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Craig Gima
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Hawaii prepares for possible GMA visit
by Craig Gima - August 28, 2006 - 12:00am
HONOLULU — Filipino community leaders here and the United States Secret Service are making preliminary plans for a visit to Hawaii by President Arroyo next month. The President told Filipino community...
Real estate boom back home
by Craig Gima - March 12, 2006 - 12:00am
Overlooking the crater lake of a volcano high above the heat and humidity of Manila, Dr. Emil and Ellen Suzara have built a home where they expect to live the rest of their lives. The Suzaras took the profits from...
Real estate boom back home
by Craig Gima - March 12, 2006 - 12:00am
Overlooking the crater lake of a volcano high above the heat and humidity of Manila, Dr. Emil and Ellen Suzara have built a home where they expect to live the rest of their lives. The Suzaras took the profits from...
A Healthy Start
by Craig Gima - January 15, 2006 - 12:00am
IN THIS SHANTY TOWN, BUILT ALONG RAILROAD TRACKS NOT FAR from the bright lights and luxury high-rises along Manila’s Baywalk, hope has come from Hawaii. About 500 families live in this squatter camp in the...
A Healthy Start
by Craig Gima - January 15, 2006 - 12:00am
IN THIS SHANTY TOWN, BUILT ALONG RAILROAD TRACKS NOT FAR from the bright lights and luxury high-rises along Manila’s Baywalk, hope has come from Hawaii. About 500 families live in this squatter camp in the...
Fil-Hawaiians give PCs to Cebu school
by Craig Gima - January 13, 2006 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — The computers may be old and used, but that doesn’t matter to students at Arcelo Memorial High School in Lilo-an, a rural community near this city. The donation from Hawaiian Electric Co. of...
Hold the lengua for Hawaii gov
by Craig Gima - January 12, 2006 - 12:00am
Except for the ox tongue, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle had what she called the "trip of a lifetime" during her eight-day visit to the Philippines. Lingle flew back to Hawaii Tuesday night. And, to paraphrase...
Vigan university faculty eyeing nursing jobs abroad, too
by Craig Gima - January 11, 2006 - 12:00am
VIGAN, Ilocos Sur — It’s not only the students at the University of Northern Philippines who dream of a nursing career overseas. Most of the faculty have already applied to leave the country. About 60...
Sarrat school kids find new friends from Hawaii
by Craig Gima - January 9, 2006 - 12:00am
SARRAT, Ilocos Norte — It may seem like a long way from the urban neighborhoods along King street and Nimitz Highway to the rural barrios among the rice fields in Ilocos Norte, but the distance just got a little...
Family ties buoy Hawaiians’ visit
by Craig Gima - January 5, 2006 - 12:00am
Ask Gov. Linda Lingle about her visit to the Philippines and she recalls fond memories of when she first came to Hawaii and rented a room from a Filipino family on Molokai. During graduation season, the whole...
Events kick off Pinoy centennial celebration in Hawaii
by Craig Gima - December 14, 2005 - 12:00am
Filipinos began a yearlong centennial celebration yesterday with a tribute to the first sakadas, contract plantation workers who began 100 years of immigration to Hawaii in December 1906. Music, a multi-denominational...
In search of sake
by Craig Gima - May 24, 2005 - 12:00am
It was in Abaracho, a small sake and wine shop on the main shopping street a few blocks from the Fushimi-Momoyama station, that I had my sake epiphany–a zen moment when I began to understand the balance of rice...
In search of SAKE
by Craig Gima - May 22, 2005 - 12:00am
It was in Abaracho, a small sake and wine shop on the main shopping street a few blocks from the Fushimi-Momoyama station, that I had my sake epiphany–a zen moment when I began to understand the balance of rice...
The Land of the Thunder Dragon
by Craig Gima - April 10, 2005 - 12:00am
In the Zone Bar on a Saturday night, movie star Cameron Diaz is celebrating a successful shoot with an MTV film crew by leading a rendition of Abba’s "Dancing Queen" to a Thaikaraoke video. Diaz...
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