by Maria Sunantha Quibilan/Asianjournal.com
MILL VALLEY – Filipino American IRS agent Veronica Ruiz, who had been missing in California since December 3, has been confirmed dead. The Marin County coroner’s office was able to confirm through dental records that the body of a female found on Mount Tamalpais Sunday afternoon was Ruiz’s and that she had [...]
January 17, 2008
Missing FilAm IRS Agent Confirmed Dead
January 17, 2008
UP Jumpstarts Centennial Celebration
by Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
QUEZON CITY – Burning lights, fireworks, performances, personalities and a thick crowd marked the beginning of the year-long centennial celebration of the University of the Philippines (UP). Students, alumni, alumnae and their families trooped to the main campus in Diliman, Quezon City to be part of the once-in-a-lifetime event.
The day-long event kicked [...]
January 17, 2008
New Star Rising
by Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
FOR the past 24 years, the University of the Philippines’ College of Law has not produced any graduate with an honor higher than cum laude. Then came Dionne Marie Mercado Sanchez.
Graduating magna cum laude and class valedictorian in 2007, Dionne is the first law graduate with that honor since 1983 and only [...]
January 17, 2008
Nursing Shortage May be Over within 10 Years – Report
by Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com)
LOS ANGELES — Filipinos have turned the USA’s shortage in caregivers to their advantage in the last decade. Tens of thousands of Filipino nurses have immigrated to the US to fill in dire positions in hospitals across the country. Staffing agencies in the Philippines and the US say the largest [...]
January 17, 2008
Dry Run of Nat’l ID System First – Sec. Gonzalez
by Joel Roja/Asianjournal.com
JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez on Wednesday proposed the conduct of a dry run to test the proposed national identification (ID) system after some sectors expressed apprehension that its implementation might lead to human rights abuses.
In an interview, Gonzalez told mediamen that he believes that the benefits of the ID system far overweights the [...]
January 17, 2008
Galing Pinoy: FilAm Actress Leading the Way
by Joseph Pimentel/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES — Actress Camille Mana is best known for her recurring role as Lisa, an underachiever on the defunct UPN TV show One on One. In real life, however, Mana, is anything but.
“I’ve worked real hard with a strange level of focus most people would describe as insanity,” she said.
The 24-year-old thin [...]
