Mark Dacascos (from Deadline.com)
From Deadline.com: Hawaii Five-O alum Mark Dacascos has booked a heavily recurring role on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Dacascos will play Giyera, the head of security for S.H.I.E.L.D.
The international tribunal hearing the Philippines’ case against China over disputed territory in the West Philippine Sea may have hinted of its eventual decision when it ignored China’s so-called nine-dash line, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said.
On October 30, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that it has jurisdiction over the case, handing Manila a victory in the first-round issue of admissibility.
The tribunal has scheduled the hearing on the merits of the case from November 24 to 30 and is expected to hand down its final decision by mid-2016. More on Interaksyon.com
More than three million families are estimated to be hungry in the third quarter of 2015. In a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, 15.7 percent of respondents had experienced involuntary hunger from July until September. The latest hunger rating is considered the highest mark for 2015 and is 3 points higher than the second quarter’s, reports Rappler.com.
Adonis Endozo Reyes (Source: Inquirer.net)
Adonis Endozo Reyes, 27, is in the top five of an international cocktail-making competition. Reyes, who works at celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant Bread Street Kitchen in Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, is the only Filipino finalist the Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competition 2016, reports Inquirer.net.
Jim Pascual Agustin (Source: Rappler.com)
Filipino-South African Jim Pascual Agustin placed 3rd at the 2015 Sol Plaatje European Union (EU) Poetry Awards, reports Rappler.com. Jim's winning poem is titled “Baleka, What do You Know of Tenders and Thieves? Or Cockroaches for that Matter?"
Money sent home by Filipinos working or living abroad through banks declined for the first time in over 12 years in August, reports GMA News. Cash remittances amounted to $2.04 billion or 0.6 percent lower than the $2.06 billion recorded during the same month in 2014, according to figures released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
Overseas Filipinos created an online petition demanding an end to the "laglag bala" (Bullet-planting) scam in the country's main international airport.
On Tuesday, October 27, Ednalyn Purugganan, a Filipino living in Hong Kong started a petition on Change.org calling on Senators Grace Poe and Miriam Santiago to investigate and end the 'laglag bala' extortion scheme which targets passengers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. More on Rappler.com.
Chelsea Ake-Salvacion
A 24-year-old Filipina, Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, the manager of Rejuvenice in Henderson, Nevada, was found frozen to death inside a cryotherapy chamber at a clinic in Nevada last week.She was found dead by her co-workers in one of the salon's cryotherapy chambers, reports ABS-CBN News
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