On the Pinoy Elections: The Pinoy Political ‘Fiesta’
It’s Pinoy election season once again. Everyone’s getting hyped up for what is about to come and who’s going to eventually win. It is that time in our democracy where everyone’s turning the ‘election switch’ …
Why Still No Justice for the Victims of the Maguindanao Massacre?
(The following is a joint editorial by the member organizations of the Philippine American Press Club) Six years have passed since a hundred armed men on November 23, 2009 kidnapped and massacred 58 …
Film Review: Heneral Luna
Let’s begin with some background: During the Philippine-American war, “Heneral Luna,” a military leader with a fiery temperament, contends with an enemy more treacherous than the “Amerikano”: his own duplicitous countrymen. General Antonio …
Turning Up Talent: ‘Technopreneurs’ Drive Development in the Philippines
By Liana Meyer – USAID Philippines A few years ago, Paulo Oscuro, a computer science student from the rural region of Bicol—about 250 miles from the capital of the Philippines—observed that, despite a …
Why Is AlDub So Popular?
Yup, this is an article about that Filipino pop culture hit, the AlDub street series. It’s that Filipino powercouple show which has been breaking the internet with the current record-breaking 26 million+ tweets last Saturday, …
Heneral Luna
Award-winning director, writer, editor, and musical composer Jerrold Tarog directs “Heneral Luna”. It is a biopic film about Dr. Antonio Luna – a rather underrated national hero in Philippine history who deserves a higher …
Two Nights of Beauty
“Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder,” it’s a cliché that has been heard over and over every time beauty is the topic. Recently, the Global Filipino Network has been invited to …
Mandaluyong City Sets New Guinness World Record For Largest Zumba Class
(Mandaluyong, Philippines – July 19) Almost 13,000 energetic pinoys danced continuously in the streets of Mandaluyong in the Philippines for at least 30-minutes to set the new Guinness World Record for the the …
Tondo: The Humanitarian Crisis At The Heart Of Manila And The People Doing Something About It
“Paging the United Nations. There is a refugee crisis in Manila and the Philippines is totally in denial.” These are the first lines of a recent Facebook post by artist and cultural activist …
Leyte and Samar Visit Report
In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan — the strongest typhoon ever recorded to make landfall — devastated one of the poorest regions in the Philippines. Members of UNISON Filipino Activist Network (FAN) met to …