Fil Am News

PH-US FRIENDSHIP TIES MARKED IN CHICAGO SUBURBS

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) SKOKIE, Illinois (JGL) – It took the escalating rhetoric and massive expansive claims of China in South China Sea (Philippine Western Sea or PWS) to prod two suburbs in Chicago,

FIL AM MATH TEACHER BRINGS NATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TO CHICAGO!

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Chicago Public School (CPS) mathematics teacher Joseph M. Ocol did not mind if he did not get a raise or were expelled from membership of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) or worse, if he lost his job, for crossing the picket lin...

KNIGHTS OF RIZAL OBSERVE CENTENNIAL THIS YEAR

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) "A life which is not consecrated to a great ideal is like a stone wasted in the fields never to become a part of an edifice.”-- Jose Rizal CHICAGO (JGL) – Consul General Generoso D.G. Calonge of the Philippine Midwest is not only spreading Jose...

LENI INVITED TO ATTEND NaFFAA CONFAB AUG. 4-7 IN PHILLY

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) –With plenty of time in her hands as the incoming government of President Rody Duterte is not in a hurry to enlist her services, incoming Vice President Leni Robredo has been invited by the National Federation of Filipino American...

FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION CASES V. LENI DISMISSED BY NAGA FISCAL

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – The Naga City Prosecution Service in the Philippines dismissed last June 8 the criminal violations of incoming Vice President Leni G. Robredo for allegedly accepting campaign donations from dual citizens and foreign nationals in...

FILIPINO MUSLIM TERRORIST LEADER JEERS AT MUHAMMAD ALI FOR CALLING ISLAM RELIGION OF PEACE

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Before Filipino Radical Muslim Abu Sayyaf terrorist leader Abu Sabaya was killed, he was shown an article by his captive Gracia Burnham in which Muhammad Ali was quoted as denouncing Muslim terrorists for attacking the World Tra...

DAVAOENOS IN CHICAGO CELEBRATE DUTERTE’S WIN!

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – About over a hundred Filipinos and friends from Davao City came together to a picnic Sunday in Bunker Hill at the northwest edge of Chicago, Illinois to wish their favorite son – Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte – Godspeed in his a...

WHY ARE FILAMS READY FOR HILLARY

By JOSEPH LARIOSA & RONNIE M. ESTRADA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) SAN JOSE, California (JGL) – It does not take a political scientist to know why Filipino Americans are warming up to former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. A Filipino American lifelong Democrat, Demos P. Punsalan, who l...