Sydney Marathon is seventh world marathon major

11/04/2024

Sydney, Australia–Sydney was elevated to the World Marathon Majors on Monday, November 4, 2024, joining the likes of London, New York and Boston at the pinnacle of global distance racing. Its confirmation as the seventh member of the…

Doctors cite unmedicated mental illness in Sydney mall attack

Agence France Presse 04/21/2024

No one can know the mind of Sydney shopping mall killer Joel Cauchi, but psychiatrists say one underlying cause of his rampage is evident: he had schizophrenia, stopped his medication and fell out of treatment. People have…

Sydney police probe killer’s targeting of women in mall attack

Agence France Presse 04/15/2024

Sydney, Australia — Australian police said Monday they are investigating why a 40-year-old man with mental illness appeared to target women as he roamed a Sydney shopping mall with a large knife, killing six people and injuring…

6 dead in Sydney shopping center attack

Agence France Presse 04/13/2024

SYDNEY, Australia — Six people were killed and several others injured — including a small child — when a knife-wielding attacker rampaged through a busy Sydney shopping center on Saturday, Australian police said. Multiple people were stabbed…

Sydney fireworks to go ahead despite massive protest petition

AFP 12/29/2019

SYDNEY — A petition to cancel Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks and use the money to fight bushfires ringing the city has topped 260,000 signatures, but officials say the show will go on. Sydney is spending…

UP Cebu forum to commemorate Super Typhoon Yolanda’s 6th year anniversary

PR 11/06/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu in partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney is organizing a forum to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Super Typhoon Yolanda. The forum…

Sydney swelters through hottest day since 1939

AFP 01/07/2018

HOT Sydney sweltered through one of its hottest days on record Sunday as temperatures soared in southern Australia and authorities imposed a fire ban in a sizzling start of summer. Australia’s largest city recorded its hottest day…

Family of missing Chinese tourist calls for help

Aileen Garcia-Yap 02/19/2017

The family of a female Chinese tourist who went missing in Cebu since Saturday morning is asking for help from everyone who could give them information and help them locate her. Weiying Gu, 72, who was in…

Study: Heatwaves threaten Australia

10/28/2016

SYDNEY — Australia is set to experience more heatwaves, with record-breaking hot weather becoming “normal” across the continent as climate change pushes up land and sea temperatures, a government report warned Thursday. The biannual State of the…

Vivina’s transcontinental dinner

Jaime Picornell 07/01/2016

FIFTY guests, mostly from the pharmaceutical and medical industry attended “Come Dine With Me” at the Sampaguita ballroom of the Cebu City Marriott Hotel. The menu was transcontinental, ideated by Dr. Vivina Chiu Yrastorza in collaboration with…

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