Congresswoman Geraldine Roman, the first transgender politician to be elected in the Philippines, will deliver a keynote address at Asia Society’s Diversity Leadership Forum on June 10, the organization announced. The Forum is a two-day conference on best practices in global diversity and leadership, reports Inquirer.net.
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More than 300 health workers from the Philippines left for Japan on Thursday, June 2, under a bilateral program that allows nurses and caregivers to prepare for and take the Japanese licensure exam for a chance to work there. The group of 60 nurses and 274 caregivers is the eighth batch of trainees deployed to Japan since the program, established under the 2006 Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, began in 2009, report ABS-CBN News.
The Philippines expects to earn more than $51 billion this year from the sustained inflow of remittances from overseas Filipino workers and the business process outsourcing sector, Dutch financial giant ING Bank said yesterday. Money sent home by Filipinos abroad would grow at least three percent from$25.8 billion in 2015 to $26.6 billionthis year. Revenues from the BPO sector would expand by up to16 percentto around $24 billion, reports Philstar.com.
Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). President Benigno Aquino III signed Republic Act No 10863 or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) on Tuesday, May 31, which increases the tax-exempt value of items sent via balikbayan boxes by OFWs to their families back home. Under CMTA, the tax exemption ceiling is increased from P10,000 to P150,000, reports Rappler.
Chef Claude Tayag (Source: Interaksyon.com)
Acclaimed Filipino chef Claude Tayag won the People's Choice Award at the Embassy Chef Challenge (ECC) on May 25, Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC, reports Rappler.
Ali Ewoldt
Filipino American Ali Ewoldt has been named as the new Christine in the long running Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera, reports Rappler.
A key committee of California’s Department of Education on May 19 approved all of the curriculum recommendations of the Bataan Legacy Historical Society (BLHS), a big step towards making high school students learn of the contributions and sacrifices of Filipinos who fought side by side with Americans during the Second World War, reports Inquirer.net.
Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump is highly unpopular among Filipino American voters as he is among Asian American voters, and like Asian Americans in general the majority of Filipino American voters identify as Democrats. These are among the findings of a new national survey conducted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice, AAPIData and the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote initiative, reports Inquirer.net.
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