Two years after bagging their first crown, an all-Filipino dance group again reined supreme in the recently concluded World Hip Hop competition in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Philippine All Stars reclaimed victory last August 3, two years after winning the championship in 2006. Last year, All Stars only managed to get the bronze. The seven-member team [...]

Carlos P. Romulo, the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, was also the first Filipino to have received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize (Correspondence). He was awarded the coveted Journalism prize for a series of articles about World War II that appeared on the pages of Philippine Herald in 1941. Romulo wrote and published 18 books that included “I Walked with Heroes” (autobiography) and “Mother America”.

Eric Celino Spoelstra, is the first ever Filipino-American head coach to call the shots for an NBA team. The 2006 NBA Champions Miami Heat chose the 37-year-old to replace outgoing coach Pat Riley. Spoelstra who traces his roots to San Pablo, Laguna is the first mentor with Filipino roots and youngest to ever coach in the league.

“I believe Erik Spoelstra is one of the most talented young coaches in a long time,” Riley, who steered the Heat to the NBA crown in 2006, told a news conference…

Have you ever seen a movie’s special effects and thought… “that looks totally fake”? The new blockbuster Iron Man movie is just the opposite.
Filipino-American Matthew Libatique is one bad ass Pinoy to thank. Everyone I talk to says, “Iron Man is hella tight man…you have to see it”! Little do they know, it’s a Pinoy [...]

MANILA, Philippines - Four years ago, two singers became the first ever full-blooded Filipinos to almost dominate one of the biggest and most popular television franchises: American Idol.
And so Filipinos thought that Jasmine Trias and Camille Velasco, who could belt out Olympian vocal climaxes, were the best contribution of the Philippines to the famous pineapple [...]

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 [...]

Nestor Sulpico, the honest Filipino-American taxi driver in New York who returned $ 70,000 worth of black pearls to it’s owner,regained his Filpino citizenship on Thursday(Aug.19).The Bureau of Immigration(BI) announced on Friday(Aug.20) that Sulpico’s petition for dual citizenship was approved several hours after it was filed(Aug.19).The BI said that Sulpico met all the qualifications prescribed [...]