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Fashion designer Puey Quiñones opens L.A. atelier on July 8th
Fashion designer Puey Quiñones will officially showcase his new couture collection at a private event on July 8th, when he will also launch the opening of his new atelier in downtown Los Angeles. The couture collection, Quiñones revealed, would “highlight an array of intricate designs that celebrate both contemporary and Filipino traditional aesthetics, blending luxurious […]
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Dr. Mark Munoz: Possibly the most published Filipino business author in the U.S.
Dr. J. Mark Munoz, a business scholar in Illinois may yet be the most published Filipino American academic author in the United States. He has authored and edited more than 30 books on business & management and technology and just released three more recently. They are: –“Digital Leadership: Concepts and Cases.” Published in February 2025, […]
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Assemblymember Steven Raga backs Mark Levine for City Comptroller
New York State Assemblymember Steven Raga has announced he is backing Mark Levine for New York City Comptroller. Raga, the first Filipino American elected into office in the state of New York, joins the Filipino American Democratic Club and a growing coalition of AAPI elected officials and community groups that are backing Levine, highlighting Levine’s […]
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Charm and sentimentality in ‘COVID Diary’ book on China
By Allen Gaborro For centuries, China has been a formidable yet enigmatic social, cultural, and political entity, more so to outsiders. To intone the evolution of this historical landscape is to recognize one truth: that the Middle Kingdom has been replete with webs of wonder, contradictions, and complexities that at once have amazed and boggled […]
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70 Filipino nurses exploited by staffing agency will receive restitution: AG James
New York Attorney General Letitia James on May 29 secured more than $660,000 for foreign-born nurses who were subjected to illegal labor trafficking and exploitative contracts by Advanced Care Staffing and Priority Care Staffing (ACS) and ACS CEO Sam Klein, according to a press statement from her office. An Office of the Attorney General (OAG) investigation […]
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The PHL is the only country with a diplomatic presence on 5th Ave: Fun fact as Philippine Center celebrates 50 years
By Cristina DC Pastor The Philippine Center was built in the 1970s during the time of the Marcos regime, a time when activist fervor was high and some Filipinos were wondering, “How can a poor country like the Philippines afford to own a building on Fifth Avenue in New York City?” Imelda Marcos, at the […]
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The Filipino community has ‘great Faith, great devotion to family’ – McGreevey (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor TF: What were people’s reactions to you? JM: I think people looked at me askance, the circumstances of the resignation, the fact that I was high profile. But in a nursing home nobody gives a darn who you are. They know I was governor but the things for them was…people need […]
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Ex-New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey: Life after coming out (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor The FilAm Exclusive The decision to interview former New Jersey Governor James ‘Jim’ McGreevey was never in the cards. First, he does not belong to The FilAm brand, meaning he is not Filipino American and he most certainly, I thought then, has not done anything remotely connected with the community. Until […]
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Abi Balingit wins James Beard Award for her desserts cookbook ‘Mayumu’
By Claire Mercado-Obias In the tiny kitchen of her Brooklyn apartment, Abi Balingit experimented making sweet treats with a Filipino twist. The successful recipes, she posted on her blog, The Dusky Kitchen. One day, a literary agent asked if she wanted to write a cookbook. After a resounding yes, she worked on it during the […]