“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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Ontario Will any make history on Thursday? By Ted Alcuitas With the Ontario election just five days away on Thursday, June 7, we list the candidates hoping to win a seat in the legislature (MPP). If any of them wins, it would be a first for the province where the largest Filipino population resides. Manitoba
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Photo: PhilStar OPINION: Why Mayo Uno 2018 is historic Inday Espina-Varona — scaRRedcat Posted at Apr 30 2018 04:02 PM A confluence of broken promises and tragedies are poised to make Labor Day 2018 a watershed in Philippine protest history. Rival labor federations are uniting for a mammoth march and rally to Mendiola, in front
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Fr. Mark Ventura was killed by unidentified assailants after celebrating Sunday Mass in Brgy. Peña Weste, Gattaran, Cagayan. MARIA TAN (CBCP News) Pilipinas Anti-mining priest killed before congregation A young Catholic priest was shot dead in Cagayan province on Sunday, becoming the second cleric slain in around four months, reports CBCP News. Fr. Mark Ventura,
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A woman cradles the body of her husband, who was killed on a street by a vigilante group, according to police, in a spate of drug-related killings in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines July 23, 2016. (TRT World and Agencies) Vancouver, B.C. Updated: April 28, 2018, 7:05 AM Witnessing Death: Photographing the Philippine Drug War
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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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Vicente Rafael shared Ezra Acayan‘s post. 7 hrs · Ezra Acayan photographs and reports on Good Friday in Navotas, land of many extra-judicial killings. Here, you can see how Hollywood and the aesthetics of EJK’s have inflected the performances of devotion into extreme rituals of bloody abjection. “No. This is not your favourite horror slasher
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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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RJ Aquino goes for another crack to win a seat. (FB photo) Vancouver, B.C. OneCity founder optimistic By Ted Alcuitas A two-time candidate for Vancouver’s city council is again making another attempt to win a seat in the coming October 20, 2018 municipal election. Rafael Joseph Aquino, better known as ‘RJ’ , says his family
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ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announces decision on February 8, 2018 to look into Philippine situation. (ICC photo) Philippines Global human rights icon calls Duterte’s action ‘nonsense’ Opinion By Ted Alcuitas A world-renown human rights advocate has waded into the controversy on the ICC investigation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs.’ “Legally what Duterte
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