Category Archives: International

BINIBINING PILIPINAS CHARITIES CAN’T DECIDE ON MISS PHILIPINES PIA WURTZBACH’S NATIONAL COSTUME FOR MISS UNIVERSE

September 4, 2015 Pol Pinoy 2 Comments

Capture — Front and back; left to right: gold, blue, beige

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Previously, we reported that the Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. (BPCI) — the local franchise for the Miss Universe Pageant — has chosen the national costume that reigning Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach will wear at the upcoming international pageant.

Well, it turns out, that wasn’t the final decision.

The Adobo Chronicles® just learned that BPCI has chosen three designs and it can’t decide which one would give Wurtzbach the best crack at the Best in National Costume award, and hopefully the title of Miss Universe.

The three designs — all by Mak Tumang, a young designer from Mexico, Pampanga — are based on the traditional Filipino terno, considered the national dress for women featuring the familiar butterfly sleeves.

So, BPCI has sought the help of The Adobo Chronicles® and its followers to decide on the final gown for Ms. Wurtzbach.

Help BPCI by voting in the poll below. Should it be the gold, blue or beige gown?

Diversity, Government, International, Language, Politics

DONALD TRUMP WANTS BILINGUALS, TRILINGUALS AND MULTILINGUALS DEPORTED FROM U.S.

September 3, 2015 Pol Pinoy 1 Comment

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Give Donald Trump your finger and he’ll go after your entire arm.

Encouraged by his continued surge in the polls as a result of his anti-immigrant rants, the leading Republican presidential candidate has gone from attacking Mexicans, Chinese and citizens of U.S. territories to proposing an English-only America.

Trump has said that if foreign nationals want to live in America as legal residents or citizens, they should be speaking only in English. He made the comment after criticizing fellow presidential candidate Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail. “Bush should set the example by speaking English only while in America,” he told reporters.

Today, Trump declared that if elected president, he would ask the Department of Homeland Security to deport all immigrants who are openly and publicly biligual, trilingual or multilingual. “If they speak a second, third or fourth language other than English, well and good, but when in America, they should only speak our official language which is English, ” he said.

Si Donald Trump es elegido presidente , Adobo Chronicles no publicará nada en tagalog o español.

International, Politics

PUERTO RICANS, CHAMORROS, OTHERS WILL LOSE CITIZENSHIP UNDER TRUMP PRESIDENCY

September 3, 2015 Pol Pinoy 5 Comments

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Earlier this week, the Rev. Al Sharpton declared that “people that were from Puerto Rico all would have to go back if their parents were undocumented.” In other words, Sharpton believes that Puerto Ricans are not U.S. citizens.

Soon enough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, while speaking to a group of investment bankers and hedge fund owners in New York City, allegedly declared that if elected, he will revoke the U.S. citizenship of all Puerto Ricans because they are “not part of the American race.”

While Trump mentioned only Puerto Rico, his campaign told reporters that he meant to say all citizens from the territories of the U.S., including Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands.

“We don’t really need these non-Americans and I don’t need their votes to win the presidency,” Trump said.

People born in these five territories are automatically U.S. citizens. However, under the federal electoral college system, only those residing in one of the 50 states of the U.S., and the District of Columbia, are eligible to vote for U.S. president.

So while Trump was wrong to say that Puerto Rico and the other territories are not part of America, he was correct in saying he doesn’t need their votes because they can’t vote for president.