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Fil-Ams successfully revamp election system in S. California city
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US eyes allocating $70 million for EDCA sites, arms in PH
Volume 24 No. 387 ´´´ The oNe & oNly FilipiNo & AsiAN NewspAper iN The eNTire CiTy ANd CouNTy oF sAN diego – sAN diego, CAliForNiA usA ´´´ NoVemBer - deCemBer 2022 issue
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Ditas Yamane led a drive to switch National City, California's local elections from city-wide to district polls. She also won a city couch seat last Nov. 8. WEBSITE - Story on page 9
Filipino-American Retirees of Southern California Presents Veteran of the Year
U.S. Ambassador MaryKay L. Carlson | PHOTO: U.S. Embassy in the Philippines’ official website
Filipino American Retirees Association of Southern California (FARSOC) Guest Speaker Gen. Edgar Aglipay, PNP Director (Ret.) at the event on November 12, 2022 at Four Points by Sheraton on Aero Drive. See p.15
DOT breaches tourism target with over 2 million travelers to PH
MANILA, Philippines – At least two million visitor arrivals have been recorded in the Philippines since the country eased border restrictions last February, said the Department
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MANILA, Philippines — The United States is planning to allocate $70 million, or nearly P4 billion, in the
next two years to implement the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), a key military deal
that would allow Washington bases in the country. to build facilities and prepoThe agreement signed in sition assets in some 2014 — designed to strategically located military address Chinese
MANILA, Philippines— Three years since first setting foot on the Binibining Pilipinas stage and months after crowning her successor, Hannah Arnold is finally leaving for the Miss
International pageant. The Australian-Filipino forensic scientist from Masbate joined the 2019 Bb. Pilipinas pageant where she finished in the semifinals. She returned the following
year, but the competition was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The national pageant resumed in 2021, and she captured the Bb. Pilipinas International crown. But the
60th Miss International pageant in which she was supposed to compete extended its “pandemic pause” for another year, so she patiently waited for her turn to carry
Mall operators in the Philippines said their commercial establishments were ready for the anticipated increase in people going to
shop, dine and enjoy some leisure time during the holiday season. In a recent interview with DZMM radio station, exec-
utives of the country’s three largest shopping mall chains – SM supermalls, Robinsons malls, and Ayala malls –
said that preparations and adjustments have been put in place to ensure the safety and
MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has replaced former Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as president of Caritas Internationalis (CI), Vatican’s charity and disaster relief agency composed of more
than a hundred organizations, following an independent review of its operations that found serious “deficiencies in management and procedures.” The move was part of the overhaul
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Bb. Pilipinas Hannah Arnold finally leaving for Miss International pageant
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Philippine malls ready for holiday rush, operators say
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Former Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (FILE PHOTO)