A very young and Internet savvy Filipino American, Jose Antonio Vargas has at 27, won the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category.
He shares this award with other Washington Post reporters for a package of nine stories, two of which he wrote. His feet hardly touched the ground as he was interviewed at the Washington [...]

SAIPAN, Northern Marianas –There are four of them in the family and all have the same interest—the law.
Fil-Am Mike A. Nisperos is chief of Guam’s public defender’s office. His wife, Eleanor, is an assistant attorney general of Northern Marianas. Their daughter, Marlo, is a deputy district attorney in California. Their son, Michael Jr., is a [...]

IN HER interesting post, “Idol Talk: The Pinoy Connection,” Vera H-C Chan wrote, in part, “…a University of Arkansas economist actually used ‘American Idol’ as a means to study racial discrimination in the labor market. He uncovered a ‘positive correlation’ between the race of the viewers and contestants when the competition got hot. In Malubay’s [...]

A MUSIC website has been launched recently that will promote Filipino-American bands, a Philippine-based developer told INQUIRER.net.
With an estimated four million Filipinos living in the US, executives at EGGstreme said the company has quietly launched FliptUp.com, an online community designed to allow Filipino-American bands to later sell their music.
EGGstreme is the international arm of mobile [...]

SAN FRANCISCO—A TALL, skinny, black kid looking like the ex-welterweight champ, Paul “The Punisher” Williams entered the basement gym of the Straight Forward Club (SFC) on Mason Street one Monday afternoon.
He comes from arguably the most notorious neighborhood hereabouts and wanted to learn the basics of the “sweet science.” Immediately the Fil-Am gym owner demonstrated [...]

MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino-American has been elected as member of the Carlisle City Council in Iowa, in the United States.
The Department of Foreign Affairs, citing a report from the Philippine Consul General in Chicago, said that Alma Reed, President of the Filipino-American Association of Iowa, became a member of the council last November 6.
The [...]