Monthly Archives: July 2010
16 Years of Celebrating Achievements
July 30, 2010
Someone asked us a few years ago how long we think we’d be doing the annual Gintong Pamana Awards and we answered, as long as it takes and as long as it stays relevant. Really, over the years you begin to wonder when it must end. Yet the grueling marathon of beating deadlines, and the stressful task of trying to please everyone aren’t quite as hard as making sure our events matter. For us, there is no point of doing what we… Continue reading
Senior citizens can’t avail of 20% discount on basic necessities, prime commodities
July 30, 2010
MANILA – Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman said that the basic necessities and prime commodities are not covered by the 20 percent discount for senior citizens as provided for under Republic Act 9994 (also known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010). Instead, these items are subject to special discount of five percent. Soliman said that basic…
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Labor group backs POEA implementation of mandatory Pag-IBIG membership for OFWs
July 30, 2010
MANILA – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor confederation, expressed on Friday its support for a new policy that makes Pag-IBIG membership a requisite for departing OFWs.
The policy is the offshoot of an agreement between the Pag-IBIG Fund and the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA), under which the latter shall include the collection of Pag-IBIG membership contributions in its system as a requirement for the issuance of the exit clearance or the Overseas… Continue reading
Lake Sebu kidnapping
Abu Sayyaf leader pleads guilty to taking 4 American hostages
MANILA/WASHINGTON —
July 30, 2010
Filipino terrorist Madhatta Haipe, the high-profile founding member of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),pleaded guilty on July 28 (Washington time) to four counts of hostagetaking in the 1995 abduction of 16 persons, including four U.S. citizens, in southern Mindanao. The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Assistant Attorney General David Kris, announced this development, even as in Manila, U.S. Ambassador Harry Thomas.. Continue reading
Aquino may join UN session, meet Obama in September Manila RTC denies
July 30, 2010
MANILA/WASHINGTON – President Benigno Aquino III will likely attend the United Nations General Assembly session in September in New York and may meet US President Barack Obama there or in the White House before or after that trip to the UN headquarters.
There is no official announcement on Aquino’s US visit but if it pushes through, it maybe scheduled between September 15 to 30 when the 65th UN General Assembly opens and ends its session. Sources said the visit will be most likely between September 23 to 26 when the assembly starts its debate on world issues. Mr. Aquino has said he will likely attend the UN General Assembly in New York in September. His late mother, President Corazon C. Aquino, addressed the assembly
shortly after she… Continue reading
Nicole Scherzinger
July 30, 2010
The lead singer of the popular group, Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger was born on June 29, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father Alfonso Valiente is of Filipino descent, and her mother Rosemary is of Hawaiian and Russian descent. Her mother Rosemary was only eighteen when she gave birth to Nicole. Nicole’s parents separated… Continue reading
Gintong Pamana hosts 16th Awards Dinner and Ball at The Westin, Chicago North Shore, Saturday July 31
July 30, 2010
Dr. Connie “The White House Doctor” Mariano, Keynote Speaker,
to do book signing 4:30 to 5:30 P.M. at the Westin Hotel lobby
Wheeling, IL. It’s all systems go for The Gintong Pamana Awards Foundation, Inc.’s (GPAFI) 16th Annual Gintong Pamana Awards Dinner and Ball this Saturday, July 31 at The Westin, Chicago North Shore in Wheeling, IL. Headlining the event is Dr. Eleanor Concepcion “Connie” Mariano as Keynote Speaker and recipient of the Kamanyang Award for Medicine.
P1.757-trillion nat’l budget for 2011 set
July 23, 2010
MANILA -– The national government (NG) plans to have a P1.757-trillion budget for 2011, the highest ever budget in Philippine history. Budget and Management Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad said next year’s revenues are projected to reach P1.46 trillion, resulting to a deficit of P298.6 billion, which is 3.3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Including carry-over fund, or unused expenditure budget from this year… Continue reading
Proof of Infidelity
by Carmelita Cochingco Ballesteros.
July 23, 2010
Dear Readers,
More than a century ago today, Valeriano Hernandez y Peña wrote the novel Mag-inang Mahirap. Being the Father of the Tagalog novel, he is a very important writer in Philippine literature. I believe that his novel Mag-inang Mahirap is an essential piece of historical fiction. Thus, every Filipino and everyone with Filipino roots should get to read Mag-inang Mahirap. I am translating it for the benefit of those who cannot read old Tagalog. .
– Carmelita C. Ballesteros –
Filipino Martial Arts
July 23, 2010
KUNG-FU FEVER!
Filipino Martial Arts
“It’s not whether you get knocked down it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi –
Sports weren’t my thing when I was in grade school. My love of sport came later during high school. Being a skinny 93 pounds ‘back in the day’ didn’t sit well with the school bullies. I had to do something fast to stop them from using my body as a punching bag so I enrolled in a martial arts class (jujitsu).
They say ‘revenge is a dish that’s best served cold;’ it is. During the summer of 1963 in a dare to myself I Continue reading