Articles in the NewsSources Category
Posted in NewsSources on 29 August 2010
WASHINGTON, August 26, 2010 (AFP) – The U.S. government has issued new rules aimed at halting the deportation of undocumented migrants who are in the process of legalizing their immigration status, according to a memo AFP obtained Thursday. The measure could affect tens of thousands of people in the United States who have close relatives [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 25 August 2010
HONG KONG, August 24, 2010 (AFP) – A Hong Kong woman whose husband and two daughters were among eight tourists killed in a bus hostage siege in Manila tearfully blamed Philippine authorities on Tuesday for the tragedy. The survivor, who identified herself only as Mrs Leung, sat sobbing outside a hospital in Manila after [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 23 August 2010
By Mynardo Macaraig MANILA, August 23, 2010 (AFP) – Philippine security forces stormed a bus full of Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving at least seven people and the gunman dead. As this developed, the Hong Kong government said Monday it was [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 20 August 2010
BY ANTOINETTE BUENO Balita Media News Service WEDDING bells rang last Sunday, August 8, as actress Krista Ranillo married Island Pacific Supermarket CEO Jefferson (Jeff) Niño Lim in an intimate ceremony held at the Hotel Maya in Long Beach, California. The couple, who were married in a garden Jewish interfaith ceremony, only invited around 120 [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 13 August 2010
MANILA, Aug. 11 (PNA) – Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago revived anew on Monday the issue of Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), filing Joint Resolution No. 3 expressing the sense of Congress as a whole to terminate the VFA and directing the secretary of foreign affairs to give the notice of termination to the United States. Santiago [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 10 August 2010
By Gloria Jane Baylon MANILA, Aug. 10 (PNA) — Addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City on September 24 provides the center of President Benigno Aquino III’s first official foray into international diplomacy and overseas trip as Leader of the Philippines, reliable sources said. Aquino’s visit at U.N. general headquarters symbolizes [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 5 August 2010
By Al Jacinto ZAMBOANGA, August 5, 2010 (AFP) – A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up and injured 14 people in an attack on an airport in the restive southern Philippines on Thursday, authorities said. A local governor who had just disembarked a plane at the Zamboanga airport and was slightly injured in the explosion [...]










