VIA Times – January 2016 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Richard Mirpuri   If a quarterback’s timing is off. . .he’s going to have a bad day with more interceptions than touchdowns. That’s clearly evident in some of the National Football League games you watch each week. If a basketball ...

By: Melody Dizon   Dropping temperatures are already here. People are more indoors, people are sneezing, coughing or calling off work. Sounds like the theme for the flu months. I often get this question a lot. How do I know ...

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   Scanning the room as soon as I entered, I looked for a woman I distinctly remember from an audition video that became viral which I saw a couple of years ago. The video captioned, “Pinay ...

By: Mark Javier   Illinois rings in 2016 with many new laws that go into effect this year. Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office initiated several key laws of note, in a December 29, 2015 press release her office announced the following: ...

By: Aeron Lancero   Magandang araw sa inyong lahat, Happy New Year to you all! May 2016 be prosperous for you, family friends and business. This leads me to what is very popular in the New Year and that is ...

By: Jovie Calma   It is noted that beauty pageants have been popular in the Philippines since they were brought to the country by the American colonial government in the first half of the 20th Century. Since then, our home ...

By: Lena Remigio   Dear Ate Lena, Taon-taon kaming mag-asawa ay nagce-celebrate ng Holidays (either Christmas or New Year) by inviting our friends sa aming formal gathering sa bahay. Dahilan sa malaki at maganda ang aming bahay sa isang affluent suburb ...

By: Robert Gard   Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Issues Long Awaited Proposed Regulations: “Retention of EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” Rules for “I-140 Employment Authorization Document” (EAD) On December 31, 2015, the ...

By: Jan Paul Ferrer   Maintaining stable prices is one of the three pillars of US monetary policy. Although commonly associated with inflation, price stability also seeks to manage lowflation, or worse deflation, which is just as disruptive to a ...

By: Ryan Tejero   Filipino Charities of North America, (FCNA) Inc. is based in Michigan, and was founded on a mission to provide impoverished areas of the Philippines, with desperately needed medical supplies, medication, food, clean water and seeds. In ...