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00:00Pleasant greetings everyone, William Theo here, homegrown, and glad to bring you PTV

00:08News Now.

00:09So let's get to this breaking story that'll be among tomorrow's news headlines.

00:15Talks on bumping up fares on the LRT 1 railway line are over, and the cost to take the LRT

00:211 is poised for a much-needed hike in the interest of upgrading commuter experience

00:27to include supplemental funding to complete construction of the line to Cavite.

00:32And as quickly as the hike upgrade was announced, pushback from consumer, watchdog, and cause-oriented

00:38groups followed up with messages deriding DOTR's LRT train fare hike as untimely,

00:44unconscionable, and anti-poor.

00:47Still amidst public resistance to the fare hike, the DOTR remains firm and unswayed to

00:53recall or even reduce the numbers or amounts contained in the fare hike order.

00:58And as a last-ditch attempt to mitigate public pushback on the hike, the DOTR cited how this

01:05latest fare upgrade is below the suggested hike amount of 20 pesos and only the second

01:11since January of 2023.

01:13Meanwhile, starting tomorrow, April 2, the cost for a single journey ticket climbs from

01:1945 pesos to 55 pesos, while the minimum fare is up 25 percent from 15 to 20 pesos.

01:27Meanwhile, a steward value card's maximum fare charges up to 17.5 percent from 43 pesos

01:34to 52 pesos, while the minimum fare bumps up from 15 pesos to 16.

01:43Next to the blue states of New York and California, Texas has the greatest presence or number of

01:48Chinese Americans who call the Lone Star State home, and whose roots stretch away way

01:54back are intertwined with America's.

01:57VOA's Elizabeth Lee tells us the full story.

02:03In this library at Rice University in Houston, the stories of Asian Texans are waiting to

02:09be unboxed.

02:11The Houston Asian American Archive includes some 500 firsthand accounts of Asian immigrants

02:18and their descendants.

02:19My father came from China.

02:22Oral history gives you a sense of immediacy.

02:24Unlike many of their counterparts, these Asian Americans ventured away from cities like San

02:29Francisco and even New York to settle much further south.

02:34Among the artifacts are pieces of Albert G.'s life.

02:37Albert G.'s CAC plaque.

02:40His daughter, Linda Wu, has kept some of her father's photos.

02:43To the White House for a state dinner.

02:46My dad was born here in the United States.

02:50His father and mother had a laundry.

02:53When G.'s father died in 1927, he went to China with his mother and siblings.

02:59But he returned to the U.S. with his godfather a few years later.

03:03Albert found himself only around 11 years old coming back to the United States.

03:10G. eventually ended up in Houston with the help of friends and relatives.

03:15There he opened restaurants, which attracted Hollywood celebrities who would stay at a

03:20nearby hotel.

03:22G. also helped other new Chinese immigrants settle.

03:26As established families helped newcomers from China, the number of G.'s grew in Houston.

03:33Not all who shared the G. name were related.

03:36Recorded in this book are some of their stories, including that of Rogene G. Calvert's father,

03:42David G.

03:43He came to the U.S. at age 17 in the late 1920s as a so-called paper son.

03:49At that time, we had the Chinese Exclusion Act.

03:53Which banned many Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.

03:57Paper sons and paper daughters are the name given to people who buy false papers.

04:02They were rightfully looking for people that were breaking the law, and unfortunately my

04:07dad was one.

04:08After being detained for almost a year at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San

04:13Francisco, California, Calvert's father was granted permission to stay.

04:18He eventually married and settled in Houston, Texas.

04:22He worked in the grocery business with the help of other G.'s.

04:25Chow says the first large group of Chinese immigrants arrived in Houston in the 1940s

04:31and 50s.

04:32Racial segregation was legal in Texas and southern states through a series of codes

04:38known as Jim Crow laws.

04:41Even though Houston also was subject to Jim Crow law, the law wasn't applied the same

04:45way as the other southern states.

04:47And so there's a sense of more, I guess, more equity in Houston.

04:52That's where people come.

04:53A sense of business opportunity.

04:55Restaurateur Albert G. took part in desegregating Houston's eateries.

05:00His work in the community would eventually be immortalized years later in a web comic

05:06developed by Asia Society Texas.

05:09Kids all across the state of Texas are reading the comic.

05:12Our Asian American students in particular said they want to see themselves represented.

05:16Asia Society Texas also worked with the Houston Asian American Archive to develop lesson guides

05:21for teachers in the state so students can explore further the history of the Asian Americans

05:28who make up the fabric of the city.

05:31Elizabeth Lee, DOA News, Houston.

05:36At this juncture, all eyes and ears to my colleague in PTV's Baguio City Studios for

05:41What's Hot and Happening in the Cordilleras.

05:44Audrey.

06:29So our responsibility now, of course, with our private sector, is to also promote the

06:35lesser-known destinations to disperse.

06:59And this is our Baguio City Police Office, where we fight for the safety and security

07:06of our citizens.

07:10It is a valid pay-a-damag.

07:11The complete on the municipality, the junty, talung infrastructure projects, it is seen

07:15on the FY 2024 Local Government Support Fund, Support to Barangay Development Program.

07:22This is a project to improve the quality of the farm-to-market road in the barangay

07:27of Duagan, Batayan, and Lubon.

07:29We are proud to say that this is a quality-of-life service and local support.

07:35This is shown by the dedication of the local government committee to ensure that this

07:40is a quality-of-life service.

07:42It is also known that Miss Universe 2018's Bengat Youth Leaders, Triona Gray,

07:48will be participating in the Women's Month Culminating Event.

07:52It is also known that Bengat Youth Leaders will be participating in the Multitasking

07:57and Balancing of Community Responsibility.

08:02It is also known that the photo gallery will be the first activity that will show the

08:07cultural heritage of the women and the influence of the tradition.

08:11This is the message of the PTV Cordillera and Audrey Villena of Imbag-Arabi.

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