Following an earlier story on this website, the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney forwarded to us an updated list of overseas voters required to contact the consulate to complete their voters details. The voters are at risk of not being able to cast their ballot in the upcoming May 13 midterm senatorial and party-list elections [...]
The Archdiocese of Lipa, one of the Philippines’ largest Catholic archdioceses, has severed its ties with the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), the Catholic Bishop Conference (CBCP) last Tuesday reported. PPCRV is one of two official citizen’s arms of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC). The other group is the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) [...]
Nominations to the Migration Advocacy and Media (MAM) Awards 2013 are now formally open, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) secretariat announced recently. The Awards, initiated two years ago by the Philippine government agency for overseas Filipinos, aim to recognize the significant role of the media in information dissemination and advocacy of news and concerns related to migration and development. Last year, The Filipino Australian and Australian Filipina were the recipients of the MAM Awards in the Interactive Media category for Best Websites [...]
Australian and New Zealand clients in Singapore will now receive better access to immigration services through a new, first-of-a-kind visa centre. Both countries joined three other countries in the first Five Country Conference (FCC) shared visa application centre (VAC) which opened last Monday, March 25 [...]
Australia is a vibrant multicultural society according to the findings of the Migration Committee report tabled in the Parliament yesterday (March 18). The report, which included 32 recommendations from over 500 submissions received in 27 public hearings over a two year period, has received bi-partisan support, said the committee [...]
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 [...]
Francois-Xavier Bonnet, a French research associate with the Research Associate of the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) writes that the Philippines has a strong case over the Scarborough Shoal [...]
University of the Philippines Diliman student Ferth Vandensteen Manaysay won over other contestants to grab First Place in the College category of the US Pinoys for Good Governance-sponsored essay writing contest on “The West Philippine Sea and Its Impact on the Future of the Philippines”. Manaysay received P50,000 during the awards presentation held on Tuesday, February 26 at a Makati City hotel as part of the 2nd Global Summit of Filipinos in the Diaspora [...]
The Philippine House of Representatives ratified on Wednesday night the amended overseas voting bill paving the way for the bill to be sent to President Aquino III for his signature and the bill’s enactment into law. The House’s action was the culmination of a process to broaden the suffrage rights of overseas Filipinos [...]
The Order of the Knights of Rizal will hold its 19th International Assembly from February 22-25 in Manila and Baguio City. Delegates from the order’s Philippine chapters and those outside the Philippines will kick off the three-day assembly on Friday morning (February 22) with a wreath-laying at the Rizal monument in Luneta Park [...]
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