Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NEW YORK - Filipino American BBC World News Anchor Rico Hizon has the distinction of moderating former President Clinton’s Global Initiative meeting here last month. This was the second time that Clinton invited Hizon to moderate the meeting. The first was in Hong Kong on Climate change.
In moderating the New York last month, Hizon facilitated [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The first 60-odd Filipino American Symphony Orchestra in the United States made its debut last month before an enthusiastic audience at the historic Saban Theater. FASO is the vision of Roger and Cora Oriel, publishers of Asian Journal and Balikbayan Magazine. FASO was single-handedly whipped into shape in less than six months by Bob Shroder, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Joseph G. Lariosa
CHICAGO, Illinois - In his after life, Joseph Bernard “Big Duke” Docusen, the former Filipino American world ranking welterweight contender, would rather be known to have led a life after boxing.
An open Bible, instead of a pair of gloves, lies on top of his tombstone in Flat Rock, Michigan where he was [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CHICAGO - Aurora Abella Austriaco, a Filipino American, made history in here by becoming the first Asian American to be elected to the state legislature.
What made her success even sweeter is that this 43-year-old lawyer unseated an incumbent
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MEDIA ADVISORY: Filipino American Mark Munoz, World Extreme Cagefighter Available to Reporters
In San Francisco to Train, Promote Next Bout
WHEN: Thursday, November 6, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LOS ANGELES - Jess Espanola, a Filipino American animator, recently won the 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program by the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences for his work on “The Simpsons- Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind.”
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Stern, a US-born 17-year-old Filipino American figure skater from Connecticut has decided to represent
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
ILOILO CITY - The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested a suspected member of an international credit card fraud syndicate here.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Tsismoso has stumbled on a goldmine of tsismis in the Asian American news website. It’s a no-holds-barred barbs about the Democratic and Republican party candidates.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington - Joe Conway Elder, a 91-year-old patient in an adult family
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LOS ANGELES - Filipino American Lucilla Esguerra, 19, is running for California State Assembly’s District
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CLEVELAND = David Tuason, the Filipino American letter who wrote racist letters to blacks and
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Jennie L. Ilustre
WASHINGTON- The polls used to show Republicans were lukewarm over presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who does not conform to party line.
“But now, they have started to come home,” said Warie Azarcon, outgoing president of the Filipino American Republicans of Virginia (FARV). But Dr. Rawlein Soberano, who claims to be a Republican, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
WASHINGTON - Filipino American voters who have watched the recent Q-As at a California forum hosted by Rev. Rick Warren are still laughing over the answer of Republican
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Wikepedia, which cites itself as an encyclopedia, says there are four million Filipinos in the United States today,