By Malou Liwanag-Aguilar/Asianjournal.com
VALLEJO – Chocolate plus creativity worked for Carole Jessica Cruz, a 24-year-old from Vallejo, when she grabbed the second prize at the California Culinary Academy’s Panier De Marché Patisserie Scholarship Competition last month. The competition takes place twice a year at 12 of the Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America affiliate school locations. [...]
April 9, 2008
FilAm Earns Culinary Scholarship
April 9, 2008
Mt. Diwalwal Mining Motion Set for SC Deliberation
By Joel Roja/Asianjournal.com
MANILA – The Supreme Court has set for deliberation on Wednesday in Baguio City a motion filed by local mining firm Southeast Mindanao Gold Mining Corporation (SMGMC) seeking to reconsider its 2006 ruling that that cancelled all mining rights and operations of Filipino firms within the Diwalwal Gold Rush Area.
The Court’s Special Third [...]
April 9, 2008
Pinoys Hit the Charts in Canada
by Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES – The latest figures from Statistics Canada released recently reported that the Filipino community outnumbers other visible minority groups in Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Visible minorities, who now make up 16.2 percent of Canada’s population, are defined as persons, other than aboriginals, [...]
April 9, 2008
Illegals Welcome in San Francisco
by Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES – The City of San Francisco recently launched an advertising campaign featuring TV and radio ads, billboards and bus signs reminding residents that the city is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. The $83,000 ad campaign includes brochures distributed at police stations and hospitals, promising safe access to city services regardless [...]
April 9, 2008
Filipino Boy in Pasadena Accident has Died
by Rene Villaroman/Asianjournal.com
PASADENA – Jose Gabriel Dela Rosa, the 7-year-old Filipino boy who was critically injured in a vehicular accident on Thursday, has died from his injuries on Sunday afternoon, it was announced by Huntington Memorial Hospital.
The boy’s father, Jose Dela Rosa, is still recuperating from injuries sustained from the car crash that occurred during [...]
April 9, 2008
Wanted: Pinoy Skilled Workers in ME
By Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES – There’s a construction boom in the Middle East and they need hundreds of thousands of Filipino skilled workers fast!
The problem is the supply cannot meet the demand. The Philippines is running out of skilled workers to deploy to the Middle East. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alone is asking [...]
April 9, 2008
US Army Sergeant Vies for Ms. Earth RP
By Joseph Pimentel/Asianjournal.com
CERRITOS – She turned in her military uniform and boots for an evening gown and high heels.
FilAm Melanie Felix, a 23-year-old Sergeant in the US Army, is going to do her best Sandra Bullock impersonation when she competes for the Miss Philippines-Earth 2008 title, a preliminary competition vying for a spot on the [...]
