VIA Times – August 2020 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Ryan Tejero   Kiwanis is an international organization that helps children from all over the world. Its strong advocacies, as manifested in its numerous initiatives, had gathered a strong community of volunteers who share the passion to create an ...

GMA Artist Center offers another set of practical productivity hacks for its avid viewers with the return of ‘I Know Right/IKR’ online series every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The series features your favorite Kapuso stars trying their hands on life ...

By: Janice Dantes   Being an attorney is like any other job: I perform a service and receive payment for that service. While most of my clients are appreciative of the service, no one is happy paying their bills. I ...

By: Melody Rabor-Dizon   Where do I begin? My mom, Alice Rabor, born on Aug 4th, 1940 in Pangasinan, is the 5th child of the 7 children of Damaso Morales and Engracia Calimlim. Her early roots emerged from Bohol then permanently ...

NEW YORK – July 23, 2020 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, has supported more than 60,000 cleft surgeries in the Philippines since its first program opened in 2001. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Smile Train partner hospitals ...

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   It’s a buyers’ dream come true and a silver lining in our COVID infested landscape. Mortgage rates have tumbled to historical lows of under 3% for 30 year fixed home loans and sellers’ acquiescence to ...

By: Kayla Tejero   Happy August! I still cannot believe how fast the time has passed by. We have already gone through a little over three-fourths of the year! As we welcome this month of August, as well as the start ...

OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP Welcomes you and your families Friday, thru Sunday, September 11-13, 2020 to Filipino “Ina” and Harvest Festival Weekend at Champion Shrine Pray along with us during our Novenas in September Divino Rostro Novena (Sept. 2-10, ...

Isaac Cartagena, attorney-at-law and police officer, and his wife, Lydia.

By: Joe Mauricio   The lockdown boredoms are getting to many of us. Six months lockdown are just too much for anybody to take. That’s how long some of the world’s leading health experts say it would take to finally ...