Ways to help Ondoy victims

Rescue efforts are being mobilised, relief from local and foreign agencies are also pouring in for victims of tropical storm Ondoy that hit Metro Manila and Luzon on Saturday.  I have gathered important hotlines and donation points for those who wish to extend assistance to our countrymen devastated by the recent extensive inundation that beset [...]

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Ondoy turns Metro Manila into waterworld

My heart goes out to the hundreds of thousands of Filipino families displaced, people killed and others missing, and a lot of stranded countrymen – after the onslaught of tropical storm Ondoy that left Metro Manila submerged in water after 6 hours of continuous downpour, literally turning it into waterworld.  The heavy rains brought heartbreaking [...]

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Lavish dinner at Le Cirque

How can you call a $20,000 dinner plain and simple? Whaatt! I am appaled with what I have read today regarding PGMA’s lavish dinner at Le Cirque in New York which came out in the August 7 online issue of the New York Post’s Page Six Eat and Drink by Richard Johnson. The report read [...]

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Euna Lee and Laura Ling: home at last

While we were mourning for the passing of former President Cory Aquino, families and friends of two American reporters for Al Gore’s Current TV Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were jubilant with their reunion last Wednesday. Former US President Bill Clinton, who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, was instrumental to the release [...]

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WHO raises Influenza Pandemic alert to phase 6

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan raised the Influenza Pandemic alert from Phase 5 to Phase 6 “on the basis of available evidence, and expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met.  The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic,” she said at [...]

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Filipino youth Inventors win in Houston science fair

I met, greeted, and photographed six young Filipinos, students from the Quezon City Science High School (all are incoming freshmen college this school year) who brought the country pride and honor when they took home awards in the 2nd annual International Sustanainable World (Energy, Engineering, and Environment) Project (-ISWEEP 2009) Olympiad held at the George R. [...]

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A-S-I-A.net blogs

Just want to share  that my recent post on Euna Lee and Laura Ling topbilled www.a-s-i-a.net on June 10 under Korean blogs. A-S-I-A.Net contains a collection of posts from countries worldwide – A to Y. Kewl!

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Laura Ling and Euna Lee jailed in North Korea

I’ve read and heard about the news on the two American journalists who were sentenced to hard labor for 12 years by the Central Court, the highest Court in North Korea for “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry”.  It’s really a sad story for the families and friends of the San Francisco-based [...]

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Air France Flight 447 crashes in Atlantic Ocean; 228 missing

Without [the recorders] it will be very difficult to reach established fact, but we can reach a possible explanation – Paul-Louis Arslanian, French investigation head

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