CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – The Philippine senators should not feel bad if Janet Napoles would like to keep her mouth shut if and when she finally shows up before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Even if the reigning Queen of Pork Barrel would be accused of cover-up, opening her wide mouth should not compel her either to give up… Read More »
Did you know that in the current list of BIR as top tax payers among movie celebrities, Derek Ramsay beat Coco Martin? Derek placed 12th with P16.7 M while Coco was 13th with P15.6 M. On the top ten were Willie Revillame (P63.9 M), Kris Aquino (P44.933 M), John Lloyd Cruz (P42.791 M), Sharon Cuneta (P42.04 M). Followed… Read More »
By Ted Alcuitas Senior Editor Philippine Asian News Today Leticia Sarmiento faces reporters after sentencing of her former employer. (Photo: Stuart Lyster) Vancouver – “Masaya na rin ako kahit isa’t kalahating taon lang. At least, may hustisya pa rin.” (I’m happy even if it’s only 1-1/2 years, at least there’s justice), Leticia Sarmiento reacted to the 18-month sentence… Read More »
Somebody should call the dare of President Aquino to impeach him. Although it is close to impossible that his partners in crime in Congress would vote to impeach, much less convict him, filing an impeachment complaint would at least put on record that there was an attempt to remove him. At the same time, people would know how… Read More »
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry S Truman, 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972) CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – If fence-setters are frustrated in wondering where the donations for earthquake, typhoon and disasters end up, think of those overseas Filipinos and other foreign donors how helpless and… Read More »
MANILA The mind-boggling revelations about wholesale theft of the Filipino people’s money through scams have given us all a clearer picture of how extensive the plunder has been. And the thought that the alleged Napoles scams are just the tip of the iceberg, that there are still other operations at work in stealing public money, makes it simply… Read More »
~ An eighty-six-year-old grandmother was visiting from Manila to tell her horrific experience at the hands of Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. At the small reception and program set for her in Toronto, she tried to shed some light on what thousands of women in several countries in Asia had undergone as sex slaves. The forum… Read More »
The people cheered when President Aquino called them his “bosses” as he thanked them for treading “the straight and righteous path” and creating change during his second State-of-the-Nation address on July 25, 2011. Now, more than two years later, his sincerity in calling the people his “bosses” and in promising to tread the “daang matuwid” with them is… Read More »
By Edwin C. Mercurio I am not the superstitious type, but trust me I believe we all have a ‘spirit’, or souls if we want to be specific for Halloween. While North Americans celebrate All Souls Day with macabre images of the dead, skeletons, scare crows and images of the “Walking Dead,” and all things scary, Filipinos visit… Read More »
~ “The land of the free and home of the brave” lies just south of Canada. America’s proximity, however, seems to fail to rub on some people in Toronto’s Filipino community who’d rather live in the Dark Ages. It’s not an exaggeration because self-appointed thought police are roaming around community organizations where censorship is most unlikely to happen… Read More »