If you're a non-Filipino man who wants to marry a Filipina, pulling it off may be about to get tougher. You will soon need to prove your capacity to support your bride. A new bill passed on second reading in the House of Representatives last week mandating additional requirements for male foreigners to want to marry Filipinas, reports Asian Pacific Post.
Seventy-five heavily armed Filipino peacekeepers besieged by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights are ready to use “deadly force” to defend themselves, their commander said on August 29, reports Inquirer.net. The Filipino peacekeepers locked in a standoff with Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights, who have taken 43 Fijian peacekeepers hostage after seizing their weapons.
A total of 1,951 Philippine-graduate nurses took the US National Licensure Examination (NCLEX), reports ABS-CBN News. The test was administered by the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. (USNCSBN) from January to June this year.
A journalist in Saudi Arabia had a tearful reunion with her long-lost Filipino nanny after the news story on her search went viral on the Internet, reports Inquirer.net. A sister publication of Arab News, Sayidaty magazine, sponsored Rawan Radwan’s trip to Manila about a week ago. The report said Radwan lost contact with her nanny, Marie Luningning Bernardo- Bebit, in 1992.
American soldiers were disembarking from a ship onto smaller boats near Cavite, Philippines, were likely taken by San Francisco Examiner special war correspondent Douglas White (Source: Georgia Newsday)
Archivists at the US Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C. came across an unexpected treasure: a wooden box filled with 150 original, never-before-seen glass plate photos from the Spanish-American war, including scenes of the war in the Philippines, reports Georgia Newsday.
Only 16, Filipino-Canadian Christian David is already getting good press for his impressive showings in Canada's basketball scene, reports GMA News. Based on the classification set by North Pole Hoops (NPH), David is ranked as the top HS player in all of Canada for the class of 2017. He was also the unanimous MVP choice of NPH's Showcase last June.
Saint Thomas More (STM) Catholic Church here last Saturday played host to some 20 couples at a mass wedding, the fourth one since 2011, reports Inquirer.net. Lovely brides and dashing grooms walked the center aisle of the church to exchange marital vows that solemnized their union in accordance with the Sacrament of Marriage.
Filipino-American hairdresser Mark Bustos, 30, does it every Sunday, the day of the week when he's not styling the hair of athletes, fashion designers, models and the well-to-do, when he roams New York's streets wanting to make a homeless person's day, reports Philstar.com. He recently gained international attention as the subject of a Huffington Post story after he started posting Intagram photos of his little, weekly project doing free haircuts for the poor.
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