BLOODY HOSTAGE DRAMA This photo taken on Aug. 15, 1989, by former Inquirer chief photographer Boy Cabrido shows Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill and other hostages used as human shields by armed inmates at the Metrodiscom detention center in Camp Leonor in Davao City. Hamill was gang-raped by her abductors. Duterte suggested that because he was mayor […]
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Filipino, the language that is not one Filipino is the national language that seeks to become more than a native tongue and aspires to become the nation’s official speech. It is contaminated and compromised from the start by the very languages it seeks to exclude or subordinate. Vicente L. Rafael Published 3:30 PM, August
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The bloodied face of this striking woman has aroused anger around the world against NutriAsia. Updated: 1:49 PM, August 1, 2018 Philippines Violent dispersals spark boycott calls By Ted Alcuitas Filipinos including netcitizens have rallied to support striking workers of the food manufacturing giant NutriAsia calling for a massive boycott of their products. The company
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Lowell Menorca cares for his mother, Fredisminda Menorca, partially paralyzed by a stroke shortly after she applied for refugee status in Canada.(Facebook) Vancouver, B.C. Mother and son are now both refugees in Canada By Ted Alcuitas An expelled Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) church member is elated that his mother has been granted refugee status in
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Painting by Maria Ligaya Alcuitas, St. Mary’s High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Acrylic on paper) Shouldn’t we be cuddling the children in a loving embrace of compassion and love instead of wringing them out of their parents and putting them in cages like animals? I still hope America is in the heart as Filipino writer
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Leticia’s life was extolled by many including Darla Tomeldan who befriended her during her trial as a legal advocate. (Photo: Philippinecanadiannews.com (PCN) Vancouver, B.C. Editorial Life of woman who blazed the trail celebrated By Ted Alcuitas Editor & Pubisher philippinecanadiannews.com Linking the Filipino Diaspora She was one among millions of Filipinos who fanned themselves in
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Filipinas dining out at a Philippine restaurant in Adelaide, Australia. Photo: Jeremaiah Opiniano Updated
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“Filipinas dining out at a Philippine restaurant in Adelaide, Australia.” (photo by Jeremaiah Opiniano) Has the conditions of Filipino Overseas Workers (OFWs) improved since the hanging of Flor Contemplacion in 1955 in Singapore? Can they “chart newer tales and tumble down aging stereotypes of themselves?” A Filipino doctoral student in Australia contemplates a new future. By
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In better times – President Rodrigo Duterte and Quiboloy shares a laugh before the falling out.(Rappler photo) ‘Son of God’ is Duterte’s biggest supporter By Ted Alcuitas The FBI is investigating the local chapter of Apollo Quiboloy’s controversial church for aggressive fundraising in Hawaii and possible human trafficking, The Inquirer reports quoting a Hawaii news
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Overseas Filipino workers say their goodbyes to their loved ones before leaving for another country to work. ABS-CBN News file photo ABS/CBN Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation Posted at Mar 30 2018 09:17 AM PAMANTINGAN – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she
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