch of John Bengan’s book, Armor, in Davao City on 21 April 2023. Ms Ria Valdez, secretary of the Davao Writers Guild, read her
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 April) – Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar’s “Handumanan (Remembrance): Digging for the Indigenous Wellspring,” won Best Book in Spirituality and Theology in the 40th National Book Awards for 2021. The award is given by the Manila Critics
BOOK REVIEWTHE RULERS OF MAGINDANAO IN MODERN HISTORY, 1515-1903 (Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines)Author: Datu Michael Ong MasturaPublished by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 25 April) — Centuries before
Amor B. Pendaliday, Ed.D.[1] The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903:Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern PhilippinesAteneo de Manila University Press, 2023 COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) — On the first week of November,
(Video message of Maria Karina Africa Bolasco, Director of the Ateneo de Manila University Press during the launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s book, The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History 1515-1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 02 April) – Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s book, “The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515–1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines” is now off the press and will be launched in
(Remarks at the Davao City launch of the two-volume book, Kalandrakas: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990 (A Preliminary and Continuing Survey and Literary Mapping) by Karina Africa Bolasco, Director of the Ateneo de Manila University Press. Bolasco
Kalandrakas: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990, A Preliminary and Continuing Survey and Literary Mapping by Ricardo M. de Ungria. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022. In one of the appendices (Appendix E) of Ricardo M. de
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 February) – The two-volume book on a century of Mindanao literature — from 1890 to 1990 — will be launched at the Ateneo de Davao University on Monday, February 27. Edited by the multi-awarded writer Ricardo
By Ma. Isabel Actub BOOK REVIEWStewards of Excellence in Catholic Education: The History of the Davao Association of Catholic Schools (1963-2023)Author – Bro. Karl M. Gaspar CSsRPublisher – Davao Association of Catholic Schools, Davao City, 2023 A Book on the
A Heart That Does Not Cease to Dream – A Missionary’s “Jagged” Life JourneyAuthor: Fr. Ramon O. Fruto, CSsRPublisher: Claretian Publications Foundation, Inc., 2023 By Fr. Antonio Ma. Rosales, OFM (N.B. Fr. Ramon Fruto, CSsR, is the first Redemptorist Filipino
Title of the Book: AND SHE SANG… YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE!Author: Melchor M. MorantePublished by: Alitheia Publications, Davao City, 2022 Life stories are often the stuff that remarkable novels are made of. It only takes the keen sense of a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 January) – At least 50 Mindanao books –books written by Mindanawons on various topics and books on Mindanao written by Mindanawons and non-Mindanawons — were published in 2022, 19 more than the 2021 harvest. History and peacebuilding,
(Can’t Go Out and Other Stories)Author: Ms. Elizabeth Joy Serrano-QuijanoPublished by: Ateneo Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University Once upon a time – actually only about half-a-century ago – when we were kids growing up in Digos which was then
DIWANG BALAAN/BANAL: A Decolonial Discourse on Pinoy SpiritualityKarl M. Gaspar, CSsRInstitute of Spirituality in Asia, 2022 MANILA (MindaNews / 08 January) — More than ever, this book is relevant to contemporary times, where environmental concerns are faced by both the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 December) – Blaan write Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano’s book, “Dili Pwede Mogawas ug Ubang mga Sugilanon” (Can’t Go Out and Other Stories), was launched Saturday at the Ateneo de Davao University. The title of the book
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 5 Oct) – In my more than three decades of writing (reckoned from the time I was chosen Editor of the university school paper in 1981-1984), not once did it occur to me that I
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 August) – Three books on Mindanao are among 27 winners in the 39th National Book Awards given out by the National Book Development Board (NDBD) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC). The NBA is an annual
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) – After it became certain that he won the Presidential race in the May 9, 2016 polls, Rodrigo Roa Duterte visited the grave of his parents at the public cemetery here and disappeared from public
