Tagalog Language

A new cable-TV service, "Telepinoy," will be available Sept. 1 in the Los Angeles area from Altermedia, a media corporation targeting yuppie Filipino-Americans, according to Altermedia marketing consultant Rosby Teopaco. Headed by film producer and restaurateur Ben Yalung, Altermedia will make its cable-TV debut on Communicom's Channel 26, running nightly from 8 to 11. The programming will begin with 30 minutes of U.S. network-style news from the Philippines, delivered in English by Filipinos.

As the sophistication of computers accelerates the race toward the future, Hector Santos uses his to rescue a piece of the Philippines' rich past. Santos has completed a design of computer-generated fonts, or typefaces, to print the ancient Tagalog script, which was in danger of being lost and forgotten because it could be written only by hand. Tagalog, an indigenous language spoken in the Philippines, is rendered in print today using the Roman alphabet.

A federal judge ordered Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to pay legal fees for a Filipina nurse who was demoted after she refused to obey a "no Tagalog" rule and sued the hospital over the language ban. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie made the latest order Monday.

A federal judge ordered Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to pay legal fees for a Filipina nurse who was demoted after she refused to obey a "no Tagalog" rule and sued the hospital over the language ban. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie made the latest order Monday.

Civil rights activists on Friday said a federal judge's decision upholding a Pomona hospital's "no-Tagalog" policy sets a dangerous precedent for employees who want to speak their native languages while on the job. Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center said Judge Edward Rafeedie's Oct.

As the sophistication of computers accelerates the race toward the future, Hector Santos uses his to rescue a piece of the Philippines' rich past. Santos has completed a design of computer-generated fonts, or typefaces, to print the ancient Tagalog script, which was in danger of being lost and forgotten because it could be written only by hand. Tagalog, an indigenous language spoken in the Philippines, is rendered in print today using the Roman alphabet.

A Pomona hospital's "no Tagalog" rule did not discriminate against Filipino nurses because the policy was adopted to improve employee morale and job performance, a federal judge ruled this week. But Judge Edward Rafeedie ruled that the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center did violate the civil rights of a Filipina nurse who refused to obey the language rule and filed a discrimination lawsuit in 1989.

Hundreds of Filipinos in Hong Kong demonstrated to demand the resignation of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as she arrived for an investment conference. The protesters, mostly domestic workers, gathered outside the five-star Grand Hyatt hotel, where Arroyo was expected to stay. They chanted slogans in the Tagalog language, saying, "Gloria Arroyo step down" and "Oust Arroyo."

Nearly 600,000 people were evacuated as Typhoon Talim plowed into southern China on Thursday, forcing authorities to shut down schools, highways and airports, officials said. Despite waves up to 30 feet high, Fujian television said, there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from Talim, which means sharp or cutting edge in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Talim hit in the coastal province of Fujian, the Hong Kong Observatory reported.

Orange County must provide ballot information in Chinese and Korean for the November election, the result of a surge in minority populations documented by the 2000 Census. Orange County already provides voting information in Spanish and Vietnamese. Adding the new languages will cost about $500,000 for each election, Registrar Rosalyn Lever said.

Civil rights activists on Friday said a federal judge's decision upholding a Pomona hospital's "no-Tagalog" policy sets a dangerous precedent for employees who want to speak their native languages while on the job. Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center said Judge Edward Rafeedie's Oct.

A Pomona hospital's "no Tagalog" rule did not discriminate against Filipino nurses because the policy was adopted to improve employee morale and job performance, a federal judge ruled this week. But Judge Edward Rafeedie ruled that the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center did violate the civil rights of a Filipina nurse who refused to obey the language rule and filed a discrimination lawsuit in 1989.

A new cable-TV service, "Telepinoy," will be available Sept. 1 in the Los Angeles area from Altermedia, a media corporation targeting yuppie Filipino-Americans, according to Altermedia marketing consultant Rosby Teopaco. Headed by film producer and restaurateur Ben Yalung, Altermedia will make its cable-TV debut on Communicom's Channel 26, running nightly from 8 to 11. The programming will begin with 30 minutes of U.S. network-style news from the Philippines, delivered in English by Filipinos.

Extra, extra, read all about it: Woman gives birth to fish! If that's too tame, how about randy spooks impregnating maidens? Or perhaps a "routine" appearance by the Virgin Mary? Such reports are a staple of Manila's lively tabloids, among the most widely read of the city's more than 20 dailies. In a country where the truth is often bizarre enough, English- and Tagalog-language tabloids dish out fantasy and flamboyance for those who find the broadsheet dailies too tame.

President Clinton, a man on a permanent quest for political approval, found it--perhaps even more than he really needed--on this distant East Asian shore. A one-day stop in the Philippines won Clinton an endorsement from Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos so enthusiastic that it might have raised a blush on the cheek of a political consultant.