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Fil-Australian songwriter receives Rotary service award for raising funds for PHL typhoon victims

Fil-Australian songwriter receives Rotary service award for raising funds for PHL typhoon victims

Filipino Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter Oliver Gadista recently was the recipient of a Community Service award of the Rotary Club of The Hills-Kellyville during the Annual Awards [...]

Filipino-Australian beauty editor wins excellence award in fragrance journalism

Filipino-Australian beauty editor wins excellence award in fragrance journalism

Filipino-Australian Eleanor Marie Pendleton, beauty editor of In Style Magazine, was the recipient of the coveted Jasmine Awards for Journalistic Excellence at the 2013 Jasmine Awards held last April 16. Eleanor, 24 years old and considered as Australia’s youngest beauty editor in Australia’s magazine publishing industry, also won the Best Visual Story on Fragrance category award. She is the daughter of The Filipino Australian contributing writer, Lutgarda (Lee) Espiritu-Pendleton of Bundaberg, Queensland [...]

Fil-Aussie doctor receives most outstanding alumni award

Fil-Aussie doctor receives most outstanding alumni award

Dr Leonardo Santos, a Filipino-Australian doctor employed as Senior Staff Specialist at the Department of Anatomical Pathology of South West Area Health Services was one of two awardees as Most Outstanding Alumni in Medical Research. The award ceremony was part of the 2013 Homecoming by the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical College held on February 7 in Manila [...]

Knights of Rizal Supreme Council confers KGOR to De Vera

Knights of Rizal Supreme Council confers KGOR to De Vera

Sydney-based accountant and community leader Ricardo De Vera yesterday became the second Knight Grand Officer of Rizal (KGOR) in the Australia-New Zealand-Oceania region, announced regional commander Philip Rañoso yesterday [...]

MiG Ayesa orbits on

MiG Ayesa orbits on

It was a struggle for me if I email MiG to ask him a few questions knowing how busy he is especially during this time of the year; but I thought, if it is not doable, then he could only say NO. [...]

Janine Tugonon – a showcase of Filipino women’s grace, sophistication and beauty

Janine Tugonon – a showcase of Filipino women’s grace, sophistication and beauty

MANILA, December 23 – Malacañang this week hailed the first runner-up finish of Janine Tugonon at the Ms. Universe pageant held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying her achievement showcased to the world, “the grace, sophistication, and beauty” of Filipino women [...]

President  Aquino very chill, says boxing champ Donaire

President Aquino very chill, says boxing champ Donaire

President Benigno S. Aquino III warmly welcomed Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire to Malacañang after the Filipino boxing superstar, fresh from his successful defense of his World Boxing Organization super bantamweight title against Mexican Jorge Arce last December 15, paid a courtesy call on the Chief Executive on Thursday [...]

Rudy Gomez, A Profile of Grit and Tenacity

Rudy Gomez, A Profile of Grit and Tenacity

Luck and fortune may have come late to Rudy Gomez but came they did, at a ripe age of 70 odd. And what a splash they made. A gambler of fortune, with a “do or die” outlook for things he believed in, he once sat for a whole day, glued on his seat waiting for the release of funds from the president of a Government Bank to approve [...]

Rizal Park Movement prexy tells inside story

Rizal Park Movement prexy tells inside story

What the world witnessed in the morning of October 26 was only the story’s ending, and one needs to know and meet the characters, albeit virtually, and how events unfolded in order to fully appreciate the ending. Rizal Park Movement of Campbelltown president Rey Manoto writes the behind-the-scene story of Rizal Park and the 5-metre statue of the Philippine national hero [...]

Sole Filipino Australian seeks representation in Labor national policy forum

Sole Filipino Australian seeks representation in Labor national policy forum

Filipino Australian Tom Baena, Jr. is among 20 candidates from NSW seeking election into the Australian Labor Party National Policy Forum. The ALP National Policy Forum was created from last year’s Labor national conference as a “partnership between elected representatives, trade unions and rank and file members” in policy discussion and development [...]

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