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I am taking the liberty to designate January/February? as The Filipina Bloggers Month.
As part of the “Yan ang Pinay!” Googlebombing campaign to improve the Filipina name and image in the web, we at Filipina Soul would like to honor Filipina bloggers around the globe.
This month, we’re going to compile a list of Filipina bloggers and promote their sites on Filipina Soul.
And we’re asking you tell us who they are. The blogosphere is a universe, and my guess is there are more than a thousand Filipina bloggers consistently making their presence felt. We would like you, our readers, to …read more

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You have GOT to check out this girl! Her name’s Christine and she runs/owns/directs/acts for Happy Slip Productions.
The first time I read “Happy Slip” and saw the little cartoon character, well, I thought, she’s Filipina, before I even saw her videos or read her blog entries. Happy Slip… Hap pyslip… hap yslip…. hap eslip. Get it?

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We’ve got a new poll on the sidebar!
What would you rather drink right this very minute? Let us know by clicking on one of the 5 choices. We’ll see what the #1 drink of Filipina Soul readers is.

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Hey, dear readers, I’m putting out a call for information about Filipino restaurants around the world. If you know of any good ones, please let the rest of us in on the secret by leaving the name and location of the restaurant in the comments. Filipino cuisine doesn’t seem to get a lot of press, but we all yearn for good homemade fresh lumpia every now and then. So let’s share the goodies and let the world know where they can taste our unique cuisine and the dishes it inspires.

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The Philippine Department of Health has mandated stricter inspections of travelers entering the Philippines through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). These inspections, which are complement the thermal scanners which are already in place, are designed to prevent the entry of bird flu into the country.

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It seems that there’s a rush for mning rights in some parts of the Philippines. Several mining firms have applied for permits to explore and possibly dig for valuable ore deposits:

On Thursday, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes said Anglo American was one of five large firms joining the rush to dig up the country’s unexplored mineral wealth.
Reyes identified the four others as BHP Billiton, Xstrata, Canada’s Chemical Vapour Metal Refining Inc and Phelps Dodge.
The Philippine government has said the country has $1 trillion worth of unexplored gold, copper, nickel and zinc.
It launched a campaign in 2005 to lure …read more

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A new book that promises to help anyone communicate in Filipino came out last month. The book is “Speak, Read and Write in Filipino” by Dr. Victoria Rey.

There are twenty interesting and practical lessons on everyday situations in this book. Non-Tagalog speakers will find these lessons very useful in engaging in a conversation at home, store, school, or different locations and occasions. This will also help them to understand easy reading books and write a letter, short stories and responses to given directions.

This would be a useful resource for Filipino-Americans who want to reconnect with their family’s language, and for …read more

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Antonio Samson, who writes the column “Fence Sitter” at Business World, launched a new book through an online press conference with his publisher Ramon Sunico. The book “At a Glance, More on Manila’s Corporate Jungle” is a collection of Samson’s essays and social observations as a former bank and telecommunications executive.

Hoping to interact more with readers and skip the “cocktails” typical of book launchings, Samson and Sunico allowed the local media and guests to pose questions about his book, Internet experience, take on writing, corporate life, and life in general.
“I thought this would reach a fresher audience than a real …read more

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During the Spanish occupation of the Philippines (over 300 years from 1561-1889) the barong tagalog was required by the Spanish government for Filipinos (indios) to be worn at most times to show the difference between the rich and the poor. the poor who serve the rich must always be in uniform.
Take their chauffeurs, maids, and employees as examples. They are in uniform to immediately distinguish them from the employers. When the Spaniards colonized the Filipinos, they had to make it abundantly clear who the boss was through the imposition of a dress code. Men were not allowed to tuck their …read more

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The Cinemalaya award-winning independent film “ICU Bed #7” will finally get its much-deserved exposure.

The film will be shown at the Robinson’s Galleria starting January 31 to February 6. Director Rica Arevalo was handed the Cinemalaya Best Direction trophy while the film’s lead star Eddie Garcia received the Best Actor recognition. It also won the Don Carlos Palanca award for literature.
Oliver Oliveros gets a comment from Eddie Romero, National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts:

Arevalo’s ‘ICU Bed #7’ is an impressive evidence of the entry of a new generation of gifted moviemakers to the world of Filipino visual entertainment, demonstrating a …read more

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