Port-au-Prince. 19 January 2010. As Army Corporal David Catacutan was found alive at the collapsed Montana Hotel in earthquale-ravaged Haiti, hopes run high (that) three other Filipino United Nations Peacekeepers would be recovered safe. Lately, that hope has dimmed for the other three. This was learned from an ABS-CBN news phone interview with Lt. Col. […]

MANILA, Philippines. Australia will provide an additional P320 million (A$8 million) to assist people severely affected by the destruction caused by the typhoons that struck the Philippines in September and October this year, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith announced.

True to his promise of saving Filipino lives from disaster and poverty, Sen. Richard Gordon was first to arrive in Batangas City last Sunday to direct the Red Cross search and rescue for 88 passengers of the sunken MV Baleno 9. Gordon, chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), arrived at the Batangas City […]

Apartment 6 on Walsh Street has been quiet for several weeks now. Neighbours say the tenant, Philippine Labor Attaché Victor Julio Ablan, left without saying goodbye. If allegations are true, he also left without settling his debts. Ablan fled Australia last month. He was recalled by the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment following a […]

A former Filipino teacher working as Electoral Outreach and Training Coordinator under the United Nations Volunteers Program in Afghanistan was one of five UN personnel killed in the latest terrorist bombing in Kabul last October 28, 2009.

Singapore. November 13-14, 2009. The APEC CEO Summit 2009 brought together more than 800 of the world’s top business leaders to Singapore to meet with leaders of some of the Pacific Rim’s most powerful nations. The chairman of Gawad Kalinga, Tony Meloto, was invited to be one of the speakers during the two-day summit at […]

Angela F. Antonio died in an accident along C-5 Road in Quezon City when her car was stoned by squatters who live in the area. After her windshield was shattered, she lost control of her car which jumped into the other lane into the path of a truck. People who caused the accident jumped into […]

November 23rd is now etched in the history of the Philippines as the day of shameless ignominy. On that day, a convoy of women of the Mangudadatu clan accompanied by media people and their women lawyers headed for the provincial capitol in Sharif Aguak municipality was stopped by forces of the Philippine National Police. These […]

Ottawa, October 2009. Government of Canada announces special immigration measures for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Residents in the Philippines who are significantly affected by Typhoon Ondoy (International code name Ketsana) are being offered special measures to facilitate immigration to Canada, announced Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. “I would like to express my […]

The last heroic attempt of Muelmar Magallanes, a young Filipino man trying to save as many people from the rampaging flood in the Philippines on September 26. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that others may live. “I am going to be forever grateful to Muelmar,” said Menchie Penalosa, the mother of the six-month-old girl […]

Edward Miranda, Filipino student at Newcastle University was reported in the October 2009 issue of Philippine Sentinel to have been robbed and bashed by a towering Caucasian in front of a bus stop in Newcastle. The incident happened in the early evening of 27 August 2009 at the Jesmond Shopping Centre in Newcastle. In a […]