WASHINGTON, D.C. – Around 40 vibrant and driven youth participating in the 2017 International Young Leaders Assembly (IYLA) were treated to a night of knowledge sharing, cultural exchanges, youth empowerment, and fun-filled activities at a reception held at the Philippine ...
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By: Veronica Leighton This month is VIA Times’ 34th year anniversary, founded in 1984, which I always say was born out of serendipity. The birth pangs of VT is a long story that has been told many times but ...
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By: Lou Maningas Cabalona A few weeks before its opening, I had the opportunity to enjoy a VIP Advance screening of the digital animation movie, The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature starring Will Arnett, Jackie Chan and Katherine Heigl ...
Read More »VT’s Farewell Interview with Hon. Generoso “Gene” DG Calonge Chicago Philppine Consul General 2014-2017
What would have been a difficult scheduling of an appointment with ConGen Calonge became rather seamless when properly channeled through his secretary, Ms. Wenilyn Capote. I was originally thinking, it would be a lot harder to get to him now ...
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Attorney Reynaldo Roxas Sr. — A Man With A Vision And A Mission
By: Maria Girlie Pascual It was 1978. I just arrived in Los Angeles, California with my mom and dad, eager to go to Dineyland and Universal Studios like they promised. I was on summer break from the University of the ...
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By: Bob Boyer Mindanao for me remains a mixture of romantic mystery and danger. While I have spent considerable time in the north, Luzon, and in the middle, the Visayas, I have yet to visit the south, Mindanao. I ...
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Dear Editor: The Philippines and her people had suffered for so long and still continue to suffer. We were under the tyrannical shackles of the Spaniards who subjugated us for 333 years and, after that, we were under the American ...
Read More »Chicago Celebrates ASEAN @ 50
The Consulate General of the Philippines in Chicago and the Filipino- American and ASEAN community warmly celebrated the 50th Founding Anniversary of ASEAN. Consul General Generoso DG Calonge, together with the Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid of the Republic of Indonesia, ...
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