1860 Aroyal decree creates a regional government in the Visayas and another in Mindanao to strengthen central authority in these regions. Each is put under a politico-military governor directly responsible to the Governor-Genral of the Philippines. 1865 Birth in Cebu, Cebu, of Fr. Emiliano Mercado, religious writer and prominent parish priest of San Nicolas. 1900 […]
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A Writer’s Baptism
Unabia, Laurean.A Writer’s BaptismEdited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu.Cebu: University of San Carlos Press, 2018.P 500.00 in the Philippines*

Laurean Unabia
Laurean Unabia was born in Dansalan, Lanao del Sur, Mindanao on July 4, 1921. He had his undergraduate studies of A.B. English in the University of the Visayas, Cebu City. While he was working in Manila for the Manila Bulletin, he took up Law in FEU but reached only the third year. Laurean Unabia used […]