[Agence France-Presse] MANILA, Philippines—Three lucky backpackers were plucked from shark and crocodile infested waters off the coast of Darwin, Australia by rescuers who stumbled on the stricken trio after their boat sank, officials said Wednesday. The tourists, who have not been identified, were three kilometers off the coast of the northern Australian city of Darwin […]

[New York Daily News] Prosecutors say employee Teresa Tambunting took 500 pounds of gold from a Queens jewelry manufacturer to her Scarsdale home. What a gold digger! A larcenous longtime employee of a major Queens jewelry manufacturer walked off with a staggering 500 pounds of gold she smuggled out piece by piece over six years […]

Aklan, Philippines. May 26. 2009. It was reported in the Daily Telegraph today that a 67-year-old Australian man was shot dead in a beach resort in Central Philippines by a Filipino. Jim Burney was having a drink with a friend when without any provocation, a man in another table approached him, pointed a gun directly […]

In last month’s issue of Philippine Sentinel, we published a report derived from the internet that the suspect who shot Ms Santelices was slain. It was further reported that Orlando del Rosario, the alleged gunman was killed in a shootout with police and that the case was closed. We gathered information from Tara’s best friend […]

The new Consul General of the Philippines to New South Wales has arrived in Sydney to assume her duties as head of the Philippine Consulate General in this capital city. The Honorable Eva G. Betita, the new Head of the Philippine Consulate, is a career diplomat of the Philippine Foreign Service. She is a senior […]

“I am pleased to advise that planning is well underway at Mt Druitt to develop a unit for older people who have suffered from acute mental health episodes. Other locations are being identified through a mental health service planning process which is currently nearing completion,” Mr Aquilina said. “Older people need a facility which specialises […]

Pathways to Professional Excellence is the theme of Australia’s Marriage Celebrants (AMC) Conference slated on 19-21 June at Rydges Hotel in Canberra. The conference will be attended by Civil Marriage Celebrants all over the country. Neria Soliman, a licensed Civil Marriage Celebrant from Sydney had briefings on what to expect during an AMC Meeting held […]

Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fish in the world and later ate it after it had been identified. Only 40 other sightings of the shark have ever been recorded, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The 500kg, four metre megamouth (Megachasma pelagios) died while struggling in the […]

Located along Herran Street in Sta. Ana Manila, Xavier House is a historic property owned by the Jesuit Province in the Philippines. It may even be considered as an extension of Ateneo de Manila University. I remember some closed retreats I attended there when I was a young student.   The house was built shortly […]

April 1 (Bloomberg) — Rosemarie Maglalang and her husband made a living out of housing and feeding Intel Corp. factory workers in the Philippines for the past 13 years. That livelihood is about to disappear.   The world’s biggest maker of semiconductors will close its chip-assembly factory in General Trias later this year, leaving 1,800 […]

HARVARD Business School, stung by criticism that it has not prepared alumni to cope with the economic meltdown, will dissect its performance using a practice it employs to examine corporations in crisis.   A taskforce, created in November at the direction of the dean, Jay Light, is writing a case study to scrutinise whether the […]