The story about Filipino boxers in Australia goes deeper than what people see on the surface level. The three boxers who went AWOL will be in real trouble if they do not return of their own free will soon. Deportation is the likely option, never to return. But if they decide to come back to […]
Month: March 2008
News Flash Aabout the New Location of MPC
It’s a flood zone! For the simple reason that the new site at No. 80 Grange Avenue in Schofields is a flood zone, it is highly unlikely that Blacktown Council will authorise construction of any building in the new MPC property. This was the information gathered directly from reliable sources within the council.
Gang rape of our motherland
by Carlos Borromeo, San Francisco USA The entire Filipino nation has grown blind, deaf, dumb and insensitive from the years of intolerable abuse turned tolerable by consecutive abusive administrations. Common Sense dictates that the developing plunder that is the continuing attempt to craft the NBN-ZTE deal is a crime against the people of the Philippines. […]
In bad faith and in bad, bad company…
by Aurora Pijuan The 11th of February and 71st birthday of our youngest sibling Sister Joseph Mary of the Religious of the Good Shepherd, was a thoroughly bad day for both Sister Joseph and myself. For more than ten hours we had to endure almost the same moral and spiritual sufferings of NBN-ZTE scandal witness […]
Boxers go AWOl, may be in trouble with immigrations
by Jaime K. Pimentel Three Filipino boxers, here on temporary sports visas, were reported missing or absent without leave (AWOL) from their quarters in Sydney’s southwestern suburb of Liverpool this week. Junior-lightweight Walrito Paderna, welterweight Jason Oyao, and junior-welterweight Arnel Balicuatro are now being sought by Green Valley police and Australian immigration authorities alerted by […]
Impact of rate hike to Filipino home buyers
“Surveys conducted indicate that some 30 per cent of Filipinos in Australiaown 1 or 2 investment properties,” said Neil Galang, a known home loan broker in Sydney. He added that “the average home loan of the Filipino Australian is around $300,000.” The recent interest rate hike announced by the Federal Reserve Bank has prompted home […]
A measly P300 versus $130 million
by Armando Chavez (SF, California) My ex-wife Boots Misa, told me the following story and it made my heart sink. Her sister, Meg, an ophthalmologist with a small practice in Davao, was in a jeepney when a woman and a young boy of maybe, 8-9 years, got on at a stop in front of the […]