YOUR DAILY NEWS:
  GMANews
  Phil. Daily Inquirer
  Manila Times
  Philippine Star
  ABS-CBN News

  March 2010
Comelec says automated voting for HK still on, unless...
By Daisy C.L. Mandap
The commissioner for overseas absentee voting (OAV) Armando Velasco says automated elections in Hong Kong are still on track, unless an "overall problem" crops up in the Philippines over the use of the voting machines. Velasco gave the assurance during an exclusive interview with The Sun, conducted amid growing concern that there is enough time to instruct the voters and election officials on the new voting system. Details...

Villar, Legarda seize HK moment
By Jan Yumul
Presidential aspirant Senator Manny Villar and his running mate Senator Loren Legarda seized the chance to woo Filipino voters in Hong Kong when they came here for two separate gatherings with community leaders on Feb. 14. Details...

Independence Day celebration
By Jan R. Yumul
The Philippines may be a poor country but not its people.

This was what Consul General Claro Cristobal said as he bared ambitious plans for this year's Independence Day celebration before some 30 representatives of business and professional groups in the community during a meeting on Feb. 11 at the Consulate. Details...


Sky is the limit in campaign
By Daisy C. L. Mandap
If the law on political ads and campaign spending was imposed before the official campaign period began on Feb. 9, presidential candidate Manuel Villar would have already overspent in the past three months alone. Details...

Velarde stops short of endorsement
By Cris Cayat
El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde says he is not fully endorsing the candidacies of Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Senator Manny Villar and his running mate Senator Loren Legarda for the two highest positions in government. Details...

Bangon Pilipinas meets JIL
By Gina N. Ordona
The political rally of Bangon Pilipinas Party dominated the 25th anniversary celebration of Jesus Is Lord (JIL) HK held at Chater Road in Central on Feb. 21. Presidential bet Eduardo C. Villanueva, who also heads JIL, was accompanied at the gathering by his running mate Perfecto Yasay Jr and senatorial candidates Zarfulah Alonto, Reynaldo Princesa, Ramoncito Ocampo, Kata Inocencio, Habib Adz Nikabulin, Alex Tinsay and Israel Virgines. Details...

FDHs press for minimum wage
By Jan R. Yumul
About 30 migrant workers demonstrated outside the Legislative Council on Feb. 11 to press their campaign for the inclusion of foreign domestic helpers in the statutory minimum wage bill. Details...

Arrest of health workers hit
By Jan Yumul
About two dozen people picketed the Consulate on Feb. 18 to demand the release of 43 community healthcare workers who were arrested by soldiers in Morong, Rizal, recently on allegations they were New People's Army guerillas plotting to assassinate party-list representative and former army general Jovito Palparan Jr. Details...

Going with Villar the only way ahead--Ocampo
As "Ka" Satur Ocampo puts it, the decision to join the senatorial lineup of presidential candidate Manny Villar did not come easy. "From May to December last year we had to decide whether we should run with Villar," Ocampo told The Sun in an exclusive interview during his visit to HK on Feb. 6.
Details...

Tales of tears and joy from Japan
Japan, the richest country in Asia and the world's second-largest economy, has for over a century been a magnet to tens of thousands of young Filipinos searching for a way out of grinding poverty and the lack of economic opportunities at home.
Details...

Making the best of both worlds
My father came to Hong Kong as a musician in 1987, when I was barely a year old. Though he could have also chosen to go to either Guam or Bahrain, he decided to come here.
Details...

Kakaibang daigdig ng High Island
Tila isang napakalaki at pagkaganda-gandang larawan ng mga hugis-diyamante at naglalakihang bato na nakapagkit sa isang napakalaking dinding ang matutunghayan ng mga mamasyal sa High Island, isa sa mga likas na magagandang pook ng Hong Kong.
Details...

 
For more features, click here
For list of features in 2002 and earlier, click here

Atis mourns death of treasurer
It was a sad Valentines Day for members of ATIS (Abra Tingguian Ilocano Society) when their treasurer Diana Abaya Collado passed away after collapsing in her employer's house in Braemar Hill.
Details...
Lichauco, 75
Former Philippine government official and opposition stalwart Josefina Trinidad Lichauco died in Manila on Feb. 14, two weeks after being flown out of Hong Kong unconscious following a stroke.
Details...
 
For more People stories, click here

  4 www.sunweb.com | The SUN Internet Edition | All rights reserved