Employees along with their families and guests attended the party last Thursday, December 11. Dinner was served, giveaways and prizes poured in as usual. CEO Rommel Medina and Lucky Chances Inc. Food and Beverage Manager Edward Lee expressed their thanks for everyone’s support and the continuing success of the business. Annual appreciation dinner for Colma residents sponsored by Lucky Chances Casino held at Rene’s Fine Dining.  

Milpitas, CA - The first-ever Multi-High School Homecoming for three high schools in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan will be held on February 1 - 3, 2019 at the city’s newly-renovated Cultural Center, according to The Global Urdanetanians (TGU) President Yvonne San Juan-Sera. For many years, the three high schools were holding their annual homecomings separately but this time, the three high schools plus the barrio high schools, will jointly hold it through the sponsorship of TG...

Story and photos by R. Mascardo SANTA CLARA -- It took 5 years, 8 days and 10 straight losses to the Seattle Seahawks before the 49ers finally beat their NFC West rival. They did it overtime on a rainy Sunday last December 16, 26-23. The 49ers’ wrapped it up with Robbie Gould’s fourth field goal of the game, a 36 yard attempt at Levi’s Stadium where the Seahawks won all four of their previous visits. The 49ers have won two in row for the first time since t...

By Corina Oliquino i FilAm Star Correspondent MANILA -- A joint investigation will be launched by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) following the arrests of Maute Group gunrunners and partners Edgardo and Rosemarie Medel by special operations agents of the Valenzuela City Police Station during a night time buy-bust operation last December 17 along the North Luzon Expressway. The operation also seized guns and bullets foun...

By Macon Araneta i FilAm Star Correspondent With too many blind spots because of the lack of closed circuit TV (CCTV) cameras, the country’s airports could just as well be ideal lovers’ lanes. Sen. Grace Poe hinted at this her remark over the absence of surveillance cameras in some areas in the country’s airports. “I think if you’re looking for a place to go, you can go to the airport. You can have your date there and nobody can see you,” she said in jest. During ...

By Lara Climaco i FilAm Star Correspondent Hebei Iron & Steel (HBIS) Group, China’s second-largest and the world’s fourth-largest steel producer, is putting up an integrated steel complex at the Phividec Industrial Estate in Mindanao in partnership with Huili Investment Fund Management and Steel Asia Manufacturing Corp, a flagship company in the Philippines’ nascent steel industry. Together, they are putting up a US$4.4 billion complex complete with port operation, ...

By Corina Oliquino i FilAm Star Correspondent MANILA -- Rep. John Bertiz of ACTS-OFW party-list group last December 16 cited a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data showing OFWs sent a total of $21.3 billion (more than PHP 1 trillion) in the first nine months of 2018, an increase of 2.5 percent from $20.7 billion in the same period in 2017. “Saudization simply means that certain job openings in Saudi Arabia previously available to foreigners, including Filipinos, may n...