VIA Times – May 2019 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   This tribute was posted on the Dignity Memorial website of Chapel Hills Garden West, where his body was interred after he struggled, then died suddenly while at a wedding shower for his good friend Dr Nel ...

By: Bob Boyer   “Please call me ‘Butch’—it’s ugly but I’m stuck with it.” Butch made this request in one of our earliest exchanges of letters, in 1992, thereby introducing me to the cultural mysteries of Filipino nicknames. I had ...

By: Veronica Leighton   Billy Dec, owner of Sunda Chicago and Sunda Nashville and other popular Chicago establishments, hosted the official kick-off of the Chicago celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month for May 2019 last May 1st, co-hosted by ...

By: Melody Dizon   I find it rather amusing to pick a topic nowadays that are not only relevant but relatable and most of all current. I shock myself at what I see, what I read and I share this ...

By: Christian L ChaCha M Xavier D   11-year-old youth activist, Jahkil Jackson, is one of the youngest social entrepreneurs and is the founder of the nationally recognized nonprofit, Project I Am, an organization built to spread resources and love to the homeless ...

By: Janice Dantes   While employment law is not my area of expertise, I do occasionally receive questions from employees who were terminated and if they have any cause of action against their employer. To begin, it is not illegal ...

By: Ryan Tejero   Nueva Vizcaya is a province of the Philippines located in Cagayan Valley Region in the Northern Island of Luzon. Bayombong is the most prosperous and considered to be the city capital. It is bordered by Benguet ...