The Philippines' Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) Terminal 2 won the World Architecture Festival’s Completed Buildings-Transport category, edging out Singapore's JewelChangi Airport, Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, Sydney Australia's Barangaroo Ferry Wharf, and several other structuresbeating transport stations in other countries (See ABS CBN News for story).
Filipino youths with disabilities came home with a set of medals from an information technology (IT) competition in South Korea. Four students from Philippine public high schools participated in the Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities (GITC) in Busan from November 25 to 29 (See ABS CBN News for story)..
Among 79 participating countries and economies, the Philippines scored the lowest in reading comprehension in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), according to the results released Tuesday (See Philstar for story).
Filipinos in the United States continue to be the biggest source of contributions to the Philippine economy, the top official of the Commission on Overseas Filipinos disclosed at a recent forum at the Philippine Consulate (See Inquirer.net for story).
Charlene Nebres (SAB Photo)
Charlotte Nebres, age 11, of Madison, New Jersey is breaking barriers as the first black Marie, the young heroine of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” at New York City Ballet. It’s a milestone for the production, which dates to 1954. Nebres studies ballet at the prestigious School of American Ballet (See Inquirer.net for story).
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).
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