Top companies fund ‘Fight the Bias, Fight the Virus’ campaign

With nearly 2,000 reported incidences of discrimination and hate speech against the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in the U.S. amidst COVID-19, the Ad Council’s Emmy-Award winning Love Has No Labels campaign has premiered “Fight the Virus. Fight the Bias” anew PSA to dispel the racism increasingly endured by the API community throughout the […]

What I’ve learned from staying home and living in dread of a pandemic

When my parents needed to teach me a lesson,  it usually began with, “Nung panahon ng Hapon…” as they recounted what were unspeakable hardships during the three years Japan had occupied the Philippines. They hid in bunkers, divided a piece of fish among 10 siblings, and feared neighbors with paper bags over their heads. Some […]

Amb. Romualdez assures U.S. lawmakers anti-terror law won’t be abused

Disney to create Melissa de la Cruz Studio to develop original stories

Disney is partnering with Filipino American author Melissa de la Cruz to create a new studio to develop and create stories, according to an announcement published in Hollywood Reporter. The Melissa de la Cruz Studio will work with new and established authors to create original content for development across multiple Disney platforms, it said. De […]

The world of Donald Trump, according to his niece

Much of what the world has seen of Donald Trump’s behavior is now being understood by way of a tell-all memoir written by his niece Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist. “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” portrays the American president as a psychologically impaired individual who craved parental […]

Kai Hayes publishes her leadership, personal, and spiritual ‘growth book’

As a young girl, Lilibeth Salonga Avelino already knew what she wanted. Coming from a family of modest means, she yearned to get a good education so she could achieve bigger things and provide a comfortable life for herself and her family. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent, and her father was in the military scraping […]

The best masks: Comfort over style

With health authorities continuing to urge face-covering in public to curb the spread of COVID-19, we’ve become familiar with the minor irritants of wearing masks: chafed ears, foggy glasses, snapped straps. The arrival of summer takes the potential discomfort up a notch, trapping sweat and heat under our facial sheaths. Keeping your face covered when […]

Foreign students taking only online classes told to ‘leave the country’

The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced modifications on July 6 to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020 semester. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to publish the procedures and responsibilities in the Federal Register as a Temporary Final Rule. Temporary exemptions for […]

Post-war romance between a journalist and a soldier depicted in new book

By Allen Gaborro It is at distressing times that people look to some diversion to enable them to temporarily forget what’s going on in the mad, mad world around them. Myrna Lou Jastra, a pseudonym for Filipino American writer Ludy Ongkeko, has provided just such a diversion with her paperback novel “When Writing Morphs into […]