Filipino Americans in California are wondering about real estate transactions being initiated by Filipinos on tourist visas, who are selling retirement condos in Manila as unlicensed sales agents.
It may even be a case of human trafficking.
The story is important because of the man whose propertie...
President Obama may not be able to place Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. But he’s doing what he can in his final days. Like giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to luminaries like Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And of course, he pardoned his last turkey the day ...
If you haven’t noticed, we live in a time where the political trend is quite simple.
Things that would never happen before, that were once thought to be downright “inconceivable,” are happening right now, and with stunning regularity.
And it’s not fake news, it’s real.
We’re seeing it in the U.S....
The attempt to bridge our country’s great divide has begun with the first meeting in the White House between President Obama and his one-time birther tormentor, President-elect Trump.
It’s like we’re in some disconnected time and place after that hate-filled scorched earth campaign of the last 19 m...
As an early bird, my vote is in the mail.
If you haven’t voted yet, vote now.
Now is always the best candidate.
Better than later.
And maybe that’s what finally got to FBI Director James Comey when he gave everyone his November surprise.
He’s not the patron saint of voter suppression or electio...
Addison Russell is an Asian American name.
And now he’s a newly minted World Series Champion, the first Asian American of Filipino descent to become one since Tim Lincecum, three-time World Series winner while with the San Francisco Giants.
After an epic World Series Game 7, Russell, the all-star ...
Earlier in October, my dogs tore up a nerf-like facsimile of a Donald Trump head, thinking perhaps it was more nutritious than it looked.
Many of my social media followers liked it. Maybe it helped them to design dog-proof Trump Halloween masks? More on that in a bit. In the meantime, the Trump h...
Donald Trump can’t help himself. Even after the third presidential debate, he stood Thursday before an Ohio rally and couldn’t give in.
Instead, he said he would “totally accept” the election results.
But then added: “If I win.”
That’s a version of the Trumpian catch-all clause that is probably i...
I confess Trump’s admission for his predilection of the Trumpian sexual offense known as the “pussy grab” distracted me so much in the last week I plumb forgot about Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 10.
Sorry.
I wasn’t even able to appropriately dis that overreaching Genoan sailing for Spain, Christop...
For much needed contrast, after the sad spectacle of the Sunday presidential debate, I figured I needed some laughs.
So immediately after watching it streamed live on CBSN, I caught a performance by the former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald, the last comedian to appear on ...
Today, you’ll learn more about Asian Americans and the presidential campaign from the just released 2016 National Asian American Survey than you will from that Veep debate last night.
Did you watch the Veep Debate–where the TV show “Veep” is better known than either Tim Kaine or Mike Pence?
It’s...
As October begins, and Asian America’s more than 4 million Filipinos commemorate Filipino American History Month (as designated by the Filipino American National Historical Society), there’s a new twist in the U.S.-Philippines relationship.
The current Philippine president is a man who says publicl...
I’ve had pneumonia before, and it knocked me on my butt for nearly two weeks.
So to see Hillary Clinton bounce back to continue her presidential campaign has earned her “Iron Woman” status in my eyes.
But I’ve seen her in action and bounce back all throughout her career. There was the stinging set...
Producer/Writer Alan Yang had the answer to Asian American invisibility in all of Hollywood. And he said it on the Emmys telecast live before millions watching around the nation.
He had just won the comedy writing Emmy for co-authoring the “Parents” episode with comedian Aziz Ansari in the Netflix ...
Plains, Georgia…In the land of presidential peanut farmers, I found myself to be the only full-blooded Filipino in the room at Maranatha Baptist Church, the spiritual home base for No. 39, President Jimmy Carter.
And when the president looked into the pews and asked from where people hailed, I prou...
On Sept. 7, there will be protests at every Philippine Embassy and consulate throughout the world, including New York and San Francisco, as part of a massive global demonstration against the proposed hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Will it match the kind of anti-Marcos fervor ...
I had never been to the Philippines ever, or since.
But I was there in the homeland of my parents on one of the most important days in the history of that country–Aug. 31, 1983.
As a young American Filipino reporter for the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, I had convinced my bosses that the death o...
The Summer Olympics, the great quadrennial global escape, is over, and now we can all go back to worrying about Zika, Brazil’s impending impeachment of its President Dilma Rousseff, and the games’ biggest news story, American Ryan Lochte’s gold medal prevarication on vandalism, public urination and ...
The best thing about last weekend’s Asian American Journalists Association convention in Las Vegas wasn’t necessarily the Presidential Election Forum, co-presented with APIAVote.
Oh, yeah, President Bill Clinton showed up. He’s running for First Grandpa. More on him later in this column.
But no ...
Just when you thought it was bad enough he upset Filipinos worldwide–including the 4 million Asian Americans of Filipino descent in the U.S.–Donald Trump couldn’t leave well enough alone.
Or maybe to erase the memory of denigrating all Filipinos as terrorists in a previous news cycle, Trump felt he...
