Ezra Acayan (left)
Filipino photographer Ezra Acayan received one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a photo journalist- the Pulitzer committee on Friday named him a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (See AsAmNews for story).
Jordan Clarkson
Jordan Clarkson took to Twitter to share the pain he felt after seeing a Filipino food truck vandalized with anti-Asian slurs in Utah over the weekend. The Jazz guard is the only player of Filipino descent in the NBA, a claim he holds onto proudly (See KSLsports for story).
Kammerchor Manila (KM), under conductor Anthony Go Villanueva, bagged the Grand Prix and the Best Conductor Prize in the recently concluded Queen of the Adriatic Sea Choral Festival and Competition in Italy (See ABS-CBN for story).
Ambassador Enrique Manalo
The Philippines was elected as one of the vice presidents of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for 2021-2022. Ambassador Enrique Manalo, permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, will represent the Philippines at the session (See Philstar.com for story)..
Philippines’ Alex Eala (lef) with Russia’s ksana Selekhmeteva (right)
Rising Filipino tennis star Alex Eala paid tribute to her roots on Independence Day following another Grand Slam triumph this time on the clay court in Paris. Eala and her Russian partner Oksana Selekhmeteva captured the French Open girls doubles title Saturday (See Inquirer.net for story).
Genison Basilio (left) with President Joseph Biden (Source: ANC)
Genison Basilio, who finished his Operations Research and Data Analysis course with flying colors at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He was one of the four cadet exchange students that the Philippine Coast Guard sent to the US four years ago after a stringent selection process (See ABS-CBN for story).
Dr. Rodney Santos
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) researcher Dr. Rodney Perez is the first Filipino to win the Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize awarded by the Society for Biotechnology in Japan (SBJ) (See Good News Pilipinas for story).
Dante Balboa
Another Guinness World Record holder might come from the Philippines, and he is Dante Balboa or Elmer Anisco in real life (actor, multi-degree holder, professor and tourism advocate) who visited, discovered, and documented more than 1,000 waterfalls through his own efforts and expenses without the help of any government agencies and private sector (See Manila Bulletin for story).
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