HR on Break: When a Career Pause Becomes a Different Kind of Work
After 16 years in HR, Monaliza Adam Mangelen explores career breaks, rediscovery, and the unexpected lessons of working beyond the traditional office.
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Trash Talk: Can Norway Help the Philippines Solve Its Waste Crisis?
As plastic pollution threatens Philippine waterways, Norway and the Philippines explore circular-economy solutions to reduce waste and drive sustainable change.
Revolution to Ballot: Who Gets to Decide the Future of Bangsamoro Now?
The first Bangsamoro election marks a historic milestone but as political blocs negotiate power, questions of inclusion and the unfinished work of peace remain.
Nagoya opens the Asian Para Games with about 3,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions
Weeks after the Asian Games, Nagoya has handed its venues to roughly 3,000 para athletes. The Games began in Japan in 1975 under another name, and host Japan has entered about 280 competitors.
culture — turn it up.
10 OPM Artists You Need to Be Listening to Right Now
Original Pilipino Music is having a global moment. These ten acts are leading the charge and redefining what Filipino music sounds like to the world.
Beyond K-Pop: The Underground Music Scenes Defining Seoul's Sound
While the world watches K-pop, something altogether more interesting is happening in the basements of Hongdae, the jazz bars of Itaewon, and the practice rooms of a generation of musicians who refuse to be factory-made.
Tokyo's Jazz Underground: The Hidden Clubs Keeping Bebop Alive
Beneath the neon-lit streets of Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa, a constellation of intimate jazz clubs preserves the spirit of bebop with a reverence you'll find nowhere else on earth.
culture — borrowed, mostly.
Trash Talk: Can Norway Help the Philippines Solve Its Waste Crisis?
Revolution to Ballot: Who Gets to Decide the Future of Bangsamoro Now?
Nagoya opens the Asian Para Games with about 3,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions
Florence Aguilar: A Voice Finds Its Moment Again
Whose Security Counts? Beyond Politics in the West Philippine Sea
P-Beauty’s Glow Up
Inside No Entry
We are loud where it matters and quiet where it counts. We print the thing you already said but didn't post.— from the wikamag manifesto · read it →
city — after dark, and before.
Inside No Entry
In a city full of doors, sometimes the most interesting ones are the ones that tell you to stay out.
Pandesal, Politics, and a Forgotten Claim
Policy Rift: Hontiveros and Aquino After the Tacloban Tragedy
Defining Honorablé: Trans Identity and the Philippine Campaign Trail
Notes From the Road, In a Year of War
A Home Woven From Hope
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