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A Fond Farewell, Swiss Day
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - November 7, 2004 - 12:00am
Music must have been the common bond, German Ambassador Herbert D. Jess being an avid music patron and pianist, Alfred Ching being a music aficionado and father of celebrated composer Jeffrey Ching. Therefore, it...
A Fond Farewell, Swiss Day
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - September 19, 2004 - 12:00am
Music must have been the common bond, German Ambassador Herbert D. Jess being an avid music patron and pianist, Alfred Ching being a music aficionado and father of celebrated composer Jeffrey Ching. Therefore, it...
A Fond Farewell, Swiss Day
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - September 12, 2004 - 12:00am
Music must have been the common bond, German Ambassador Herbert D. Jess being an avid music patron and pianist, Alfred Ching being a music aficionado and father of celebrated composer Jeffrey Ching. Therefore, it...
A Fond Farewell, Swiss Day
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - August 22, 2004 - 12:00am
Music must have been the common bond, German Ambassador Herbert D. Jess being an avid music patron and pianist, Alfred Ching being a music aficionado and father of celebrated composer Jeffrey Ching. Therefore, it...
A Refreshing Sight
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - July 4, 2004 - 12:00am
National Day celebrations have acquired something of a pattern. Guests go through a reception line, enjoy cocktails while nibbling at finger foods and listen to the exchange of toasts. In the first Swedish National...
Nights of Wine and Roses
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - June 27, 2004 - 12:00am
It has been nights of wine and roses at the ongoing "French Spring" with cocktails preceding the concerts and bouquets presented to world-class artists by French Ambassador Renée Veyret after their...
Receptions, Formal and Informal
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - June 20, 2004 - 12:00am
Huge posters of the "Harry Potter" movie were plastered on the terrace walls of the British Embassy residence for H.M. Queen Elizabeth birthday celebration on the 52nd year of her reign. In fact,...
Diplomacy via Music
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - June 13, 2004 - 12:00am
Since the first "French Spring in Manila" six years ago, Phil-French relations have flourished tremendously, what with world-class French musicians performing here and interacting with their Filipino ...
Diplomacy via Music
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - June 6, 2004 - 12:00am
Since the first "French Spring in Manila" six years ago, Phil-French relations have flourished tremendously, what with world-class French musicians performing here and interacting with their Filipino ...
The Czech Republic in the EU
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 30, 2004 - 12:00am
Ambassador and Mrs. Stanislav Slavicky recently hosted a reception to mark the momentous entry of the Czech Republic in the European Union. At the unique ceremonies, Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Jaime...
India as the Common Bond
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 23, 2004 - 12:00am
Dressed in her native sari, Indian Ambassador Navrekha Sharma hosted a dinner for departing Venezuelan Ambassador Milena Santana Ramirez whose new post is India. Guests were both Venezuelan neighbors from Argentina,...
Awards and Remembrances
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 16, 2004 - 12:00am
The French government, through Ambassador Reneé Veyret, recently conferred on Dr. Maria Dorina Bustos and Dr. Clemencia Espiritu the Ordre des Palmes, rank of Chevalier. Dr. Bustos, of the doh Research Institute...
A ‘Salo-Salo’
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 2, 2004 - 12:00am
The many friends of well-loved Dasmariñas Villager Dr. Remedios "Meding " Suntay commented that her residence on the evening of her birthday should be called Disco Remedios rather than Casa Remedios,...
Chilé: Here and Over there
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - April 25, 2004 - 12:00am
Liquid Gold Returning from Chilé, Tita Meneses Trillo wrote this glowing report: "Chilé is a narrow strip of land 2,700 miles long and an average of 70 meter miles wide. On the East, it is flanked...
Tea and Sympathy
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - April 18, 2004 - 12:00am
Much of the sympathy which the recent Catholic Women’s Club tea held at the residence of Bea Zobel de Ayala may be gauged from the speech which the energetic cwc President Alice R. Briones gave after the resoundingly...
When a Belgian Tenor Sang
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - April 11, 2004 - 12:00am
Scores of music lovers wended their way to the Makati residence of Belgian Ambassador Christian and Gul Tanghe for the recital of the young, brilliant Belgian tenor Bartholomeus de Kegel. He was then due to participate...
Priorities
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - April 4, 2004 - 12:00am
In Ambassador Terry Baker’s message for the recent Waitangi Day celebration held in the embassy residence, he said he and his wife Jan would be bidding farewell to the Philippines this year. When...
Woman Power, Flower Power
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - March 28, 2004 - 12:00am
Five women secretaries of PGMA’s cabinet sang"Minamahal Kita" with deep feeling; not to be outdone, Ambassadors Busba Bunnag (Thailand) and Munah Dato Elias (Brunei) rendered "Saan ka man Naroroon"...
Welcoming Spanish VIP’s
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - March 21, 2004 - 12:00am
No less than the Number Two man in Spain’s official hierarchy flew to Manila for the opening at the National Museum of "Philippines: Gateway to the Orient from Legazpi to Malaspina" which exhibition...
The Old and the New
by TABLE TALK By Rosalinda L. Orosa - March 14, 2004 - 12:00am
Indian Ambassador Navrekha Sharma and Australian Ambassador Ruth Pearce marked their national days on the same date but to avoid conflict, the former set her reception an hour earlier. Phil-Indian relations began...
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