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When game designers Sin and Pam met, they were in separate relationships. But as they started to see each other in a different light, they realized the kind of love they wanted all along was just a few moves away.

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The Philippines is among the last countries in Asia-Pacific to recover from COVID-19, according to Moody’s Analytics. The yearlong lockdown has further widened the gap between the rich and the poor. Jose Ramon Albert, a senior research fellow of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, talks about the investments that should be made if we were to “arise as one”.

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Last week, Marvel announced the Fil-Am Captain America Ari Agbayani. There was celebration, but there was also a lot of backlash. Award-winning author Vida Cruz stops by to talk about comics, colonization, and Filipino identity.

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It’s not as simple as waving a flag. Why did the Philippines have two Independence Days? And who is this mystery American called “The Stranger”, and what was he doing at the signing of our constitution? Historian Sab Schnabel and history nerd Ceej Tantengco of “What’s AP? Araling Panlipunan Rebooted” take you back in time.

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Ham and Jaz meet right before the pandemic starts, and decide to start a romance as the world falls apart. As the days go by, they realize that they can no longer distance from each other. Pero pag-ibig ba talaga 'to, o quaran-fling lang?

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We used to think that the Philippines had three waves of migration: Negrito, Malay, and Indones. But Dr. Maximilian Larena, a Filipino geneticist based in Sweden, reveals that we were populated by at least five waves of migration. Here’s what we can learn from our genetic history.

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