Filipino-American News

The New Life Community Church in Dallas will present its second Filipino Cultural Day, featuring the best of Filipino cuisine and culture, on Sunday, July 19, at the church in the Twin Stacks Center, North Memorial Highway, Dallas.

Confrontation ensued on Saturday between policemen and demonstrators calling for the abolition of the Visiting Forces Agreement .

Today is Philippine-American Friendship Day. July 4th is the USA's most important national holiday.

EL CERRITO, California: A visiting Filipino choir from Saudi Arabia wowed a diverse Bay Area audience at the Saint John the Baptist Church here on Monday night with a delightfully varied repertoire of Pinoy folk and love songs, Gospel music and pop hits.

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye and retired Army Major General Antonio Taguba will honor Hawaici's Filipino-American veterans of World War II tomorrow at the Hawaici Footbank's annual Patriots Celebration.

"Gentle and a very kind person" was how a Filipino American celebrity chef based in San Diego, California described the music pop legend Michael Jackson.

June marks the 111th anniversary of Philippine independence from Spain. That's meant parades and parties all month for the Filipino community around the world.

The dance crew called Point Blank of Philadelphia entertained the crowd at Exchange Place in Jersey City as part of Sunday's Philippine-American Friendship Day Parade and Festival.

For Filipino-American Melissa Roxas, it was like going on a journey back to a "dark place" but one she had to make so that the world would know of the human rights abuses in the Philippines and that the "abductions and torture" would stop.

Gov. Michael Marcos Keon of Ilocos Norte province, the region that the largest portion of Filipinos in Hawaii have ties to, is making his first visit as governor to the Islands, drawing enough interest to fill venues to capacity.

Sen. Daniel Akaka reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would reunite Filipino WWII veterans, who are U.S. citizens, with their loved ones in the Philippines, who have been waiting for a visa.

"If the police in Saudi Arabia can arrest people simply because they don't like their clothes, no one is safe," Rasha Moumneh, a researcher for the rights group, said in a statement.

TO show its support and appreciation to the CNMI, the United Filipino Organization will a oemaximizea its participation in the upcoming Liberation Day celebration.

Kealoha Ramirez performs a traditional island dance with Kealoha Co., a group organized by her mother, Josie Kealoha Valdez Ramirez, that presented "Expressions of Polynesia" at Fiestas Filipinas.

Saudi Arabia's religious police have shown the limits of their tolerance by arresting 67 Filipino men at a drag party.

CHRISTINE BRYANT/The Times-Union Keisha, 10, and Michaela Abelgas, 13, appear on stage at The Jacksonville Landing as part of Filipino Pride Day.

Sixty-seven Filipino men working in Saudi Arabia face jail and lashes for "imitating women" after being arrested at a party in which a number were dressed in drag, a Philippines embassy official said Saturday.

The Filipino community bade farewell on Sunday to outgoing Philippine Ambassador to Brunei Ms Virginia H Benavidez with a serenade that made her and others shed tears.

If you go The Filipino Pride Day Festival is Saturday from 10 a.m. to midnight on Hogan Street at The Jacksonville Landing.

THE FILIPINO community in Trinidad and Tobago held their Fun and Family Day at La Vega, Gran Couva on Saturday.