Tourists departing the Philippines may need to get a polio vaccine certificate. A polio outbreak was declared in the Philippines in September, after 19 years of the country being free of the virus – which means departing travelers may be required by certain countries to present an International Certificate of Vaccination (ICV) against polio (See Rappler for story).
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced its intention to terminate a parole program that intends to help Filipino World War II veterans and their families. In an op-ed for The Hill published on Nov. 5., retired Major General Antonio Taguba has called out the decision to terminate the Filipino WWII Veterans Parole program (See op-ed).
Milan Consul Mersole Mellejor receives the awards for Mirabueno Coffee and SGD Coffee at the 5th International Contest of Locally Roasted Coffees in Italy (Source: ABS-CBN News)
Two Philippine coffee firms won top prizes at the 5th International Contest of Locally Roasted Coffees in Milan, Italy last month, the trade department said. Mirabueno Coffee, harvested in Bukidnon, and SGD Bodega Coffee, grown in Sagada, bested 700 other producers from 25 countries for the Gourmet and Bronze prizes in separate categories (See ABS-CBN News for story).
Team Voltage 5 (Source: facebook)
A team of Grade 11 students from the Philippine Science High School-Western Visayas Campus won the silver award in the Young Investors Challenge 2019 in Malaysia for creating The Sound-Light or “S-Light” that generates electricity from noise (See Virtual Pinoy for story).
Wesley So with FIDE officials at the awards ceremony of the Fischer Random Chess World Championship. (Photo by Maria Emelianova)
Grand Master Wesley So became the first World Champion in Fischer Random Chess. So defeated GM Magnus Carlsen by the dominant score of 13.5 to 2.5 in the event that started on October 27 and ended on November 2 (See USChessWorld for story).
Mang Jose Saguban (Photo courtesy of Auro Chocolate)
Farmer Jose Saguban of Auro Chocolate was among 20 winners recognized at the International Cocoa Awards in Paris, France, on Oct. 30 (See Inquirer.net for story).
Ronaldo “Roy” Cruz’s wedding dress made of toilet paper. (Source: Inquirer.net)
Filipino florist and designer Ronaldo “Roy” Cruz of Chesapeake, Virginia made it to the finals in a recent popular toilet wedding dressmaking contest (Inquirer.net for story).
KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) — The third strong earthquake this month killed five people Thursday, injured several others and destroyed buildings that were already damaged by the earlier shaking in a devastated region in the southern Philippines, officials said (See Yahoo News for story).
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