Toronto, Ontario Sentencing for Cusipag & Marquez tomorrow By Ted Alcuitas Balita publisher Tess Cusipag and its Editor Romeo Marquez will be sentenced tomorrow, June 2, Philippine Canadian News.com has learned. The sentencing hearing will be at 10:00 AM at Osgood Hall Law Courts. The case arose when Senator Tobias Enverga Jr. sued the defendants […]
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Resorts World Manila complex on lockdown after attack SITE intelligence group reports ISIL opertive has claimed responsibility for attack in the Philippine capital. Al Jazeera The Resorts World complex is located opposite Manila’s main airport [Al Jazeera] A resort and casino complex in Manila is on lockdown after reports of gunfire and explosions from the
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Pursuing higher education By Ted Alcuitas Eight years ago in 2009 we featured four young graduates in the short-live Silangan newspaper. Titled ‘Bucking the Trend’ it was our attempt to encourage our youth to pursue higher education because of the troubling statistics that more Filipino youths were dropping out of school. Today we followed those four
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Rappler: Newsbreak FAST FACTS: What you should know about the Maute Group Posted: 23 May 2017 08:02 PM PDT MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law over Mindanao on Tuesday, May 23, prompted by a raging gun battle between government forces and members of the Maute group in Marawi City. The local terrorist
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Reposting… The story that shook the diaspora By Ted Alcuitas He never intended to write his final story but fate has brought Pulitzer Prize- winning Alex Tizon’s pen to an end. His searing account of how his family harboured a woman – Eudocia Tomas Pulido, endearingly called ‘Lola’ for 56 years as a ‘secret slave’
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“Martial law of Mr Marcos was very good,” :Duterte INQUIRER.net / 06:30 PM May 24, 2017 He says “if I think that ISIS has taken a foothold also in Luzon,” the main northern island, “and terrorism is not really far behind, I might declare martial law throughout the country.” Duterte also said that militants who
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Duterte to fly home from Russia ABS/CBN (2nd UPDATE) President Rodrigo Duterte on 10 p.m. Tuesday declared martial law in the entire Mindanao island amid the ongoing clashes between government troops and Maute group terrorists in Marawi City, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said. Abella, in a briefing in Moscow, said the President ordered him to
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Toronto, Ontario A Review of Belinda Corpuz: ‘All I Am ‘ By Yshmael Cabana ContributorCommunity organizer, cultural worker, educator Huffington Post 05/14/2017 “It pays to remind ourselves that the title June may pertain to a particular time-period commemorating the struggle for an independent Philippine nation-state we recognize today. ” First off, a flood warning. In only six
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Vancouver, B.C. Zenia is daughter of ‘Tina Turner’ tribute artist Luisa Marshall By Ted Alcuitas Zenia Marshall will play the role of Mirabel Cooper alongside Barry Watson and the legendary actress Raquel Welch in the UP TV’s comedy series ‘Date My Dad’. The series to be released next month (June 2) is about a widower
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Winnipeg,Manitoba Trail blazer is honoured by province By Ted Alcuitas Updated 3 PM, May 13, 2017 “I was overcome with emotion when I received the call from the Lieutenant Governor about my selection,” Dr. Rey Pagtakhan told PhilippineCanadianNews.com by phone from his home in East St.Paul’s,Manitoba. Pagtakhan was named one of 12 Manitobans to received the
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