Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
What is more galling is that President
Bush who is trying to promote democracy and freedom around the world, is
keeping silent on this growing autocratic rule in the Philippines. Unlike the
United Nations and the European Union, it has not indicated a desire to
participate in the ongoing probe of the killings of activists and journalists.
As far as [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Seventy-eight teams — 47 from across the Philippines and 31 from abroad — are
competing in the Seniors division of the 60th Philippine Airlines Interclub,
universally acknowledged as the national golf team championship of the
Philippines Twenty teams hail from Luzon, 14 from the Visayas and 13 from
Mindanao. Providing international flavor are
clubs from the United States,
Australia, Saudi Arabia, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The principal characters involve are
larger-than-life film and Stage luminaries Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier
and wife Vivien Leigh and esteemed British theater critic Kenneth Tynan. The
real drama occurs backstage when oversize egos, jealousy and a love triangle
result in a clash of acting titans.
Set in 1960, Orson Welles(Wilbur Edwin
Harry), considered twenty years ago a genius in Hollywood [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Though I tried to hide it, one of my
grandchildren sensed my being very troubled. My seven-year-old grandson,
Joshua, tried to comfort me, with that surprising gravity that often comes from
children.Joshua said, “I have seen that so many times already, grandpa.”
His innocent remark made me feel even
worse. For many hours, well into early morning, I was overcome [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As President Bush insists for additional
troops in Iraq to quell the sectarian violence in Baghdad, I almost freak out
in my room while listening to his State of the Union Address. While the
American public is demanding a “new course” in Iraq, this administration holds
on to the idea of “staying the course.” The message of the November [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The DNA findings, alongside statistical conclusions made about the
artifacts — originally excavated in 1980 — open a potentially
significant chapter in Biblical archaeological history.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A well known community volunteer and
political activist, Alzona continues the tradition of the involvement by
musical artists in the political arena as recently exemplified by current
Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley (former singer/guitarist of his own Irish
folk/rock band), and current 2008 US presidential candidate, former Arkansas
governor, Mike Huckabee (bass guitarist in a classic rock band).
Reservations are not required [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The Philippine delegation assured NCSBN
that the nursing examination leakage last June was an isolated case. The
perpetrators involved in the cheating have already been investigated and are
being prosecuted.
The decision was also guided by the two
field trips to the Philippines
taken by Ms. Donney Dorsey, past president of the NCSBN, last March, followed
by Ms. Fields’ visit last October, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Sen. Inouye refiled the counterpart
Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2007 when Congress opened Jan. 4. “We will get
it passed,” Inouye said in a reply to this writer at a Feb. 6 tribute by the
Asian American community to former US Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta
held at the Smithsonian’s Old Castle in this US capital.
Community leaders and [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
“I was talking about this with a couple
of friends, and we were like, ‘Oh my God, what was he doing?’" said a
Filipino auxiliary member of the Legion of Mary in Ballston, Virginia
who declined to give her name. “But my faith in the Catholic religion has not
been shaken, no, of course not," she added. She said [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Sources in Nigeria say the woman, who is
married with two children, may have drowned falling off the kidnappers’ boat or
jumping overboard when they tried to assault her.
But Philippine Foreign Affairs
Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said he still believed the woman was alive and
that the abduction was likely a criminal rather than a political act by
Nigerian rebels.
He said [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The agency estimates the new fees would
reduce average application processing times by the end of September 2009. Fees
for other immigration services would rise an average of 66 percent.
Applicants now pay a $70 fingerprinting
fee, and the agency wants to raise that to $80. Fees also are paid for things
such as work permits, replacing lost green cards [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CPJ said the Philippines and Afdghanistan
have each lost three journalists last year.
(As expected, Manila rejected the CPJ’s
findings.) The Philippines and Afghanistan had the highest journalist deaths in
the region last year, a number that was only overshadowed by the 32 journalists
killed in Iraq in 2006. It added that conflicts in Pakistan and Sri Lanka where
two journalists [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Camina, 75, was the first bishop of Digos
when it finally became a diocese in 1980. Fondly called Gene by acquaintances,
Camina propelled the diocese into one of the most active units of the Catholic
Church in the Philippines. On August 22, 1989, Cami±a founded the Apostolic
Daughters of Mary (ADM), a congregation of nuns doing what he loved [...]