More than 20 years ago before migrating to Australia, I used to remind my children to always take a shower and shampoo their hair whenever they get soaked by rain. My staff in the bank where I worked used to give that same excuse whenever they would be absent for work. “I got drenched last […]
Australian Nun illegally arrested in the Philippines
“We condemn the illegal arrest and detention in Manila, Philippines of Australian Sr. Patricia “Pat” Fox, NDS, a missionary of the international Roman Catholic congregation of women Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, from the Congregacion de Notre Dame de Sion (Congregation of Our Lady of Sion),” said Peter Murphy of the International Coalition for […]
Is it safe to take expired medicine?
The short answer is YES, but it does not apply to ALL medicines.
‘Shut up, b**ch’: 2 teens curse elderly Filipina during train ride
Identified only as ‘Mila,’ the 66-year-old Filipina was still recovering from a kidney operation in a hospital in Melbourne. She was coughing intermittently and could hardly say a word. She was on board a train but was unfortunate enough to be sitted face-to-face with two white teenagers who shouted at her, hurling ethnic slurs.
Letter to the Editor: Duterte is a violator of human rights
Du30 is truly a danger to the country’s fragile democracy, encouraging wholesale violations of human and civil rights, the killings of suspected drug users or pushers being the most flagrant example; threatening impeachment of those officials who criticize him. He seems to really get infuriated when the critic is a woman. He allowed the burial […]
The woman with a ‘bubble-wrap face’
Mother, 38, is covered in thousands of agonising tumours after the birth of her second child. Strangers ask why she doesn’t commit suicide. A mother-of-two has been left with a ‘bubble-wrap’ face after the birth of her second child triggered the growth of thousands of tumours.
Filipina has a huge tumour growing from her cheek
• Teresita Briones, 79, noticed the small lump aound five years ago • The growth swelled and developed rapidly • Five years later it became twice the size of her head–more–> Teresita, from Iligan City in the Philippines, depends on small change from strangers An old lady has a tumour the size of a bucket […]
Columnist Ramon Tulfo exposes Aguirre’s incompetence
For the nth time, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s incompetence has been exposed after the Supreme Court ruled that alleged pork barrel queen Janet Lim-Napoles should not be granted provisional liberty.
Why is Philippine Sentinel the preferred advertising medium of business owners?
● We are the largest Philippine Newspaper in circulation in NSW. ● Unlike others, we use laser printing on clean white paper; no dirty ink smudges on your finger. Colours are vivid, bright and attractive. ● Size is very handy; unlike tabloid size, pages are easy to turn. ● Most articles are controversial; what people […]
Words of a dying AIDS patient by Nostradino
She is beautiful by any discriminating man’s standard. Her face will easily attract attention and she might as well catch the eye of a talent scout looking for a movie star. But, she is dying of AIDS. She was a victim of gang-rape perpetrated by her ex-boyfriend who was a drug addict.
Ideologues, ideology, and idiocy By Luis H. Francia
Along with the rise of right-wing populism in both Manila and Washington, D.C., has been the ascendance to power of ideologues whose ideology seems to be that of idiocy.
Tiglao says MVP is surrogate of Indonesian Anthony Salim By Rio Matro
Manila Times columnist Rigoberto Tiglao made a statement on April 2 what many readers have speculated on for many years. Tiglao wrote in his column that Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP) is “the surrogate in the Philippines of Anthony Salim, whose family’s wealth grew during Indonesian President Suharto’s 31-year rule, mainly because the patriarch was the […]
