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'The War at Home' by Chip Tsao

This article was written by a chinese columnist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a “nation of servants.”, This has enraged Filipinos all over the world for his racial slur. The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that-—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That's no big problem-—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and s...

HK Magazine removes Chip Tsao from website

The controversial article of Chinese writer Chip Tsao describing the Philippines as “a nation of servants” as well as his profile photo has been pulled out of the online edition of HK Magazine. Tsao’s March 27 article entitled “The War at Home,” which sparked uproar from politicians, migrant workers and Filipinos all over the world, could no longer be found on the magazine’s website. On Monday morning, or three days after the article was published online, hk-magazine.com posted a warning...

Economist Kelly Bird: 4.3-M Filipinos poor without remittances

Money sent home by Filipinos working abroad have kept at least 4 million Filipinos out of poverty as of 2006, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) economist said Tuesday. Kelly Bird, senior economist at ADB's Southeast Asia department, described remittances as "a major anti-poverty driver" in the country. "Remittances have reduced the national headcount poverty rate by at least 5 percentage points," said the economist. However, central bank deputy governor Diwa Guinigundo e...

Pinoys in HK to stage protests over ‘racist’ article

The Filipino community in Hong Kong will launch street protests starting Sunday in light of a columnist's branding of the Philippines as a "nation of servants," a Filipino envoy said on Tuesday. Romulo Salud, labor attache of the Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong, said in an interview over radio dzBB that the Filipino community has decided to openly express their outrage at columnist Chip Tsao's "The War at Home" piece published in HK Magazine last March 27. Th...

Noli says pardon for 2 OFWs still possible

Vice-President Noli de Castro on Friday said Philippine embassy officials in Kuwait are still working on getting a pardon for  two overseas Filipino workers, May Vecina and Marilou Ranario, even if they have already been saved from the death row.“At least, buhay yung tao. May possibility pa na mabigyan ng pardon. Dadagdagan natin ang ating dasal,” De Castro said. On Thursday, the DFA announced that the Emir of Kuwait has signed the Amiri decree commuting the death sentences of t...