Ways on how to eradicate ‘monopoly of power’ in the Philippine armed forces

Because the article is an eye opener for most of our kababayans who may wish to know more of what is happening to our home country, I have obtained the written consent [...]

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Real Democracy

Could it be possible that perhaps our usual way of looking at our national problems is a problem in itself? We seem to focus too much on leadership personalities [...]

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Vassili issues rejoinder to Pimentel’s NSW Premier’s Awards blog

I am very disappointed that some individuals purporting to be within the community have expressed some negativity around the awards. I have been sufficiently engaged with the Filipino community long enough and count many amongst my very good friends, as a Labor Candidate, I want to dispel the unfounded correspondence as divisive and politically motivated [...]

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NSW Premier’s Awards are insults to the Filipino community

I have often been suspicious of, even disliked, award presentations. Especially those awards by politicians. But these NSW Premier’s Awards were so blatantly patronising to our Filipino community it made me puke.

How could an intelligent community like ours…

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How to reprint copyrighted articles safely

These days, the opportunities to infringe on copyrights of others are numerous, particularly as information is available online. It takes only very quick “copy and paste” keystrokes for a copyrighted article to be found in another publication. Although others may say that imitation is the best form of flattery [...]

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Australia’s high population growth starts to slow

Preliminary estimates of Australia’s annual population growth rate slowed to 2.0% over 2009, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Rhe preliminary annual growth rate peaked at 2.2% [...]

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CommBank’s subsidiary fails the Spam Act test on two counts

I was surprised to read yesterday that the Commonwealth Securities was complained against by customers for sending emails after the customers had withdrawn their consent, and that the email campaigns of CommSec did not provide an option to unsubscribe [...]

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Welcome to our community blogs

At a time when blogging was still unheard-of, emanila has been experimenting over the years since 1998 with several forms of community-based websites where writers interact among themselves, writers interact with readers, or readers interacting among themselves.…

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Australia not in Top 10 worst spam origin countries, but…

Daily updates of the independent spam-tracking organisation, The Spamhaus Project, are like a “Who’s Who?” in world economy and industrial power. The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Japan. Yes, they are all there. Except Australia [...]

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