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Written by Pennie Azarcon dela Cruz,Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Monday, 28 December 2009 19:46 |
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IT WAS, as Charles Dickens famously wrote, the best of times, and the worst. There was the Pacman making Filipinos proud everywhere with his double wins against boxing stalwarts Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto.
There was CNN Hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida with his moveable feast of books, showing how dreams are reached and grasped. Former President Cory Aquino’s phenomenal wake and funeral again recalled the Filipinos’ unshakeable, if sometimes vociferous, faith in democratic ideals and the people who uphold them.
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Written by Bulatlat.com, November 23, 2009
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Monday, 28 December 2009 19:05 |
HONOLULU — Hawaii is a popular destination not only for tourists but also for migrants, and not without reason. But for the forebears of the Filipinos there, who now comprise one of the biggest Asian ancestry group on the island, getting there and planting their feet there was far from being a walk in the park.
Filipinos migrated in waves to Hawaii beginning in the very first years of the 20th century, when the island was a newly annexed territory of the US. Hawaii’s economy then was dominated by the owners of big sugar plantations. “The first Filipinos in Hawaii were sacadas (seasonal farm workers),” said Cora Avinante, an immigration lawyer who is also an expert on the history of Filipino migration to Hawaii.
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Written by Inquirer Global Nation
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Monday, 28 December 2009 18:54 |
PARIS, France—The story of an intrepid museum guard saving 200 pairs of shoes once owned by the country's big-spending former first lady, Imelda Marcos, when floods hit the Philippine capital Manila found its way on the list of AFP’s most offbeat stories of the year.
The other weird, wild and wonderful stories from 2009:
* Anti-corruption officials in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu found a way to literally stop airport workers from pocketing bribes. They issued them with pocket-less trousers.
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Written by JMA/JV, GMANews.TV
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Monday, 28 December 2009 18:39 |
A Filipino seafarers’ advocacy group joined over the weekend the growing calls opposing what they call “anti-migrant" amendments to a 14-year-old Philippine law on migrant workers.
International Seafarers’ Action Center (ISAC) Philippines Foundation Inc. said that while some of the proposed amendments to the Migrant Workers Act of 1995 are “commendable," others are questionable. |
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Written by Perspective, Tess Bacalla / InterPress Service
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 17:58 |
The global financial crisis may have dealt a severe blow to Filipino migrant workers, thousands of whom lost their jobs and fell into debt. But public-school teacher Melinda Mendoza does not see this impact at all—at least not within the four walls of her classroom. On the contrary, Mendoza, 45, is bothered no end by her pupils’ ostentatious display of opulence in a poor rural setting, where luxury is atypical.
“They have huge allowances,” says the teacher of 21 years in the government-run Pulong Anahao Elementary School, located in the town of Mabini in Batangas province, a two-hour drive south of Manila. |
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Written by Frances Q. Quimpo, Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines, Inc.
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Monday, 21 December 2009 18:41 |
The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world’s high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a non-binding deal dubbed as “Copenhagen Accord” – a deal primarily brokered by the most powerful and leading polluter country in the world -- the United States.
Having witnessed the drama and ‘actions’ of the climate negotiation for 12 straight days in Copenhagen, one thing became evident: the climate negotiation in the Conference of Parties is not a negotiation among equals; it can never be an international negotiation for the common good, the welfare of the people of the world and the environment. It is a political arena where the superpowers impose their interest at the expense of majority.
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