By Mila Cichello Ms Marion Lau OAM JP (Chair, Aged Policy) from the Ethic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV) launched the inaugural Filipino Advisory Council of Elders on Philippine Independence Day 12 June 2010. The Filipino Advisory Council of Elders (FACE) was convened by the Bayanihan Australia Community Network Inc (BACNI), a volunteer organisation of [...]
AUNited Nations (UN) agency supports debriefing programs for hostages of Somali pirates. The Secretary General of the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) joined around 100 families of freed hostages of pirates who attacked ships plying off the coast of Somalia at the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) on Thursday. Efthimios Mitropoulos, who is in the [...]
Two months after assuming his post as the new envoy to the Philippines, US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. said that he continues to learn how to speak the Filipino language to communicate with Filipinos more effectively. “If you want to live in a person’s country, you have to know their language to start to know [...]
VIEW ALL PHOTOS DURING THE 112th PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY BALL Around 350 attended the Philippine Independence Ball spearheaded by the Filipino Community Council of Victoria (FCCVI) and the Philippine-Australian Foundation (PAFI) last 5 June at the Millenium Reception and Function Centre in Sunshine. Commissioner Elizabeth Drozd from the Victorian Multicultural Commission was the guest of [...]
By Manny G. Asuncion It was a cold wintry night of 5 June 2010. But one could definitely feel the warmth and joy at the Millenium Reception Centre in St Albans. It was the evening of the commemoration of the 112 Independence Day of the Philippines. Filipinos, as well as other nationals alike attended the [...]
MANILA – United States President Barack Obama joined other powerful world leaders in welcoming President-elect Benigno Aquino III’s rise to power, as the Philippines’s 15th president. Obama congratulated Aquino during a telephone conversation Wednesday morning, praising the country’s first automated elections on May 10 as a “positive testament to the strength and vitality of democracy” [...]
THE government of Maldives has freed seven Filipino prisoners, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported Friday. In her report to the Foreign Affairs department, Philippine Ambassador to Dhaka (Bangladesh) Zenaida Tacorda Rabago said that Maldives’ President Mohamed Nasheed ordered the release of the seven overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) incarcerated in Maafushi Prison as a gesture [...]
by Richard James Ford The newly formed Alliance of Philippine Community Organisations, Inc (APCO) is fully booked for its 500-seat inaugural Freedom Ball to be held on 12 June at Maxims Reception Centre, 11 Cross St. Bankstown 2200 from 7.30pm onwards. Dr Cen Amores, APCO’s founding president reported that the Freedom Ball will be graced [...]
by Marie Rea BS Dev Com UPLB’81 A few months ago, there was an article in “The Australian” newspaper about some 70 Filipino workers in an iron ore project in the Pilbara being retained after sacking 54 of its Australian workers. Naturally, there was an expected backlash against those “foreign workers.” Together with our native [...]
By Richard James Ford PRO – APCO A new organization called the Alliance of Philippine Community Organisations (APCO) has been formed on March this year, it is composed of various Philippine Community Organisations and individuals whose aim is to support its members and advocate for the welfare of Filipino-Australians in New South Wales. Membership includes [...]
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