Danton Remoto
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Stemming the digital exodus (opens the original)
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THE paradox of emerging digital economies is simple: The more talent they develop, the faster it disappears. A software engineer trained in Lagos, a machine learning specialist from Manila, a UX designer from Nairobi represents years of investment and promise. The irony is we only watch them board flights westward. But this narrative doesn’t have to be inevitable. The solution lies not in chasing Western salaries, which emerging markets can never match, but in building compelling reasons to stay
The politics of blood, the blood of politics (opens the original)
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THE novel, “Ashura: A Filipino Reckoning” by Quintin Jose V. Pastrana, deals with contemporary Philippine politics from several lenses. Pastrana is an energy entrepreneur, library builder and writer. He graduated with degrees in business from Georgetown University, international relations from Cambridge and creative writing from Oxford. He took his undergraduate degree at Ateneo de Manila University. His works include a compendium of indigenous poems, “Ambahan: A Love Story” (FEU Publications, 2
âThe Sound of Falling Lightâ (opens the original)
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THAT is the title of the selected letters of Carlos Bulosan, published locally more than 20 years ago. Few writers embody the intertwined histories of migration, colonialism, race and labor as powerfully as Bulosan. Born in Pangasinan province and arriving in the United States in 1930, he transformed the hardships of immigrant life into some of the most important literature of the 20th century. Best known for his autobiographical novel âAmerica Is in the Heartâ (1946), he chronicled the stru
Metafiction in Philippine writing (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. EXPLODING Galaxies is a new publishing house that aims to reprint the classics of Philippine literature. First off the bat is Wilfrido Nolledo’s “But for the Lovers,” which he began when he was a writing fellow at the famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Nolledo’s “Canticle for Dark Lovers,” a collection of stories, has also been published, along with Linda Ty-Casper’s historical novel “The Three-Cornered Sun” and Erwin Castillo’s “The Firewalkers.” The l
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