“Singgalot: The Ties that Bind”

by Hubert Lorbes
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:35:35 -0700



“Singgalot: The Ties that Bind” on Display at Remy’s on Temple Art Gallery Los Angeles the First Stop in Three-Year National Tour A significant portion of Philippine history aside from the centuries of ... more

Pinay International Math Wiz

by Danilo Almeyda
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:18:11 -0700
 Angeline L. Baniqued of St. Paul’s College bagged the Gold Medal for the International Math Olympiad held recently in Singapore. Baniqued bagged a gold among the 14 Gold medalists. Likewise, the Philippine team went home with 24 ...  Read more

Las Piñas Boys Choir: another Pinoy international victory

by Marisol Tupaz
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:50:28 -0700
 The Las Piñas Boys Choir brought home the gold medal in the 5th World Choir Games, children's category, held in Graz, Austria last July 12. The choir also won the silver medal in the Musica Sacra Category. The 20 member ...  Read more

Toxic Endosulfan insecticide in capsized M/V Princess of the Stars

by Ady de los Angeles
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:22:13 -0700
 Another potential tragedy after the overturn of M/V Princess of the Stars in the wake of storm Frank is the possible spillage of toxic insecticide Endosulfan owned by Del Monte Philippines for use in its pineapple plantation crops. Due to ...  Read more

Another Sulpicio Lines Sea Tragedy

by Hubert Lorbes
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:35:44 -0700
 The name Sulpicio became synonymous to sea tragedy in maritime history having the world’s worst maritime peacetime sea tragedy with the sinking of the ill fated M/V Doña Paz in 1987 killing thousands when it collided with tanker M/T Vector. ...  Read more

OFW jailed in Qatar for unauthorized abuse of personal moble phone

by Hubert Lorbes
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:44:32 -0700
                                An overseas Filipino worker or OFW in Qatar was imprisoned for one month and fined 3,000 Qatar riyals after his Indian co-worker abused his cellular phone without his permission to verbally harass a woman as narrated by ...  Read more

Too late, the Hero (?)

by Hubert Lorbes
Mon, 26 May 2008 23:26:10 -0700
The President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared “No-tuition fee increase” in state colleges and universities, and even called on to private higher education schools and institutions not to increase or increase in tranches to assist students and the Filipinos in general with ...  Read more

Another OFW victim

by Anna Leah De Vera
Fri, 23 May 2008 03:26:05 -0700
No stopping the activist overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) group Migrante International on Friday demanding for justice for Fatima Maulana, 43 years old Filipina, who was found dead on May 16 in Kuwait’s Kabd Desert. “We are ...  Read more

Bangus downs 68 in “Bangus Country”

by Marisol Tupaz
Fri, 23 May 2008 01:08:57 -0700
At least 68 residents of Alaminos City in western Pangasinan were taken to several hospitals last week after eating dried bangus (milkfish) which was believed to have spoiled during the drying process but looked like regular dried bangus despite the ...  Read more