Fewer nurses seek US work – headline.
It’s not surprising because there are less jobs in US today.
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What about the thousands of nursing graduates in the Philippines without jobs?
Close the nursing schools for creating false hopes.
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US is appealing for calm over the South China Sea arms buildup. China started the arms race, even building an airport [...]

I first learned about Filipino teen-age girls selling their bodies on San Francisco’s Sixth Street from a Filipino senior citizen manong who viewed the pitiful sight from his hotel window. A Filipino American police officer personally confirmed the manong’s account to me and added that many of the young Pinay prostitutes are high school drop-outs strung out on [...]

The world has indeed become one global village, as the late Canadian philosopher and scholar Herbert Marshall McLuhan had predicted 30 years before the creation of the World Wide Web or what we now know as the internet.
In the Sixties, McLuhan wrote in his book “The Gutenberg Galaxy” that the visual, individualistic print culture would [...]

Two weeks ago, 12 Philippine senators, including my friend former President Joseph Estrada, got together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their 12-11 vote, rejecting the U.S. Military Bases in the Philippines.
While I applaud them for their nationalism, I feel that they were like the Monkey in the fable Jose Rizal wrote about the Monkey and [...]

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill to protect consumers from fraudulent repair of car airbags. Senate Bill 869, which I authored and introduced, would create a new crime of $5,000 and/or one year in prison for an automotive repair dealer who purports to replace a deployed airbag but who in fact [...]

Guest Column
By Nenette Flores 
Conclusion
Following was delivered at the 7th Free from Violence seminar-resource fair staged by ALLICE Kumares and Kumpares Oct. 3 at Doelger Center in Daly City, California. See last week’s issue for Part 1.
My doctor referred me to a therapist who, in turn, referred me to CORA, the Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse.  [...]

As Philippines Today goes to the press, the Social Weather Station (SWS) made known the results of its latest survey which indicated an improvement of the popularity rating of President Benigno S. Aquino III, after some slump previously. The survey results immediately bouyed the spirit of the Chief Executive and those occupying Malacanang.
Even as it [...]

Many Filipino celebrities and personalities are flying to Las Vegas next month to give support to their boxing icon, congressman and television host Manny Pacquiao.
To lead these personalities as expected will be former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and Ilocos Sur Governor Luis “Chavit” Singson.
From top television network GMA, Pacquiao’s co-stars Marian Rivera and real-life boyfriend [...]

It appears the Philippines has new box office queen or queens.
They are Anne Curtis and/or Cristine Reyes.
This loomed as their movie, “No Other Woman,” has become the top grossing Filipino film this year.
As of October 16, the movie has grossed a total of P250 million
This made the movie also the top grossing Filipino movie of [...]

Rules out run for Tarlac governor

Presidential sister and popular actress and television host Kris Aquino is poised to don a new title – ambassador of goodwill of the United Nations.
At press time, the Queen of All Media was preparing for a meeting with the officials of the UN High Commission on Refugees who have offered [...]