Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
If you've ever heard stories of Philipino hospitality it's all true. If you've never heard of it let me tell you. These people are so happy to see us that it'shellip crazy It's like we're celebrities. When we got off the plane in GeneralSantos pretty much everyone in the church was there to see us. Someone said it was like Old Testament times when Paul came off the ship and every single
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Returning to the Philippines and My Love Ruby
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
General Santos CITY (MindaNews/22 July) – Mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) yesterday said it has remained unfazed by mounting pressures on its operations ...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
We had a really full day today. It started at 745 am when we left for the international fish market here in Gensan General Santos City to attend the annual Tuna Festival. There were paddling races and swimming races. That part was really hot even though we were sitting under shade. I took some video of the racing but most of the time I wasn't sure what was going on. Then we moved to anoth
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
I think it's August 17 anyway. This time travel thing is really messing with my head. I'm currently in the air between Manila and General Santos City. In the last 24 or so hours I've spent at least 17 hours in an airplane and gotten about 5 hours of sleep. Oh and I've skipped half a day. I left Dallas at 9am Wednesday morning and flew to Detroit. There after a severalhour layover I got o
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
With the current lack of reported outbreaks, media attention is moving to prevention stories, like the one mentioned earlier today from Ghana. Here's another, this one from the Philippines news service ABS-CBN News Online: Project calls for concern on possible...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
US lists Rajah Solaiman Movement as terrorists Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - The US State Department designated as terrorists on Monday the Philippines-based Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM), its leader Ahmad Santos and eight other RSM members. The RSM was set up in January 2002 by Santos who has "been involved in the planning of bombings against Philippine and non-Philippine civilians and the stockpiling...
EagleSpeak (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
An Australia-bound cattle ship came under attack for a couple of hours off the Philippines as set out here: The 4600-tonne merchant vessel Hereford Express, crewed by 22 Filipinos, was heading from a Philippines island to Broome to pick up cattle when it was fired on south of Mindanao Island on Saturday morning. *** The vessel returned to port at Mindanao's General Santos City to formally
