Posts Tagged filipino
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesFamily feuds may be a hallmark of Philippine politics, but according to administration standard-bearer Gilbert ‘Gibo’ Teodoro, his own feud with the family of his uncle, industrialist and Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) founder Eduardo ‘Danding’ Cojuangco, should have no place in the current presidential race. ‘We are talking about the country, not one family, not the hurt feelings of one person ..
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
wani@thestar.com.my PORT KLANG: A scrap metal dealer received a severe blow by being duped for the second time within two months in a deal with a Filipino company. Instead of the scrap copper he ordered, Datuk P. Krishnamurthi received containers of black soil.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FRONTLINE 02/11/2010 Mudslinging is certainly a part of, and expected in, Philippine electoral politics and even elsewhere in the world. In truth, mudslinging is one good way for the Filipino electorate to know whether a presidential candidate is what he says he is by way of expensive television advertisements, which merely gives the voters a false image of the candidate, as he is being projected without warts and all. When mud hits a presidential candidate, the response of his and his camp always is that this is black propaganda.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines — The remains of a Filipino woman who died in the rubble of a collapsed supermarket in Haiti when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, will be brought home upon the request of her family. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines Nine out of 10 Filipinos have nothing to bequeath to their loved ones when they pass away, thus leaving many young dependents with an uncertain future, research done by the financial giant Sun Life of Canada shows.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The United World Colleges (UWC) Philippine National Committee is searching for student-representatives interested in pursuing a two-year international baccalaureate course abroad.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippine court sentenced to life imprisonment an unemployed man it found guilty for the 2005 murder of a radio commentator on the southern island of Mindanao, a media watchdog said on Friday. It was only the sixth conviction among nearly 100 cases of murdered Filipino journalists since President Gloria…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Malaysian supreme court has upheld the death sentenced meted out to a Filipino “drug mule” caught smuggling over 500 grams of cocaine at the Kuala Lumpur International…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FRONTLINE 01/29/2010 With some five months to go before she departs Malacañang, Gloria Arroyo is still pushing through with a peace pact with the Moro secessionists, which will still give them the so-called ancestral homeland they have been demanding from this government. Malacañang says that the new peace pact, or the second Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) for the Bangsa Moro people, which is really the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, will follow the constitutional path, unlike the first one, which was struck down by the high court for being unconstitutional. The idea apparently is to divide…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Most Read Business Bidding for SCTEx contract fails Why locally sold cars are still better than grey-market options Licensed to shout Moody’s raises outlook on RP banks Clark airport expansion to force Subic airport closure Enrile will not be ousted Roxas Unfriendly skies DBP to build ‘green’ office/residential tower in Fort Boni Australia expects entry of more Filipino workers as economy recovers Consortium to scout offshore Palawan area for oil prospects
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesBona Fajardo’s historical drama ‘Iliw’ chronicles how a Japanese soldier’s affections for a Filipino maiden saved Vigan from certain destruction in World War II. It’s a little-known aspect of our history, said Fajardo, whose film debuted at the Cinemanila last year and opens today at the IndieSine in Robinsons Galleria
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
01/27/2010 Manny Villar has committed a huge political mistake in not appearing before the Senate to state his case. If he knows just how the Filipino mind works, he would have known that his refusal to answer the charges translates to the Filipino being convinced that indeed he is guilty as charged, and no amount of media interviews or expensive advertisements will convince the Filipino otherwise
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Jennee Grace U Rubrico MANILA - Philippine property is showing new signs of life after enduring falling rental rates and rising vacancies in 2009. As developers reactivate projects stalled with last year’s global economic downturn, cranes are swinging again on the skylines of Manila and other metropolitan areas with the brightened economic outlook.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesGive hope to the people. In these trying times, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher in the household of Pope Benedict XVI, is urging Filipino priests to be servants of the people and instruments of hope
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA: One in three newborns in the Philippines is unwanted or unplanned, the government said Thursday, as the country struggles with a population explosion and the Church’s opposition to birth control. The fertility rate of Filipino women stood at 3.3 children, even…
