Top ratings organization S&P has given Philippine elections a first-ever investment grade rating, despite the chronic failure of electronic voting machines and sporadic incidents of violence.
The Philippine Consulate General is conducting a mobile outreach program on Sunday, May 5 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Filipino Community Center,94-428 Mokuola St. Suite 302, Waipahu.
Privately held multicultural television network Crossings TV based here announced that “Power Ng Pinoy” can now be seen on Crossings TV in New York City, New Jersey, San Francisco, Central Valley California, Seattle and Chicago metropolitan areas.
A wholly Filipino-owned supermarket chain opened a branch in this northern California city on April 26 in keeping with its owners’ goal of promoting Filipino food and ingredients to “the world.”
The Philippine Consulate General here advised all registered voters that Comelec has released new guidelines to ensure that those registered voters who have yet to receive their electoral mails would be able to vote.
Irene Bueno, a Filipino American public policy analyst based here, explained the key points of the U.S. Senate’s proposed immigration reform legislation at a recent community forum hosted by the Philippine Embassy.
The Commission on Elections has already sent the ballots for the Philippine senatorial and party-list elections, the Philippine Consulate General here announced. Many overseas voters have received their ballots.
It’s official–Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School will be the first school in the nation named after Filipino-American heroes. After facing months of campaigning by the Fil-Am community, the New Haven Unified Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the renaming of Alvarado Middle School to Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School, effective September 2015.
As soon as the U.S. Senate introduced the much-anticipated immigration reform bill early Wednesday morning, key stakeholders in labor, business and immigrant rights communities hailed the measure as a significant and substantive step towards fixing a broken immigration system.
Nonito Donaire, also known as the Filipino Flash, said he did his best. He lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Guillermo Rigondeaux in a decision on April 14. “I thought that he wasn’t better than me,” he told Inquirer.net. “I did my best. I thought I should have done something different but I didn’t.”
Philippine diplomatic officials said all Filipinos were safe and accounted for after the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon. But three people of Filipino descent are inextricably linked by the horrifying incident nonetheless.
A British national living in this city “working for a large international company” sent INQUIRER.net US Bureau photos of the Filipino refugee camp that “established itself next to the Philippine Embassy.”
