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Businessman vents spleen at 5-star Makati hotel
By Jun Ilagan If you’re a businessman frequently traveling to the Philippines and staying nowhere else but at the 5-star Makati Shangri-La Hotel since it opened in the ’90s, how would you feel about being contacted by the hotel informing you that after you paid nearly Php600,000 in total hotel charges for your 12-day stay, […]
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Conquering NYC one temp job at a time
By Richard Momar Yapo Cuanang The year was 2002. It was a bumpy ride from Atlantic City in New Jersey up to the unruly Hudson River. I was in New York for the first time on board the Irish Mist. The vessel was hitting the poles, but through the effective maneuvering of the captain, we […]
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Nominations for American Dreamer Awards due Mar 8th
The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs is taking nominations for the third annual American Dreamer Awards as part of New York City’s 10th Annual Immigrant Heritage Week (IHW) which runs from April 17th to April 24th 2013. The distinguished awards which will be presented at the Immigrant Heritage Week kick-off event on April 17th 2013. […]
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FILAMSPEAK: Filipino vs Filipino, a casualty of Jersey City politics
By Cristina DC Pastor In what appeared to be a Machiavellian maneuver, the nomination of Carlo Abad to be the chief judge for the Jersey City Municipal Court would pit Filipino against fellow Filipino and blast a hole into the cohesive front of the FilAm community of this city. Council member Rolando Lavarro Jr., the […]
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FILAMSPEAK: Health care community proud of Menchu De Luna Sanchez
By Cristina DC Pastor Hearts swelling with pride, Filipino American health care professionals hailed Menchu De Luna Sanchez who engineered the transfer of 20 at-risk infants to other intensive care units when the power went out during super storm Sandy. Sanchez, a registered nurse at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, rose to the challenge […]
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A benediction we deserve
By Joel David Catholics old enough to recall Latin passages in Sunday Mass will be more disturbed than the rest of modern society at the irreverence that greeted Joseph Ratzinger’s recent announcement that he would be resigning from his position as Pope. Slate online magazine, for example, performed the clever maneuver of resurrecting the harshest […]
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‘Noli’ opera to take Manhattan
By Randy Gener A landmark opera based on the great novel by the Philippine national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, will be staged in full orchestral splendor for the first time in the East Coast. At a January 31 town hall hosted by the Philippine Center, a committee led by philanthropist Loida Nicolas Lewis and Consul […]
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Honoring the ‘Greatest Generation’ at New Orleans’s war museum
By Wendell Gaa So much has been written and talked about the Second World War, from the history books to TV to film, and many authors and celebrities seem keen on retelling this epic struggle which was the 20th century’s defining moment. Since my high school days, I’ve been a staunch admirer of the heroism […]
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Love is their color
By Cristina DC Pastor Once upon a time, there was a law that criminalized marriage between a Filipino and an American. The Anti-miscegenation law applied mostly – although not exclusively — to Filipino men and white women, its objective being the preservation of racial purity. That law has since been declared unconstitutional and repealed in […]