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Goodbye Albert, Welcome Willy. Some
superstitious tsismoso fans have called my attention to the names of the
incoming and outgoing ambassadors. This is what they said: “The family name of
the outgoing ambassador is Del Rosario which contains 10 letters and that of
the incoming is Gaa with three letters. The first letter of the first name of
the new ambassador is W for Willy and that of the outgoing envoy is A for
Albert. This difference means that Ambassador Gaa will only stay for a short
time.” My subjects, good observation, wrong prediction. Remember, “What Gloria
Wants, Gloria Gets.”
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Posted by comicarts
Saturday, July 29 @ 23:20:28 CDT (1298 reads)
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Philippine newspapers say President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has appointed Ambassador Willy Gaa, currently the
consul general in Los Angeles, to be the
“temporary” ambassador (in diplomatic language, charge d’affaires) to the U.S., vice
Ambassador Albert del Rosario.
Other names are also being mentioned as
among those to be appointed “permanent” ambassador, if there is such a thing in
diplomacy.
The question now is: What will happen to
DCM (deputy chief of mission) Evan “The Sphinx” Garcia? (He is called the
Sphinx because he rarely, if ever, returns phone calls from the community.)
Some tsismosos think his wife, Minister Jocelyn Garcia, who is his commander in
chief and is now in Manila,
will have him recalled in the interest of family unity.
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Posted by software world
Monday, July 17 @ 14:35:30 CDT (1232 reads)
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The Filipino American community is
seething! It is angry at the way Philippine Ambassador Albert del Rosario was
fired, not resigned as claimed by Malacanang.
This
was apparent during the Pitoy Moreno fashion show at the Ritz Carlton in
Washington D.C. June 17, according to those who
attended it.
“When Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo
praised the community for their dollar remittances to the Philippines,
the crowd clapped loudly. When he said he was also bringing with him the
greetings of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to community, it was met with
silence and some boos,” they said. “Even Ambassador John Negroponte, the
National Intelligence chie, expressed surprise that the ambassador was being
recalled.”
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Posted by software world
Friday, June 30 @ 19:09:20 CDT (1325 reads)
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The separate celebrations of the
Philippine festival and the centennial of Filipino immigration to the United
States by the Philippine Festival Committee and a newly-formed group called the
Migrant Heritage Commission does not augur well for the unity of the community.
For the first time in history in this area, these two groups are vying or have
already upstaged each other in getting the support of various business
establishments and community groups to their celebrations.
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Posted by software world
Friday, June 30 @ 11:17:56 CDT (1331 reads)
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Does the editorial writer of the Manila
Mail know what is happening in the community? This question was raised by an
angry reader over the April 30 editorial on the centennial. I am wondering why,
instead of directing the letter to the editor, it was coursed to Tsismoso.
Probably, because the editorial is my neighbor on the left.
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Posted by software world
Tuesday, May 16 @ 10:23:56 CDT (849 reads)
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A columnist of The Malaya newspaper, an anti-Arroyo newspaper in Manila, says advisers of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are blaming Ambassador Albert del Rosario in Washington D.C. for failing to stop the New York Times from publishing its April 5 editorial on the Philippines.
Ellen Tordesillas, the columnist, quoted Malacanang source as saying: “Ambassador Albert del Rosario will finally get his wish of returning to the private sector where he earns much more than what the Philippine government is paying him now.
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Posted by software world
Saturday, April 29 @ 13:17:03 CDT (880 reads)
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Ala eh, dalawa mang git ang gala ball sa June 10! Caught in the middle is Philippine Ambassador Albert del Rosario who has reportedly accepted the invitations of both galas on the same date, same time but different hotels...
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Posted by software world
Friday, April 14 @ 07:59:39 CDT (843 reads)
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The Philippine Ambassador to the US Albert del Rosario on Feb. 20, 2006
published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer an article about his involvement in a
demonstration against dictator Marcos in 1986. Titled the ‘Demonstration that
Never was,’ the ambassador recalled how he was about to lead a demonstration by
a group of Filipinos who graduated from US schools to the US embassy to call for
withdrawal of US support to Marcos.
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Posted by software world
Friday, March 31 @ 03:27:45 CST (756 reads)
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According to some guests who attended the reception in the Philippine embassy to mark the 20th anniversary of People Power last month, the money spent should have been channeled to the fundraising campaign of the embassy itself for the victims of the mudslides in southern Leyte.
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Posted by software world
Monday, March 13 @ 14:27:45 CST (1374 reads)
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