Kanlungan Honors Unsung Health Care Heroes

Kanlungan Honors Unsung Health Care Heroes

Website immortalizes Filipino health care workers who have fallen in the pandemic.

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Journal of a Pandemic Traveler

Journal of a Pandemic Traveler

She traveled to California and back to Manila at the height of Covid and emerged unscathed, but the quarantine upon return was a bummer.

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[PARTNER] H1B Visa Registration to Start On March 9, 2021

[PARTNER] H1B Visa Registration to Start On March 9, 2021

Every year U.S. petitioners seeking to hire professionals who are foreign nationals undergo a lottery system to obtain H1B visas for their prospective employees. Thousands of applicants, including those from the Philippines, who are on student visas and graduated from U.S. schools and those who are foreign educated have opportunities to apply for professional working visas as long as they are eligible.

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Lust Among the Ruins

Lust Among the Ruins

The Alaskero’s sex life in the salmon canneries (from memoir to fiction).

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Down the ‘White Rabbit’ Hole

Down the ‘White Rabbit’ Hole

Remembering childhood’s cheap candy of choice.

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FilAms Among The Remarkable And Famous, Part 15

FilAms Among The Remarkable And Famous, Part 15

Role models and achievers, some of whom you may not even know are Filipino.

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The Happy Home Cook: Boneless Bangus Donburi

The Happy Home Cook: Boneless Bangus Donburi

Unlike in California, I don’t have a source of packaged eel where I currently am in Baguio City in the Philippines. But I have found a worthy, readily available alternative to unagi domburi: boneless bangus (milkfish). I have even come up with my local version of the unagi sauce, using my choice of beer, San Mig Light, as a substitute for sake.

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A Rising Wave of Fil-Am Women Mayors

A Rising Wave of Fil-Am Women Mayors

Meet the crop of California’s Fil-Am women mayors.

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The Brown Man’s Burden

The Brown Man’s Burden

Looking for my great grandfather in 2021, the 500th year of Magellan’s landing in the Philippines.

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[Opinion] Impeachment: Dems Should Do an About-Face

[Opinion] Impeachment: Dems Should Do an About-Face

Will Democrats lose by impeaching Trump again?

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