Monthly Archives: May 2014
Obama expected to see Pacquiao in Manila
May 16, 2014
MANILA – (via PhilAmPress) – Don’t look now, but United States President Barrack Obama, a recent Philippine visitor, must have been expecting to meet Filipino World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao during his two-day stay visit in Manila. Continue reading
Graft court freezes P130-M Corona assets
May 16, 2014
QUEZON CITY — The Sandiganbayan has issued a freeze order against the assets of former Chief Justice Renato C. Corona and his wife, Cristina. Continue reading
OVERSEAS VOTING LIST-UP RESUMES IN CHICAGO
May 16, 2014
The Philippine Consulate General in Chicago informs all members of the Filipino community in greater Chicago, Illinois and the entire Midwest, as well as in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma that the registration of Filipinos for voting in the 2016 national elections has resumed at the Consulate yesterday, May 6. Continue reading
Ombudsman urged to file cases in Sandiganbayan vs pork solons
May 1, 2014
MANILA/SAN FRANCISCO (PhilAmPress) – An association of former Cabinet members and senor officials of the Philippine government has called on the Ombudsman to speed up the filing of charges before the Sandiganbayan against those involved in the multi-billiion-peso pork barrel scam. Continue reading
After Commencement : How Should Youth View Their Future Challenges ?
Later this month, that annual rite of passage, the college commencement season, gets underway. Like me, you must already be anticipating how the many graduating young men and women we know will fare out in the “real world”. What does life hold in store for them? What kind of world will they live in decades hence? and What will their contributions to it be? Continue reading
To be a Filipino nationalist now is to be anti-China imperialist
To be a nationalist in the 1960s and 1970s meant that one also had to be anti-US imperialist. To be a nationalist now, one has to also be anti-China imperialist. Continue reading
Marijuana deaths staggering
Since marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 (the latest one, Maryland, in 2014), more deaths have been reported from the use of this substance. Continue reading
LLGBBT
Ang ibig kong sabihin sa pamagat na LLGBBT: Lalaki, Lesbiyan, Gay, Bayseksuwal, Babae, Transdyender. Kung ikukunsidera natin ang ekwalidad sa kasarian, di na natin dapat ilimita ang daglat sa LGBT na waring ang apat ay espesyal na kategorya ng gender sa salik ng pagiging minorya. Continue reading
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS Positive applications Part Two
“You don’t look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.”
-Marian G.- Last edition we discussed the first four Commandments of the Decalogue. We are concluding our Lenten-Easter series with the latter six.
V. Thou shall not kill. Continue reading
On Borrowed Laughter
I will not write fast because I know you read slowly. Thank you so much for all the donations you sent us through your group, “Kilos at Awa” (Action and Mercy). Your mother and I are here in our old Provincial Town living in a house you bought for us after our house in Manila decided to float back to the sea. I cannot give you the exact address because the former owners took away the house number. Continue reading