Lead Story
PCC Orders Massive Clean-Up
The Philippine Community Council of NSW will be having their annual general meeting (AGM) on 7 February 2010 at 1.00 pm at Chester Hill Community Centre at Chester Hill. The AGM will be immediately followed by the annual PCC elections…
Lead Story
Typhoon Ondoy Relief Appeal
Typhoon Ondoy left Metro Manila and 27 provincial areas submerged in water. Over 89,000 families have been displaced, 240 dead and thousands are still missing.
In answer to the Government’s call for aid in this state of calamity, herewith is…
Features
The much contested PCC election is to be held on Sunday, 7 February 2010 at Chester Hill. In an effort to provide the community relevant information for the forthcoming PCC elections, a profile of each presidential candidate has been collected…
Singing sensation, Lillian de los Reyes turned 60 in style last Sunday, 2 August at Burwood RSL Club, surrounded by family, friends and the Filipino community.
With her definitive and distinctive long, lean legs, she stood with grace with no…
There’s a new Consul General in town. The new head of the New South Wales post is the Honorable Eva G. Betita, a career diplomat of the Philippine Foreign Service.
She is a senior official who until recently was the Assistant…
News
Hope Floats»Typhoon Ondoy ravaged northern Philippines and the emotions of the Filipinos in Sydney were running higher than the water levels with all logic sinking into oblivion.
In answer to the clarion call, people were quick to jump – “Oh, bless their…
Grey Matter
Here We Go Again»
Around this time of the year, people in the Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) become extra nice and slip on their best behaviour. It’s say hello time and they’re there at every event and function. After being ignored all year, you’ll…
Writers' Brew
Up Yours»
By Greg B. Macabenta
I swear this story is true. A film director I knew was so incensed at someone who had offended him, he seduced the fellow’s wife then phoned the man and gloated: “You know what I’m doing right…
Klub Korner
Banag-Banag Goes Latin»
The Banag-Banag Association sure know how to party!
Banag-Banag celebrated their 15th Anniversary last 1 August 2009 at Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill.
With the Latin theme, ‘Copacabana’ it was a night of hip-swaying, booties shaking, passions dripping and sweat trickling down as…
