AUSTRALIANS’ HEARTS were gripped with terror and grief as they woke up to the morning news on Friday, November 18, which reported that there were three fatalities and several elderlies who were injured in the fire which occurred in the Quakers Hill Nursing Home at about four o’clock that morning [...]
Sorrow consumed me; overwhelmed by the thoughts of my brother leaving us especially our very sick mother. I looked up seeing Ate Trinidad in tears while Ate Saturnina and mother seemed just relieved it’s all over [...]
After a number of rehearsals with our Director/Producer/Mentor/friend, Mars Cavestany, we finally got to the recording at the SBS studios on Sunday, November 20. I was with the group which was doing Mars’ radio deconstruction and adaptation of Dr Severino Montano’s original play, A Parting at Calamba. Our part was scheduled to be recorded between 10.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. [...]
Rarely indeed when productions fit into their right places so perfectly and smoothly with nary a glitch or drama as they normally do; but the recent recording at SBS radio in St. Leonards of RSRFS (Rizaliana Sesquicentennial Radio Festival Sydney) last Sunday November 20 was a production made in heaven, so to speak [...]
Last November 20, the first of the RSRFS (Rizaliana Sesquicentennial Radio Festival Sydney) two drama and song recording sessions happened with nary a glitch or atypical production lapses – thanks God and to all those who believed in me that it can materialize given the unquestioning faith and genuine support of all and sundry [...]
Ambassador Rod Smith ends his posting in the Philippines next month. He has been Australia’s ambassador to the Philippines since March 2008. Mr Bill Tweddell will be Australia’s next ambassador to the Philippines. He is expected to take up his post in January 2012 [...]
The United States rhetoric of its strategy of “re-engagement in the Asia-Pacific region” was the focus of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Australia and then to Indonesia.
It…
IN A MEMORIAL SERVICE this morning (November 23), hundreds of members of the community, Police, Fire brigade, ambulance service, social workers, media, and relatives and friends of the victims of last Friday’s fire paid tribute to the victims of …
Men, and boys too, box for different reasons, including self-defence, physical fitness, release of energy and sometimes anger, and of course, the lure of prize money and fame. The boxing marathon (‘boxathon’) last Sunday, November 20 at the Holy Trinity Boxing Gym in Dulwich Hill, an innerwest suburb in Sydney, is an exception [...]
While environmental sustainability is an issue being seriously taken globally, it seems that the Philippines has a different idea and prefers to follow a different route. Only nine months [...]