Fil-Am Elected to Harvard Alumni Board of Overseers

Geraldine Acuña Sunshine (Source: Resolution Project)

Geraldine Acuña Sunshine is the first Filipino American to be elected by some 26,000 Harvard University Alumni to the six-member Board of Overseers, to serve for a six-year term, reports Inquirer.net.

Pinoy, 23, Wins £50K Prize for Bamboo House of the Future

Earl Forlales

Earl Forlales, the creator of a house made of bamboo that can be put together in four hours to solve the chronic shortage of affordable accommodation in the Philippines has won a Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) £50,000 top prize to develop cities for the future, reports The Guardian.

Filipina 'ASEAN Prize' Winner to Use the Money for PH Autism Program

Erlinda Uy Koe

Erlinda Uy Koe, chair emeritus of Autism Society Philippines (ASP), who won the first $20,000 ASEAN Prize, will use the P1 million award to enhance autism programs in the Philippines, reports ABS-CBN News.

84% of Filipinos Oppose Gov't Inaction vs. China Incursions

The majority of Filipinos (84%) think it is “not right” that the government is simply letting  China expand its military presence in the West Philippine Sea, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed (Inquirer.net).

War Trophy Balangiga Bells To Be Returned to PH

(Source: Inquirer.net)

After over a century, the church bells taken as war trophy by the US Army from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 may soon find their way home to the Philippines ABS-CBN News. 

Italian Gov't Knights Chef Margarita Fores

Chef Margarita Fores

Chef-restaurateur Margarita Forés was knighted by the Italian government as a Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Order of the Star of Italy), reports Town & Country Philippines.

Jobless Adult Filipinos Now 9.8 Million

The number of Filipinos without a job in the third quarter of the year has gone up --now around 9.8 million jobless adults-- compared with the second quarter, according to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), report GMA News.

After Imelda Conviction, Family Can No Longer Revise History -- Historian

Imelda Marcos

Even if ex-first lady Imelda Marcos wasn’t jailed for graft, her conviction meant she or her family could no longer revise history, a historian Maria Serena Diokno said on Friday, reports Inquirer.net.