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WASHINGTON D.C. – Ambassador Willy C. Gaa met California Representative Jackie Speier recently at the United States Capitol to discuss updates on relief and rehabilitation efforts for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Gaa likewise thanked Speier for introducing and supporting House Resolution 800 which expresses condolences to the victims of Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma and urges United States President Barack Obama to continu...
Stories High XI (Bindlestiff Studio production)
The Climate Theater, 285 Ninth St. @ Folsom St., SF
For details: brownpapertickets.com/event/85312
November 5 to 21
Grantwriting Basics Workshop
I-Hotel Manilatown Center, 868 Kearny Street, SF
For details: mhf@manilatown.org
November 16, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Unveiling of Mural-Size Images from NASA'S Great Observatories
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San José, CA
For details: sjlibrary...
A wife ordered a tombstone for her late husband's grave with this inscription to be written: "Rest in Peace."
A few days later she discovered that her husband had left a part of his will to another woman.
Furious, she called up the engraver to change the inscription on the tombstone.
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Ambassador Willy C. Gaa met California Representative Jackie Speier recently at the United States Capitol to discuss updates on relief and rehabilitation efforts for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Gaa likewise thanked Speier for introducing and supporting House Resolution 800 which expresses condolences to the victims of Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma and urges United States President Barack Obama to continue supporting the ...
NEW YORK – The Philippine Consulate General in New York is glad to report that the donated goods collected by the Project Handang Tulong Committee and sent to the Philippines on 17 October, (through the generosity of Johnny Air Cargo) to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), for transmission to such relief distribution channels as Focolare, Pasay and Kababaihang Rizalista have already been received and acknowledged by the groups.
The email acknowledgments were receiv...
Mabuhay Golf Club held
its 2009 Championship Tournament last Oct. 17 & 24 at Shadow Lakes GC & Deer Ridge GC, Brentwood. The winners for the year are:
2009 Club Champion - John Warren
2009 Player...
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Filipino World War II veterans were honored by the Smithsonian National Museum Asian American Program and special guests on October 23, in Washington DC. In photo are US Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (ret.), Phil. Army Victor Corpus (ret.) of the Philippine Embassy Veterans Affairs office, Rep. Bob Filner, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Celestino Almeda, Rudy Panaglima, Ray Cabacar, Terry Shima, JAVA executive director, and Ador Carreon, president of...
SAN FRANCISCO -- For the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, the 2010 Census will be a big leap forward.
Next April, when gay couples record themselves as being married, or as unmarried partners to persons of the same sex, their original answers will be retained. The 2010 Census marks an unprecedented level of accuracy with regard to measuring the true number of same-sex couples in the United States.
“The challenge,” says David Lloyd, a Census Bureau LGBT par...
Sturart Moran, manager of the United Nations Volunteer in Afghanistan, pays his final respects during ceremonies November 3 at the Kabul International Airport to repatriate UN electoral volunteers Jossie Esto of the Philippines and Wahlydia (Lydia) Wonwene of Liberia, two of the five staff members killed in the October 28 terrorist attack on Bakhtar guest house in Kabul. United Nations photo by Eric Kanalstein
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Philippines was named “One of 25 Best New Trips in the World in 2010” by National Geographic which cited the Philippines’ ancient cultures, structures and biodiversity as key reasons to visit the country.
In its November 2009 Adventure issue, the DC-based National Geographic described the Philippines as harboring “as many islands as the Caribbean and some of the most spectacular reefs on the planet” adding that travel orga...
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