Fil Am News

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

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Consul General Generoso D. G. Calonge formed a Knights of Rizal (KOR) in the Philippine Consulate in Chicago, Illinois, becoming perhaps the first Chief of Mission anywhere to have organized such group.

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   with 1  photo   CHICAGO (JGL) – A hearing panel of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) in Chicago has sustained the recommendation of the IARDC