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Lightning in Diliman: UP post-Kristel

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PHOTO courtesy of Wendell Capili

There’s a strong chance that lightning will strike in UP Diliman on Sunday. One hit UP Manila a week ago when students briefly held a protest during the commencement exercise.

Posted: April 28th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Bantay OCW (Ang Boses ng OFW)

The issue of child support

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Amanda came to Bantay OCW at Radyo Inquirer to complain that her husband, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), had another family and had stopped supporting his original family.

Posted: April 28th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Featured Columns,Global Pinoy | Read More »

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The NPA vs a 78-year-old woman

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Mayor Ruth de Lara Guingona of Gingoog City INQUIRER PHOTO

Last August, Senator Teofisto TG Guingona III gave a powerful and impassioned speech praising heroes who fought against the Marcos tyranny, including two renowned figures of the underground left.

Posted: April 25th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

US Immigration reform needed but compromise bill a tough sell for all

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On my first visit to the Philippines, well after my father and uncle died, I met my aunt for the first time.

Posted: April 24th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

For these SF Filipinos, 911 means a call to serve

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Corinina “Cori” Cruz Photo courtesy of the City of San Francis

The voice on the phone was distressed. The caller, Tala Rahal, was sobbing and could barely speak as she tried to explain that her mother was in trouble. The girl was 10.

Posted: April 23rd, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Featured Columns,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

No Limitation

US Senate Bill allows thousands of Filipinos to immediately come to America

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Little notice has been given to the US Senate Bill known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013′s other provisions which allow for the immediate entry of family members of US citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents who have been waiting for years for immigrant visas to be available to them.

Posted: April 23rd, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

Bantay OCW (Ang Boses ng OFW)

Justice for maltreated OFW in Qatar

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Ma. Victoria Esquivas, an overseas Filipino worker in Qatar, was repatriated recently. Her work contract actually ended last August 2012, but she said her employer had refused to allow her to go home.

Posted: April 21st, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Featured Columns,Global Pinoy | Read More »

In Major League Baseball, Tim Lincecum is still Filipino’s champ

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In the locker room after another rough outing—this time against the Colorado Rockies–San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum had just finished talking to the media.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

The Artist Abroad

Revolutions and their children

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Recently, a cache of 2.5 million files was leaked to the media, files that named holders of offshore bank accounts, mostly in the Caribbean, and shell companies of those attempting to dodge taxes.

Posted: April 14th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

Bantay OCW (Ang Boses ng OFW)

Overseas marital problems

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CLYD of Bacolod City received a message from his wife in Kuwait, telling him that she was separating from him because she did not love him anymore. She said she had found a new love in Kuwait, a fellow Overseas Filipino worker whom she met through Facebook.

Posted: April 14th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists,Featured Columns,Global Pinoy | Read More »

Global Networking

Philippines: A Jewish refuge from the Holocaust

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The 1993 Best Picture movie, Schindler’s List, informed the world about Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler and how he saved 1,100 Polish Jews during WWII by hiring them as workers in his factory.

Posted: April 13th, 2013 in Americas,Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

Kuwento

On Bataan Day, farewell to a guerrilla

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Scene from Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street, Tanghalang Pilipino, 2008 PHOTO/ AUDIE DELA CRUZ.

A San Francisco pay phone was a prominent part of the set in the 2008 Tanghalang Pilipino production of ‘Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street.’

Posted: April 9th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

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  2. Taiwan rejects PH apology, freezes hiring of Filipino workers
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  2. Filipino bride, 4 others killed in California limousine fire
  3. Why are there so many Filipino nurses in the US?
  4. US Senate Bill allows thousands of Filipinos to immediately come to America
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