Posted by TFA News
Breaking News, Education, Philippines
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Education is beginning to be a major linkage between Australia and the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has recently reported [...]
Posted by Erick Elefante
Breaking News, Philippines, Rugby
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Violi Calvert
Breaking News, People, Philippines, Photo Gallery
Friday, July 16th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Erick Elefante
Philippines, Rugby
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Jaime K. Pimentel
2010 Election, Philippines, Photo Gallery
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by TFA Staff
2010 Election, Philippines, Politics, Sydney
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Romy Cayabyab
2010 Election, Philippines, Politics
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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).’
Posted by Romy Cayabyab
2010 Election, Philippines, Politics
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Romy Cayabyab
2010 Election, Philippines, Politics
Friday, May 7th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by TFA Staff
2010 Election, Election, Philippines, Politics
Thursday, April 22nd, 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 [...]