LA tycoon Dr. Soon-Shiong vows to fight ‘medical apartheid’ LOS ANGELES – Asian business leaders were honored for their work in giving back to the community at the recently-concluded Asian Business Association (ABA) 37th Annual Awards Banquet in Los Angeles. The ABA gala, held on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Downtown…
ON 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIAL LAW LOS ANGELES – A month after their solidarity protest for the “Million People March,” a handful of Filipino activists again held a rally on Friday in front of the Philippine Consulate General to voice out their outrage against the ongoing ‘pork barrel’ scam in the Philippines. Led by community…
50 Pinoy businesses expected to attend LOS ANGELES – Around 50 Filipino businesses are expected to join the 14th Annual Asian Small Business Expo on September 21, Saturday, at the Almansor Court Conference Center in Alhambra. This was confirmed to the Asian Journal by Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) executive director Joel Jacinto on…
LOS ANGELES – St. Vincent Medical Center (SVMC) announced on Tuesday that it will be holding a free multicultural health fair on September 28, from 9am to 3pm, to address the healthcare needs of Angelenos from various ethnic communities. It will be held at the St. Vincent Ocean View Building located at 2222 Ocean View…
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PATIENT’S FAMILY (Part 2 of 2) LOS ANGELES – In June 2011, Mercury News journalist Lisa M. Krieger faced an unthinkable ordeal. She had to rush her 88-year-old father to Stanford Hospital, due to a mysterious infection. In her award-winning series entitled, The Cost of Dying (published in Mercury News),…
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CARE PROVIDERS AND EXPERTS (Part 1 of 2) LOS ANGELES – In the United States, health care for the elders has always been and will always be an important topic. Whether it is discussed in within the context of the federal and state governments, or if it is talked about at…
LOS ANGELES – In an effort to establish a strong working relationship with the Filipino-American community, a nationwide nonprofit organization engaged in a roundtable dialogue with community leaders on Friday to find out more about the pressing issues being faced by Pinoy seniors in Los Angeles. The AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons),…
LOS ANGELES – In a press conference held on Wednesday, September 4, the Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) said that only 3,500 applications for temporary deportation relief have been filed out of the 50,000 eligible Filipino youth across the US. PWC held the press conference in Historic Filipinotown, in cooperation with non-profit organization Asian Americans Advancing…
LOS ANGELES – In March 2013, ABS-CBN Foundation’s Jo Ann Kyle and Joannie Feliciano introduced to LA-based Fil-Am media the Greenfund Philippines project — a program which sought to alleviate poverty the Philippines by transforming remote communities into eco-tourism troves. Now, with the introduction of “Voluntrip,” ABS-CBN Foundation now looks to bring Filipinos in the…
LOS ANGELES – Filipinos across the globe celebrate ‘Buwan ng Wika’ or the National Language Month every August. To commemorate the end of ‘Buwan ng Wika,’ a richly cultural closing ceremony was held at the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles on Friday, August 30. The ceremony, entitled ‘Isang Gabi ng Harana at Balagtasan,’ was…
LOS ANGELES – JC De Vera, a first-generation Fil-Am, had very little idea of how to navigate through the professional world after graduating from college. His parents were migrants workers who did not get to attend college in the US. The information and resources that he needed during this transition period were not readily available…
LOS ANGELES – August 28, 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. On that day, President Barack Obama spoke to a great congregation of people ,who flocked to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to commemorate the iconic event. Obama urged his fellow Americans of all…
LOS ANGELES – On Monday, a mobile photo booth truck, a group of young artists, and eager young Angelenos turned the office facade of a non-profit organization in Los Angeles into a monument that literally puts a face on the issue of immigration reform. Through a partnership with the “Inside Out/11M” project, the Asian Americans…
SOLARMAX TELLS CONGEN DURING HQ VISIT RIVERSIDE—According to SolarMax Technology Inc., the solar panels made in the Philippines are among the best in the world. SolarMax officials revealed this to Philippine Consul General (ConGen) Ma. Hellen Barber-De La Vega during her visit to the company’s headquarters in Rivierside on Friday, August 9. SolarMax is a…
LOS ANGELES – I never thought that Samsung would find a way to out-do the Galaxy S3. But somehow, they did. Enter the Galaxy S4. With all the TV commercials and web clips showing the new nifty stuff that Samsung’s “Next Big Thing” could do, the S4’s popularity went from viral to bat-poop crazy. Right…
LOS ANGELES – Two Filipino students recently took part in a Summer Youth Leadership Institute, a youth camp organized by LA-based advocacy group Peace Over Violence (POV). They took part in four weeks of training and workshops to master skills needed for effective violence prevention. Kristina Rebullar and Jose Meneses (both from Benjamin Franklin High…
LOS ANGELES – The Asia Pacific Community Fund (APCF), headed by executive director Debra Fong, recently held its 7th Annual Giving for All Seasons Gala at the posh Los Angeles Music Center in Downtown LA, where APCF honored an individual and three organizations for their contributions and long-term commitment to the Asian American Pacific Islander…
LOS ANGELES – Asian American Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (Advancing Justice – LA, formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center or APALC) announced on Tuesday that they will be holding family reunification clinics that will help immigrant families to petition for binational siblings, adult married children, and same-sex spouses. This announcement came…
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles City District 13 Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell recently filed a motion which seeks to start a process that will determine appropriate building heights in downtown Echo Park. According to a spokesperson for the councilmember, the intention behind the motion is to “preserve the integrity and character” of the neighborhood. In a…
LOS ANGELES – On July 24, Filipinos in Los Angeles trooped to the Chinese Consulate offices in Shatto Place in Koreatown to protest the China’s aggression in the heated West Philippine Sea/South China Sea territorial dispute. Led by US Pinoys for Good Governance (USPGG), Filipino Angelenos clad in yellow shirts and carrying anti-China placards marched…
Mitsubishi responds with stern statement LOS ANGELES – On Thursday, July 18, energy giant Southern California Edison (SCE) filed a formal notice of dispute against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems, seeking to hold the Japanese company responsible in the manufacturing defects that were found in replacement steam generators (RSGs) at the…
LOS ANGELES – Over the weekend, a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline flipped over at the 2 and 5 freeways, spilling gasoline that erupted into flames along portions of the freeways and a segment of the Los Angeles River that runs in the area. Firefighters were quick to respond on the scene. They…
PALO ALTO – New America Media recently held a Journalism Fellowship Program in Palliative Care at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The goal of the program is to educate journalists in the emerging medical field of Palliative Care so that in turn, journalists can educate their readers and viewers. According to experts at the…
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Council District (CD) 10’s Herb J. Wesson, Jr. was re-elected on Tuesday, July 2, as the LA City Council President. According to a CBS Los Angeles report, Wesson was unanimously voted into office by the 12 councilmembers present on Tuesday, himself included. CBS also reported that the lone councilmember who was not…
Two Chinese girls confirmed dead, 49 in serious condition THE Philippine Embassy in the United States said through social media that five Filipino-Americans, including a woman and her two sons were among the 181 injured in the Asiana Airlines Flight 241 crash at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6. This information was…
LOS ANGELES – Eric Garcetti officially assumed office as the next LA City Mayor and took his ceremonial oath of office on the steps of City Hall on Sunday afternoon, June 30. “You’ll have a local government that’s off your back and on your side,” Garcetti promised in his inaugural speech. The former Council District…
LOS ANGELES – If the Council District 6 Special Primary Nominating Elections in May are any indication, Cindy Montañez is likely to become the frontrunner in the coming CD6 special elections in July. During the May special primaries, Montañez garnered 43 percent of the votes, while her next opponent in the race, Nury Martinez, only…
LOS ANGELES – A broad coalition of immigrant rights, labor, and faith groups gathered in Los Angeles on Wednesday and held a 24-hour vigil calling for real immigration reform. With their core message focusing on the importance of protecting immigrant families, the vigil was held in time to coincide with the Senate’s voting and historic…
LOS ANGELES – To celebrate the 152nd anniversary of the birth of Jose Rizal, the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles (PCG-LA) launched on June 19, Wednesday, the first ever “expansive” library dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage of the Philippine national hero. Dubbed as “Centro Rizal,” Consul General (ConGen) Hellen Barber – De…
LONG BEACH – On June 18, business leaders based in Long Beach and the South Bay areas expressed their opposition to Assembly Bill 880 — a piece of pending legislation introduced by Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez (D-East Los Angeles). AB 880 is seen by its supporters as a measure that would address a so-called flaw of…
