Covering the week’s most noteworthy news stories impacting the lives of the Filipino-American community in the United States of America.
FOR the last two years, Asian and Asian Americans have experienced a collective, unfortunate reckoning that has exacerbated the two destructive stereotypes toward the community: the perpetual foreigner and the…
Los Angeles — In an expansion of its COVID-19 resources, the Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO), through its Tayo project, announces the launch of a call center to assist community…
By Jenny Manrique/Ethnic Media Services THE medical community is celebrating drug maker Moderna’s recent announcement that it is seeking FDA approval for its COVID-19 vaccination for younger kids, though…
PLANS to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.C. have moved to the next step as the U.S. House of Representatives this week passed a bill to…
THE United States government this week announced that it will not enforce the mask mandate on public transportation. The decision comes after a federal judge on Monday, April 18 ruled…
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, April 14 urged low- to moderate-income individuals and families, especially those who don’t normally file a tax return, to use IRS Free…
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the appointment of Ditas Katague as associate director of communications, responsible for leading internal and external communications activities of the nation’s largest statistical agency. This…
Eligible Filipino voters in US to receive ballots by mail ELIGIBLE Filipino voters can begin casting their ballots about a month ahead of the May 9 Philippine national elections. The…
ARTURO Vargas has been involved in census education and advocacy for over 30 years and says that after each decennial April 1—the day America takes a snapshot of its population—“it…
LOS ANGELES – Some 300-strong Filipino American supporters of Uniteam “Sama-samang Babangon Muli” presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) and his running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio are…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Embassy participated in the Bataan Memorial Death March held on April 2. The Embassy contingent, led by Deputy Chief of Mission Jaime Ramon T. Ascalon, Jr.,…
To help put an end to the proliferation of anti-Asian hate and harassment, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) is offering free virtual bystander intervention trainings in the native…
By Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan/Kaiser Health News Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance…
Celestino Gonzales Almeda, a prominent leader of the Filipino World War II veterans’ fight for U.S. government recognition, died at 104 on March 27 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Almeda, born on…
Nani Coloretti is now the highest ranking Filipino American in the Biden Administration as the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday, March 29 to confirm her nomination as deputy director of the Office…
ELIGIBLE adults can start getting a second booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine following the United States Food and Drug Administration’s authorization this week. The FDA on Tuesday, March 29…
By Sunita Sohrabji / Ethnic Media Services THE BA.2 variant of Omicron now accounts for 35 percent of new COVID infections in the U.S., and more than 50 percent in…
TO help put an end to the proliferation of anti-Asian hate and harassment, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-Los Angeles), in partnership with Hollaback!, is holding a series…
By Sunita Sohrabji/Ethnic Media Services CHILDREN ages 5-11 have one of the lowest vaccination rates of any group but are now returning to elementary schools which have no masking requirements…
FILIPINO Americans can now sign up for the first-ever digital bank built with their cross-border financial responsibilities in mind. BayaniPay has tied up with California-based East West Bank to launch…
OLDER people may soon be able to get a fourth COVID booster after it was announced that Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, plan to ask the United States Food and…
THE Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliates in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, DC continue to offer virtual “Bystander Intervention Training – Stop Anti-Asian and Asian American and Xenophobic Harassment” in 2022 and…
TSA extends the mandate as the CDC reviews new approach to travel protocol THIS week, days before the masks on transportation requirement was set to expire, U.S. officials extended the…
LAST year, when anti-Asian violence and hate spiked exponentially due to the coronavirus pandemic, the heartbroken Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continued demanding justice for these senseless attacks,…
Filipina co-founder of the new initiative hopes to reduce the number of trafficking victims, especially those of Filipino descent IN a digital world where scamming has essentially become institutionalized, the…
With the completion of a full online interactive educational program, educators are now able to access, free of charge, resources that bring to life the story of U.S. colonization and…
SAN FRANCISCO – The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco informs Filipinos and Filipino Americans under its consular jurisdiction that the overseas voting period for the 2022 Philippine national elections…
MORE than 12.3 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 and represent 1.5 percent of all hospitalizations from the virus in some states, and an increasing number of deaths, according…
By Rachana Pradhan/Kaiser Health News The Biden administration and state officials are bracing for a great unwinding: millions of people losing their Medicaid benefits when the pandemic health emergency ends….
UNITED States President Kamala Harris and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday, Feb. 3 swore in 23 members, including 3 Filipina American community leaders, of President Joe Biden’s…
