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A Christmas movie full of charm and hilarity
By Wendell Gaa Christmas is always peak season for films and TV specials. From the classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the late great Jimmy Stewart to the comedic “Home Alone” films of Macauley Culkin, holiday movies have warmed our hearts and drawn our families closer together this time of the year. Now available for […]
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Weightlifting gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz sets sight on Paris 2024
By Marilyn Abalos Hidilyn Diaz, the first Filipino Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting, was in the U.S. recently to raise funds and participate in a training program for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Passing through New York, Hidilyn was on her way to Atlanta, Georgia to train before competing in Bogota, Colombia for […]
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Statistics is my dance
By Eric J. Daza I failed or almost failed out of a few core STEM courses in my biology undergrad — including calculus. I barely passed my core major GPA requirement to graduate, and scored a middling overall GPA. Today, I hold a doctorate in biostatistics from a top public health school, and completed a […]
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Family a strong influence on FilAms’ travel decisions
By Zeny Pallugna This research, “A Tourism Destination Marketing Model for the Philippines,” was conducted to fulfill the author’s academic requirement for a PhD from the Philippine Women’s University in Manila. The author, Azucena Cinco Pallugna, Ph.D., is currently a Foreign Service Tourism Officer of the Philippine Department of Tourism in San Francisco. Profile […]
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Laundry workers win case vs exploitation, wage theft
The Office of the Attorney General has announced it has recovered $90,000 in stolen and unpaid wages for more than a dozen former employees of a commercial dry cleaner in Astoria, Queens known as Enterprise Cleaner. A press statement says Enterprise failed to pay its employees minimum wage, failed to pay the proper overtime rate, failed […]
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One-third of immigrants are low income: research
The immigrant population in the United States is highly diverse in its origins, characteristics and outcomes after arrival. While research has long demonstrated strong upward mobility for immigrants overall, both over time and generations, the challenges of starting over in a new country can leave some with relatively low incomes and economic hardship. The Washington […]
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Steven Raga makes history, vows to ‘help anybody regardless of ethnicity’
By Lindy Rosales A New York City district of mostly working-class immigrant neighborhoods has elected Democrat Steven Raga as their representative to the New York State Assembly on November 8. Raga, a Filipino American community organizer, won the race over Sean Lally of the Medical Freedom Party garnering a decisive 57.9 percent — or 10,972 […]
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Filipinos are well represented in NYC Marathon
By Lindy Rosales The 2015 Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach led an assortment of Filipino and FilAm runners who presented a united front at the TCS New York City Marathon on November 6. People cheered on Wurtzbach as she sprinted at the start of the 26.2 mile-route. She ran her debut marathon after several months of […]
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Remember Tam of ‘Miss Saigon’? Meet Geena Quintos!
By Cristina DC Pastor How many of us who watched “Miss Saigon” on Broadway in the 1990s, thought the young child who played Tam was a boy? How so wrong we were! This week I met 29-year-old theater actress Geena Quintos who remembers going to Broadway Theatre every day for more than a year to […]