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Jaime K Pimentel is a Sydney-based journalist.
Brave men of peace
Something wonderful happened at Radio Kawayan’s Adhika tribute night for the Filipino press on Sunday evening, March 25 at Burwood RSL Club: a divisive Filipino community wall went down. In a heart-warming scene never witnessed before, the newly elected presidents Arturo ‘Atoy’ Sayas of PCC-NSW and Jhun Salazar of APCO shared a toast at the club’s Dome bar [...]
Radio Maya may soon join the growing number of Filipino radio programs across the Sydney metropolitan area. A group of long-time Filipino-Australian residents in Sutherland Shire [...]
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Two Australian-based Filipino fighters take on Thai opponents in Toowoomba, Queensland, on Saturday, March 3, according to their trainer Todd Makelim this week. Jack ‘The Assassin’ Asis, a natural featherweight who became Australian light-welterweight champion in August 2011 [...]
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Filipino-Australian youth would get a chance of a lifetime from a dramatic glimpse into the life of the Philippines’ man for all seasons in the closing days of 2011 in Sydney [...]
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Filipino mestizos maintain their presence monthly at Blacktown Workers Club in Sydney’s west. They have gathered for all-you-can-eat lunch religiously, in fact, every last Monday of the month for more than four years [...]
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The only two Filipino-Australian candidates at this year’s Miss Earth Australia quest were special guests at the Filipino Press Group of Sydney’s monthly ‘kapihan’ at Blacktown Workers coffee shop yesterday, Saturday, October 29 [...]
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The Filipino martial art of sikaran began as a farmer’s kick-sparring sport in the 1500s. The Tagalog word for a kick is “sikad’’ ~ and “sikaran” for kicking. The sport has since taken on the name [...]
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A Review: Music Cum Fashion treated its Sydney audience to a Filipino touch of class, a soft blend of musical concert and fashion parade the likes of which we seldom see and often wish more Filipino community entrepreneurs would emulate [...]
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Filipino import Jack “The Assassin” Asis took just 1min 16sec to capture the Australian light-welterweight boxing title in Townsville, Queensland, on the weekend [...]
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The Filipino community’s singing-and-dancing sensation Brian Lorenz Babon performed a dream run to win the star-studded Talent Quest at Cabra Vale [...]
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