VIA Times – August 2022 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

This August, exciting Saturday afternoons await viewers as Wish Ko Lang – hosted by GMA News and Public Affairs pillar Vicky Morales – celebrates 20 years of granting wishes with the most cinematic anniversary episodes and biggest presents to date. ...

The members of the US Filipinos for Good Governance, an advocacy organization based in Virginia, joined the Filipino People in mourning the death of former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos on Sunday. “We in USFGG extend our deepest sympathies to ...

By: Veronica Leighton   Good News first. Some say that the mighty month of August is a sad month. Not only that it is being counted as the last month of the enjoyable summer months, but it is also the ...

School Starts For many kids around the country, summer break is over. School starts back up this week. I remember several of my high school teachers vividly – and for very different reasons. Mr. Lewis was an educator who helped ...

Attorney Richard Boykin (VT cover in June 2022), who was a candidate for Cook County Board President

By: Janice Dantes   (Continuation of article from last month’s issue.) Re-victimizing the victim. Pregnancy could be a traumatic event for a victim of rape and/or incest. The pregnant person may not be ready to come forward with what happened to ...

In matters of recollecting the Via Times’s four-decades of historical success, there’s no other person who can speak about it in the first- person other than the Publisher herself, Ms. Veronica Leighton, the founder, publisher, and Chief Editor of this ...

WHAT: Courvoisier® Cognac, the Most Awarded Cognac House*, recently hosted the Courvoisier Entrepreneurship Awards featuring Chicago’s top small business owners, marking the latest endeavor in support of the brand’s global philanthropic platform, Foundation 1828™. As an extension of its multi-year ...

Opens New Money Transfer Corridors to Vietnam and The Philippines Maxi’s money transfer services are now also available to Vietnam and the Philippines. Operating in the money remittances space for two decades, Maxi (Maxitransfers, LLC) annually manages billions of dollars in ...

By: Ryan Tejero   The University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (UPAAA), its first chapter, the UP Alumni Association in Arizona (UPAAAz), and the UP Medical Alumni Society in America in Arizona (UPMASAAz) joined hands to deliver a three-hour ...