Golf News: Threepeat for Austral-Asian Melbourne
It was the third consecutive win for the Austral-Asian Golf club of Melbourne whose seven (7) select golfers garnered the highest accumulated points for four days during the 15th Interstate Friendship Golf Cup held in Manila on March 3-6, 2009 [...]
[See Comments for TFA News update of this story] The Hoopdreamz Aussie Sharks will play a two-game exhibition series against the All-Pro Powerade-RP basketball team from April 3 to 5 at the Araneta Coliseum. This was revealed by Marco Selorio, Sydney-based Filipino marketing manager of the Australian team that will be known as Great White Sharks [...]
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Young journos joined the second workshop of the Filipino Press Group of Sydney at the Corregidor Centre in Rooty Hill yesterday, Sunday, March 29. Topics, among many, included interviewing techniques, negotiating the subjective, descriptions, titles, timing [...]
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Journalist Michelle Baltazar leaves for Manila on Wednesday, April 8, to undertake a special news report assignment for Rooty Hill-based Filipino Press Group of Sydney. Ms Baltazar, an author and finance editor in Sydney and a recipient of the Global Filipinos Youth [...]
Continue reading …If you have not lodged your 200-07 tax return yet, you better do it soon. The tax bonus payment of up to $900 will start from early next April 2009 and are tax free. If you have already lodged your 2007-08 tax return the Tax Office will automatically calculate your eligibility and entitlements [...]
Continue reading …The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) will apologise to a group of former Villawood Immigration Detention Centre detainees about arrangements it made for their identification interviews in the centre in 2005… Complainants are being offered between $4000 and $9000 in compensation[...]
Continue reading …Customs and Border Protection has arrested two more men, including a Filipino, for child pornography importation at Perth International Airport over the last weekend. This brings the total number of unrelated child pornography arrests over the past week to four. “Those seeking to come to Australia should see this as a warning that Australia has strict laws [...]“
Continue reading …Ninety eight per cent of Australia’s small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with an internet connection use their online service to communicate with customers and suppliers and more than 95 per cent are connected to some form of broadband service [...]
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“We traveled for 5 hours to get here only to be beaten by a bunch of Filipinos” jibed a Grenfell RUFC Rugby player as he contemplated losing 31-5 to the Sons of Lapu Lapu rugby team. This may have been similar words uttered by Magellan as he confronted Lapu Lapu on the beaches of Cebu and it certainly were the words from the Grenfell rugby team dealing [...]
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Filipino-Australian Von Badato lifted the World Kick Boxing Federation welterweight crown from Ghana’s Al Hussan ”The Ghanian Van Dam” Okine in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, recently. Over seven gruelling rounds, Badato and Okine went toe-to-toe and refused to take a step back. In the final round, with both fighters almost dead on their feet but going for broke [...]
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