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FIL AM CAREGIVER’S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO 364 DAYS IN JAIL

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA Correspondent (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Edgardo Pasamba, an unemployed husband of Carmelita Pasamba, a Filipina certified nursing assistant, who was earlier sentenced to six years in state prison for bilking about
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FIL AM CAREGIVERS JOIN RALLY FOR PASSAGE OF DOMESTIC RIGHTS BILL

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)   SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (JGL) – Two busloads of nannies, housekeepers and home cleaners from Chicago, Illinois, including volunteers from Alliance of Filipinos for  Immigrant Rights &
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FIL AM “GOLD RUSH” IN NEW YORK THIS WEEKEND

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA Correspondent (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Butuan City in Agusan del Norte in northeastern Mindanao was a flourishing kingdom during the pre-Hispanic 10th and 11th centuries for its metallurgic industry that
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BATAAN DAY OBSERVED ON SEPT. 13 IN CHICAGO SUBURB

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – A son of American serviceman who saw action in Bataan during World War II would be the keynote speaker at the 73rd Annual Memorial Service of the Maywood
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4th ANNUAL PLARIDEL AWARDS ENTRY SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO AUG. 31ST!

VISITING PAPC PRESIDENT: Esther Misa Chavez (second from right), Vice President US Sales and Marketing and Regional Director for North America of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Online (Inquirer.net) and president of the Philippine American Press Club based in San Francisco, California, was hos...
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NEWSMAN SUES PUBLISHER, DEMANDS OVERTIME PAY!

 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – In a groundbreaking case, a Filipino community staff news reporter in New York has filed a civil suit demanding from his publisher among others payment of his overtime work for
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POLICE ZEROING IN ON THE RIZAL BUST THIEVES

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – The administrators of Rizal Center where the bust of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal was forcibly removed from its pedestal last June 16 three days before Rizal’s 154th birth
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FIL AM LAWYER HAS AN EYE FOR AN ART

 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   PLAINFIELD, Illinois (JGL) – Arcadio Joaquin, Jr. has been pacing back and forth the Daley Plaza courtyard for more than four decades to represent his legal clients at the Richard J. Daley Center,
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