VIA Times – July 2021 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Kayla Tejero   Traditionally, July 4th is celebrated with festive parades and lots of fun fair events in the parks. With the tail end of the pandemic, this year’s celebration is a big break for everyone to get out and ...

By: Bob Boyer   People who have been following the news about Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will know that Pope Francis appointed him head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People in December, 2019. Tagle, of course, had to ...

Marvel Studios’ Eternals star Angelina Jolie made a fly in-fly out visit to a remote camp in Burkina Faso on Sunday to address refugees who have fled Islamic jihadist violence in the region, warning them the threat of climate change ...

Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez and Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Mateo met at the Philippine Chancery Annex today and had the opportunity to know more about each other.

By: Vicente Perez   Ihave been asked numerous times to share my laing recipe and over time I experiment new ways to cook it. My experiment to use KALE became very popular and now I decided to go back to the original TARO ...

A violent July Fourth weekend featured at least 118 people shot in Chicago and New York City combined, according to reports. The historically violent weekend for Chicago saw 92 shot, including at least 16 fatalities, the most violent weekend of ...

By: Richard Hanus   With 12 million or so foreign nationals residing in the U.S. without lawful immigration status, agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement department have no shortage of work to carry out. Indeed, ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on July 12th handing over the reins as the company uses its monopoly power to crush locally owned businesses during the coronavirus mania. Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon’s cloud-computing business, replaced Bezos, ...

By: Boom Boom Cabalona, “X” Divinagracia, Christopher Miranda   The inventor of the mRNA technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines is warning that Americans don’t have enough information to decide whether or not the benefits of getting the shots outweigh the risks. Dr. Robert ...

By: Ryan Tejero   One of the newest organizations in the Chicago Filipino American community is the Chicago Global Lions Club (CGLC). Born with the vision of becoming a global leader in community and humanitarian service, CGLC has a mission to ...