Recently added articles from The Filipino Express:
122 dead, 1,000 buried in South Leyte landslide
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 ST. BERNARD, Southern Leyte--Tons of mud and rocks tumbled down from the mountain on Friday, February 17, after weeks of rains and swallowed a whole village of between 2,000 and 3,000 people, including a schoolhouse filled with ...
Archbishop Rosales will be named cardinal
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales as among the first 15 cardinals of his pontificate, the Philippine bishops' office said Wednesday. The pope also named as cardinal a fierce critic of the Chinese ...
Jersey City youth accuse cops of brutality, racism
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 JERSEY CITY -- Several Filipino groups expressed outrage over what many are calling "a blatant act of police brutality, racial discrimination, and anti-immigrant sentiment" on the part of two Jersey City police officers who arrested and ...
Rescuers call off search for survivors
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- Rescuers have temporarily called off search efforts in Barangay Guinsaugon in St. Bernard town, Southern Leyte because driving rain and days of digging in the soft, fetid mud raised the risk of further landslides. "Our ...
Slide hits Zambo town; 10 killed in new tragedy
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 ZAMBOANGA CITY -- At least 10 people were missing after torrential rains loosened mud and boulders that buried a row of thatched houses in Zamboanga del Sur on Saturday, February 18. The landslide struck the remote village of Depore in ...
GMA foes can't launch coup -- Defense chief
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- Anti-government forces have "no capability" to launch a coup d'etat, Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. said, even as the military admitted that it was monitoring several personalities for their alleged involvement in plans to ...
Man leaves Las Vegas to look for Leyte kin
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 SAINT BERNARD, Southern Leyte -- His chubby frame half buried in the thick mud, Las Vegas car salesman Norman Barrister is waging a desperate personal search for 10 members of his family buried alive by the landslide. After sneaking past ...
HK cops probe Pinay mom for death of girl
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 HONG KONG -- Hong Kong police authorities are investigating the case of an eight-year-old girl who fell to her death from the eighth floor of an apartment in Lantau after quarreling with her Filipino mother last Friday, February 17, ...
Manila negotiating new security pact with US
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA - The Philippines is negotiating a more modern security arrangement with the United States to cover militants, bird flu, piracy, natural disasters and other threats, Defence Secretary Avelino Cruz said on Monday, February ...
Japan apologizes for WWII atrocities
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- Japan's ambassador to the Philippines on Saturday, February 18, apologized to the nation for the destruction of Manila toward the closing stages of the World War II. Ryuichiro Yamazaki spoke at a wreath-laying ceremony to mark ...
Mayon alert level raised
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 LEGAZPI CITY -- Authorities raised that alert level around Mayon to 2 after the volcano emitted ash that was preceded by a series of weak earthquakes. Ed Laguerta, Bicol director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...
Disaster-prone Leyte struck by tragedy anew
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- Some of the Philippines' worst disasters -- and one of the country's biggest moments in history -- have involved Leyte, one of the largest of the archipelago's 7,100 islands. Hundreds may have been killed when a landslide ...
Filipinos raise funds to help Leyte victims
Mar 05, 2006; Roa, Merpu ... Roa, Merpu Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 NEW YORK -- Many Filipino organizations based in the New York-New Jersey area are conducting their respective fundraising drives to help landslide victims in Southern Leyte. Several Filipino churches, like the First Filipino ...
PGMA flies to Leyte to visit disaster area
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 GINSAUGON, Southern Leyte -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hand-carried P14 million donations to the government's relief and rehabilitation efforts in the villages in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte that were devastated by a massive ...
Embassy starts up fund drive for landslide victims
Mar 05, 2006; Villadiego, Rita ... Villadiego, Rita Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Alberto del Rosario appealed to Filipinos, friends of the Philippines and charitable organizations to help the victims of landslides by sending a donation to the ...
Bush sends condolences, vows sustained aid to RP
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 MANILA -- United States President George W. Bush has called up President Arroyo to offer sympathy and to pledge continued relief assistance to the landslide-hit town in Southern Leyte, Malacaang said on February 22. Bush called Mrs ....
God-forsaken country
Mar 05, 2006 ... Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 TO SAY that the Philippines is a God-forsaken country is not an exaggeration. The landslide that buried the village of Ginsaugon in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte on Friday, February 17 was a jolt that forced us to take a long, hard ...
ONE ON ONE; That's entertainment
Mar 05, 2006; Rillera, Ricky ... Rillera, Ricky Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 NEW YORK -- Yesterday I had to two options where to go to enjoy good entertainment after a hard day's work. First was to go home and watch Filipino American Jose 'Sway' Penala belt out his piece at Fox's "American Idol." ...
A people scrubbed of memory
Mar 05, 2006; Mercado, Juan ... Mercado, Juan Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 "THE first step in liquidating a people is to erase it's memory", a historian once wrote. Has that come to pass here? As People Power 1's 20th anniversary approaches, the "fashion" is to denigrate the massive turnout of ...
IMMIGRATION CORNER; The March priority dates
Mar 05, 2006; Gurfinkel, Michael ... Gurfinkel, Michael Filipino Express, The 03-05-2006 THE priority dates for family petitions by US citizens did not move, but those filed by immigrant parents moved forward by at least seven days, as shown in the March 2006 monthly Visa Bulletin. The priority dates for ...
