Filipino-American News

Just down the street from the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died in Monday's tornado, a Filipina's house once stood.

The Blaskie family hid in their shelter for two hours as the tornado hit on Monday.

The Philippines joined other nations in expressing sympathy and grief for the residents of Oklahoma City suburb of Moore in the United States that was struck by a gigantic tornado on Monday.

The San Joaquin Genealogical Society will be having a general meeting from 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. Thrusday at Troke Regional Library, 502 W. Benjamin Holt Drive, Stockton.

A foreign medical expert on Wednesday advised local doctors to take a more concerted effort toward educating the public about cervical cancer, a disease that kills 12 Filipino women every day.

A GOOD number of Filipino-Americans in the U.S. continent expressed disappointment to news reports that the last midterm elections in the Philippines was still marred by massive vote-buying and other election frauds.

So far there are no Filipino casualties in tornadoes that wrecked havoc in Oklahoma and other Midwest cities in the United States, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported on Tuesday.

Filipino women practise childcare on baby dolls during a caregiver course at a health care institute in Manila in this 2010 file photo.

Philippine officials have advised thousands of Filipino workers to "limit their movement" in Taiwan, fearing a potentially violent backlash over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard .

Father Jess Soriano, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Vallejo, passes through and blesses the sanctuary, currently being used by Calvary Chapel Vallejo, in the newly dedicated Filipino Community Center during grand opening ceremonies on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

KUWAIT CITY, May 15: The Philippine Embassy through its lawyers filed multiple rape charges against a retired Kuwaiti Marine Officer who allegedly runs a brothel in Hawalli by luring Filipino Household Service Workers to escape from their employers to work in a coffee shop but they ended up in a brothel in Hawalli.

MANILA The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh will open a field office at the Olaya District to extend consular services to Filipinos, particularly those working to correct their residency and labor status before the grace period of the Saudi Arabian government ends on July 3, 2013.

The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday reminded Japanese officials to be careful in commenting about "comfort women" as the issue of wartime sexual abuse continues to rankle in the Philippines.

Two Filipino women are at the centre of controversy in the Philippines, mainly because of their looks.

By Rodel Rodis/Inquirer.net - This was the question posed to me by a curious TV reporter on May 7, just three days after a stretch limousine traveling across the San Mateo Bridge carrying nine Filipino nurses to a bridal party suddenly burst into flames killing five of the occupants, including the bride.

The Philippines held its very first automated presidential election in year 2010.

KUWAIT CITY, May 12: A Kuwaiti allegedly detained eight Filipino women inside a flat in Hawally where he raped two of them and molested the others.

Political gatherings, dances and holiday parties -- such activities have played out in Vallejo's former Filipino Community Center.

WASHINGTON DC / NEW YORK As the Philippine envoy to the US cast his absentee ballot in Washington DC, Ambassador Jose Cuisia Jr.

SAN MATEO, California The outpouring of support continue to come from all parts of America for the victims of the limousine fire and their families.