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KC: RP’s ambassador against hunger visits WFP in New York

Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:14 Momar G. Visaya / AJPRess New York

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KC: RP’s ambassador against hunger visits WFP in New York

NEW YORK – Maria Kristina Cassandra Cuneta Concepcion was born with a silver spoon. She entered this world famous, no question about that, and the public watched her grow before their very eyes.

With Sharon Cuneta and Gabby Concepcion’s blood running through her veins, showbusiness was an inevitable path. KC, as she is more famously known, took a sidetrip and finished a business communications course at the American University in Paris.

Nothing like her contemporaries in the business today, KC decided to take the road less traveled and leverage her star power in pushing for a cause that has become near and dear her heart.

What Money Can’t Buy: Non-material yet meaningful gifts for dad on this special day

Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:10 Jherlyn Meneses / AJPress Los Angeles

Once a year, we get to celebrate and commemorate Father’s Day every third Sunday of the month of June. We pay tribute to the lives of each and every father, we validate their contribution to society, their achievements in their career and most importantly, the love and protection they give to every home.

Fathers are our unsung heroes for they are seldom appreciated. Very rare do they get the limelight and the credit they deserve. Being the provider, their absence at home should not discredit them for their fair share of love and importance. This Father’s Day, let them know how special they truly are and give them the message of love.

What does Philippine Independence Day Mean to FilAms?

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:25 Cynthia De Castro / AJPress Los Angeles with Photos by Bert C. Jaurigue

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What does Philippine Independence Day Mean to FilAms?

A few days from now, the 111th Philippine Independence Day will be celebrated on June 12. The celebrations will not only be in the Philippines but in many countries around the world, wherever there are large pockets of Filipinos.

Here in America, from the East to the West Coast, tens of thousands of Filipinos and those with some Filipino blood in their ancestry are going to have their own festivities to mark the special day. More than a century ago on June 12, 1898, General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the Philippine Declaration of Independence from the colonial rule of Spain in Kawit, Cavite. The event saw the first unfurling of the National Flag of the Philippines, and the performance of the Nation’s National Anthem, now known as Lupang Hinirang.

A History of Our Independence

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:24 Jherlyn Meneses / AJPress Los Angeles

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Filipinos have had a long history of struggle before gaining freedom and independence. The Philippines was under the colonial rule of Spain for almost 200 years. Insurrections led by our brave national heroes broke out because of the authoritarian and abusive Spanish rule. It only came to an end accidentally as a result of the United States’ involvement with Cuba, another Spanish colony.

The United States declared war on Spain in 1898. The Battle of Manila Bay was the first hostile engagement of the Spanish-American War. US gained the support of the Filipinos through the help of Aguinaldo who went back to the Philippines after being exiled in Hongkong. He then gathered his rebel forces and re-established a revolutionary government and declared Philippine Independence from Spain on June 12, 1898 at his ancestral home in Kawit Cavite.

Celebrating Our Freedom Events lined up for RP Independence Day

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:22 Joseph Pimentel / AJPress Los Angeles

Philippine Independence Day is a time for celebration. All over the world, Filipinos will gather and celebrate this year the 111th anniversary of Philippine Independence day on June 12.

Philippine Independence Day is the day General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the independence of the Filipinos in Kawit, Cavite, in 1898.

Some Filipino organizations have already celebrated.