A former traffic enforcer in Mariveles, Bataan, tragically lost his life on Thursday evening after being attacked and fatally stabbed by a group of knife-wielding men. The 52-year-old victim’s life ...

"Wala pong pananadya po doon sa nangyari po na may patalim po. Kasi nga po hindi ko po alam. Sobrang dilim na dilim ng isip ko," the suspect said in a report by EJ Gomez on Unang Balita on Tuesday.

“Wala pong pananadya po doon sa nangyari po na may patalim po. Pasensiya na po, hindi ko po alam, sobrang dilim na dilim na po ng isip ko (There was no intention behind what happened when I pointed ...

“Nilapitan niya. Talagang nilapitan. Kasi meron ding dalang patalim yung taxi driver, ayun, binaril siya nung ano, nung ating suspek. Ang na-recover natin dun sa crime scene apat na empty shells ng 45 ...

It is a small world really. Lacaba worked as screenwriter for Lino Brocka (Orapronobis, Jaguar, Kapit Sa Patalim) who is the baptismal godfather of my late daughter, Kerima. Brocka and I were ...

“Ayon sa kanya siya lang mag-isa (ang gumawa ng krimen). Ginamitan niya ng patalim bilang panakot at yun ang naging daan niya upang maisagawa niyang matagumpay para sa kanya ‘yung kanyang isinagawang ...

“Nang nakita ko na, hinuli ko na lang bigla, ‘di ko naman nakita kung may patalim o anuman basta siya hinuli ko,” Romasanta said. The suspect is now in police custody and has not provided a statement ...

Lino Brocka’s films are decoded for their use of film language and visual semiotics in movies like Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim starring Gina Alajar and Philip Salvador and Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang ...

“When workers live and work under fear of violence and discrimination and quid pro quo workplace sexual harassment—’kapit sa patalim’—amid the survival crisis of joblessness and poor job quality, ...

We call it kapit sa patalim in Tagalog, referring to how people will graspingly take hold of the blade of a sharp knife—even if it cuts their own hands—just to seize opportunities to survive.

Analysis of their contexts shows that the more fundamental problem is their economic marginalization and exclusion, thus they resort to illicit crops as their kapit-sa-patalim (translated as “holding ...