Fund management guru Mark Mobius has given the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) a grade “A” for its integration efforts in the last 50 years and is hoping that the regional bloc would next move toward a common currency and banking system, reports Inquirer.net.
Chona Abiertas
Twenty seven years ago, Chona Abiertas, a young office management graduate went to Barcelona, Spain. She started out as a household worker and nanny. Later, she moved on to office work while studying at a university. Now she is full-fledged Spanish lawyer, reports Inquirer.net.
For certain Filipino workers applying for a green card, the Trump administration has just added another hurdle for them to overcome. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced August 28, that those who are on work visas and applying for permanent residence are now required to go through an in-person interview, a step that could slow down the application process and make it more difficult for the applicant reports Inquirer.net.
Cherrie Atilano (Source Inquirer.net)
Eleanor Rosa Pinugu (Source: Inquirer.net)
Cherrie Atilano, a social entrepreneur working to end poverty for farming and fishing families, and Eleanor Rosa Pinugu, founder of a nonprofit school that provides high-quality education to low-income communities, are among the 30 remarkable professionals recently named “Asia 21 Young Leaders” by Asia Society, reports Inquirer.net.
The MacArthur Foundation will give the Center for Asian American Media a grant to support the CAAM Future Fund, which will provide development, production, and outreach grants for projects produced by Asian American directors and producer and provide mentoring and professional development opportunities for emerging filmmakers.
Fully foreign-owned investment houses will be allowed to operate in the country as the government will remove the restriction under the soon-to-be-released latest foreign investment negative list (FINL), report Inquirer.net.
The Philippine Ice Hockey Team (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP)
The Philippines avoided a mid-game collapse to win the inaugural ice hockey gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games over Thailand, 5-4, on Thursday, August 24 at Empire City Mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reports Rappler.
Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal’s book Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016) has received the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Awarded by the Academy of American Poets since 1994, for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year, reports the Academy of American Poets.
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