Covering the week’s most noteworthy news stories impacting the lives of the Filipino-American community in the State of Nevada.
ONCE again, Las Vegas has become the place to ring in the Lunar New Year. On Friday, February 16, guests were treated for dinner, a show and a one-of-a-kind shopping experience at Fashion Show Mall. The event featured a variety show performed by artists from tianjin, China, and a fashion show by Saks Fifth Avenue….
A 41-year-old Filipina may face up to 20 years in jail if proven guilty after she was arrested for allegedly forging IDs and passports in Las Vegas. The woman, who authorities identified as Rachelle Miclat, was found to have had in her house an “active forgery lab” complete with printing equipment, laminating machines, ink, and…
Information on Filipina girlfriend included Recently released court documents regarding the 2017 Las Vegas shooting provide new information on the gunman’s activities prior to carrying out what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern history. The documents, however, do not provide a motive as to why gunman Stephen Paddock fired bullets over the 22,000 attendees…
The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) of Las Vegas presented its 4th Annual ICON Awards on Monday, Sept. 26 at Spanish Trails. this year’s ICON Award honorees are: Dr. Zhian Khan (interventional cardiologist), Councilwoman Gerri Shroder (City of Henderson) and Dr. Dean Tsai (Southwest Medical Associates). OCA is engaged in organizing its over 80 chapters…
Community members, leaders and loyal customers came out to Nevada Coin Mart on Saturday, Sept. 24 to mark the one year anniversary of the store’s current location. Owned by Neil Sackmary, Nevada Coin Mart is the leading buyer of jewelry, gold, silver, coins, and other valuables at premium, competitive prices. As a gemologist with over…
As Manny Pacquiao nears what he has said will be his final bout in the ring, the boxing champion says he plans to donate a portion of his guaranteed $20 million earnings to the Philippines to help his countrymen build houses and make other improvements so they can emerge from poverty. “I’m not keeping that…
Hit-and-run suspect was honored for turning her life around Lakeisha Holloway, the 24-year-old woman accused of deliberately driving onto a packed sidewalk several times through a crowd of pedestrians along the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, Dec. 20, was publicly honored for turning her life around from homelessness to a government job. “Boy, have I come…
THE sole Filipino-American gastroenterologist in Southern Nevada, Dr. Noel Fajardo, is set to unveil a new, state-of-the-art endoscopy surgicenter in the region this December. LV Surgery Center will be the first surgicenter accredited and approved by the Nevada Department of Health following a 2008 outbreak of hepatitis that was linked to colonoscopy centers that were…
A Las Vegas-based non-profit organization that partnered with Manny Pacquiao’s foundation sent eight tons of humanitarian aid to the Philippines in late September for children in need. Another Joy Foundation, which partnered with Emmanuel and Jinkee’s Heart Foundation in February, delivered 10,000 toys, one million vitamin pills, 10,000 books, 2,000 slippers and a number of…
After 19 illustrious years in the ring, Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. has ended his boxing career. His win on Saturday, Sept. 12 over former two-time champion Andre Berto–with a 12-round unanimous decision–at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena was the finishing touch. Mayweather’s perfect 49-0 record now matches that of late heavyweight champion Rocky…
Mark Hutchison on being lieutenant governor, balancing his personal life with a demanding professional life and why the Filipino community is a significant segment of Nevada It’s been a busy past couple of months for Nevada’s 34th lieutenant governor. Since he was sworn in on Jan. 5, Las Vegas native and Republican Mark Hutchison has…
Additional charges are being brought against a North Las Vegas elementary school teacher who was arrested last month on multiple counts of child molestation. Jeremiah Mazo, 54, a music teacher at Hayden Elementary School, was arrested in April on 10 charges of lewdness with a child under the age of 14. Now, the district attorney’s…
A non-profit organization headquartered in Las Vegas has partnered with Manny Pacquiao’s foundation, the Emmanuel and Jinkee’s Heart Foundation, to deliver six tons of educational supplies and medicine to the Philippines. The organization, Another Joy Foundation, established its relationship with Pacquiao in February on the same day he signed the contract for his fight against…
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an event Saturday, May 16, at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at 11:30 a.m. The event will feature Republican speakers, including RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Sen. Dean Heller (Nev.), Rep. Crescent Hardy (Nev.), US Delegate to…
Though it may not be the biggest Las Vegas Valley event of the year, the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will have thousands viewing from the audience, and even more watching around the world. In anticipation for Saturday’s mega-fight, Las Vegas police have gone as far as Pasadena, Calif. and…
A final press conference with fighters of the century Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. unfolded on Wednesday, April 29, in Las Vegas, bringing the two face-to-face once again before their Saturday showdown at the MGM Grand. “It’s time to fight now,” said Mayweather, who carried a serious demeanor at the event. “You guys came…
THE November shooting of a handcuffed Nevada inmate by a corrections officer trainee has brought to light a number of unreported shootings at a facility where records indicate that guards have fired guns 215 times between 2007 to 2011. Several inmates at High Desert State Prison – the facility where inmate Carlos Manuel Perez Jr….
A FILIPINO couple from Las Vegas was sentenced last week on one felony count of a pattern of mortgage lending fraud, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced Monday, March 16. Alex Soria, 69, and Sonia Rodis, 55, were each sentenced in a mortgage assistance scam that misrepresented to homeowners a fraudulent mortgage elimination program…
More than 59,000 Nevada residents have signed up for coverage through Health Insurance Marketplaces since open enrollment began on Nov. 15, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said in a news release Wednesday, Feb. 11, there are only four days left before the Feb. 15 deadline to sign up for coverage. “59,623…
The Nevada Supreme Court heard a nearly 10-year-old state lawsuit on Tuesday, Feb. 3, filed by the Philippine island province of Marinduque for contamination it endured from a 1996 mining waste disaster involving Barrick Gold Corporation. Attorney James McCarthy, who represented Marinduque, told the justices that Philippine courts ruled Barrick couldn’t be sued in the…
Ceasar’s Palace announced its proposal to build a $1 billion, fully integrated resort in Manila, at the side of idle government property next to Ninoy Aquino’s International Airport (NAIA)’s Terminal 2. Steve Tight, Caesar’s president for international development, said that the American casino giant—made bigger through a merger with the legendary Harrah’s hotel on the…
LAS VEGAS—The popular ride-sharing app Uber, widely used in major cities throughout the world, is using its technology to gather support in Nevada with an online petition drive. The company—which views itself as a technology platform, and not a transportation company—has taken widespread action, circulating its online petition in advance of its hearing date with…
LAS VEGAS—An honest Las Vegas taxicab driver who returned $300,000 in cash found in the back of his cab was named as this year’s Best Taxicab Driver in America. Gerardo Gamboa, who has been working with Checker Cab Company for 25 years, received national attention for his simple act of integrity. In December 2013, Gamboa…
Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision to make same-sex marriage now legal in over half of the US, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling in Clark County, Nevada that banned legal same-sex unions, saying it imposes “profound legal, financial, social and psychic harms” on citizens. On Tuesday, Oct. 7, the court reversed…
In a new study by the Brookings Institution, the Las Vegas metropolitan area is ranked 17th highest in the nation for the number of working-age adults with limited English-speaking skills. Ranking the 89 most-populated metropolitan areas on both US coasts, the study found that almost 1 in 10 working-age adults—that’s about 19.2 million people ages…
Charles Vacca, 39, was teaching a harmless nine-year-old how to aim and shoot with an automatic weapon at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in Arizona, where he works. “All right, go ahead and give me one shot,” he instructed, leveling the gun to the silhouette target a few feet ahead. No one predicted the…
