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

By: Vicente Perez   VICENTE PEREZ is a seasoned concert promoter, director and producer of some of the biggest Filipino live performances all over the US. He is also the creative director for Philippine Times of Southern Nevada and food ...

By: Joe Mauricio   General Emilio Aguinaldo, an imperfect but reverent Filipino statesman and the fi rst President of the Philippines, is the Philippines’ foremost Founding Father, partly because he was so wont toward painful self-refl ections about the fi ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., together with the Philippine Consulates General in Agana, Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, and the Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, commemorated ...

By: Veronica Leighton   Despite the lawless madness that has been going on around us, we try to see and do things as normal as before, but it’s difficult. It’s quite difficult to assess the turmoil and chaos that have ...

Due to COVID-19 pandemic affl icting countries across the globe, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) would like to inform the public that the submission of nominations to the 2020 Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organization Overseas (PAFIOO) has ...

By: Janice Dantes   No matter your political leanings or personal feelings about the situation involving George Floyd, the vast majority Filipinos can agree that it put the issue of racism in America to the forefront of our minds. The issue ...

By: Melody Rabor-Dizon   The advent of telemedicine came earlier than expected. I was once watching a TV clip on Looking To The Future: Medical Trends. Explicitly, they went into detail how one day it will be technology diagnosing us ...

By: Jan Paul C. Ferrer   How you can mitigate the different types of risk in your portfolio When you invest your money, you probably know you’re taking on a certain amount of financial risk. Unlike depositing money in a bank, where ...

By: Victoria Smith   Times like this seem to cry out for some kind of revolution. But what kind, and more importantly, for whom? We’re dealing not only with extreme polarization between rich and poor in mind-boggling ratios, but at ...

By Gus Mercado It is 2020, the year the earth stood still while a deadly pandemic wrecked havoc on the world’s population. Millions were infected, many thousands have died, economies came crushing down, millions lost their jobs, and there is ...