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Pasalubong ( Tagalog, " [something] for when you welcome me") is the Filipino tradition of travellers bringing gifts from their destination to people back home. [1] Pasalubong can be any gift or souvenir brought for family or friends after being away for a period of time. [2] It can also be any gift given by someone arriving from a distant place.
The balikbayan box is a modern manifestation of the Philippine custom of pasalubong, where domestic or foreign travelers are expected to bring gifts for family, friends and colleagues. [citation needed] Balikbayan boxes provide connection between family in the Philippines and those abroad, and provide goods for the family in the Philippines. [7]
History. The first Chinese to enter Houston were 250 men coming in 1870 to do construction work. [2] The Daily Houston Telegraph, in January of that year, stated that 247 Chinese docked in Galveston and went onwards in the region. [3] The 1877 Houston City Directory listed three ethnic Chinese who worked in laundries, [4] and the 1880 United ...
t. e. Texas has a Chinese American population. As of the 2010 U.S. census, it is 0.6% Chinese with over 150,000 living there. Many live in Plano, Houston, and Sugar Land . After May 1869, a group of Chinese workers in the Western United States began moving to Texas, as there was a demand for labor in the post- American Civil War environment. [1 ...
In 2007 Houston had 16,000 Asian American businesses. A 2006 U.S. Census Bureau report stated that the annual revenues of those businesses totaled to $5.5 billion ($8312644437.11 in today's money). [18] By 2010 the number of Asian-Americans in Greater Houston was over 417,000. [19]
Most of us take a day at the beach for granted. But for the sweetest little Bulldog, Grizzwald, his first trip to the ocean is something special. The pup was this close to being put down. But now ...
Czech Texans are residents of the state of Texas who are of Czech ancestry. Large scale Czech immigration to Texas began after the Revolutions of 1848 changed the political climate in Central Europe, and after a brief interruption during the U.S. Civil War, continued until the First World War. [1] Concentrated in Central Texas, Czech Texans ...
Philippine Coast Guard. China anchored one of its two “monster” coast guard ships inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) last week in what a Philippine official called an act ...