Philippine trade minister calls for expediting RCEP talks Philippine Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez on Monday urged negotiators of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to speed up talks, reiterating the need to achieve a "substantial conclusion" on the giant free trade pact by the end...
September 1522- a vessel ‘Victoria’ sails into a Spanish harbor and 18 men on this voyage survived out of 237 who started out from Spain three years earlier. They were the first to have sailed around the world. Magellan one of the original leaders lies buried in the Philippine Islands. ...
Willie Grayson is a footnoted name in Philippine American history who allegedly fired the first shot which began the Philippine American War and America’s first foray into colonial power. The play premiered in May,1999 at the Howard University Theatre in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alabastro Pho...
A wave of Japanese immigration to the United States began after the Meiji Restoration in 1868.[87] In 1898, all Filipinos in the Philippine Islands became American nationals when the United States took over colonial rule of the islands from Spain following the latter's defeat in the Spanish–...
In addition, the ethnic differences in the age-specific patterns may be due to the timing of menopause since that varies by race and/or ethnicity as well [47]. Much of the existing literature has highlighted the growing thyroid cancer incidence over the last three decades, and we did ...
Although the United States had a long history of international economic, military, and cultural engagement that stretched back deep into the eighteenth century, the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1898–1902) marked a crucial turning point in American interventions abroad. In pursuing wa...
The “banishment” of death is stunning in many respects, not least in the way it has taken such a strong hold on our society in such a short period of time. In a span of three or four generations, American society has so pervasively distanced itself from death that practices that previ...
• Philippine Writers Summit, East West Center & University of Hawaii, April 2007 • Philippine Literature Festival, Consulate of the Republic of the Philippines, April 2007 • Asian American Theater Company, San Francisco, CA February 2006 • LahiARTS, Secretary of State Auditorium, Sacrament...
Manoa Valley, second of Ed Sakamoto's Hawaii No Ka Oi trilogy which follows a Japanese Hawaiian family over a sixty-year period. In the summer of 1959, Elvis is king and optimism abounds as the Kamiya clan is assembling for a celebration of Hawaiian statehood. The two brothers Kamiya, fir...
The written discourses were obtained from answers to three open-ended questions as part of an adhoc questionnaire called “Questionnaire on university educational experiences in the return to face-to-face classes after the COVID-19 pandemic”, which was built following a literature review, expert ...