Statement From Greg Macabenta, Chairman, NAFFAA WASHINGTON — (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) — We are overwhelmed with a profound sense of loss and sadness over the death of former President Cory Aquino. She…
(U.S. ASIAN WIRE) Ripa Records to Release East Bay Soul Debut Album
Michael Paulo and Johnnie Bamont Featured LOS ANGELES — (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) — Ripa Records announces the September 22nd, 2009 release of East Bay Soul, the debut album produced by trumpeter Greg…
Ripa Records Upcoming East Bay Soul Album Features Two Fil-Am Saxophonists
Ripa Records to Release East Bay Soul Debut Album LOS ANGELES (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) – August 1, 2009 — Ripa Records announces the September 22nd, 2009 release of East Bay Soul, the…
7 Nat’l Artists named
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — President Macapagal-Arroyo has proclaimed seven new National Artists. The new National Artists are the late filmmaker Manuel Conde, late Tagalog novelist Lazaro Francisco, painter Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, architect…
Stronger BFAD action vs fake flu vaccines
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE Bureau of Food and Drugs must go beyond issuing a warning to drugstores and the public about the sale of fake flu vaccines, Sen. Loren Legarda said…
Bongbong: Drop politics; wish peace, comfort for Cory
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE Marcos family yesterday joined the Filipino nation in praying for the recovery of former President Corazon Aquino as it appealed to the public not to politicize the…
Roxas a rebel
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — TWO former New People’s Army rebels who recently surrendered will confirm that Melissa Roxas, a Filipino-American activist who accused soldiers of torture, was an NPA guerilla, the Armed…
CHEd: Convert local universities, colleges
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) batted for the conversion of local universities and colleges (LUCs) that proliferate across the country into community colleges and polytechnic schools. CHEd…
Ripa Records to Release East Bay Soul Debut Album
Two Fil-Am Saxophonists Featured in East Bay Soul Album LOS ANGELES (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) – July 30, 2009 — Ripa Records announces the September 22nd, 2009 release of East Bay Soul, the…
Guide for soil id’ing comes to cellphones
According to Dr. Rodrigo Badayos, director of the Agricultural Systems Cluster of the UPLB College of Agriculture, they have recently converted a picture guidebook, available in the past in printed and compact-disc…
9th or nth Sona?
“Kung meron man tayong malaking kaaway na tinalo, walang iba kundi conjured the demon of the foreign debt. We exorcised it.” – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo In her 9th Sona One can…
The 9th Sona or the nth of PGMA?
The 9th Sona must be carefully read and understood as there are more to its audio-visual hypnotic effect. In doing so, we are able to see some hardly observable flaws, but flaws…
RP MILF suspend armed hostilities
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have agreed to suspend military operations to “create an environment conducive to the revival of the formal peace talks” and…
Villar tops SWS survey
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — ADMINISTRATION candidates have some catching up to do as they again got low ratings in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. Sen. Manny Villar topped the survey, with…
DOLE defends GMA job-generation promise
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — CONTRARY to claims of some lawmakers that the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is full of empty promises, the Department of Labor and Employment maintained that the President…