GK USA partners with Synchrony to help Typhoon Rai/Odette victims WHEN Typhoon Rai ravaged the Philippines late last year, it wasn’t just the Filipinos living in the affected areas who felt its wrath. The catastrophe caught the attention of global Pinoys, and roused them to action. Gawad Kalinga (GK) USA was one of the organizations…
SAN FRANCISCO — The University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (UPAAA) proudly announces two Spring concerts that will showcase Filipino choral, folk and pop music, while raising funds for its scholarship programs. The concerts are Tempus, a hybrid recital at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana on April 28, and Alay Kay…
FILIPINO audiences have reason to celebrate as ABS-CBN and GMA-7 made a breakthrough deal on Tuesday, April 5 to license the airing of Star Cinema films at the Kapuso network. The historic move is being hailed by many in showbiz as a dawn of a new age in Philippine television as the two networks have…
NEW large-scale studies found that a high intake of artificial sweeteners (particularly aspartame and acesulfame-K, the most used ones worldwide) is linked to a 13 percent increased risk of cancer in general, with the highest probability for breast cancer and malignancies related to obesity. The research above involved 102,865 adults, studied from 2009 and followed…
Filipinos have been a significant part of San Francisco and California’s history and society for more than a century, and a majority use Filipino (Tagalog) as a language. Not to mention the constant influx of Filipino immigrants from different regions in the Philippines with English as their second or even third language. It is through…
AS Philippine tourism moves towards its much-anticipated recovery, the Department of Tourism (DOT) joined hands with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to beef up security in tourist destinations across the country. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) has been signed between the three government agencies at the PDEA Head…
AFTER a momentous win in the U.S. NCAA men’s basketball championship, University of Kansas guard Remy Martin proudly put his Filipino heritage on display in a new Instagram post. The 23-year-old #Burbank native helped the Jayhawks come back from a 16-point deficit to defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels and claim their fourth national title…
LENI ROBREDO is my President. She is NOT the lesser of two evils. She is NOT capitalizing on the gender vote as a woman. She is NOT capitalizing on the sympathy vote being a widow herself like Cory Aquino. Leni Robredo is the BEST candidate the Philippines needs during this very important chapter in our…
GLENDALE, California now has a monument to pay tribute to the Filipino residents in the city and in greater Los Angeles County. The Filipino American Friendship Monument was unveiled on Monday, April 4 at 201 E. Colorado Street, Glendale, California, near the Central Library by the entrance of the Adult Recreation Center. The project was…
The long-awaited landmark celebrates the Filipino American community A community celebration to officially unveil the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway will be held on May 7, following the landmark’s installation at the beginning of April. Rising 30 feet high and spanning 82 feet across the width of Beverly Boulevard at the eastern entrance into Historic Filipinotown, “Talang…
The Golden State — once one of the nation’s strictest states in terms of COVID mandates — eases many pandemic-related mandates AS COVID-19 metrics continue to trend downward, California is no longer requiring people to provide proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test in order to attend indoor mega-events, including sporting events. The state…
Stories have the power and influence to touch the heart that a cut and dried essay or a report does not have. Somehow the lessons and insights we learn from stories have a longer shelf life. They stick. Along the way, I have met many whose stories seem like the stuff of fiction. Other stories…
ARE you having problems paying your debts? Are creditors calling you day and night threatening you with a wage garnishment, repossession, or foreclosure? Are you starting to feel hopeless and depressed about your situation and don’t know where to turn for help? We are living in tough financial times. Economists are foreseeing a recession right…
The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles has joined forces with the leading Filipino supermarkets in Southern California, Island Pacific Seafood Market and Seafood City Supermarket, in holding “Filipino Food: Make It Delish!”, a two-day promotion of Filipino cuisine in celebration of Filipino Food Month in April. The two-day celebration has also received support from…
Between Rodrigo, Mars, H.E.R. and Saweetie, the 64th Grammys were quite possibly the most Filipino Grammy awards NO matter what part of the world they’re from, Filipinos everywhere know the value that music, performance, and skilled singing hold in the culture — there is a 99% chance that the Filipino reading this has, at one…
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 coverage. But in early March — five months, she said, after applying and with still no decision about her application — a suspected case of…
KIKO Pangilinan was a tall skinny student when I first saw him as Chairperson of the UP Student Council. I was ahead of him by one year at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, but I witnessed from a distance how active and committed he was in serving the interest and fighting for the…
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 June 8, 1917 in Biñan, Laguna, Philippines, fought against the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines in 1941. He retired as a 2nd Lieutenant…
A WAVE of pink descended upon Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown on Sunday, March 27 as Filipino American supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan rallied together for a pink caravan to show their support for the tandem’s bid for the top two posts in the upcoming Philippine election. Dubbed the “Kulay…
IN his book, “Let Us Dream, The Path to a Better Future” Pope Francis acknowledges the challenging realities of our times. He states: “Sometimes, when I think about the challenges before us, I feel overwhelmed. But I’m never hopeless. We are accompanied. We are being sifted, yes, and it is painful; many of us feel…
THE 2022 Tax Season is very much underway for tax year 2021. Due to the pandemic, there are new tax laws that were enacted like the American Rescue Plan to mitigate the needs of taxpayers especially those who were affected. In addition, tax deductions and credits can reduce the amount we pay to Internal Revenue…
Arbitration is a procedure to resolve disputes without filing a complaint in court. By signing an employment arbitration agreement, the employee agrees to adjudicate any claim against the employer before an arbitrator and not before a judge or a jury. This means the employee cannot sue that employer in court. Unlike court proceedings which are…
I’VE recently gotten a couple of clients who have been on debt consolidation and are now ready to jump into Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. First, let’s distinguish debt consolidation from debt settlement. No, they are not the same thing actually. However, both debt consolidation and debt settlement require negotiations with creditors because the aim…
THE COVID-19 Pandemic is a scary reality which affects everyone globally and has shut down the global economy. Individuals over 65 are more at risk of having serious complications with this virus. Although we cannot completely control how we would respond to such virus, we can prepare our finances and estate incase the worst happens….
Racing, biking, shooting among recreational activities for residents, visitors THERE are times when the question of “What activities can we do in that place?” becomes one of the main questions when a person is considering a location to invest property in, buy a first or second home, or retire to. This makes sense, obviously, because…
THE next time you drive through Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown, there’s a new landmark to see as the long-awaited gateway was installed on Friday, April 1. The eastern entrance of Beverly Boulevard is now home to the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway, officially named “Talang Gabay: Our Guiding Star.” Standing 30 feet high and spanning 82…
