BACK in 2020, Proposition 22 was voted into law. App-based companies like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash spent upwards of $200 million in funding to get Californians to vote on this…
EPIPHANY Café [franchise group] was born from a love of coffee and donuts. Through passion, and much dedication, Epiphany Café quickly became the gourmet donut café in Hamilton, before expanding…
PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has ordered the filing of three new diplomatic protests against China’s continued presence and other activities in the West Philippine Sea. In a series…
Washington D.C. - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr., accompanied by Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel G. Romualdez, met with United States Senators who affirmed the centrality of…
The Southern Nevada Health District has begun offering Pfizer COVID-19 booster doses to people who are eligible at its clinics. This effort comes after the Centers for Disease Control and…
Smokefree Innotec, Inc. (SFIO), a New Zealand-based Filipino company, is starting its educational road tour in the United States. The company’s chairman, Jeths De Jesus Lacson, announced that SFIO has…
The family consulted with several attorneys. One filed for political asylum for Vince, and when the expanded provisional waiver regulations came out in 2016, another attorney obtained an approved provisional…
THE October priority dates are typically the start of the new “fiscal year” for visas, where a new annual supply of visas is made available. Usually, with a new supply…
SIX was supposed to premiere on March 12, 2020, the same day that Broadway went dark due to the looming global pandemic. More than a year and a half later and…
THE Philippines is the worst place to be during the pandemic, according to a study that measures economies’ resilience to COVID-19. In Bloomberg’s COVID Resilience Ranking released Tuesday, September 28,…
WITH the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC preventive guidelines, vaccines, and booster shot, people are so confused and scared, and are making the wrong choices, unwise decisions, and endangering…
FORMER Smokey Mountain lead singer Geneva Cruz has released a single entitled “Sinungaling,” which marks her comeback to the Philippine music scene after having been away for six years. Having…
MANNY Pacquiao is officially hanging up his boxing gloves. The Filipino boxing legend made the announcement Wednesday, September 29 (Manila time), through a video posted on his social media accounts….
TONY Award winner Lea Salonga has been cast as a series regular in HBO Max’s upcoming reboot of hit TV series “Pretty Little Liars.” According to Deadline, “Pretty Little Liars:…
EVEN though the current Hollywood landscape still leans white and male, the calls for diversity and more sophisticated representations and renderings of communities of color ring loud and clear. As…
SACRAMENTO – The California COVID-19 Rent Relief Program marked another significant milestone with $650 million paid out to 55,000 households as the state prepares to transition to new eviction protections that take effect…
MALACAÑANG has maintained that President Rodrigo Duterte’s vice presidential bid in the 2022 national elections is legal. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement on Tuesday, September 28, after a…
SACRAMENTO – With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for boosters for those over the age of 65 and high-risk individuals, Governor Gavin Newsom…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has warned that he would use military force to ensure peaceful and free national elections in 2022. In his speech at the inauguration of the new…
CALIFORNIA Governor Gavin Newsom signed a suite of bills on September 24 expanding the state’s humane immigration policies by providing protections and support for immigrants, including a new law to…
(Conclusion 1 of 2 parts) (Continued from last week …) You hope that a smattering of beautiful memories, yours as well as of those you leave behind, are indelibly marked…
IF you are searching for debt reduction solutions, no doubt you’ve been inundated with advertisements for various debt management programs, companies and solutions. The choices seem confusing to the average…
THE ongoing debate of real estate is — “Should you buy or rent?” The right answer is: it depends. It depends on your situation and the factors in your lifestyle,…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the vaccination of the general population against COVID-19 in October, according to Malacañang. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday, September 28, said that the…
THE Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is still considering its next move on the case against a former American embassy official who allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a minor…
IF you have an existing child support or spousal support obligation (court order) and you are laid off from your job causing a major loss of income, you may want…
