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The origin of the village name Dededo, Dedidu in Chamorro, may come from the practice of measuring using fingers. Check out this Guam village.

“Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual” translated into our local languages—Ilokano, Bisaya, and Hiligaynon—will soon be available, according to its author Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary and former Build, Build, Build committee chair. Lamentillo said that the Ilokano and Bisaya editions will also serve…

At the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) our hearts go out to those impacted by the Maui wildfires.

Filipinos began arriving in Hawaii more than a century ago to work on sugarcane and pineapple plantations to support their families back home. As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture. Since an inferno raced through the historic town of Lahaina, though, many who have worked to clean hotel rooms are now staying in them as temporary shelters, a poignant example of how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in mor...

Filipinos began arriving in Hawaii more than a century ago to work on sugarcane and pineapple plantations to support their families back home. As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture. Since an inferno raced through the historic town of Lahaina, though, many who have worked to clean hotel rooms are now staying in them as temporary shelters, a poignant example of how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in mor...

Filipinos began arriving in Hawaii more than a century ago to work on sugarcane and pineapple plantations to support their families back home. As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture. Since an inferno raced through the historic town of Lahaina, though, many who have worked to clean hotel rooms are now staying in them as temporary shelters, a poignant example of how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in mor...

Filipinos began arriving in Hawaii more than a century ago to work on sugarcane and pineapple plantations to support their families back home. As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture. Since an inferno raced through the historic town of Lahaina, though, many who have worked to clean hotel rooms are now staying in them as temporary shelters, a poignant example of how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in mor...

LAHAINA (AP) – Ambulance and fire truck sirens wailed outside as Elsie Rosales stripped linens from king-sized mattresses at a beachfront resort in Lahaina. She tried to focus on the work, but was beset by dread: Had a wildfire taken the home she scrimped to buy on a housekeeper’s wages? It had. And now Rosales, […]

As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture

Ambulance and fire truck sirens wailed outside as Elsie Rosales stripped linens from king-sized mattresses at a beachfront resort in Lahaina. “All our hard work burned,” Rosales told The Associated Press in an interview conducted in Ilocano, her native language.