Share Ever wonder where are the kins of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal? Pictured here are the direct descendants of Rizal, who celebrates his 150th birth anniversary on June 19, 2011. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) pays tribute to Rizal through an exhibition of Philippine banknotes and coins. The exhibit “Rizal in Our [...]
Share By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano PASAY CITY — Early evening here in an air-conditioned room, Sandra dela Cruz performed what she does every morning far south in her rubber plantation: stretching a hand. But while the 50-year-old spouse of a seaman is used to doing the latter, there was a lifting feeling as she did [...]
Share By Jeremaiah Opiniano BARCELONA, Spain — PAPERLESS Filipino workers here each got pieces of paper hoping that these help them regularize their immigration status in Spain and in the country’s Catalan region. “Good thing the passport number [in my diploma] is correct,” said irregular migrant Julia (not her real name) after shaking hands with [...]
Share By Jeremaiah Opiniano MUNICIPALITY OF CHIA, Colombia – She found happiness in a region clutched in a drug trade. But Filipino Maricel Piniero discovered it not in acid-laden joys but in finding Filipinos, a rarity in this Latin American country. She blurted into Tagalog “dahil sa tuwa“ (out of joy) when she saw the [...]
Share by WILLIAM ALZONA MANILA–TECHNOLOGY giant Ericsson is testing its money service facility after it included the Philippines in an initial countries that can receive funds from seven countries in Europe. Adam Kerr, Ericsson Mobile Money representative, said the company has partnered with Globe Telecom Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. to allow overseas Filipinos in [...]
Share An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO MANILA—FILIPINOS in Greece, for nearly a month, are complaining a renowned Greek politician’s remarks likening the European country’s debt woes to the Filipino domestic worker. The statement of famous Greek composer Miki Theodorakis on June 27 that Greece had become the [...]
Share Team Philippines has been crowned as the global champion of the 2011 CIMA Global Business Challenged held in China during July 23 to 24. Team Scions from the Visayas College of Management of University of the Philippines beat 16 other teams to win the title of Global Champion. The team is made up [...]
Share by ROBIN G. PADILLA MANILA– residents in the Caribbean island of Bermuda are under discriminative fire after crude and derogatory messages were found scrawled across public places earlier this month. Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling was “very disturbed” when he found out about the anti-Filipino graffiti throughout the country’s capital, a report by the Royal [...]
Share SM SUPERMALLS recently inked a memorandum of agreement with the Joint Ship Manning Group (JMG), the country’s largest federation of seafarers’ manning associations, for the inclusion of the seafarers and their families in SM’s Global Pinoy Program. The agreement, signed by SM Prime Holdings Inc. president Hans T. Sy Jr. and JMG chairman [...]
Share MANILA—FILIPINO novelist Miguel Syjuco, winner of both the Man Asian Literary Prize and Palanca Award in 2008 for his novel “Ilustrado,” was featured at the 11th International Literature Festival Berlin held from September 7 to 17, the Philippine Embassy to Germany said. Syjuco is the third Filipino writer to be invited to [...]
Share Ambassador Virginia H. Benavidez (right) swore in Johanna Chan as Philippine Honorary Vice-Consul toAucklandat the Philippine Embassy inWellingtonon September 14. Chan brings to her job impeccable academic credentials, including a Masters Degree in Arts and Design with Honours (First Class) from the Auckland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from [...]
Share MANILA—Filipino singing group VocaBlends will be performing at the Singapore International A Cappella Festival 2011 on October 14, 2011, 8pm, at the Singapore School of the Arts – Studio Theater, 1 Zubir Said Drive, Singapore 227968. The VocaBlends, founded in August 2010 by Earl Stanley T. Lazo, is an a cappella group of [...]
Share From a report of Balitang Pinoy LIVERPOOL—The Filipino crew of the Gibraltar-registered container vessel Philipp finally got their overdue wages from Vega Reedrei Friedrich Dauber GMBH & Co KG following an intervention of International Transport Federation and Gibraltar Maritime Administration. The owner of the Hamburg-based company was discovered to be operating a double [...]
Share MANILA—Catholic congregation Sisters of Mercy in Omaha in the United States have returned to the Philippine government the Meycauayan Church bells taken in 1899. “This artifact is a priceless piece of our heritage and its return at this point of our history is a demonstration of the commitment of both the the Philippines [...]
Share by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO KUALA LUMPUR,MALAYSIA—THERE is a swagger in Roy as he bends his left hand to hold a circular tray filled with used plates and wine glasses. As he sees a Iranian woman customer who is almost full eating breakfast, the Iloilo province native says with an English twang, “I will [...]
Share Texts and photos by Jeremaiah Opiniano VALLADOLID, Spain—SPANIARDS coming from this place, like a former king and some Augustinian priests who became bishops in Manila and Cebu during the 17th century, conquered Filipinos and their land about four centuries ago. But today at Spain’s former seat of power and the capital of the [...]
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