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By Cesar D. Candari, M.D. FCAP EMERITUS Henderson, Nevada   The People Power Revolution in 1986. This was a historical event that could never be forgotten by all Filipinos wherever they were in those days     The following is a summary of a very interesting history of the Philippines for your information. These are extracts taken [...]

One of the Katipunan founders was my great uncle, Valentin Diaz.  He is memorialized with a national heritage marker at his birthplace in Paoay, Ilocos Norte.  I’m proud to have a blood relative part of the fight for Philippine independence.  — Perry Diaz Looking Back by Ambeth Ocampo from Philippine Daily Inquirer  http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20100708-280033/The-founding-of-the-Katipunan THE CORNER OF ELCANO [...]

Three Malays and three Pinoys are travelling by train to a premier league football match in England. At the station, the three Malays each buy a ticket and watch as the three Pinoy buy just one ticket between them. “How the hell are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?” asks [...]

by Fr. Shay Cullen from PREDA Foundation When Sheila O’Hara, that intrepid social investigator continued her journey in the Philippines, with Melinda her friend and interpreter, she went to the cities and towns well known for their sex tourism business to gather data for her theses. They arrived in Angeles City, one hour bus ride [...]

by Alex P. Vidal VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Filipino community in British Columbia now “has strength in numbers and it is growing fast,” Mayor Greg Robertson said in a speech during the 1st Maharlika Awards Philippine Independence Gala Night last June 19 at the Italian Cultural Center. “And by many estimates, the Philippines has [...]

by Robert L. Yoder The Filipino Band members knew the stakes; they did not know the strenuous conditions they would be placed under to prove themselves. It was May of 1904 when members of the Philippine Constabulary Band began their evening concert at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Band had been [...]

by Alex P. Vidal VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Twelve entrepreneurs and leaders in the Filipino Canadian community were honored during the Philippine Independence Gala Night 2010 with a theme “Gawad Parangal sa Mga Dakilang Pilipino British Columbia” at the Italian Cultural Center last June 19. The 12 who received “Maharlika Awards” given by the Filipino [...]

by Alex P. Vidal VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Schools being watched by Big Brother. “If it is for the common good of students, why not?” exclaimed some Filipino-Canadian parents to government’s step to “legally entrench” the installation of surveillance cameras inside classrooms in British Columbia district schools in order “to halt exterior vandalism.” “I don’t [...]

Rudy D. Liporada, a local businessman based in National City announced the release of his novel, the Unholy Allied Mountains, a  fictional account of one Filipino American’s return to the armed struggle—the forty-year revolution of the New People’s Army (NPA) against the Philippine government. To communists, religion is an opiate where Christians are lulled to [...]