The Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. is hosting Talakayan sa Pasuguan with Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Andres Bautista on Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 6:30 PM. Chairman Bautista will be at the Embassy to present an evaluation of the May 2016 Philippine National Elections. RSVP at info@philippinesusa.org
Catch over a hundred magnificent voices from combined adult and children choirs, accompanied by the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra (FASO), the only Filipino symphony orchestra outside of the Philippines, singing your favorite Christmas songs. Your school hymn being played by a full symphonic orchestra at “A Christmas Concert” on Saturday, December 3, 6:00 p.m.at the John Wayne Performing Arts Center in Glendale, California.
Just after Pearl Harbor Day, a motherless six-year-old girl awakens when a bomb falls a block from her home, the beginning of years of shattering deprivation.
In World War II Manila, Katinka suffers starvation, illness, and cruelty and loses family in the infamous Bataan Death March. She survives the Japanese occupation and the Battle of Manila. By the end of the war, Manila is destroyed and a million Filipinos are dead, but Katinka has endured the worst and now experiences the American liberation and reconstruction.
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FWN members met up in New York again for an intimate gathering at Princeton Club to discuss current events. Ambassador Albert shared her views on President Duterte's Administration and the South China Sea / West Philippine Sea dispute and Jopin shared her views on the Philippine business and investments climate under President Duterte's administration.
The meet-up was chaired by New York-based FWN member Judy Arteche-Carr (U.S. FWN100™ '09, Global FWN100™ '14)
Two Filipina scientists Maribel Nonato and Rizalina de Leon garnered this year's Gregorio Y. Zara Awards for Basic and Applied Research, respectively, for their forays into the study of plants native to the Philippines. Nonato studied the phytochemistry and biological activities of pandan plants, while De Leon pursued methods to produce bioethanol using local varieties of fungi as alternative sources of ethanol additives in place of food crops such as corn. News story from ABS-CBN.
The newly turned over C-130 cargo plane to the Philippine Air Force was flown to the Philippines from the United States with a female pilot-in-command, Major Marjorie Mukay. This was the first time in the history of the Philippine military that a cargo plane was flown by a female pilot-in-command. News story from Global Inquirer.
Earlier this month, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 443, The Truth Act and the Domestic Worker's Bill. The TRUTH Act creates increased transparency and due process in the ways that local law enforcement cooperate and function with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Domestic Worker's Bill grants overtime protections to California's privately hired domestic workers and removes the sunset provision and make the law's provisions permanent.
Learn more about new and upcoming pro-Immigrant policies in California after the jump.
FWN stands with The Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County in denouncing Fox News "The O'Reilly Factor " October 3rd segment as implicitly racist. The segment featured reporter Jesse Watters taking a trip to New York's Chinatown to ask passersby a series of culturally insensitive and ignorant questions while playing stereotypical Asian music and intercutting the story with martial arts movie cuts.
