Since its publication as an e-book on September 10, Don't Forget the Soap, by 37-year-old Filipina Canadian banker Marie Claire Lim Moore has quickly shot up to the number one i Amazon.com's Parenting and Adult-Child Relationships category and is ranked number 11 on the Women's Biographies list, reports GMANews.tv. The book is a memoir that immortalizes the advice of her mother, Lenore Lim.
A touching Singaporean film where a Filipino nanny takes center stage is going to the Oscars, reports GMANews.tv. “Ilo Ilo” tells the story of Auntie Terry--then-OFW Teresita Sajonia--a nanny hired by a Singaporean family coping with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and her closeness to one of her wards. The film won at the 66th Cannes Festival Camera d'Or.
Foreign interest in Filipino cuisine increase continues to rise. After the US lifestyle magazine Details declared Filipino cuisine the “next great Asian food trend” in its September issue, the influential restaurant guide Zagat included Pinoy food on its list of the ten “most exciting emerging cuisines” in the United States, reports ABS-CBN News.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a historic visit to the Philippines next month as part of the US pivot toward Asia, reports the Manila Bulletin. The White House confirmed that Obama will visit the Philippines in the last leg of his four-nation jaunt to Asia to meet with President Benigno Aquino III to reaffirm the strong economic, people-to-people, and security links between the two countries.
The Vatican has announced that Franciscan Capuchin priest Eugenio Sanz-Orozco, also known as Jose Maria de Manila, will be beatified this year in Tarragona, Spain, on October13, reports UCA News. Orozco was born in Manila of Spanish parents on September 5, 1880. He was the son of Don Eugenio Sanz-Orozco, the last Spanish mayor of Manila, and Doña Feliza Mortera y Camacho.
At least 3,732 Filipinos are languishing in jails in 53 countries, according to Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, reports Manila Standard Today. Of this number, 108 are in death row, with 69 in Chinese jails awaiting execution or clemency, Recto said. Malaysia has the most number of imprisoned Filipinos--2,236, mostly immigration cases.
The country’s top universities remain highly regarded in world academic circles, but most of them slipped in the latest ranking of the world’s top 800 universities by the ratings firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), reports Inquirer.net. UP Philippines, Ateneo de Manila and the University of Santo Tomas while De La Salle maintained its place from last year. UP still led Philippine universities on the list, but the state university was down to 380th this year from 348th last year.
Filipinos in rural areas are spending more, boosting the growth of fast moving consumer goods in the country, according to a consumer survey by Kantar Worldpanel, reports ABS-CBNNews.com. The rural sector's spending is growing at a faster rate than the urban sector, with South Luzon and Mindanao leading the way, spending 5% and 6% more, respectively, since 2008. The growth is attributed to government-backed development initiatives in the agricultural sector.
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