Saturday, November 21, 2009
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The United Nations awarded peacekeeping medals on Saturday to 91 officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) serving as police advisers with the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
Photo shows UNAMID Joint Special Representative Henry Anyidoho reviewing the Philippine police contingent during ceremonies in El Fasher, Sudan, where he commended the Filipino peacekeepers for their disciplined approach to their duties, selflessness and...
NEW YORK – “New Formats, Expanding Horizons: New Work by Lenore RS Lim” is on view at the Philippine Center until November 25, 2009.
The exhibition features new, large-scale work by internationally renowned printmaker Lenore RS Lim.
Lim has a long history of experimenting with ways to expand her horizons as an artist, particularly with technology not necessarily intended for use by artists. This inclination has led her to new formats for the output of h...
Deputy Mayor Valerie Santos of the District of Columbia (third from left, front row)
met with community leaders in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area to discuss issues that affect the Filipinos and Filipino Americans in the area.
Foremost in the agenda was the month-long celebrations of Philippine independence in D.C.
Santos was also briefed on the numerous activities of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations in representing the community in issues such as immigration...
Manny Pacquiao receives from PN cartoonist Pol Galvez a cartoon art he made a day before the Firepower Pacquiao-Cotto match.
Galvez had sketched many international celebrities, and Pacquiao is one of them. He is the third boxing icon after Muhammad Ali and Smokin’ Joe Frazier to receive a cartoon art f...
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco weather seems erratic lately, some days feel like an extended summer while some nights there’s Christmas mist, which for most Filipino Catholics it means Simbang Gabi is fast approaching.
But for the 79-year-old Mang Felimon, the weather is not a big deal, because he knows his busy schedule in these times of the year; he has to make the parol lanterns of St. Mary’s Cathedral and that of St. Patrick’s in time for Simbang Gabi Co...
The Holiday Mixer, hosted by Cesar Dominguez at his Royalty Auto Collision Center shop on Nov. 17 was a well attended affair. Left photo shows members of the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and right photo the members of the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce. Dominguez thanks all those who attended the Christmas party, and says he looks forward to more mixers to promote local businesses in SSF
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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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