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INQUIRER.net 7:53 pm | Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 MANILA, Philippines—A viral video showed an alleged Filipina who stripped off her clothes during a mental breakdown at the Mongkok Mass Transit Railway station in Hong Kong. The video, posted on Apply Daily website,  was taken on July 23. and left only her underwear The woman, who was not identified, started screaming unintelligibly after she took off her clothes, the Shanghaiist and Coconuts Hong Kong reported. Now in her underwear, she then stood in front of an ATM machine to block people from using it, it said. “In typical Hong Kong fashion, no one came to the clearly distressed woman’s aid but instead ensured her continued humiliation by forming a crowd and filming her with their mobile devices,” Coconuts Hong Kong reported. “One such man can be heard giggling as he filmed. Thankfully, a kind Samaritan offered her some clothing to cover herself up but the woman simply screamed at her,” it added. MTR officers came after half an hour and wrapped the woman in a towel. She was later brought to a hospital. Follow Us Other Stories: Pope Francis due to arrive in South Korea Thursday PAL gets go signal to fly to Guam Many OFWs in Libya backing out from repatriation—DFA Fil-Ams have fun at PH envoys’ special tour Recent Stories: Complete stories on our Digital Edition newsstand for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones; 14-issue free trial. About to step out? Get breaking alerts on your mobile.phone. Text ON INQ Read More …

Jason Tengco. PHOTO FROM JeepneyHub.com MANILA, Philippines—A young Filipino-American (Fil-Am) who works in the White House wants to push for the creation of a Fil-Am advocacy group in the US and to organize Fil-Ams in helping victims of typhoons in the Philippines. Jason Tengco, a Senior Adviser in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the youngest among the 10 delegates of the Filipino-American Youth Leadership program, is in the country for a five-day immersion program from July 24 to 28. “I intend on making it a priority to work with the Embassy to organize Filipino-Americans around typhoon relief, so that even as time passes, we continue to provide support and never forget those affected by the typhoon,” Tengco said in a statement released Thursday by the Philippine Embassy in the United States (US). “I would also like to work with the Embassy in organizing the community around comprehensive immigration reform in order to help it along the finish line in Congress, and to enroll undocumented Filipino youth in Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals. Finally, I plan to continue to lay the groundwork in order to launch a national progressive Filipino-American advocacy organization in D.C.,” he said. Tengco was also the cofounder of JeepneyHub.com, a website dedicated to the career development of Filipino American youth and young professionals. The ten young Fil-Ams who have made strides in their respective fields in the US are in the Philippines for a five-day immersion program that would help them Read More …

HONEST WORK AND CRITICAL THINKING Mathematics teacher Joseph Ocol, who made a name for himself in the Philippines as an anticorruption crusader, now helps African-American students in west Chicago beat drugs and crime through a unique chess program. Already, some of his young players have won state- and US-wide medals. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO He was a marked man when he migrated to the United States 15 years ago.  Joseph Ocol, once a top planning  executive of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC), had been placed on  the government’s Witness Protection Program for  blowing the whistle on what appeared to be a multibillion-peso election fund-raising scam in the agency tasked to transform a former  US military air base into an industrial complex and economic zone. For those who still remember, Ocol had recounted in Senate public hearings how representatives of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority and CDC delivered millions of pesos stashed in envelopes to the campaign manager of the then ruling Lakas-NUCD party ostensibly to fund the presidential campaign of Jose de Venecia in the 1998  elections.  He claimed that those funds had come from contractors, who were forcibly milked by government officials, resulting in substandard infrastructure and cost escalations for what was then a big Centennial Exposition project. But after the hoopla of congressional hearings, it seemed the case—like many corruption and bribery cases in the Philippines—did not prosper and was soon forgotten.  That left Ocol out of work.  The witness program’s P4,000 monthly allowance could not sustain his family’s Read More …

Associated Press 8:12 pm | Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine prosecutor says a court has convicted two Indonesians and three Filipino militants of detonating a vehicular bomb that killed a soldier and wounded several bystanders outside a southern airport in 2003. Prosecutor Aristotle Reyes says the handcuffed militants yelled “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” after a court clerk read out the verdict and life prison sentences each of them received Monday in suburban Pasig city for the attack in front of the Awang domestic airport in Maguindanao province. Reyes told The Associated Press on Tuesday that three other Filipinos were acquitted. Reyes says that the Indonesian and Filipino militants had planned a series of bombings at the time to try to sabotage the government’s peace talks with a large Muslim rebel group in the south. RELATED STORIES Drugs eyed, 3 arrested in Cotabato bombing 2 killed in Zamboanga airport blast Follow Us Other Stories: World Bank president has good words for Aquino DFA reiterates PH sovereignty rights over Recto Bank More than 50 flights cancelled due to ‘Glenda’ Asia fears China military conflict over sea claims–study Recent Stories: Complete stories on our Digital Edition newsstand for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones; 14-issue free trial. About to step out? Get breaking alerts on your mobile.phone. Text ON INQ BREAKING to 4467, for Globe, Smart and Sun subscribers in the Philippines. Short URL: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/?p=107946 Factual errors? Contact the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s day desk. Believe this article violates Read More …

By Niña P. Calleja |Philippine Daily Inquirer 4:03 am | Sunday, July 13th, 2014 Israeli infantry soldiers get ready to walk to their armored personnel carriers to take up new positions on the Israel-Gaza border, Saturday, July 12, 2014. AP The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday announced it had suspended the deployment of newly hired overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Kenya where crisis alert level 2 had been declared due to the “deteriorating security situation.” “Under alert level 2 (restriction phase), Filipinos are advised to restrict their movements and avoid unnecessary travel [to] crowded places,” the DFA said in a statement. By raising the alert level, the DFA would allow only returning OFWs with current employment contracts to go to Kenya. Last month, violence erupted in Kenya after a group of Somali extremists attacked a town, assaulted police and set establishments on fire. News reports said that since the attack in mid-June, the death toll had reached 100. Meanwhile, due to the outbreak of violence as a result of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the DFA has likewise raised alert level 2 in the Gaza Strip. Philippine authorities advised the estimated 109 Filipinos in Gaza to restrict nonessential movements and prepare for possible evacuation. Alert level 1 (precautionary phase) was hoisted in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory, and southern and central Israel. About 113 Filipinos reside in the West Bank, while 36,400 are in Israel. RELATED STORIES Israel widens air attack, Gaza death toll tops 125 Read More …