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A beautifully written memoir making a distinctive contribution to Australian literature concerning the immigrant experience.
Purita Echevarria de Gonzalez was born in Manila in the 1920s and describes an enchanted world, forever lost, with great poignancy and compelling immediacy. The reader suffers with her as this world is savagely destroyed by the outbreak of war, the Japanese occupation and the annihilation of the city by American saturation bombardment. The author is equally adept at describing without sentimentality, the halcyon pre-war time of her childhood and teens, and without sensationalism, the horrors of starvation and disease, brutality and massacre.
Manila: A Memoir of Love and Loss makes the past come alive, with its skilful blending of the personal, including a love story which runs through the narrative, and the historical (we briefly glimpse Marcos as a youthful partisan). Finely written, and inspiring in its portrayal of courage and compassion in the face of suffering, this memoir has a haunting quality which makes it impossible to put down.
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For a playlist of my trip to the Philippines go here: www.youtube.com For a list of all the places I visited: www.experiencephilippines.ph Music: Mike Rizzy www.mikerizzy.com http
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The next big destination in the Philippines is the newly constructed Manila Ocean Park. Found behind the Quirino Grandstand in Manila is also currently the largest oceanarium in Asia.
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Philip Morris, Fortune Tobacco in ‘marriage of equals’
MANILA, Philippines – It’s being called a marriage of equals. Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro, with a 30% share of the local cigarette market, and Lucio Tan’s Fortune Tobacco, with a 60% market share, have agreed to combine their businesses under a 50-50 joint venture company called Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC) Inc.
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Sonsona confident of world title win
MANILA, Philippines – “Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona shoots to reclaim boxing glory when he faces Puerto Rican Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr. on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
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Scholarship para sa mga kaanak ng OFW sa Taiwan inilunsad ng MECO
Pormal ng inilunsad ng Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) ang bagong scholarship program para sa mga kuwalipikadong miembro ng pamilya ng mga OFW partikular yaong mga nagnanais mag-enrol sa science at technology college courses.
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Going Out: Musical kaleidoscope
CONCERTSThe Philippine International Jazz and Arts FestivalFeb. 26, 7 p.m.Rockwell Tent, Rockwell Dr. cor. Estrella St., Rockwell Center, Makati City J-Rock Concert with Shonen KnifeFeb. 27, 7:30 p.m.San Miguel by the Bay, SM Mall of Asia, Bay City, Pasay City Backstreet Boys… Live in Manila (This Is Us World Tour)Feb. 27, 8 p.m.Araneta Coliseum, Cubao, Quezon City Love is… Toni GonzagaFeb …
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Thousands jam to different tunes at LP, Villar concerts
MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of people turned out at separate concerts staged by the Liberal Party (LP) and the campaign of Nacionalista Party (NP) standard bearer Manuel Villar on Thursday.
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Sprawling across several sun-drenched latitudes lies the 7,100 islands of the Philippines whose personality bursts at every natural seam. This most westernized nation in Asia owes much of its character to its turbulent, multicultural, and multilingual history and the Filipinos have maintained their low-key naturally friendly approach to life. This collection of short essays, written over a 2 year period and ublished in various magazines, aims to provide information and opinions about the Philippines from a variety of angles, with no chirpy promises about how you’ll travel around the islands for free, and no sugar-coated advice followed by lots of exclamation points. I believe that the Philippine is one of the best kept secrets in the world.After you read this book, I think you will agree.
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Philippines triples rice yield
Over the past 50 years, the Philippines has more than tripled its rice yield while the world average rice yield has increased only about 2.3 times.
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Rural bankers fear effects of El Niño on rural economy
MANILA, Philippines – The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) said the worsening impact of El Niño weather phenomenon on agriculture sector will put pressure on microenterprises in the country.
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Philippines Triples Its Rice Yield
Los Baños, Philippines: In the last fifty years, the Philippines has more than tripled its rice yield, while the world average rice yield has increased only about 2.3 times.Despite being criticized as a poor rice producer because of its status as the world’s biggest rice importer, the Philippines has actually done remarkably well in raising its rice yields from 1.16 tons per hectare in 1960* to …
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Bernama) — Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman Monday expressed relief over the release of Malaysian boat owners and their crew members who were detained by Philippines authorities for trespassing into the country’s territorial waters.
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MANILA, Philippines – A group of traders is protesting to the National Food Authority (NFA) central office and to the Visayas Ombudsman citing alleged anomalies in the processing of a Private Sector Financed (PSF) tax-free rice importation for 2010.
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