Danny my eldest grandson has lived and worked out of New York City for the last two years. In the beginning of March this year we got a call from him asking for help to settle him in Hollywood Hills where is relocating for an indefinite period of time. Part of his contract with Sony Studio is to… Read More »
Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) LONDON – As the biggest sporting event in the history of the United Kingdom in 64 years, the Olympic Games is unparalleled in scope and immensity. Budget allocations are in the billions of pounds. The security net… Read More »
The title of this piece smacks of ludicrous thinking. Hopefully it’s NOT libelous but catches the reader’s interests and a bit elucidating. Writing can be, especially in the Philippines a most dangerous hobby. It is a wee bit precipitous if one writes about million-US-dollars men, but read this first to its last period to see whether the piece… Read More »
Philippine giant network ABS-CBN through it’s the Filipino Channel (TFC) will join the downtown Toronto celebration of “Filipinos making Waves Festival“ (FMWF) at the famous Dundas-Yonge Square on August 18/2012. Now on its 6th year, organizers of the biggest free-to-the public event and festival showcasing the varied culture of Filipinos have signed an agreement with ABS-CBN officials recently… Read More »
“The failure to prevent the killing of journalists and attacks on the media means that governments and authorities around the world are depriving you, me and everyone else of a fundamental right guaranteed to us by the Universal declaration of Human Rights – that of freely receiving and imparting information and ideas. “Barry James (Press Freedom , Safety… Read More »
In the first two words of the title there is no connect between these two human behaviour of valor and its absence; not or, or an and/or; just a comma separates them. When photos are put side-by-side of two people taken at eternal time, it should mean no connection. Separateness should be understood. Take a series of two… Read More »
I consider my written pieces a river. Philosophical or metaphorical, I cannot step into the same river twice. And no two rivers are alike, similar or comparable. It is extremely rare that two rivers (works by others) may share the same watershed, the same headwaters, the same numerous tributaries or end their journeys in the same delta. It… Read More »
In a novelist’s fertile imagination there’s a “Dead Poets Society.” In a mad poet’s searching mind he can ask: If there are Beauty Contests, why can’t there be an “Ugly Contest”? The poet after all is not afraid to write there is also beauty in ugliness. So also is the writer who proved Ugly Betty is not really… Read More »
There is no dearth of material source for writing on the impeachment of CJ Corona. There is as much dirt as there is much dearth of clean surface to write on. Those who have time say their pieces of criticisms or defense and vent their anger as emails to media and as feed to the internet. As yet,… Read More »
By David Grossman SPECIAL TO BALITA It took quite some time for Melissa Vilar to understand that she was not living in a dream. The 19-year old native of Toronto, and of Philipino descent, attended the annual George Brown College salute to athletes, coaches and officials expecting to share the good times, memories and more in the final… Read More »