The Asia Society, a renowned international organization based in New York that aims to strengthen understanding among the peoples of the Asia Pacific region, has selected nine Filipinos to be part of this year’s batch to the Asia 21 Young Leaders program. The program aspires to develop the next generation of leaders who would take [...]
Inquirer Learning editor Chelo Banal-Formoso received one of three merit awards at the recent Holcim Journalism Awards for Sustainable Construction for her story on redesigning school buildings. The story ‘‘How soon we forget: A year after Ondoy, are public schools safer, better equipped for learning?” appeared in the Learning section of the Inquirer on Sept. [...]
Chef Edgardo Fabella remembers holding on to dear life on the back of a pick-up truck with seven other Filipinos as it drove across the Libyan desert to flee from armed men who had looted their camp. But after escaping the civil war in the North African country, the 55-year-old former overseas Filipino worker now [...]
Air time over the past few weeks has been dominated by debates in Washington DC between President Obama and the Republicans on the debt ceiling. President Obama, warned last Monday that interest rates on home mortgages and credit cards, among others, would rise if no agreement on how to deal with the deficit budget is [...]
Bantay OCW Foundation launched its Operations Center last June 30 at 631 Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City. The occasion also marked the 14th anniversary of Pilipinas Online-Bantay OCW public service program. The Operations Center will serve as a one-stop center for overseas Filipino workers and families with help desks for legal assistance, counseling, livelihood seminars, financial [...]
Over 5,000 overseas Filipino workers inside 64 United States bases in Afghanistan are appealing to President Benigno Aquino to lift the year-end deadline imposed by the Department of Foreign Affairs for all OFWs to leave the troubled country. The Afghanistan workers want to stay and said they should be given the same treatment as the [...]
Overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong are not content with Malacañang’s explanation that President Benigno Aquino III, in his State of the Nation Address, never intended to insult OFWs when he praised workers who opted to stay in the Philippines. The United Filipinos in Hong Kong said Mr. Aquino’s remarks were contemptuous of OFWs. In [...]
A New York-based group that seeks to educate the world about Asia has selected a Philippine taxi driver-turned-mayor as one of its nine outstanding Filipino leaders this year.
A vacation to make up for a father’s time away from his family and the very last dance a daughter had with her father.
Hundreds of residents of Boracay Island and the province of Aklan joined a rally here on Saturday to protest plans to put up casinos on the resort island.
The absence of divorce in the country is a “point of honor for the Philippines,” according to the new papal nuncio, suggesting that the Vatican favored the Catholic Church’s opposition to legislation allowing divorce here.
The Philippines and the Vatican —Catholic bishops, priests and members of religious orders are required to practice celibacy—are the only remaining states that do not have laws allowing divorce.
Citing gross misconduct and abandonment of office, the Supreme Court has dismissed from service a Cotabato City judge who has not been reporting to work since 2007 and was discovered to have migrated to Canada.
