CELEBRATING THE WONDER FRUIT. Adorned with all manner of coconut ornaments, street dancers performed this week at the closing ceremonies of the weeklong Coco Festival in San Pablo City. Coconut is one of the main products of this southwestern city of Laguna, also popular for its seven lakes. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JEROME BONTO
A MEGASTAR’S DAUGHTER - KC Concepcion stuns the Araneta Coliseum audience in a part-Lisa Macuja and part-Cirque du Soleil dance number. With Douglas Nierras’ Powerdance, she executes a high-wire act to the tune of Mega-Mom’s “Kahapon Lamang.” While KC was suspended in mid-air attached to a harness, Sharon Cuneta, birthday girl and star of the show, hollered in the audience: “Anak, bumaba ka na diyan, baka makapatay ako [pag nahulog ka]!”
KIMBERLY FOR HILLARY – Kimberly Yana Roberts, 8, a volunteer for Kids for Hillary, helps draw posters and countdown signs for New York Senator Hillary Clinton in her bid for the US presidency. She recently posed with Senator Clinton and her dad Dwight at the Iowa primary. Kimberly's mother Benilda is a native of Talibon, Bohol. The Robertses live in Indianola, Iowa. (PHOTO courtesy of Dwight Roberts)
THE FEAST OF THE BLACK NAZARENE OF QUIAPO has become a reunion of sorts for the Wong family on R. Hildalgo, corner Carcar Street. The food they give away on that day is this Chinoy family’s way of thanking heaven for their good life. ERIK ARAZAS
“MAID TO ORDER IN HONG KONG” by anthropology professor Nicole Constable looks back at the plight of Filipino workers in Hong Kong after the Great Turnover and Asian Crisis of 1997 and the outbreak of SARS in 2002. “In the most extreme but not uncommon cases, domestic workers may be locked inside the flat or in a room of the house (without a key) whenever their employers went out. One worker told me of her friend who was locked in the flat for several weeks…Her friends had to pass her food through the spaces in the locked metal gate.”
HONORING BALIK SCIENTISTS. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo confers the Order of National Scientist on Dr. Lourdes J. Cruz at the Rizal Hall in Malacañang on Monday. Watching at right are Dr. Emil Javier and Science Secretary Estrella Alabastro. LYN RILLON
GET NEW PASSPORTS FROM PROVINCES. Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo asks the public to help ease the long line for passport applications by not applying during this peak season and by applying at the regional consular offices in the provinces. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Veronica Uy.
JOB PROSPECTS. What's in store for overseas Filipino workers who wish to come back to the Philippines? Willy Arcilla, regional manager of executive search firm ZMG Ward Howell, says Filipinos who have been exposed overseas to challenging work situations are very much in demand in the Philippines, which is experiencing economic growth at a time the US economy is faltering. Video taken by INQUIRER.net business editor Ma. Salve Duplito.
FIL-AMS FOR OBAMA - Cherry Managbanag-Welch, a Fil-American born in Butuan City, is part of the youthful demographic that’s been sweeping the US presidential primaries with volunteer support for Senator Barack Obama. As secretary of the Filipino-American Association in Iowa, Welch was among 120 Obama supporters in a total of 170 voters who caucused in her precinct. (She also has a day job in the OB-GYN Iowa Clinic in Des Moines.) Photo by Ted Regencia
MANILA, Philippines -- Eight Filipino seamen who told United States authorities about their ship’s illegal waste dumping in American waters have received $730,000 for the information.
MANILA, Philippines -- Seventy-one overseas Filipino workers with employment problems in Malaysia have sought refuge at the Philippine embassy in Kuala Lumpur, an official said.
Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco tenders send-off reception for the SF Police Department Exchange Training delegation
The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco tendered a luncheon send off reception on 08 January 2008 at the Philippine Center in San Francisco to honor the members of the San Francisco Police Department’s delegation who will leave for the Philippines for an exchange training with the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Philippine Consul General to San Francisco Marciano A. Paynor, Jr. in his remarks lauded the gains of the exchange program and thanked the efforts of the SFPD Police Exchange Training (PET) delegation to foster camaraderie and professional ties with their Philippine counterparts. “The success of the police exchange program between the PNP and the SFPD is a visible proof of the strong bilateral cooperation between the Philippines and the United States in key areas such as counter-terrorism, defense and security, and law enforcement.
The thirteen-member delegation including a number of female SFPD officers, headed by Lieutenant Eric Quema, will join law enforcement officers from the PNP for a one-week training and education exchange program that will include symposiums, seminars, tactical skills training on crime scene investigation, officer safety, and terrorism.
The PET program, which was conceptualized eight years ago by SFPD officers of Filipino ethnicity, is now on its eight year. As part of the program, PNP officers have also sent delegations to San Francisco to train with the SFPD.
This year’s delegation is by far the largest contingent to visit the Philippines.
Josie Cruz-Natori is “the first Filipino fashion designer to have become a global brand.”
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