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From: francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Visas. Restrictions?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 15:58:47 GMT
Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
NNTP-Posting-Host: kiko.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Sep7.231244.19352@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (M Adlard) writes:

>I would like to take my wife to cyprus but am not sure if her Philippine 
>passport and english setlement visa will cause problems. People I have spoken
>to are not sure.

I'm not sure either. However, from experience, Filipinos need visas to go 
practically anywhere outside SE Asia.

>I am also wondering if, when we go back to Tacloban city (leyte) to visit our
>relitives there, if she will have to pay the tourism tax again before we 
>return back to the UK. The person who I spoke to in the Rizzel Park office was
>not too sure, it may have just been my very strong west of england accent I 
>have confusing the poor man or something like that..

As far as I know, she has to pay travel tax every time she leaves the 
country. So if you are planning to visit Cyprus before going to the UK, do 
all your Philippine travels first if you want to avoid paying travel tax 
twice.

>Finally my Wife hopes to fly to england sometime in September this year. But
>I have been hearing broken reports that the volcano is playing up again and
>may have closed the international/domestic airports in manila.

My brother-in-law is a steward in Philippine Air Lines. He still makes his 
almost fornightly trips to LA or SF. So as far as I know, the airports are 
still open. However, I don't know if Mother Nature will be as cooperative in 
the near future.

Good luck.

   - Francis
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Francis C Felizardo				francis@mpl.ucsd.edu
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 0213	      (619) 534 1085
La Jolla, CA 92093-0213
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: FREE1263@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: where is everyone
Organization: C.C.S.O.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:42:32 GMT

In article <3095@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
tessie@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Tessie Julita Pobjie) writes:
 
>
>I am trying to establish contact with my former classmates and colleagues at the
>College of Forestry at UPLB who are overseas,particularly Dr. Guillermo Mendoza and Lita Rule. Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
>C
gil mendoza is with the univ. of illinois (GILAMEN@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU)
and Lita Rule is at Iowa State Univ.... Does anyone there know
Willie Vicente's (UPLB Statistics, 19??) whereabouts????
****roger j meimban/ univ of illinois****
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: millan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Visa Restrictions?
Reply-To: millan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:56:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.031929.8368@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, temiraso@vela.acs.oakland.edu (thomas e mirasol) writes:
>Regarding your question on travel tax.  I found out (at the
>travel tax desk at NAIA) that those filipinos who have lived for
>some time abroad (at least 1 year I think, maybe less) need only
>present their latest philippine income tax return (filed
>overseas, I'm not even sure if this pertains to US only) and you
>can get away with a 20 pesos fee instead of 1620 pesos.

  Dear Netters,
  I'd like to request information from SCFers in the know regarding the 
travel tax thing. I'm planning to go home for the Christmas holiday, and
come back after the new year, so am wondering what the possiblities/alter-
natives are.
  I'm currently a TA at Brandeis U, and my stipend is taxable (have filed
US Federal and State tax), but have never filed a Philippine ITR. Thus,
i do not think i can avail of the P20 vs. P1620 deal.
  Does any one know of other deals (ex. utilizing a student/TA status)
to be able to cut the cost of this travel tax. P1620 would go a long
way spent on my family than anywhere else.
  Would appreciate comments and details.

  M I K O


 mitchel d. millan
 brandeis university
 department of chemistry
 waltham, ma 02254-9110
From: aimee@wpd.sgi.com (Aimee Manosa)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Where is everybody?  : -)
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:57:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep8.213004.27923@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb) writes:

|> I dunno if you ever attended a reception like this one, but I'd never been to
|> one where the tapping of silverware to glassware started as soon as the couple
|> arrived in the ballroom. I also had never been to one where, in order to get
|> the couple to kiss for the audience, your table had to stand up and sing a
|> song that contained the word "love" in its lyrics. Like "The Love Boat", 
|> "Love Me Tender", or "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling." 
|> 

Custom here in the US is that during the reception, tapping the silverware
on the glass cause the bride and the groom to kiss.  And you can keep on
doing this all reception long.

Now, the part of the singins is probably a new thing that the DJ was
trying out...you know...to make it lively!


-- 
        ~
Aimee Manosa		aimee@wpd.sgi.com
			Silicon Graphics, Inc
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Ramos Wants Gov/NDF Talks Held in Manila
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:01:45 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- President Fidel Ramos approved formal
peace negotiations with communist rebels Monday but rejected demands the
talks should be held outside the Philippines, saying the insurgency was
an internal problem.
	Ramos also spurned suggestions to send a delegation to Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia to talk with Nur Misuari, exiled chairman of the Moro National
Liberation Front which is fighting a Muslim separatist war in the south.
	He said the MNLF had been weakened when it split into three factions,
one of which has expressed support for the Manila government.
	``I think it is something that we should try to resolve in the
Philippines since this is really an internal problem,'' Ramos said,
referring to communist demands that formal talks should be held in a
third country under U.N auspices.
	``I hope that they will depart from their hard-line stand to see that
the objective of this is enduring peace for the great majority of law-
abiding Filipinos,'' he said during his weekly news conference.
	Rebel leaders, who met with government negotiators last week in the
Dutch city of Utrecht for exploratory talks, have agreed to hold formal
talks in a move observers said was a step forward in the peace process.
	But the rebels, led by exiled communist party chief Jose Maria Sison
and former priest Luis Jalandoni, demanded that formal talks be held in
a third country, saying they faced arrest in the Philippines.
	``They (Sison and Jalandoni) are key figures and they want to
participate in the negotiations,'' said political science professor
Franciso Nemenzo.
	``The trouble is that there is a sword hanging over their heads --
their pending cases. But I hope they do not drop the talks just because
of this issue,'' he said.
	Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon said last week Manila was willing
to grant rebel negotiators ``safe conduct passes'' to be able to
participate in the talks without being arrested.
	Nemenzo also said Ramos should talk with the MNLF because it still
has a powerful armed force, although its rebellion has dwindled in
recent years.
	``He (Ramos) has to talk with the MNLF. Don't forget the MNLF is
stronger in terms of manpower (than the NPA),'' Nemenzo said.
	Muslim rebels were capable of waging a civil war, he added.
	He said a 1986 truce forged between the Philippine armed forces and
Muslim guerrillas was just temporary. ``Imagine what would happen if
they resume fighting again.''
	More than 100,000 people were killed in the Muslim war for
independence on the southern island of Mindanao which reached its
heights in the early 1970s.
	``I think Ramos recognizes that there is no hope for economic
recovery for as long as there are armed groups in the country. He must
talk to all groups,'' Nemenzo said.
	Ramos has pledged to talk with military dissidents, who have staged
seven rebellions against former president Corazon Aquino.
From: tessie@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Tessie Julita Pobjie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: where is everyone
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:42:23 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

I am trying to establish contact with my former classmates and colleagues at the
College of Forestry at UPLB who are overseas,particularly Dr. Guillermo Mendoza and Lita Rule. Can anyone help? Thanks.

C
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: temiraso@vela.acs.oakland.edu (thomas e mirasol)
Subject: Internet access for DLSU
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:59:51 GMT

This is a summary of an article which I found in the Alumnews
dated June 1992.  Alumnews is the official publication of the De
La Salle Alumni Association.  

Internet Access for DLSU

DLSU is now able to access internet.  With DLSU's current
facilities, email and file transfer is possible.  Currently it
costs about 15 pesos per message of 2500 characters sent or
received.

The university's current facilities enable computer users to
compose a message and spool it to a UNIX computer in De La Salle. 
Telephone lines are then used to transfer all mail messages to an
intermediate node in the evenings.  A long distance call from a
computer in the US will then pick up the mail messages and
distribute them across the US.

This means theat DLSU's connection to internet is not that of a
full-node member.  To really achieve a full network connection,
leased lines are needed.  With a leased line, DLSU can avail of
all facilities available in the computer networks.  However,
leased lines are expensive, and an alternative is to use packet
switch networks.  This is currently being studied.

Access to the internet will benefit the research community of
DLSU.  Instead of getting information from out-dated texts and
books, it is now possible to contact currrent sources directly. 
Another advantage is the communication with linkage universities
like Waseda University in Japan (via bitnet) and Brighton
Polytechnic in the UK (via janet) is faster, easier, and cheaper.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: godfrey@sscvx1.ssc.gov (LAURENCE GODFREY)
Subject: Re: Hello Everyone
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:39:00 GMT

In article <0egrgu600Uh7A2NmVE@andrew.cmu.edu>, mf44+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sycip Frondoso writes...
> 
>I just came from the Philippines about a month ago to study here.  I
>could use any help regarding sending e-mail back home.  My father says
>if I get enough information, he can get University of the Philippines
>hooked into our network.
>Thanks.

that would be nice - even Thailand is now hooked in at its main university
(Chulalongkorn) and from there to about 8 other universities around the
country.

Laurence

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: yolly@lcsstr.stgt.sub.org (Yolanda Dizon)
Subject: Hello + Thanks
Organization: LCS - 7303 Neuhausen / Germany
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:16:18 GMT


Hello Pinay, hello Pinoy, hello friends!

We connected last week to the net but until now I was only
able to read.
I was a little bit surprised that here came so much messages;
and especially the important news from Phils. which are 
difficult to get in Germany.
Thanks to all writers!!

YOLLY
:-)

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yolly@lcsstr.stgt.sub.org       Voice: (49)-7158-60033
From: martyg@ocf.berkeley.edu (Martin Guerrero)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Snide Remarks by Brent Musburger?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 18:19:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

I heard from someone listening to the Little World World Series
that Brent Musburger made some pretty snide remarks about Filipinos.

I hear that he mentioned something like There are Monkeys without
tails in Zamboanga.

Has anyone heard about this?
From: rahman@ces.cwru.edu (Rahman A. Soomro)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Rain Relief Fund
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:30:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: easy.ces.cwru.edu

Dear friends,

Recent rains in Pakistan have caused devastating effects on the 
daily life of the Pakistani people. Scores of people have lost there
lives and more than a million have been homeless.

	I appeal to you to help our brothers and sisters in need
and donate some money to help them. Please send your contribution
(tax deductible) with your name and also I request you to collect 
donations from any source -- your colleagues at work, friends, business
associates, customers, persons from any nationalities and backgrouds
to help people in trouble. 

	We are tying you help suffering peoples, who are suffering
from disease and malnutrition.

Please mail your contributions to:

Pakistan Rain Relief Fund
4105 Providence drive
St. Charles, MO 63304
USA
From: leon@garnet.berkeley.edu (Leon C. Salcedo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: wanted: BOOKS
Date: 9 Sep 1992 01:07:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu



Hello there!

I'm looking for some books concering experiences of Pilipinos here
in the US after WWII and up to the present. Can anyone suggest any?

Thanks,
leon
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Imelda Hospitalized
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:54:22 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Former first lady Imelda Marcos remained
hospitalized for high blood pressure Friday, forcing a delay of a
planned trip to Hawaii to fetch her husband's remains.
	Marcos spokeswoman Ileana Maramag said the 63-year-old Marcos checked
herself into the Makati Medical Center late Thursday complaining of
chest pains.
	``She is resting, she's conscious and under observation,'' Maramag
told UPI in a telephone interview from Marcos's guarded hospital room. 
``She had an abrupt increase in blood pressure and chest pains. This can
lead to a stroke or heart attack, so we're not taking any chances.''
	Maramag said the hospitalization would force Marcos to postpone her
scheduled Friday night trip to Hawaii, where she intended to collect her
husband's body from a refrigerated crypt for permanent internment in his
homeland.
	Late dictaor Ferdinand Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989, three years
after a civilian revolt drove him from power.
	Friday, government officials initially said they considered Marcos'
hospitalization a likely publicity stunt -- a claim Maramag denied.
	``No, that is not true,'' Maramag said of such charges. ``The truth
will always come out. We're not playing games. We don't believe in
deception.''
	Philippine courts have given Mrs. Marcos until Sept. 28 to bring home
her late husband's remains.
	Mrs. Marcos needed court permission for the trip because she faces
criminal and civil charges for allegedly helping her husband steal
billions of dollars from the government during his 20-year reign.
From: lagman@CS.ColoState.EDU (annette)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Travel Tax (was Re: Visa Restrictions?)
Date: 10 Sep 92 07:38:21 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <1992Sep10.035628.20490@news.cs.brandeis.edu> millan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>  Does any one know of other deals (ex. utilizing a student/TA status)
>to be able to cut the cost of this travel tax. P1620 would go a long
>way spent on my family than anywhere else.

	My information is from 1990, so things may have changed,
	but if not then as a "scholar" you would be exempt from travel tax.

	First, make sure you have sufficient documentation, such as 
	the original copy of your assistantship contract.  Then,
	call or visit the NEDA Scholarship office (in the NEDA bldg.
	between Ortigas and Shaw) and find out what the requirements are.
	You will need to submit a request-for-exemption letter and
	copies of your documents.  Then you wait for a few days, pick
	up your exemption, then take it to the Dept. of Tourism.
	It takes a bit of legwork, but is definitely worth it.

	If anyone has newer information, please post.

	Hope this helps.

	annette
From: m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (M Adlard)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Visas. Restrictions?
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:58:44 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <francis.58.0@mpl.ucsd.edu> francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.231244.19352@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (M Adlard) writes:
>

>Good luck.
>

>   - Francis
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>Francis C Felizardo				francis@mpl.ucsd.edu
>Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 0213	      (619) 534 1085
>La Jolla, CA 92093-0213

Thanks for replying to my questions, and also thanks to the others who also 
E-mailed me, well only another 8 days before she will arrive here, I feel a
little sad for bringing her away from such a nice place STO.ROSARIO Where else
would a foriegn visiter from the UK be made so at home?  I really do miss the
place.. <ho hum>
Thanks again..
MAT.A

-- 
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
|    Matthew Adlard      |          m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk          |
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
          ** N.B. **  Any remarks made are my own views only.
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Courts Allow Imelda to Leave for Hawaii
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:02:43 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Four lower courts allowed former first
lady Imelda Marcos to leave for Hawaii to bring back the remains of her
husband for a Philippine burial late this month, her lawyer said
Tuesday.
	Attorney Renato Dilag said an anti-graft court and three regional
trial courts granted a petition filed Monday by the widow of ousted
dictator Ferdinand Marcos asking permission to travel to Honolulu.
	Justice Romeo Escarreal of the anti-graft court said a $14,800
security bond Mrs. Marcos posted during a trip to Hong Kong in July but
which was not returned would be considered as her bond this time.
	Mrs. Marcos is facing 48 criminal charges, including graft, tax
evasion and currency violation suits, before the four lower courts.
	Ferdinand Marcos' remains are temporarily interred in Honolulu where
he died in 1989 while in exile.
	Mrs. Marcos said Friday she planned a Sept. 23 homecoming for the
former president after a wealthy Chinese-American friend offered to
shoulder the $200,000 needed to charter an aircraft for the trip.
	The Marcos family wanted to bury the body in time for the ousted
dictator's third death anniversary Sept. 28, Mrs. Marcos has said.
	Mrs. Marcos last month agreed to a government condition to fly the
remains directly from Honolulu to the deposed ruler's home province of
Ilocos Norte, 250 miles north of Manila.
	President Fidel Ramos has banned a burial in the capital for fear the
body's presence could spark political unrest and derail a fragile
economic recovery.
	It would be the second foreign trip by the former first lady since
she returned home from U.S. exile late last year to face charges, which
also includes 36 multi-million dollar civil suits.
	She left July 28 for Hong Kong, where she held meetings for five days
with associates of her late husband in a bid to speed an out-of-court
settlement of the charges against her.
	Her travel to Hong Kong was delayed for 11 days because of legal
problems. She was allowed to leave Manila after paying a security bond.
	Mrs. Marcos, who lost in her bid for thepresidency in the May 11
elections, has been accused of helping her husband loot the country of
billions of dollars during the late president's 20-year rule.
	The dictator was toppled in a civilian-backed military revolt in
1986.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: ben@netcom.com (benny f. p. sevilla)
Subject: Re: Snide Remarks by Brent Musburger?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 20:03:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia) writes:
: 
:   The song, according to some older folks, was describing the 
:   ability of the folks in Zamboanga to scale the tall coconut trees.
:   How true this is, I don't know. 
	in the movie, where JOhn Wayne sang that song, they showed a man
	walking or climbing a coconut tree;  when they were showing that movie
	they were not talking about real monkeys; they were talking	
	about filipinos, because all monkeys have tails; and during that
	period, monkey is a term they called us; like they called Jews "kikes"
	and African-American "niggers".  It is a term of hate, for those
	of you young enough not to know.


: 
:   Still the comment was uncalled for. When Jimmy the Greek made a 
:   comment about blacks superiority in sports, he got canned. Howard Cosell
:   got chastised for calling one of the Redskins, "that little monkey", even
:   if he said, he meant it as a term of endearment.

	when i came here a long time ago, an old Filipino told me this story:

	This supposedly happened sometime in California.  A quiet Filipino
	have been verbally abused by this white guy who constantly called
	him monkey, wheenver, wherever he can.
	one day, the white man was found dead, and the Filipino man was
	accused as the slayer.

	At the hearing, the man's defense was like this:

	"The monkey killed him; I am not a monkey, so I did not kill him!"

	He was acquitted.

: 
:   I did not hear the comment made, but if it was made, I believe an explanation
:   or apology should be given.
: 
:   Lighten up and/or "pasensiya nalang" has always been our fall back as a 
:   people; it's good to express our feelings and be heard.
: 
:   /Danny

a bigot is a bigot is a bigot ---- "pasensia na lang" does not work 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: afalla@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Majority and Minority part
Reply-To: afalla@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:27:03 GMT

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Joval C. Afalla         |"The invention of the concept of cosmic purpose by
Chemistry Department    |theologians is, apart from the brutality towards
Brandeis University 	|individuals that they have inspired, their most serious
Waltham, MA 02254-9110 	|crime against humanity, for it has directed minds away
			|from real problems"  -from "Will Science Ever Fail?,"
			|in New Scientist
From: mf44+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sycip Frondoso)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Hello Everyone
Date: 13 Sep 92 09:32:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0egrgu600Uh7A2NmVE
Organization: Freshman, IM - H&SS Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I just came from the Philippines about a month ago to study here.  I
could use any help regarding sending e-mail back home.  My father says
if I get enough information, he can get University of the Philippines
hooked into our network.
Thanks.