First dose administered to Operation Shelter to Home residents 65 or older SAN DIEGO – In a key development that will expand access to the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Todd Gloria announced on Tuesday, February 2 that the City of San Diego has been authorized to receive shipments of doses and administer them to eligible…
THE number of San Diegans wanting to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus significantly exceeds the total doses that have been shipped to the region to date. That’s why County health officials are urging San Diegans to be patient and get vaccinated when it’s their turn. The County has opened four vaccination super stations and operates…
Pancit is the general name of Filipino noodle dishes. And when “Canton” is added to it, it conjures yellowish noodles that hint of eggs added when making it. Ingredients added vary from kitchen to kitchen, according to availability and flavor preference. Ingredients 2 tbsp Crisco vegetable oil 1 small onion chopped 2 garlic cloves minced 100…
THE Filipino United Network-USA (FUN-USA), a United States humanitarian foundation, is expanding its network from the East to Las Vegas as it continues to pursue its objective of saving the lives of countless disenfranchised Filipinos languishing in the gutter of poverty in the Philippines. FUN-USA started on a bright and sunny morning on September 22,…
By Jenylyn Carpio My name is Jenylyn Carpio and I’m a sudden cardiac arrest survivor. In July 2005, I was 22 years old and a brand new mom to a baby girl, and on the afternoon of July 11, my life changed. I was visiting my mom in San Diego with my daughter. Being new…
California will open COVID-19 community vaccination sites in Oakland and Los Angeles later this February as part of a pilot project with the Biden-Harris administration. The pilot sites will be located at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum and California State University, Los Angeles as part of the new administration’s pledge to establish 100 vaccination sites nationwide as part…
By Sunita Sohrabji/Ethnic Media Services contributing editor The upcoming Lunar New Year and Super Bowl Sunday are both potential COVID super-spreader events, warned Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California’s Health and Human Services department. The state experienced a COVID surge after Thanksgiving last year, pushing hospitals and intensive care units to the brink after people…
Inspiration4 mission will be commanded by tech entrepreneur and pilot Jared Isaacman who donates all crew seats and invites the public to participate LOS ANGELES – Plans for the world’s first all-civilian mission to space were announced on Monday, February 1 from SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. The mission is being targeted for the fourth quarter of this…
GOV. Phil Murphy announced on Wednesday, Feb. 3 an executive order that relaxes indoor dining restrictions in the state. Murphy lifted the 10 p.m. indoor dining ban that has been in place since November and announced that due to statewide case totals and hospitalizations trending downward in the past three weeks, indoor dining capacity is expanded…
FLAG carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is expected to lay off 2,300 jobs in mid-March as the airline weathers the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on travel demand. The cuts represent about 30% of its workforce, including both voluntary separations and involuntary retrenchment, the company announced on Tuesday, February 2. “This has been an extremely difficult and…
RAPPLER co-founder and chief executive officer Maria Ressa has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 by Norwegian labor leader and parliamentary representative Jonas Gahr Støre. “Filipino Maria Ressa heads Rappler, a website for investigative and investigative journalism. Prior to founding Rappler in 2012, she worked for CNN in Asia, where she specifically…
FILIPINO American actor Darren Criss will be joining the upcoming 20th season of “The Voice,” premiering on March 1. NBC on Monday, February 1, announced that Criss will be one of this season’s Battle Advisors, picked by Coach Nick Jonas. Criss took to Instagram to express his thanks for being Jonas’ choice. “I know I…
THE COVID-19 pandemic has altered people’s lifestyles in the past year. With the shifting pandemic guidelines, many have had to follow the most basic ones, which include wearing face masks, doing social distancing and avoiding crowds or not mingling with people other than those in their households. In the world of sports, that has meant…
INTERNATIONALLY known Filipino Broadway star and singer Lea Salonga will celebrate her 50th birthday on Friday, February 22 and heads a bevy of prominent personalities celebrating their birthday in February, the month of love. Lea Salonga, born on February 22, 1971, is best known for starring in the lead role of Kim in the musical…
ONE of the greatest inventions of the man inspired by the desire to share information is the internet. The impetus started in the 1960s “as a way for government researchers to share information.” The initial computer was a humongous, immobile unit the size of an entire room. On January 1, 1983, the internet was born,…
ON February 2, 2021, Pres. Biden issued several additional Executive Orders (EO) on immigration. They include: (a) establishing a task force to reunify families separated at the border; (b) developing a strategy to address the irregular migration across the southern border, including a plan for safe, lawful, and orderly migration to the U.S.; and (c)…
DALY CITY – San Mateo County Board President David J. Canepa made the following statement on Monday, February 1 following warnings by health officials across California that the Sunday, February 7 Super Bowl could be a COVID-19 super spreader event. History will be made as San Mateo native Tom Brady will appear in his 10th…
THE Philippines will receive at least 5.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca through the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility within the first quarter of 2021. The country will be provided with 117,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 5,500,800 to 9,290,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to vaccine czar Carlito Galvez…
FOR the sixth consecutive year, the Philippines is hailed as the global leader in time spent using social media according to a new report. Filipinos spend an average of 4 hours and 15 minutes each day on social media, according to the latest Digital 2021 report released on Tuesday, January 27 by Hootsuite and We…
UNITED States President Joe Biden signed a trio of executive orders on Tuesday, Feb. 2 that aim to undo former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, including addressing family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, reforming the asylum program and reviewing the “barriers” that the Trump administration placed around legal immigration. “We are going to work…
Foreign visitors drop to 84% in 2020 due to travel restrictions PHILIPPINE tourism stakeholders believe that this year is crucial in rebuilding the country’s tourism industry battered by the global pandemic that hit in 2020. “I believe 2021 is a major transition year for all of us,” Tourism Promotions Board Chief Operating Officer Anthonette Velasco…
WEARING two face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is not necessary, according to a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). In response to a question about the necessity of wearing two kinds of masks at the same time, Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the health body’s representative to the Philippines, said: “It depends on…
THE Philippine Department of Finance has welcomed the United States’ decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. Reentering the international treaty on climate change was one of U.S. President Joe Biden’s first moves upon taking office in January. “This is a welcome development that comes on the heels of President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated call on…
A WEEK after California lifted its stay-at-home order, the state is experiencing a steady decline in case numbers and hospitalizations. On Tuesday, February 2, 12,064 COVID-19 cases were confirmed, bringing the total cases since the pandemic started to 3,270,770. Meanwhile, 422 fatalities were reported, for a total of 41,330 deaths. In terms of hospitalizations, 14,221…
THE United States of America is back, reclaiming leadership in combatting and beating threats to the lives of the people and the planet. The coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent and fatal health emergency that has been the leading cause of death and disrupting the lives of people and the economy of nations for more…
Sen. Joseph McCarthy conducted the infamous U.S. Senate anti-Communist inquiries in the 1950s that besmirched the reputation of many prominent Americans, particularly those in show business and the labor sector, among them, Hollywood legends Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles and composer Leonard Bernstein. It took an official censure by the Senate, following a stinging rebuke…
