Filipinos in Germany and Ireland
By Malou Guanzon-ApalisokJune 12, Independence Day had me watching a cable news program featuring random interviews of pedestrians and their thoughts about love of country.
June 12, Independence Day had me watching a cable news program featuring random interviews of pedestrians and their thoughts about love of country.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer with muscular arms and enough brio to arrive at a sparring session without protective gear. His younger brother Dzhokhar was popular in high school, won a city scholarship for college and liked to hang out with Russian friends off-campus.
Thailand on Wednesday denied accusations its sailors shot Rohingya boat people fleeing sectarian strife in Myanmar, after a rights group urged a probe into the alleged deaths of at least two migrants.
American Donald Pribor rode the train back to Manila from Naga City in late October last year. He had just been to Gubat town in Sorsogon, retracing the route taken by his kinfolk during World War II and completing a journey of experiencing his Filipino roots.
Sydney Gregory has never met her father, an Olympic – Hide quoted text – silver medalist in fencing who defected from the Cuban team at a tournament in Lisbon in 2002 when she was 15 days old. But he recently rang from Italy with good news: Papa’s coming home to visit.
Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of seven would-be immigrants from the Mediterranean on Sunday after their boat sank between the Libyan coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing the death toll to 10, the ANSA news agency said.
Davao City’s population now totals 1.44 million, making it the country’s largest urbanized area in terms of population and land area outside Metro Manila, according to the results of a 2010 survey released recently by the National Statistics Office.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the United States with his family on Saturday, the US State Department said.
It will be a working holiday for Bureau of Immigration officials who will process the arrival and departure of travelers this Holy Week.
Filipinos are now the second largest Asian group in the United States, according to the latest census bureau report.
China said Tuesday the number of people living in cities exceeded the rural population for the first time, a development experts warned was likely to put strain on society and the environment.
Shackled in handcuffs and flanked by three US Marshals, Dorothee Burkhart scanned a Los Angeles courtroom looking for her son.
Nearly half of China’s wealthiest citizens are considering emigrating, with the United States and Canada the most popular destinations, according to a new report from the authors of China’s rich list.
