Filipino-Canadian Wins in Montreal Election Filipino-Canadian Stephanie Valenzuela made history when she recently won a seat in the City Council of Montreal, representing the District of Darlington in the Borough of Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Valenzuela received 58.56 percent of the votes...
United States Congressional Gold Medals given to surviving kin of 24 Filipino World War II veterans HERO’S HONOR Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Neil Frank R. Ferrer (third from right) joins a surviving kin of a Filipino World War II veteran during the US Congressional Gold Medal...
EAT'S LIKE 2050 The blue food scene from Star Trek My first taste of futuristic cuisine was from sci-fi movies—The Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster, say, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy or the blue Bantha milk in Star Wars . Often, eating in the future isn’t such an appetizing experience....
Only Filipino migrant workers who have existing employment contracts will be allowed to return to Iraq following the downgrade of the alert level there due to the improvements in the foreign land’s security situation. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "Hindi pa po pinapayagan ang mga new hires o...
An insight on our primal roots Vibal Foundation, Inc. will be launching Narciso C. Tan's book, “ Púgot : Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the Philippines,” at VFI’s monthly virtual tertulia. Encyclopedic and analytical in its approach, this scholarly book dissects the...
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest and most influential business organization, has joined the call of other business groups for deeper investigation and ensure transparency in the sale of Malampaya shares. pcci “Malampaya involves a lot of questions...
Avid Liongoren on presenting Filipino values with NCCA through local animated series ‘Heneral Tuna’ While country has seen its stories depicted and animated on the screen in the past years with works such as “Urduja” and “RPG Metanoia” and recent ones like “ Hayop Ka! ” and...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to inoculate on Wednesday, Nov. 10, another batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are about to be deployed abroad. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the government of Brunei has donated some 2,000 doses...
An intervention study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) under the Forging Public-Industry Society Alliance: PISO for Healthier Schoolchildren project showed that school lunch feeding and nutrition education intervention package...
The New York Knicks paid tribute to the Filipinos at the Madison Square Garden as the team celebrated Filipino Heritage Night during the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, Nov. 8 (Manila Time). Photo shows the huge LED display inside the Madison Square Garden in New York. (Photo from...
The Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) is eyeing to develop a mathematical optimization software to ensure low-cost and nutritionally adequate diets for Filipinos. (Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña...
The Korean Embassy in the Philippines is awaiting guidelines from the South Korean government on the issuance of E-9 visas for Filipino workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS). This after the Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced on Nov. 5 that South Korea will now...
