Covering the week’s most noteworthy feature stories impacting the Filipino-American and Global Filipino community.
SPECIAL COUNSEL Robert Mueller’s redacted 448-page report has been made public. In excruciating details, it paints how the 45th president abused his power with corrupt intent through his campaign’s unethical…
One of the most touching chapters in “El Filibusterismo,” Jose Rizal’s sequel to the “Noli Me Tangere,” was when Padre Florentino asked plaintively, “Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours,…
HOLY WEEK is a good time for us to slow down a little and introspect on the meaning of this season in our life. This is particularly important these days…
First, Malacañang spokesman Salvador Panelo described as “futile,” the recent complaint against Chinese President Xi Jinping filed by former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales…
THERE IS a humanitarian crisis in the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump declared, but what is ironic is that he caused this crisis. Yes, there has been an influx…
POOR Nic Gabunada. He is being crucified for being good at what he does. Gabunada, a former ABS-CBN research specialist, is credited with harnessing social media to help President Rodrigo…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been doing interviews and political events spreading even more lies that he has been exonerated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. He continues to call the…
MAKE THE FULL MUELLER REPORT PUBLIC! Disclose all documents and evidence to the American people. This was what Congress voted on in a rare display of unanimous bipartisanship, 420-0, in…
DEAR TRUMP supporters: How can you defend the current occupant in the oval office for again and again attacking late Senator John McCain, seven months after the death of this…
President Donald Trump: “Why will they impeach me? I am doing a great job?” To which his supporters and fans say, “The American people elected Trump not because he is…
President Donald Trump: “Why will they impeach me? I am doing a great job?” To which his supporters and fans say, “The American people elected Trump not because he is…
“THE man who is ‘fighting for his rights’ is working in the wrong way. The only way to be sure that we get our ‘rights’ in life is, to ‘plug…
NEWS headlines from recent weeks foreshadow an epiphany in the Republican Party. Finally. More and more Republicans in Congress are standing up to President Donald Trump to protect and defend…
We journeyed to Beirut, Lebanon and then to Homs, Syria from February 25 to March 2, 2019 on invitation by my good friend Alex Fu, a business leader in Australia,…
“SHOW me your budget and spending and I will tell you your values.” Sounds familiar? Life coaches say it, financial analysts say it, our parents say it, politicians say it….
WHEN two people notoriously who are known to have no respect for the truth get into a “he said-he said” public argument, who will Americans believe? President Donald Trump, who…
Washington, DC – The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) recently announced that Jason Tengco, NaFFAA’s current Executive Director, intends to step down from his role at the end…
The recently concluded “Abuse Summit” at the Vatican convened by Pope Francis frontally addressed the problem of priestly sexual abuse – a problem and a challenge set against the extremely…
TWO YEARS. It took that long for Congress to finally do one very important function the U.S. Constitution has mandated it to do: to fulfill its oversight responsibility, making sure…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump, as of press time, is in Hanoi, Vietnam for his second rendezvous with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to talk about denuclearization. This comes despite no…
(Remarks of former Philippine speaker Jose de Venecia – founding chairman, International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP); co-chairman, International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP); chairman emeritus, Universal Peace…
Part 2 of 3 (Remarks of former Philippine speaker Jose de Venecia – founding chairman, International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP); co-chairman, International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP);…
TWO YEARS into President Donald Trump’s presidency and a lot of Americans ask, “How did we get here?” After a scandal-free Obama presidency, America now is being “led” by a…
HOW does one win in a senatorial election where 63 candidates are fighting over 12 seats? The advertising geniuses at the watering holes in Makati insist that name recognition is…
(PART 1 of 3) (Remarks of former Philippine speaker Jose de Venecia – founding chairman, International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP); co-chairman, International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP);…
“DEMOCRACY is the government of the people, for the people, by the people” is an old adage that we have associated with the very democratic principles that have been guiding…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump finally got to deliver his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 5, facing the divided and most diverse Congress for the first time in his…
DID you know that among Asian foster care children in Los Angeles, Filipino foster children make up the highest count? My objective is to share more with our local Filipino…
AS OF PRESS TIME, President Donald Trump addressed the American people on Tuesday night, February 5 through the State of the Union (SOTU) address, which was originally scheduled for January…
The hot topic at my favorite watering hole in Daly City is the 2019 midterm election in the Philippines, scheduled on May 13. That date is an unlucky one for…
