Philippines is a growing source of foreign students: DFAT

Education is beginning to be a major linkage between Australia and the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has recently reported [...]

Philippine Rugby juniors sweep Asian U20s

The Philippine U20s Rugby Union team made a clean sweep of the Asian u20s Division 2 Championships in Vientiane Laos this week. The Philippines played four games of Rugby Union in five days at the 2009 South East Asian Games stadium and were able to defeat India 38–7, Kazakhstan 22–10, Laos 52–0 and Iran 12–8 [...]

Filipinos in Lions Clubs Sydney convention

The 93rd Lions Club International Convention was held in Sydney during 28 June – July 2, 2010. This annual convention was attended by delegates from 147 countries, including the Philippines. Highlight of the convention was the parade of the delegates on 29 June from Hyde Park through Macquarie Street and ending in the Sydney Opera House [...]

RP rugby team crushes top-ranked Thais, rolls into Division 2 final

The lead changed several times in the first half with both teams scoring great tries and trading penalty goals. A converted try late in the half gave the Volcanoes some breathing space as they went into the break with a 29-16 lead [...]

Sole election observer from Fil-Oz community debriefed

The only Filipino-Australian -accredited foreign observer of the recent Philippine national elections provided Australians with a comprehensive post mortem over Sydney radio, and Romy Cayabyab’s verdict was: They were orderly and peaceful on the whole. Mr Cayabyab, a Sydney businessman and web publisher, had travelled to Manila and to election precincts in Pampanga [...]

NSW voters prefer Aquino-Roxas team

SYDNEY – Filipino overseas absentee voters in New South Wales and French New Caledonia gave the team of Senators Benigno Aquino III and Mar Roxas a landslide victory based on the canvass of votes released by the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney. Benigno Aquino III gathered 372 votes against Gilberto Teodoro’s 87 votes who came in second in the poll [...]

May 10 elections, celebration of democracy: Comelec

MANILA – Senator Benigno Aquino III is set to win the presidential race in the Philippines’ first automated election – with possible landslide margin [...]

*** FLASH: Senator Manny Villar who months ago was the frontrunner in surveys has conceded the fight for the presidency in favour of Aquino and ‘urging the people to work behind him (Aquino).’

Philippine automated polls in world’s eyes

MANILA – Many countries will be observing the country’s first automated elections. The main interest in the May 10 elections is whether the counting system to be used will provide the solution to the country’s problem of massive election cheating [...]

Philippine Comelec rules out election postponement

MANILA – The Philippines Commission on Elections Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal yesterday assured foreign observers and media representatives attending a Comelec briefing that postponing the May 10 general elections is not an option [...]

Philippine Elections 2010

Romy Cayabyab, our publisher, left for Manila last week on a business trip. He is also in Manila to act as a COMELEC-accredited “foreign observer” in the upcoming Philippine elections [...]