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(Eagle News) — Pangungunahan ng Department of Education (DepEd) ang pagdiriwang ng National Reading Month ngayong buwan. Batay sa memorandum na inilabas ng DepEd, sinabi ni Education Secretary Leonor Briones na kailangang sumali ang mga pampubliko at pribadong paaralan sa bansa sa mga nakalinyang aktibidad ngayong taon. Layon ng National Reading Month na mapalawak ang kaalaman ng mga mag-aaral sa pamamagitan ng paghimok sa kanilang magbasa ng mga aklat. Ang tema ng National Reading Month […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Deep in the heart of a valley surrounded by rocky hills, a wooden library sits just over a creek on the outskirts of Beijing, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Every weekend, hundreds of bookworms flock to Liyuan Library in Jiaojiehe village, a book sanctuary surrounded by chestnut, walnut and peach trees whose branches were used to decorate the building. The lush environment is what first drew architect Li Xiaodong to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 25) – To this day, I don’t sit with my back to door. I learned that from Dune. Sci-fi writer Frank Herbert created a wonderful universe unique from other sci-fi writers in that it is devoid of inhuman aliens. Humanity have successfully colonized a million worlds. Due to a previous historical event wherein thinking machines dominated mankind, the use of computers was forbidden. To make up for the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 23) – When it comes to reading, my tastes run to science fiction and fantasy. I have been following a lot of authors but lately, I have been reading the “Uplift” series by David Brin. In the Uplift universe, the dominant civilization is called the Five Galaxies – a conglomerate of oxygen-breathing species. At the center of the civilization is the practice of “uplift” – wherein a patron […]
