LXG BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS. Congratulations to Team Toyota: Capt.Arnel Nunez, Macoy Heredia, Pol Duenas, MVP-Eddie Ruiz, Danny English, Francis Ricafrente, Allen Carpio, & Irwin Matienzo. Now on its 13th season, LXG Basketball is a Filipino-by invitational group based in Hayward, Ca.

Two former Philippine Presidents has one common experience. They have shared the experience of what it feels to sleep in incarceration. Former president Joseph Estrada and his successor former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo now know how it is to live in a cell. Even if the use of cell phone was disallowed they enjoyed air-conditioned [...]

Hi Jacquie
I am booked for a cruise vacation this summer, but a bit nervous after the recent Costa Concordia tragedy in Italy. Taking a cruise was one of my dream vacation and don’t want it to end up with a nightmare vacation. I am wondering if I should cancel my cruise or maybe I am [...]

Guess who’s on a honeymoon in Paris?
Congressman Roman Romulo and Valenzuela City Councilor Shalani Soledad, of course.
After a whirlwind courtship, the two exchange “I do’s” and promised to love each other forever in a solemn and elegant wedding in Sta. Rosa City in Laguna.
 Now, it can be told that Roman, at 44, is “roman-tiko” after [...]

Filipino crew members are being hailed for helping save lives in the January 13 cruise ship disaster in Italy.
Some 300 Filipino crew members flew back Jan. 19-21 to their homeland from Fiumicino Airport in Rome, the Philippine Dept. of Foreign Affairs said in a news update.
Among the first to arrive in Manila was seafarer Reyson [...]

“Kung sino ang malapit sa kalan ang siyang nauulingan.”?  (Whoever is near the pan gets the pan’s black coating.)
  —  Filipino proverb
With the attention of the Filipino people riveted on the impeachment of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona, I am going to digress for now from it by discussing a graft case that was [...]

At the start of this legislative session, I introduced a bill that would stop the revolving door of employees between the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the utility companies in which they are tasked to regulate. 
Since the San Bruno disaster, consumer advocates, legislators, and others have questioned the cozy relationship between many CPUC executives [...]

Poll surveys taken in the United States and in the Philippines are remarkably accurate even though they are based on different models.
In the US, polls are based on personal interviews conducted by phone of individuals whose phone numbers were obtained from directory-assisted random-digit-dial (RDD) telephone samples using a proportionate, stratified sampling design. It is a [...]