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(AsianJournal) LEADING U.S. IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY MICHAEL J. GURFINKEL (TOP LEFT) ANSWERS MORE QUESTIONS FROM KAPAMILYA ABOUT THEIR IMMIGRATION CONCERNS ON A BRAND-NEW CITIZEN PINOY!

Hazel from Virginia Beach, Virginia (bottom left) wants to know the best way to bring her sister to the U.S., when she was initially petitioned by her mother in 2010 as single, but got married in 2011.

Perly from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (bottom right) asks about her daughter who applied for a tourist visa and was denied twice. The reason for denial is because the daughter has an existing petition. However, that petition has already been revoked. What is the best way to get Perly’s daughter to the U.S. when she is now 35 years old and married?

Mary Grace from Bocaue, Bulacan in the Philippines (top right) was petitioned by her parent in 2009, and it will be current soon. The petition includes her daughters. The eldest now has a daughter of her own. Can Mary Grace bring her granddaughter to the U.S. under the same petition?

Get the answers to these questions on a brand-new episode of “Citizen Pinoy” this Sunday, April 18 at 5:30 pm PT (8:30 pm ET thru select Cable/Satellite providers)… Read More

(PhilStar) Mapapanood ng Pinoy fans ang pagrampa ni Miss Universe Philippines Rabiya Mateo sa 69th Miss Universe Competition sa ika-17 ng Mayo, Lunes, simula 8 a.m sa A2Z at may replay ng 10 p.m.

Gaganapin sa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino sa Hollywood, Florida, USA ang pageant naipalalabas rin sa Sunday’s Best sa Kapamilya Channel sa May 23 (Linggo), 9:45 p.m. na may livestreaming sa iWantTFC para sa mga manonood sa Pilipinas.

Mapapanood din ito sa Metro Channel sa cable TV sa May 24 ng 12 nn at 10 p.m., May 26 ng 5 p.m., at May 29 ng 8:30 a.m. Tubong Iloilo City si Rabiya, na patuloy na gumagawa ng ingay sa kanyang magagandang photo shoot at kasalukuyan nang nasa Amerika para sa pre-pageant activities.

Layunin ni Rabiya na magbigay saya at karangalan sa bansa sa kanyang paglaban upang maging ika-limang Miss Universe mula sa Pilipinas pagkatapos nina Catriona Gray (2018), Pia Wurtzbach (2015), Margie Moran (1973), at Gloria Diaz (1969)…. Read More

(GMA News) Donita Rose is now a corporate chef for a Filipino supermarket chain in the United States!

The former MTV VJ made the announcement on Instagram, saying she’s now with Island Pacific, a chain of stores that sell fresh meat, produce, and groceries with a specialization in Filipino cuisine. “It’s official! You are now looking @islandpacificmarket’s Corporate R&D Chef,” Donita said. “Wait ‘til you see what we’ve been working on together with @gtongi & @maricelaguilar2010 to bring Philippine Cuisine to the next level.”

Island Pacific has branches in California and Nevada.

In an article by Grocery Drive, Donita shared that it’s been hard to cook her favorite Filipino dishes in the U.S. because of the struggle in finding ingredients.

The supermarket’s private label line that Donita is promoting supposedly “aims to appeal to both traditional and more modern cooking approaches.”

“Whenever Filipino do designs to represent the Filipino people, oftentimes it’s very folksy or very traditional looking… Read More

(Inquirer) MANILA, Philippines — An “upwelling of hot volcanic fluids in the Main Crater lake” of Taal Volcano was reported Tuesday morning, which generated 300-meter high steam-laden plumes, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Wednesday.

Phivolcs added that a total of 383 volcanic earthquakes were recorded in the past 24 hours including 238 episodes of volcanic tremor lasting from one to 12 minutes. There were also 143 low frequency volcanic earthquakes and low-level background tremors that started in the morning of April 8.

Phivolcs said sulfur emission averaged 1,886 tons/day on Monday, April 12, while a temperature of 71.8 degrees Celsius and pH of 1.59 were last measured from the main crater lake on March 4 and February 12, respectively.

A “very slow and steady inflation and expansion” of Taal Volcano region is still being observed, Phivolcs added.

“These parameters indicate persistent magmatic activity at shallow depths beneath the edifice,” Phivolcs said… Read More

(Rappler) LOS ANGELES, USA

‘A film festival is about being together, fighting each other about a film, being in the same room and in two hours, critics decide the destiny of a film,’ he says “We are sure that Cannes will take place in July,” declared Thierry Fremaux, director of Cannes Film Festival in our recent video conversation.

Thierry vowed that the world’s most prestigious film festival, which he has led since 2004, will go live, in-person from July 6 to 17 this year.

He said in reference to the coronavirus pandemic which has impacted the world and forced the cancellation of many major live events, “We will have all the film festivals, which have been canceled, back. We can go back to the normal life by being there.”

The COVID-19 health crisis shut down the film fest on the Croisette last year. The only other time that the Cannes fest was canceled was in 1968 due to nationwide student riots, in which cinema gods Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut participated… Read More

(PhilBoxing) Clockwise: Casimero, Gaballo, Dasmariñas and Donaire.

With two Filipinos holding part of the world bantamweight championship and two more getting the chance to join them, another golden age in Philippine boxing may be in the offing, this time anchored on the bantamweights.

Johnriel Casimero is the reigning WBO world bantamweight champion while fellow Pinoy Reymart Gaballo holds the interim belt in the World Boxing Council after serving in the same capacity for a time with the World Boxing Association.

Meanwhile, former multi division world champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. gets the chance to become world champion again as he takes on WBC regular titlist Nordine Oubaali of France on a date and venue still to be finalized.

On the other hand, former IBO world titleholder Michael Dasmariñas is scheduled to challenge WBA-IBF and Ring Magazine champion Naoya Inoue on June 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

We never had it so good as now.

In fact, this situation is unprecedented especially in the post war period following Luisito Espinosa’s initial success in the erstwhile waterloo division for Filipino fighters. Espinosa won officially the country’s first world crown at 118lbs in 1989 by shock first round knockout over Thailand’s Khaokor Galaxy in Bangkok.

Gerry Peñalosa followed suit in 2004 by wresting the WBO crown by late round body shot knockout of Mexican Jhonny Gonzalez. Donaire himself was two time world bantamweight champion, first in 2011 when he knocked out Mexican Fernando Montiel for the WBC and WBO unified belts which he vacated later and next in 2018 when he returned to 118 and won the WBA super belt by stopping UK’s Ryan Burnett. He lost that belt to Inoue in late 2019.

Casimero won the WBO title by second round knockout over the previously highly touted South African Zolani Tete in late 2019. He has defended the same last year, stopping previously undefeated Ghanaian challenger Duke Micah… Read More

(ABS-CBN) MANILA — Pinay tennis ace Alex Eala leapt 53 places up the WTA rankings, thanks to her performance in the $60,000 Bellinzona International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament in Switzerland.

From No. 715, the 15-year-old is now at 662.

The Rafa Nadal Academy scholar was off to a dominant start in Bellinzona, trumping world’s No. 323 Margot Yerolymos of France, 7-6 (6), 6-2, in the first round.

She want on to topple world No. 206 Laura-Ioana Paar of Romania, 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-0, in the second round before bowing to world No. 284 Simona Waltert of Switzerland, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, in the third round.

The Rafa Nadal Academy expects Eala to climb 200 places given her recent progress.

“Great work in Switzerland! @alex.eala has achieved two important victories at the @w60bellinzona_worldtennistour and will climb more than 200 places in the @wta rankings. VAMOS! MABUHAY!” it said in its Instagram post… Read More

(ABS-CBN) MANILA, Philippines — The national boxing federation is ready to exhaust all of its resources to support the four Filipino boxers who will represent the country in the Olympic Games in Tokyo this July.

After Irish Magno and Eumir Marcial booked their tickets through the Asia-Oceania qualifiers in March 2020, Carlo Paalam and former world champion Nesthy Petecio also secured their berths through their world rankings last month.

“Ang parati naming sinasabi is, ‘aim high’,” said Ed Picson, secretary-general of the Association of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines (ABAP), when asked for his projection for the Filipino boxers.

“We cannot lower our projections,” he stressed. “We will aim for the top plum.”

Even before Petecio and Paalam qualified, the federation was already optimistic of the country’s chances in the Olympic Games. Marcial, in particular, was seen as a gold medal hope, thanks to his performance in the qualifiers and his experience in the amateur ranks.

But having four boxers in the Summer Games bolsters Picson’s confidence that they can finally end the country’s medal drought… Read More