VIA Times – April 2015 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   “Bring back some news about Tacloban, ok?”, Joe Mauricio, our CPRTV Director, requested before I left for Manila. We stayed in Tacloban for only a day and a half. But, many thanks to our relatives who ...

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   Nobody could have prepared us for the breathtaking, six champion golf courses in the gated community of the world-renowned Reynolds Plantation on Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia; certainly not Raymond Adorable, our affable Vice President ...

CHICAGO – Resurrection University students will travel to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to provide medical care as part of a Service Learning opportunity. The trip will allow nursing students the experience of practicing their medical skills and the opportunity to develop an ...

By: Victoria G. Smith North winds blow and sculpt the ghostly terrain. Winter has cloaked us with its mantle, at last. As if burying what strives to live beneath, guarding the buds that spring will bring, just as we, above, ...

By: Richard Mirpuri   Failure is an event. . .it’s not who you are. Failure is never final if you have the God-given desire and direction to change your destiny. Here are the A to Z’s on how to run ...

Asteria Glimane Bhandari, R.N., or Aster to her many friends, professional colleagues and fellow community builders in Chicagoland’s Filipino American community, was one very unforgettable Lady whose smile and Happy look at life makes a rainy day shine! Sadly, what ...

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as the Fight of the Century, is an upcoming boxing match between eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and undefeated, five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Despite predictions that Mayweather–Pacquiao would be the highest ...