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    NO. 70 FILIPINO ALEXANDRA EALA UPSETS NO. 14 DANE CLARA TAUSON AT THE 2025 US OPEN

By SCOTT SODE (Manager, Content & Communications Of US Tennis Association Eastern Section)   QUEENS, New York  (USTA) -- WHAT a moment! In front of a boisterous, highly-energized crowd of mostly Filipinos in the Grandstand, 2022 US Open junior girls’ singles champion and world No. 70 Alex...

JGL Eye: SONA, SO SURREAL!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA              (PhilaMessenger.net)   WILL PBBM'S CALL FOR  UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR ALL TAKE OFF?   CHICAGO (PM) - The state of the Nation Address (SONA) is usually a boring speech when it is replete with motherhood statements that can easily send you to ...

SC: COMPLAINT VS. VP DUTERTE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

House impeachment complaint vs VP Duterte barred by 1-year rule, due process or fairness applies during all stages of impeachment process  “Our fundamental law is clear: the end does not justify the means.” “There is a right way to do the right thing at the right time.  This is what the Rule of...

PH WET WEDDING PHOTO MADE THE HEADLINE

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA                         (PhilaMessenger.net)   CHICAGO (PM) - ON the day following the Oval Office meeting of President Marcos, Jr. with President Donald Trump at the White House, The Wall Street Journal, the biggest circulating daily newspaper in the U.S. with 2.4-...

NO CHARITY AT HOME: WARAYS’ LOYALTY NOT RECIPROCATED BY PBBM?

©2025 By TRACY CABRERA a.ka. CIPRIANO CABRERA  (Special to PhilaMessenger.net)    Without loyalty, you won’t accomplish anything.                                — Youngboy Never Broke Again MANILA, Philippines (PM) -- BEING ONE OF the poorest regions in the Philippines and the least industri...

SEARCHING FOR SUPER-AGERS AMONG FILIPINOS AND NORTH AMERICANS

The Straphanger ©2025 By Bobby M. Reyes (Special to PhilaMessenger.net)   “Masamang damo lang ang matagal mamatay.” (Bad grass dies later.) — Filipino saying  Part I of "Searching for Super-Agers Among Filipinos and North Americans" Series  Part V of the "Fourteen Letters to His Holiness Po...

NO SLANDER IF CRITICISM IS LEVELED AGAINST A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA               (PhilaMessenger.net)   GOVERNOR COLLECTED 125 NAMES OF HIS CRITICS   CHICAGO (PM) – There is “no slander” committed by print and social media workers “against a government official if the negative comments are related to the latter’s work,” this was ...

“WE ARE FAMILY,” SAYS US ENVOY IN THE PHILIPPINES AT 4TH OF JULY

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA                    (PhilaMessenger.net)   THERE ARE 4-M PINOYS IN US; 750K AMERICANS IN PH               CHICAGO (PM) – ON the eve (249th) of the sesquicentennial (250th) anniversary of the U.S. Independence Day and Philippine American Friendship Day celebrations...