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FilAms urged to join Sept. 21st People’s Climate March
On September 21, 2014, people in and near New York City will have a historic opportunity to make an impact on climate change by joining the People’s Climate March. In September, the United Nations is convening the world’s top leaders for a summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to […]
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Remembering the heroism at 9/11 on the tragedy’s 13th anniversary
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. When the ninth month of each year makes its appearance, it is incredulous to numbers who live on these shores that those terrorist attacks, tragedies of indescribable enormity, happened a decade and three years ago: September 11, 2001. Yet, memories linger. Indeed, it is inevitable to absorb what did happen […]
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Pres. Aquino flirts with power, revives ‘Cha Cha’ politics
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. There certainly are unique terms traceable to the land of our birth. Over time, ‘cha-cha’ emerged which certainly didn’t refer to that popular dance. Owing to its having been related to the term of former President Fidel V. Ramos, the consensus then was: the Ramos presidency would be extended through […]
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Amb. Cuisia invites investors to bid on PHL infrastructure, asks: Where are the Americans?
By Cristina DC Pastor Ambassador Jose Cuisia was in New York August 28 to invite prospective investors to consider partnering with the Philippine government in sectors, such as energy, agribusiness, infrastructure, and housing. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with executives from Pfizer, 3M, and Transfast, among others, Cuisia said he responded to questions and […]
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Ferguson and Filipinos: What’s it got to do with us?
By Erwin de Leon The protests in Ferguson, Missouri have calmed down, in stark contrast to the initial days of violence incited by the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white policeman and spurred by a militarized police response and general insensitivity to the majority African American community. The issue, […]
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Where were you when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated?
By Daniel de la Rosa Thirty-one years. It’s been that long since I got on a California Bus Line that would take me to the airport to welcome Ninoy Aquino home from exile. Back then, the red-colored bus would go up past Nayong Pilipino, circle around and drop you at a stop right beside the […]
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Jeopardy trivia: Who are two presidents with same birthdays?
By Lourdes A. Ongkeko, Ph.D. They are decades and decades apart from one another, but they share one event. They mark the same birthday anniversary. They have served their countries as presidents. They likewise were elected to their posts. Who are they? The Philippines’ own Manuel Luis Quezon and William Clinton of the United States […]
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President Putin, the Free World deserves an explanation!
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. A unanimous condemnation on the unspeakable downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight M-17 — how it was shot down with 298 people on Board — has been demanded by the United Nations Security Council. It’s time that the world makes the aforementioned demand. Indeed it is high time, President Vladimir Putin. […]
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Philippines calls shooting of Malaysian plane ‘most revolting of acts’
The Philippines on July 21 issued a strong call for a full, thorough and independent investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. In a speech before the UN Security Council, Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Libran Cabactulan said Manila condemns “in the strongest possible terms” the downing of the Malaysian […]