Pensioners in Chifley will this week receive their long-anticipated rise in the Pension rate along with the increased New Pension Supplement. Federal Member for Chifley, Roger Price said that the historic increase will be welcomed by pensioners who have been doing it tough. Centrelink has contacted all 20,815 pensioners in Chifley to explain how their […]

by Ronaldo Z. Concha GMANews.TV JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia – A Filipino worker who returned a huge amount of money he found in northern Saudi Arabia to its rightful owner has become an instant celebrity among fellow expatriates. The new hero is Lark Michael B. Colegado, a 34-year-old family man from Tacloban and Misamis Oriental in […]

It seems that Newcastle has become the “Mount Druitt by the Sea.” Many people with drug problems or in methadone treatment have apparently relocated there.  Newcastle occupies a large area and it is also the place where able parents from overseas send their children to study. While I am not against assimilation for those who are less fortunate, the […]

by Marie Rea, BS DevCom Floods in Metro Manila; certainly not once in a lifetime. Government was caught unprepared! Surprise, surprise! The Philippine government has asked the world for help in its massive rescue operations for nearly half a million people left homeless in the deluge that hit the main island of Luzon on the […]

Not too long ago, the U.S. government stampeded the entire Philippine military and police forces to locate a missing American woman named Julia Campbell, ostensibly a Peace Corps member. She was found dead and buried in a shallow grave up in Ifugao Province. She must have been a very valuable asset to her government that […]

BY HER own admission, GMA (Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) rightfully assessed that over the last decades, our republic has become one of the weakest, steadily left behind by its more progressive neighbors. Forty years ago, we were second only to Japan in economic stature, and way ahead of Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. Today, at […]

  One of my former schoolmates at the university asked me what can be done to improve the economic situation in the Philippines.   Perhaps, what the Philippines need to get back on track with its Asian neighbours is a combination of many factors. To name a few:   The president must have the administrative […]

With the sad passing of the Philippines’ very own “Mother of Democracy,” former president Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino last August, this columnist and her family wish to convey her utmost condolences to the Aquino family. President Aquino’s difficult battle with colon cancer has finally taken its toll!   This self-proclaimed “plain housewife” was also […]

by Dino Crescini Early this month, not just the Filipino nation but the entire world, grieved the death of former Philippine president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. She died of a lingering ailment that caused physical pain on her body as well as mental anguish on immediate members of her family. News about her colon cancer prompted […]

From the very start of the publication of Philippine Tribune, I have always emphasized that I am not a journalist. I never claimed to be a journalist. I have obtained no degree in journalism. I just happen to know how to write. Thanks to the writing skills given to me by the American Jesuits of […]

Re: Arturo Sayas & Cresencio Pilao – Editorial May 2009, Philippine SentinelWe are the solicitors for Arturo Sayas and Cresencio Pilao. Counsel has advised that our clients have been defamed in the May 2009 issue of the Philippine Sentinel. In the editorial, it is alleged that our clients have caused a dark day in journalism. […]

Not too long ago, CNN published the story of Noriko Calderon, a 13-year old Filipina who was born and raised in Japan. Her parents, Arlan Cruz Calderon, 36 and Sarah Calderon, 38 were deported back to the Philippines from Japan on 13 April 2009. They both entered Japan in 1993 on fake passports. They met, […]