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Violi Calvert is a freelance writer; Media & PR for Australian Handball Federation and Media & PR for Nenad Bach Music [Australia & Asia].
Pinoy journo in new Guiness record for boxing priest
Sydney’s Anglican Parish Priest, Fr Dave “Fighting Padre” Smith recently set a new Guinness World Record for the most number of continuous rounds of boxing, with a Filipino Australian journalist refereeing 45 rounds of the event [...]
In contrast to the festivities happening in George Street with St Patrick’s parade, midsection of Pitt St. is cordoned off (see writer’s mobile photo uploads). According to an ABC cameraman, Police chased a male person who was resisting, etc., so Police used a taser gun on him. The [...]
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During my school days several years ago, bullying was primarily in the form of verbal abuse when the teacher supervising the students at the playground during the recess and lunch break was not within earshot [...]
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THE ARTISTS & Linked Friends in Action [ALFA] is set to blast off shortly to launch the much-talked about Charity CD ~One~ music production [...]
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Tropical storm Washi [also known as ‘Sendong’] unleashed its wrath in the southern part of the Philippines, specifically on Iligan, Cagayan de Oro and nearby areas on December 16, 2011. It destroyed entire villages built on sandbars and on riverbanks.…
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One of the well-known religious celebrations in the Philippines, and one of the grandest annual festivals in Cebu, is the Sinulog.
Sinulog commemorates the arrival of the Spaniards led by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 when he planted a cross…
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The Philippine Consulate in Sydney hosted a Filipino Community Forum on 18 October to discuss and promote the ‘TEN (The Entire Nation] Moves’ which is a campaign to involve at least 2 million people to donate P10 for 10 months with the aim of establishing 10,000 classrooms. The campaign’s mission translated in the Filipino language is: 10 piso, 10 buwan, 10 libong silid-aralan [...]
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The Philippines’ highest and lucrative ‘export’ is manpower. Its Overseas Filipino Workers continually prop up the Philippine economy with their remittance of billion of dollars each year [...]
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Ray Charles sings “Georgia On My Mind”, but MPC plays on my mind. MPC is the ‘multi purpose centre’, intended to be a place that the members of the Filipino-Australian community in Sydney can call their own. [...]
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It is still winter, yet it was a very hot Saturday night in Sydney’s Filipino Australian community last weekend! The heat has nothing to do with the atmospheric temperature nor with Neil Diamond dropping by in Sydney. It was caused by one of those unusual happenings when three Filipino-organised concerts were being staged at the same time in three separate venues. [...]
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