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CHICAGO, Illinois (JGL) -- Consul General Generoso D. G. Calonge led a team from the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago, Illinois last March 25 that conducted its first outreach mission in Little Rock, Arkansas, serving Filipino Americans residing across The Natural State and beyond.  ...

The Consulate General of the Philippines in Chicago regrets to inform all Filipino-Americans and the general public of the recent passing of former Senator and Undersecretary of Foreign

The Consulate General of the Philippines would like to invite the Filipino-American community and the general public to participate in the 75th Commemoration of Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) with a wreath laying ceremony (weather permitting) at the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge on Saturda...

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)     CHICAGO (JGL) — Filipino women, in almost all age groups, outnumber men 2 to 1 in registering to vote in Middle America in the coming Philippine elections, according to statistics received by Consul General Generoso D. G. Calonge of the Phi...

Consul General Generoso D.G. Calonge last Monday called on U.S. Representative Steven Joseph Chabot at his congressional district office in downtown Cincinnati to discuss US-PH bilateral ties in general and the Philippines’ relations with the Midwest.  Rep. Chabot, a member of the U.S. House Com...

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – A man who concealed his identity by arriving and leaving the scene of the murder of a real estate lawyer last December walking on a cane has been identified by police

[pb_row][pb_column span="span12"][pb_text] By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)    CHICAGO (JGL) – While diabetes is the number six killer in the Philippines, Filipino Americans are twice as likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic Whites in Hawaii and California, according to a 2...

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – An addict who takes a year of methamphetamine (shabu), the illegal but most affordable drug of choice among the poor Filipinos, can recover his “normal brain,” according to