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MANILA — Philippine senators can endorse commercial products, an election regulator said, dismissing calls for sanctions against premature campaigning for the 2010 presidential election.The Commission on Elections said it was “less than noble,” but within the bounds of freedom of expression for legislators to endorse products and services including weight loss and skin-whitening pills. While the constitution bans premature campaigning, the senators cannot be considered preside...



NEW YORK — Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations Lauro Baja has asked a New York court to dismiss charges of trafficking and slavery because of his diplomatic immunity.Lawyer Salvador Tuy–representing Baja, his wife Norma, daughter Elizabeth Facundo and the family-owned travel agency Labaire – sought to have the case dismissed, saying it has “no jurisdiction over the subject matter of this case by express provision of Article 31 (1) of the Vienna Conventio...



LOS ANGELES — Filipino singer Jed Madela belted Queen’s victory anthem, “We Are The Champions,” at the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Annual World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) held at Universal CityWalk in Hollywood on July 20.  It was meant to be. Filipinos dominated the just-concluded 12th staging of the international event, otherwise known as the “Olympics of Performing Arts.” Catherine Loria, 13, from Tiaong, Quezon province, was judged j...



MANILA — Officials outnumber athletes in the Team Philippines competing in the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing. There are 22 officials, 11 of them coaches, and 15 athletes in the Philippine team, which departs for the Chinese capital in three batches starting on July 29. It’s smaller in size compared to the teams that carried the national colors in the two previous Olympics Games in Sydney, Australia (2000) and Athens, Greece (2004) where the Nationals went home empty-handed in...



MANILA — Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Monday rejected appeals to scrap an unpopular sales tax because of surging inflation, warning that food and fuel prices would likely remain high.As a few hundred protesters scuffled with police outside parliament, Arroyo admitted in her annual state of the nation address that people were suffering under the global financial crunch. But she said her government would maintain a 12 percent value-added tax on oil, the proceeds of which she said w...



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  BORN and raised Bicolano youth delegates from Chicago , Virginia Beach, Houston Texas, Seattle Washington , Northern VA and Maryland attending the 28th National Convention of the Bicol National Association of Am erica pose by the Library of Congress, Madison Building. The group visited the Philippine Book Collection at the Asian Reading Room on July 12, 2008. WASHINGTON D.C. — Youth delegates attending the Bicol National Association of America’s 28th national conventio...



“NO hay mas grande loco que el viejo loco.” (There is no bigger fool than an old fool.) – Spanish proverb. A “late bloomer” is a person who does not discover his talents and abilities until later than normally expected. The term “late bloomer” is also used to refer to individuals who lose their virginity at an age that is considered advanced for the society in which they live (Wikipedia). Sometimes the term “late bloomer” is used to describe ...



INTERVIEWS for adjustment of status to a green card, based on marriage to a U.S. citizen, are getting harder to pass. Often, immigration officers approach the newly married couple in a hostile manner. The reason for this is because interviewing officers see so many people who have gotten married for the sole purpose of getting a green card. Many of these marriages are not real, and the married couple do not live together. Sometimes, previous marriages that have not been terminated by divorce or ...



DESPITE the Congress’s failure to pass comprehensive reform last summer, the immigration debate remained at the top of our nation’s political discourse and is now a burning issue for the 2008 presidential election.  Both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic and Republican candidates, have indicated that immigration reform would be a priority of their administration.  However, each candidate’s approach is slightly different and the outcome of th...



DEAR Atty. Lou,I am a U.S. citizen and I filed a petition for my spouse which was approved by the Citizenship and Immigration Service. He is now in the process of accomplishing his DS 230 Part I and II.  Should he answer “No” to question f of the DS 230 Part II even if his U.K. passport was stamped with 212 (a)(6)(C)(i) last year when he was refused entry to the US to visit me (his fiancee at the time).  We believe CBP made a mistake of stamping my husband’s passport ...
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