MANILA – Pursuing an aggressive route expansion, flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) announced last week the launching of flights to six new destinations in Australia, China and the Middle East. PAL president Ramon S. Ang said PAL’s new destinations will commence in Kuala Lumpur (May 1); Brisbane, Darwin and Perth in Australia and Guangzhou, China (June 1); and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (October 1) [...]
It all started as a joke. In one of their kapihans, one Filpress member quipped, Why not record a CD to play as a surprise number in our Christmas party? [...]
Catholic pilgrims from Rooty Hill’s St Aidan’s Parish Church could not check in for their flight to Rome last Monday because their bookings were deemed ‘invalid’, a Daily Telegraph story reported today. The 32 pilgrims led by Catholic priest Renato Paras were mostly elderly women who have booked return flights and accommodation to attend the October 21 canonisation of Pedro Calungsod, the second Filipino to be canonised [...]
Filipino Australian hip hop dance impresario Marco Selorio heads a 100-strong Australian national hip hop dance team to Las Vegas for the 2012 World Hip Hop Dance Championship. Thirty-four countries are slated to send their respective national teams to the championship to be staged from August 1 to August 5 [...]
Beaufunkcious Records, the first Filipino-Australian owned independent record label, launched recently with the release of a 15-track album called “ONE” [...]
As the song goes, “nothing comes from nothing…nothing ever could…” my “interactions” with MiG Ayesa , albeit only from watching him on stage in Rock of Ages in Broadway and through subsequent email exchanges – gave me a strong feeling that his great love for music, success and humility would have come from being nurtured in an encouraging and loving environment. [...]
I marvel at how even fleeting encounters make a lasting impression! Filipino-Australian Broadway star MiG Ayesa did just that when I watched him play Stacee Jaxx in the musical Rock of Ages during my visit to New York last year [...]
The book Not On Our Watch (Martial Law Really Happened. We Were There), produced and published by the League of Editors for a Democratic Society-College Editors Guild of the Philippines (1969 to 1972) was launched last May 10 at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas compound, Roxas Blvd, Manila [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon and at a function room in Blacktown, a small group had assembled. The mood subdued; the feeling intense. And as if Mother Nature was asked to collaborate and provide the special effects, a storm was raging outside. Everybody seemed to be tip-toeing and speaking in hushed tones [...]
The cast and crew of “Her Son, Jose Rizal” are all set for the staging of Leonor Orosa-Goquinco’s stage play. An initiative of the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney and organised by the Rizal Park Movement of Campbelltown, the stage play is to raise funds for the construction of a foundation pedestal at the Rizal Park in Rosemeadow for a 5 metre Rizal statue sculpted by well-known Filipino sculptor Eduardo Castrillo [...]
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Sydney Uni handballers retain Oceania Club champions title
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Filipino youth in ‘back to our roots’ cultural exhibition
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