The Sandiganbayan anti-corruption court ordered the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to surrender eight paintings by famous European artists such as Michaelangelo, Pablo Picasso and Francisco de Goya, declaring they had been illegally acquired with public funds, reports Interaksyon.com.
Rolando Maaba, a 55-year-old janitor at the Rockford Memorial Hospital in Rockford, Illinois, does not only keep the premises clean, he also provides calm to patients and visitors by using his daily 15- minute breaks to play the piano in the hospital lobby. He was featured on ABC News' "Good Morning America," reports Inquirer.net.
Over 3,000 people expressed support for Fred Buenavista, 32, a Filipino barman who was forced to return to the Philippines after he was threatened with deportation despite having lived and worked in the United Kingdom for 12 years, reports GMA News. Up to 3,000 people reportedly signed a petition on his behalf.
Ralph De Leon (Source: dailymail.co.uk/facebook.com)
Ralph de Leon, 25, a Filipino faces life in prison after being found guilty on September 25 in California of plotting to aid jihadists and to kill Americans overseas, reports Inquirer.net.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario urged Washington to approve the Philippines’ request for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to allow undocumented Filipinos in the US, saying a lot still needs to be done to help the Philippines rebuild much faster from the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan, reports Inquirer.net.
Nearly half of the Philippine population is now online, according to the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP). Philippine Internet users now number 38 million out of a population of 100 million. About two-thirds of Internet users are below 30 years old, reports GMA News.
The Philippines’ booming outsourcing industry now employs a million people after growing almost tenfold in just over a decade, said the IT and Business Process Association Philippines.Widely considered as second only to India, Philippine outsourcing is expected to earn $18 billion this year, reports Inquirer.net.
Minerva Tantoco (Source: techpresident.com)
Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped Filipino-American tech executive Minerva Tantoco as the city’s first Chief Technology Officer on Tuesday, September 10, reports inquirer.net. Philippine-born Minerva L. Tantoco, a startup founder and holder of four patents who comes from a CTO job at UBS.
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