If you are struggling with the correct spelling of this event which is observed every second Sunday of May, Wikipedia can help – at least as to the word’s origin [...]
Registered overseas Filipino voters who failed to vote in the 2007 and 2010 national elections can still participate in the upcoming May 13 midterm senatorial and party-lists election, announced the Philippine Embassy in Canberra [...]
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) voted en banc on Tuesday, March 5, to reinstate over 238,000 overseas Filipino voters who were earlier delisted by the Comelec in a resolution adopted on December 14, 2012. This reversal came after Comelec Chairman Sixto Brilliantes and Commissioner Grace Padaca listened to the arguments presented by Rodel Rodis and Ted Laguatan on behalf of the Global Filipino Diaspora Council (GFDC) at a special Comelec hearing last Friday, March 1 [...]
Twenty-nine overseas Filipinos and organisations will receive the 2012 Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas in an awarding ceremony to be held on December 5 at Malacañan Palace, a media alert from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) said. Composed of 22 Filipinos, five Filipino organisations, and two foreign nations from 14 countries [...]
In one of the closest presidential elections, President Barrack Obama has won his bid for another four-year term against Republican Mitt Romney. Minutes after learning of the results of the US presidential election, we messaged our social media friends, especially those living in the United States, and asked them this question: “What does Obama’s re-election mean to you or to the Filipino American community? [...]
“Even with the government’s unprecedented investment in tertiary education and up-skilling Australians, we need migrants who bring their specialist skills to Australia,” the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, said yesterday on the release of the government’s Australia in the Asian Century White Paper. Mr Bowen said that Australia has to capitalise on Asia’s highly skilled population [...]
Forget Rizal’s martyrdom. It is how Rizal lived, not how he died, that will help us now. Instead of a national commemoration every December 30, we Filipinos should be remembering and celebrating July 17, 1892, the day Rizal arrived in Dapitan. [...]
Nine Canberrans were admitted to the Order of the Knights of Rizal on Saturday (October 20) to form the Order’s new Canberra Chapter, said sponsoring Sydney Chapter commander Cesar Bartolome. The nine new Rizalian knights are Ariel Pattugalan, Modesto Umali, Hardy Vargas, Bonifacio David, Norman Kalagayan, Dennis Benedictos, Rex Duller, Ian Bull and Cesar Atienza. The new members, led by Ariel Pattugalan as the chapter commander, were also sworn to as trustees and officers of the Canberra Chapter by Philippine Ambassador Belen Anota [...]
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday issued a news bulletin of the itinerary of President Benigno S. Aquino III during his state visits to New Zealand and Australia next week. The DFA said that President Aquino will be in New Zealand from October 22 to 23, and in Australia from October 24 to 26 to strengthen the Philippines’ bilateral ties with the two nations [...]
Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello is an embarrassment for the O’Farrell Government for admitting that he introduced only one piece of legislation in 18 months, said Member of the Legislative Council Shaoquett Moselmane [...]
