Jason Quero, a former campus supervisor and karate teacher at a charter school in Livermore, California, was recently arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old student, reports ABS-CBN News. The 30-year-old Quero, a Mountain House resident, is out on bail and was tentatively scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court on July 9.
A Facebook community account of Snapchat, where wealthy students of private European schools reportedly display their luxurious lifestyle through pictures got flak recently for posting a "racist" photograph of a Filipina, reports GMA News. The controversial photo, posted on "What Happens at Private School Goes On Snapchat," shows an Asian-looking woman slumped in a private jet's seat. The caption reads, "When your Filipina flies private (??)ZZzzz RN."
High-ranking chowhound Joey “Jaws” Chestnut dropped to one knee and proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Fil-Am Neslie Ricasa, before the annual hot dog eating contest on July 4, then packed away 61 franks and buns to hold onto his coveted mustard yellow winner’s belt, reports Inquirer.net.
Teresa Magno, a female deputy district attorney prosecuting the most violent gang-related crimes in Los Angeles County – and whose father was an anti-Marcos activist – has become the first elected Filipino-American judge in the LA Superior Court, reports Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The Akbayan party-list group has denounced what it called a “modern-day slave auction” in Singapore in which maids, including Filipinos, are displayed and marketed at a shopping mall in the city state, reports Inquirer.net. The group called on the Singapore government to crack down on the “display and marketing of migrant workers” at the Bukit Timah Shopping Center.
Pope Francis has picked a 55-year-old Filipino Catholic prelate to represent Vatican City in the United Nations, according to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), reports GMA News. Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza, the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, will replace Archbishop Francis Chullikatt from India
In an effort to boost bilateral relations, Canada has designated the Philippines as a “country of focus” or a priority beneficiary of its international development assistance program, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, reports Inquirer.net.
On a scale of 1 to 10—with 10 being the highest—the Philippines ranks “somewhere between 6 and 7” as far its level of preparedness for natural disasters is concerned, according to Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special representative for disaster risk reduction, who pointed out the Southeast Asian nation is “very capable” of reducing its vulnerability, as well as responding to calamities, reports Inquirer.net..
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