A baby girl born early Sunday, July 26, has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation, reports Inquirer.net. The child, Jennalyn Sentino, was one of 100 babies born in state hospitals all over the archipelago who received the symbolic designation of “100,000,000th baby.”
After 17 years, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 3 will become fully operational by July 31, announced the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), reports Inquirer.net.
All Mary Grace Demafeliz could now wish is to have more days to tell her two-year-old son, Dave Gabriel, how much she loved him. But her boy died unexpectedly Monday night, four days after he underwent free heart surgery at the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, reports ABS-CBN News.
Baron Southampton and Alma Pasqual
A Positively Filipino reader sent an undated news clipping about a Filipina maid who married an English baron. The sender also provided a translation: "Lord makes his cleaning woman his Lady: The aristocratic family upped their nose as the English Baron Southampton, 70, married his 34-year-old younger cleaning woman, Alma Pasqual of the Philippines and from here on officially made her his Baroness and Lady. And the heir is baby Charles who opened his eyes to the world. The Lord and lady are very happy."
Performing solo in Chennai, India, Filipina pianist Alexandra Minoza received a standing ovation as she set the bar for a music festival celebrated worldwide, reports GMA News. Minoza was the only Filipino to perform at the Goethe Institute-organized Fete de la Musique, a yearly musical festival that was held last June 21, a news release from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
The Filipinos who boarded the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 were apparently ''chance passengers'', one of their relatives said, reports ABS-CBN News. MH17 fatality Irene Pabellon-Gunawan and family were chance passengers of the Malaysian plane, which was shot down over the Ukraine July 17, according to Gunawan's sister-in-law.
A Filipino construction worker in Libya was beheaded by militants in Benghazi, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. He is the first Filipino casualty in Libya since first civil war that toppled the regime of Libyan strongman Moammar Ghadafi in 2011, reports Inquirer.net.
The Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur warned Filipinos against unscrupulous individuals or groups who are asking for money on the pretext of love, reports GMA News. The embassy received reports of Filipinas who were scammed by supposed lovers they met through chatrooms and Facebook. One Filipina based in Hong Kong reportedly lost “huge sums of money” to her fiancé, a Malaysia-based Briton she met on social media.
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