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

By: Christian L ChaCha M Xavier D   KHELAH CASTRO, daughter of Sheryl and Mike Castro of Makati, Philippines, getting ready for their school program celebrating Buwan ng Wika or National Language Month. Khelah’s proud grandparents are Regina and Roselo Villanueva, brother of ...

Chicago, 11 September – Led by Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin, the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago joined in the commemoration of the 77th Annual Memorial Service for Maywood Bataan Day at the Maywood Park Veterans Memorial on 8 September ...

By: Victoria G. Smith   I’m writing this fresh from our monumental tour of Italy in celebration of our silver wedding anniversary. I feel challenged to describe the effect this trip has had on me. To say it’s “life-changing” would seem ...

Hindi pinalampas ni Sharon Cuneta ang pambabatikos ng ilang netizens sa ibinahagi nitong litrato kung saan nakasuot ng uniform ang dalawa niyang kasambahay habang kumakain sa isang restaurant. Komento ng netizen, “Ang panget lang sa public na kasuot ng uniform ...

By: Dominick Geraci   “Welcome to Pampanga, sir, you have to try Tocino here before you go back to Manila.” A middle-aged woman at small shop tells me. There are so many things to experience in Pampanga. It’s an hour-and-half drive ...

By: Joe Mauricio   For almost three months, thousands of people have braved the sweltering summer heat in a series of well-orchestrated rallies against an unpopular bill that has come to symbolize concerns about encroachment of the mainland Chinese government ...

Vic Herrera has been fishing in Pasig River since the late 1970s. He knows the ebb and flow of the once biologically dead river, which he said “dies” or becomes foul-smelling during summers. But as the river is continuously rehabilitated ...

By: Nancy Abiera   “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.” John 15:18 “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” Psalms 27:10 Have you experienced being rejected? ...

Dan Gawat with his longtimelifetime partner, Th om Bierbrodt. From left to right: Cynthia Gawat, Becky Gawat, Elbert Regacho, Th om Bierbrodt, Dan Gawat, Don Kramer, Veronica, Elizabeth Regacho, Cris Goudsmit. Th e Honoree Flor Kramer with loving husband, Don. Some guests ...