Obama urges end to Asia’s maritime disputes
President Barack Obama is urging Asian nations involved in maritime disputes to abide by the “rule of law and international standards” to ensure that conflict can avoided.
President Barack Obama is urging Asian nations involved in maritime disputes to abide by the “rule of law and international standards” to ensure that conflict can avoided.
Contrary to pre-election projections that most Filipino Americans were going to vote Republican last November, a multi-state exit poll found that the majority of Filipino American voters instead chose President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.
China has sharply criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for telling a US newspaper that Beijing had a “deeply ingrained” need to challenge neighbors over territory, state media said Friday.
Hearts swelling with pride, Filipino-American health care professionals hailed Menchu de Luna Sanchez who engineered the transfer of 20 at-risk infants to other intensive care units when the power went out during Superstorm “Sandy.”
Immigration reform has been the central issue of discussion in the United States in recent weeks. It started with the so-called gang-of-eight, a group of bi-partisan senators, introducing their immigration reform plans, followed by President Barack Obama’s announcement on his own plan. The House Judiciary Committee also began its hearings, choosing immigration as their first subject of discussion.
“This is the year, this is the moment, this is history.”
US President Barack Obama declared that “now is the time” to fix the broken US immigration system, diving into the politically explosive issue with broad proposals for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders.
While thousands of miles away from their homeland, American Democrats in the Philippines celebrated the reelection of President Barack Obama.
Among the nearly one million people at President Barack H. Obama’s inauguration on January 21 were many Filipino Americans who came to see a historic event, the installation of America’s first African-American president for a second term.
A singer, a nurse and a chef. These Filipinos echoed their praise of President Barack Obama on the eve of his second inauguration as 44th president of the United States.
President Barack Obama has signed a bill restoring the Clark Veterans Cemetery, where 650 Philippine Scouts and thousands of American war veterans are buried.
In his first inaugural address which he delivered on January 20, 2009 in front of a live audience of 1.8 million people and which was watched by 30% of all TV viewers in the US, President Barack Obama said: “our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man — a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience sake.”
