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The Gintong Pamana Awards Foundation has presented Illinois Tollway Deputy Chief of Program Implementation Clarita Lao with its 2017 Panday Pira Award for Outstanding Achievements in Engineering. The award recognizes “Filipino Americans nationwide whose accomplishments inspire, motivate and sustain others in the Filipino community.” The group recognized Lao for her engineering career accomplishments spanning more than three decades, her leadership and management skills and dedication to engineering excellence. As deputy chief of program implementation, Lao is responsible for providing overall project management and support for multiple engineering projects from inception to completion, including projects that are part of the Tollway’s...

Woman refuses judge’s suggestion to marry man in consensual sex case Duo admit to having sex outside of marriage Dubai: A woman startled a judge on Tuesday when she refused to marry a worker, with whom she is accused of having consensual sex, in order to be granted a suspended prison sentence. The suspects, a Filipina and the Pakistani worker, pleaded guilty when they appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court on Tuesday. “In an obvious attempt to convince the defendants to get married and obtain a lenient judgment, the judge asked the worker: “Are you willing to marry her?” “I...

With popular children’s doll lines featuring sexy clothing and gossip magazines aimed at preteens, society is turning girls into sexual objects earlier and earlier.   This was the lament of a senior Catholic bishop, who said such premature sexualizing of girls at a tender age should be one of the most serious issues confronting Philippine society. “The messages they receive through popular culture is that to be attractive, to be accepted by society, you have to dress and behave in a sexual manner. There are now lingerie clothing lines for preteen girls, and bras for girls under 10, T-shirts with...

Tributes have been paid to a Teesside mother who sacrificed her own life to save that of her unborn baby. Bernadette Mimura, 37, from Ingleby Barwick, was diagnosed with breast cancer one month into her pregnancy. Doctors urged her to try life-saving drugs, but this would have meant terminating the pregnancy. Ms Mimura refused the drugs and gave birth to her fit and healthy baby, but lived just long enough to see her son, Nathan, baptised.

WACO, Texas - Kitchen duties may have traditionally been viewed as women's work, but not at the White House. Until now: Cristeta Comerford has been named executive chief. After an extensive six-month search, first lady Laura Bush announced Sunday that Comerford was chosen from hundreds of applicants to head the executive kitchen. A naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines, she will be the first woman and first minority to hold the post. The 42-year-old Comerford has been an assistant chef at the White House for 10 years. She worked under former executive chef Walter Scheib III, who resigned in February.

What We Propose. The Expansionist Party ("XP") advocates reannexation of the Philippines, a former U.S. colony, to the United States, but this time as up to three States of the Union: Luzon, Mindanao (the two largest islands, in the far north and south respectively) and the Visayas (the islands in between). We feel this is the only thing certain to secure both political and social democracy for the archipelago and set its people on the road to fairly distributed prosperity. We also believe the Philippines can help restore perspective and purpose to a U.S. that has lost sight of its...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 23-year-old woman was charged with killing her newborn son and putting his body in a trunk, the district attorney's office said.</p> <p>Maria Legarda, of the Los Angeles suburb North Hills, was charged with one count each of murder and assault on a child causing death, the district attorney's office said. She faces a maximum of life in prison.</p>

LifeSite Daily News Thursday January 30, 2003 NEW WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL GENEVA, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a relatively unknown World Health Organization (WHO) insider beat out high profile competitors to become the head of the World Health Organization Tuesday. Other candidates for the post included Dr. Julio Frenk Mora - currently Mexico's Minister of Health and Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi - the Prime Minister of Mozambique. However, Lee's work with WHO included being in charge of and weathering one of the most scandalous accusations to be brought against the...

23 January, 2003 The Filipino gay community has accused the Roman Catholic Church of 'fanning' the flames of homophobia after they were excluded from an international conference on the role of families in Manila. The Filipino gay community was angry at a statement made by Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin that Christian family values were being eroded by advocates of gay marriage, as well as technology and divorce, reported Agence France-Presse. Oscar Atadero, a spokesman for Progay Philippines, said Sin's attack on homosexuality was totally uncalled for. Atadero likened Christan gays to "Jesus outside the gates" and said that in...

We had heard that Michelle Malkin was going to appear at a book signing in Manhattan sponsored by the Freedom Alliance and that she was going to give a presentation with regards to immigration and the problem of the INS in controlling immigration, a subject well covered in her book. I arrived rather late as I miscalculated wich subway to take into the city and got off on the wrong side of Manhattan. RMLEW was going to take lunch off and I was going to meet him there. RMLEW had pinged me a couple of days earlier that Michelle...

The Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation Presents a debate Immigration: Who Gets In? Featuring Donald J. Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University Peter Brimelow Author, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster & Columnist, CBS Market Watch Michelle Malkin Author, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores & Syndicated Columnist, Creators Syndicate Frank Sharry Executive Director, National Immigration Forum America is the most popular destination for emigrants in world history. The ideals of individualism and freedom are stronger here than blood ties or mere regional loyalties. Our diversity has...

NEW YORK - A Filipina who claims she was locked up for two years while slaving away for US6¢ an hour and dinner scraps is suing her U.S. employers using 19th-century laws that ban slavery. Elma Manliguez says in a lawsuit against Martin Joseph and his wife, Somanti, that she could not escape during the two years she worked for them in Queens because they kept her locked up. The Josephs counter that Ms. Manliguez is an ungrateful employee with a lively imagination. Their lawyer says she launched the suit to enable her to remain in the United States and...