Lynly and Tata cover the week for Filipinos in Europe and Australia: a Paris embassy warning, a river procession in Vienna, hope for 80,000 Filipinos in Spain, music in Melbourne, aged care heroes in Coolamon, a Sydney diabetes fun run, and a look back at the ancient voyage that linked the Philippines to Madagascar.

Welcome to the first-ever episode of Filipino Diaspora Review with Lynly & Tata!

In our pilot: the Middle East conflict threatens more than 2 million Filipinos and sparks protests in Manila, remittances are headed for their weakest growth in 25 years, and good news for the 1M+ Filipinos in Saudi Arabia as Riyadh Air launches direct Riyadh-Manila flights. Plus, Filipino American history takes center stage at the Smithsonian.

Our historical lookback: September 1965 in Delano, California — when Larry Itliong and Filipino farmworkers walked off the grape vineyards and started a strike that changed U.S. labor history.

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Impeachment Chaos and Global Filipino Triumphs — a Filipino Diaspora Review special. On one side of the split screen: the high-tension politics of impeachment and institutional power struggles. On the other: Filipino athletes and achievers winning on the world stage. A deep dive into what the nation becomes when its institutions show the same discipline as its athletes.

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Team Philippines just closed the Asian Games with its best medal haul in 64 years — 29 medals across 16 sports. Lynly and Tata break down the highs (Carlos Yulo, EJ Obiena, Jeus Yape's virtual taekwondo gold, Alex Eala's bronze, Carlo Paalam's silver) and the heartbreak (the Blu Girls' bronze-game loss to Chinese Taipei). Plus: tensions in the West Philippine Sea, the flood-control probe, the seafarer deportations, the GCash IPO price, the Sara Duterte impeachment trial, Mary Jane Veloso, and DreamWorks' Forgotten Island making history in Philippine theaters. This week's history segment: the Watsonville riots of January 1930.

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A special Friday sports edition: Alex Eala takes back-to-back Asian Games tennis bronze after a semifinal heartbreaker against China's Wang Xiyu; Carlo Paalam earns boxing silver in a 3-2 split-decision gold-medal fight with Japan's Rui Yamaguchi; and the Blu Girls blast Hong Kong 9-3 to set up a historic bronze-medal softball showdown with Chinese Taipei on Saturday.

A deep dive on the Philippines and its far-flung global community. Manila puts its national budget on a blockchain so citizens can track every peso on a public ledger. The Supreme Court steps back from the Sara Duterte impeachment fight and lets the Senate set its own conviction threshold. Transport strikes expose how Middle East tensions squeeze jeepney drivers at the pump. Mary Jane Veloso's pardon becomes a rallying point for OFW protections, a fatal bus crash involving Filipino tourists in Bavaria tests the consular network, and at the Asian Games, EJ Obiena rewrites the pole vault record, Alex Eala storms into the tennis semifinals, and Carlo Paalam reaches the boxing final. Plus: if budgets can go borderless on a blockchain, could diaspora voting be next?

Mary Jane Veloso is finally home after sixteen years; Carlos Yulo wins a second Asian Games gold by the same razor-thin margin; the Blu Girls open 0-2 in softball; DreamWorks' Filipino-folklore film Forgotten Island hits theaters; the Bangsamoro elects its first parliament; Filipino migrants in Italy on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees; West Philippine Sea tensions; and the legacy of Flor Contemplacion. Lynly and Tata bring you this week's news from the Philippines and Filipinos around the world.