SINCE it first participated in the Olympics in 1924, the Philippines has managed to take home a total of 10 medals, of which three were silver and seven were bronze. No Filipino has ever won a gold medal, but the country is certainly not giving up on that elusive golden dream. The 2021 Tokyo Olympics,…
FILIPINA American Iraq War veteran Gina Ortiz Jones has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the undersecretary of the Air Force, becoming the first woman of color to serve in the role. The Senate on Thursday, July 22, confirmed the 40-year-old Iraq War veteran, who was nominated by President Joe Biden back in April….
FILIPINA actress Toni Gonzaga and Filipino American actor Dante Basco have been cast as the lead stars of an upcoming romantic comedy film set to shoot next summer in New York City. “Asian Persuasion” will tell the story of an underachiever who comes up with an outlandish plan to avoid alimony obligations to his fashion…
EMPLOYEES in Clark County—which includes the Las Vegas area—will be required to wear masks while working in indoor public spaces amid a new spike of COVID-19 cases in the region. On Tuesday, July 20, the Clark County Commission approved a mask mandate that would apply to employees in the county who work in indoor public…
FILIPINA tennis ace Alex Eala is now the second best junior player in the world after dominating the junior grade A tournament in Milan, Italy last week. As per the International Tennis Federation (ITF) rankings released Tuesday, July 20, the 16-year-old tennis star from the Philippines garnered 2,786.25 points, overtaking France’s Elsa Jacquemot who dropped…
A SIDE agreement or “addendum” in implementing the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States has been submitted to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. “There is no change in the VFA. The document will not be changed but there will be some addendum, side agreement to implement the…
IT’S bad enough that the U.S. and the rest of the world have had to suffer a pandemic. But, along with the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and as a result of his failure to win a second term, America is now suffering what the media and pundits call an Infodemic—an epidemic of…
By Ruby N. Turalba Filipino Americans are disproportionately impacted by chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases including heart attack and stroke, type 2 diabetes, and overweight/obesity. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that Filipino Americans have the highest rate (23%) of experiencing multiple chronic health issues compared to all other Asian ethnic groups….
Let us first take politics and political correctness out of the current controversy about the safety of the vaccines against COVID-19 and its variants and the use of masks. Let us stick to medical science, since this is a medical issue. As a cardiac surgeon, I am most familiar with the use and the value…
ON July 20, 2021, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new policy that individuals applying for change of status (COS) from Visitor (B), or other non-immigrant status, to F-1 student, no longer need to also apply for an extension of status while their initial F-1 COS application is pending. According to the…
AS I reported in a previous article, on July 16, 2021, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, was illegal. He issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the approval of any new applications. Fortunately, he did not call for a complete and immediate end to DACA, but…
(Select a handful of those things in your bucket list that have the highest chance of coming to fruition given your time frame. In tech speak, it means before your life’s energy goes into ‘low batt mode’ and life has run out of sockets to plug into.) There is a dumbing down going on in…
Jun (right) was a crewman who jumped ship in 2002. He overstayed in the U.S. for several months, before returning to the Philippines in 2003. In 2007, his mother petitioned him as a single child. Finally, after many years of waiting, Jun was interviewed at the U.S. Embassy, but he was denied due to fraud….
Filing bankruptcy can be a big decision that most people put off until they realize that they have no other way out of debt. Unfortunately, however, sometimes people wait too long. When they finally do make the decision to file, they soon realize that they would actually have been better off if they had just…
AS a kid growing up in Canada, Eric Bauza was drawn to the world of animation — emulating characters’ voices and sketching along while sitting in front of the television. That childhood fascination is now Bauza’s career as he embodies some of the most famous animated characters out there, including several from the Looney Tunes…
By Rachelle Arizmendi With over 4 million people in the United States, Filipino Americans are the 3rd largest Asian American group in the county. In California, we are the largest Asian American group with 1.6 million. Although Filipino Americans have an average household income higher than the average US household income, there are many Filipinos living…
SINGER Rachel Alejandro is joining the cast of the Filipino adaptation of the hit BBC series “Doctor Foster.” The Philippine series is titled “The Broken Marriage Vow.” According to an article in the Philippine Star, Alejandro is set to play the role of Nathalia Lucero, an aspiring beauty queen before she fell in love and…
Officials detail a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as cases surge across the country WEEKS after counties and cities across the country began reopening public life and slackening social distancing mandates, public health officials are reporting dramatic surges in positivity rates, hospitalizations and deaths, putting into sharper focus the dire situation in areas of low vaccination…
A FILIPINO American defense attorney has made history after being appointed as the new Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge. Hon. Jerry Bustos Vinluan III, 49, is the county’s first Fil-Am judge, appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on July 9. He will fill out the position left by Judge Kim Baskett, who retired last…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte is looking to speak with the United States government about the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), a treaty between the two countries that the president had previously wanted to terminate. In a prerecorded address aired Monday, July 19, the chief executive said that the proposed extension of the VFA is “on the…
SEPTEMBER is just weeks away and children are going back to school in person soon, even earlier in California where most schools begin in August. Yet, the coronavirus pandemic continues to haunt us through the more infectious Delta variant, which is now the cause of more than 83% of new cases in the United States,…
LEYNA Bloom, a Black and Filipina American model and actress, has become the first openly transgender woman to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue. Bloom, 27, shared the historic cover, photographed by Yu Tsai, on her Instagram account, which has amassed over 400,000 followers. “This moment heals a lot of pain in the…
Ito ay serye ng Medicare Tips hatid ng Clever Care Health Plan, isang nangungunang tagapagbigay ng East meets West Medicare services na sensitibo sa kultura ng kanilang mga miyembro. Para sa malapit nang mag-65, maraming desisyon na kailangang gawin para sa inyong healthcare coverage. Maraming mahusay na serbisyo ang Medicare, pero karamihan sa dental services…
PHILIPPINE Senator Manny Pacquiao has been ousted as the president of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban). During the national assembly held in Pampanga on Saturday, July 17, the ruling party announced the vacancies of all national officer positions and committee chairs, removing Pacquiao from his post. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi was later installed…
CALIFORNIA Attorney General Rob Bonta recently announced the launch of the Office of Community Awareness, Response, and Engagement (CARE) within the California Department of Justice (DOJ). As part of the effort to advance justice for all Californians, CARE will work directly with community organizations, state and local elected officials, and members of the public to…
