Ralph De Leon (Source: dailymail.co.uk/facebook.com)
Ralph de Leon, 25, a Filipino faces life in prison after being found guilty on September 25 in California of plotting to aid jihadists and to kill Americans overseas, reports Inquirer.net.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario urged Washington to approve the Philippines’ request for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to allow undocumented Filipinos in the US, saying a lot still needs to be done to help the Philippines rebuild much faster from the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan, reports Inquirer.net.
Nearly half of the Philippine population is now online, according to the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP). Philippine Internet users now number 38 million out of a population of 100 million. About two-thirds of Internet users are below 30 years old, reports GMA News.
The Philippines’ booming outsourcing industry now employs a million people after growing almost tenfold in just over a decade, said the IT and Business Process Association Philippines.Widely considered as second only to India, Philippine outsourcing is expected to earn $18 billion this year, reports Inquirer.net.
Minerva Tantoco (Source: techpresident.com)
Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped Filipino-American tech executive Minerva Tantoco as the city’s first Chief Technology Officer on Tuesday, September 10, reports inquirer.net. Philippine-born Minerva L. Tantoco, a startup founder and holder of four patents who comes from a CTO job at UBS.
Juston Lynch (Source: Tim Binning/The Swim Pictures
Justin Lynch, a 16-year-old African-American-Filipino from Vallejo, California broke Michael Phelps' 100-meter butterfly record at the USA Swimming finals last year, at 52.75. Lynch will be the only minority swimmer on the University of California at Berkeley team, the reigning NCAA champion in men’s swimming and diving, reports Ozy.com.
The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) recently announced that St. Thomas More Collegiate student Zion Rose Corrales-Nelson from Burnaby, BC, has been selected to become a member of the esteemed organization, reports Inquirer.net. The Society recognizes top students who have shown outstanding leadership, scholarship and community commitment.
Malta has turned away a ship traveling from Guinea with a Filipino passenger with suspected Ebola and seeking medical assistance. The sick Filipino passenger was taken in by Italy, and initial medical assessment suggested he has hepatitis, port authorities in Sicily told Agence France-Presse, reports GMA News.
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