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California Limo tragedy reveals significant public safety issue

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Bachelorette party? Night of relative bacchanalian fun? How about the Junior or Senior Prom?

Posted: May 11th, 2013 in Blogs,Columnists | Read More »

Fil-Ams hail nurse Menchu Sanchez

Menchu Sanchez at US President Obama's State of the Union address. AP

Hearts swelling with pride, Filipino-American health care professionals hailed Menchu de Luna Sanchez who engineered the transfer of 20 at-risk infants to other intensive care units when the power went out during Superstorm “Sandy.”

Posted: February 17th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Global Pinoy,Photos & Videos | Read More »

The life story of Shoeless Julie

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FILIPINO-AMERICAN Julie Cox tells the story of how she survived the twists of fate. MARICAR P. CINCO

Julie Cox isn’t an English movie actress, but hers is a life of plots one could not imagine happening in real life.

Posted: January 16th, 2013 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Fil-Am selected as Hawaii’s senate president

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Filipino-American Hawaii State Senator Donna Mercado Kim (D-Moanalua, Aiea, Kalihi Valley) has been selected as the new senate president of the Hawaii legislature.

Posted: January 12th, 2013 in Asia & Pacific,Features,Headlines,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Fil-Am accused in terror plot pleads not guilty

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The Filipino-American accused of being involved in a plot to join Al-Qaeda insurgents for military training in Afghanistan appeared in federal court for the first time, with his fellow defendants on Wednesday, December 19, to plead not guilty on charges of conspiracy to support terrorists.

Posted: December 30th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Panunuluyan: Reviving a Filipino Christmas tradition in New York

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The decision to ban holding masses in the Philippine Center may very well be a blessing in disguise.

Posted: December 24th, 2012 in Americas,Features,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Filipino indicted in California for terror plot

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Members of the media gather outside the home of 21-year-old Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales of Upland, Calif. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Vidriales is one of four Southern California men who have been charged with plotting to kill Americans and destroy U.S. targets overseas by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, federal officials said Monday. In one online conversation, Santana told an FBI undercover agent that he wanted to commit jihad and expressed interest in a jihadist training camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. AP/Damian Dovarganes

A 23-year-old Filipino-American and two other Southern California residents have been indicted on terrorism-related charges in federal court.

Posted: December 1st, 2012 in Americas,Features,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Finally, a Filipino presence in the California Assembly

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Vice-Mayor Rob Bonta of the city of Alameda in the East Bay made history when he became the first Filipino-American elected to the California State Assembly in the just concluded general elections.

Posted: November 11th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

PH offers sympathies, support to Americans, Fil Ams affected by behemoth storm

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This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, New Jersey, as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach, Monday.  AP/6abc Action News

The Philippine government on Tuesday expressed its sympathies and support to Americans and Filipino-American communities in the United States now being affected by hurricane “Sandy.”

Posted: October 30th, 2012 in Americas,Latest Global Nation Stories,Philippines | Read More »

Ethnomusicologist receives top Global Filipino Literary Award

Christi-Anne Castro, author of Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation and published by Oxford University Press and released in 2011, received the nod from a selecting panel that conferred the 2012 Global Filipino Literary Award for Non-Fiction on her maiden publishing effort.

Posted: October 17th, 2012 in Headlines | Read More »

Milagros Beltran Mendez, 61

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Mila Mendez died of cardiac arrest September 29, at 2:09 a.m. at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, after a long illness, her husband Fernando told The FilAm.   She was the driving force behind the 14-year Philippine Fiesta in America held annually at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. “She [...]

Posted: September 30th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

7 INQUIRER.net writers among 19 Plaridel Awards nominees in US

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Seven columnists and contributors of INQUIRER.net are among the 19 nominees for the 2012 Plaridel Awards, which recognizes the contribution of outstanding writers and publishers in the Filipino American community in the US.

Posted: September 29th, 2012 in Headlines,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

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