New WBO Bantamweight Champion John Riel Casimiro (Source; Twitter)
Filipino boxer John Riel Casimero won the WBO world bantamweight title after he knocked out opponent Zolani Tete in a bout in Birminghan, England on Saturday. Challenger Casimero, 30, finished the match in Round 3 after knocking out the South African fighter, the World Boxing Organization tweeted (See GMA News for story).
Rowena Tomaneng
San José City College (SJCC) has appointed Dr. Rowena M. Tomaneng as its next president. Tomaneng is currently the president of Berkeley City College (BCC) and has been an educator in the California Community College system for nearly 25 years (See Inquirer.net for story).
The number of jobless Filipinos climbed to 21.5 percent in the third quarter of 2019 as an estimated 10 million adults identified themselves as unemployed, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Saturday (See ABS CBN News for story).
Breech Asher Harani (Source Instagram)
A young Filipino filmmaker, Breech Asher Harani, won an international award during the 2019 International Emmys in New York City for his 1-minute video about a displaced Muslim student survivor of the Marawi siege in the Philippines in 2017 (See ABS-CBN News for story).
PAL Cabin Crew (Source: Twitter)
Members of the cabin crew of Philippine Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday are back in the country (See GMA News).
The SEA Games cauldron (Source: AFP)
A cauldron costing nearly $1 million that will hold the Southeast Asian Games flame has drawn anger in the Philippines, sparking comparisons to the excesses that epitomised the Marcos era (See AFP/Yahoo News for story).
Stephanie Comilang
Filipino Canadian filmmaker Stephanie Comilang was named winner of Canada’s top contemporary art prize, the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award (See Inquirer.net for story).
The estimated number of Filipinos, or Americans with Filipino ancestry, in the United States has grown to approximately 4,089,570, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2018 (See Inquirer.net for story).
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