U.S. News

The United States on March 24 congratulated the European Union on the sixtieth anniversary of the 1957 Treaties of Rome, which founded the European Economic Community.   It says, “Our two continents share the same values and, above all, the same commitment to promote peace and prosperity th...

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) – In the waning days of World War II, American military officers drew a line on the sands, asking Filipino WW II veterans to step in a

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...

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks)    CHICAGO (JGL) – A Filipino American lawyer has demanded that CBS  apologize for the “highly negative” and unflattering portrayal in the political drama, “Madame Secretary, of the

[pb_row][pb_column span="span12"][pb_text] By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2017 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – A scheming Philippine President Andrada in a television political drama segment of “Madame Secretary” series Sunday (March 12) groped the eponymous principal character

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) – The 42-year-old husband of a Filipino wife and father of their five year-old daughter detained on a $1-Million bond for allegedly attempting to hire someone to kill his wife and their