Regine tells her story on US immigration show.
Asias songbird, Ms. Regine Velasquez, had a soaring careershe was a multi-platinum recording artist, boxoffice movie star, SRO concert performer. She was on top of the world until the summer of 2000 when her world seemed to crash. She was in the thick of preparations for her...

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JdV files bill to augment benefits at office of SolGen House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia Jr. has underscored the urgency of approving a bill that would expand and streamline the bureaucracy of the Office of the Solicitor General and augment the benefits received by its overworked...

Solon focuses on child pornography problem.
ANGELES CITY A Pampanga solon has proposed the creation of a task force to address the serious problem on child ppornography. Rep. Francis Nepomuceno came following the recent raid by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on an alleged cyber sex cafe here using number of...

Globalization and crime.
9781412912891 Globalization and crime. Aas, Katja Franko. Sage Publications 2007 220 pages $115.00 Hardcover Key approaches to criminology HV6025 Defining globalization as simply the increasing transnational interconnectedness of societies,...

Chinese human smuggling organizations; families, social networks, and cultural imperatives.
9780804757416 Chinese human smuggling organizations; families, social networks, and cultural imperatives. Zhang, Sheldon X. Stanford U. Press 2008 281 pages $45.00 Hardcover E184 Zhang (San Diego State U.) has interviewed well...

The borderlands; an encyclopedia of culture and politics on the U.S.-Mexico divide.
9780313339967 The borderlands; an encyclopedia of culture and politics on the U.S.-Mexico divide. Ed. by Andrew G. Wood. Greenwood Press 2008 322 pages $85.00 Hardcover F786 While the U.S.-Mexico border officially...

Fenced in: new efforts to secure the nation's border pose serious threats to wildlife.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As America races to secure its Mexican border with 700 miles of double- and triple-layered fencing, wildlife that have never known political boundaries will have no choice but to recognize them now. The fence, originally intended for urban areas, now slices through fragile wildlife habitats...

Lomibao awards 13 top officers, men of the CIDG.
Byline: ARIS R. ILAGAN Director General Arturo C. Lomibao, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), yesterday awarded the prestigious "Medalya ng Papuri" to 13 officers and enlisted men of the PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) for the arrest of a foreigner allegedly involved in drug...

Border debate shifts to states.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - The latest failed immigration reforms may be smoldering in the U.S. Senate, but that doesn't mean the political debate has been silenced. As in state capitols nationwide, the Oregon Legislature is cautiously stepping up to the immigration debate....

DFA official clears US of 'smuggling'.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI The government will likely spare the United States from any criminal liability on the reported smuggling of 51 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) for the construction of its embassy in Baghdad, a Department of Foreign Affairs official said yesterday. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary...