Baby HTML
A web designer named Mac Pascual, of Bulacan in the Philippines, has reportedly named his newborn son Hypertext Mark-up Language, or HTML, in honor of his line of work, The Sun reported. HTML was downloaded at the Bulacan Medical Mission Group Cooperative Hospital, weighing 4.9 pounds, according to the Newsflash report cited by the paper.
Wesley So
Filipino-born Grandmaster Wesley So has swept the 2021 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Paris Rapid & Blitz events, staying on top of the standings throughout the games and eventually being declared the winner of the over-the-board tourney in France (See Good News Pilipinas for story).
Marvin Lee Balaoro Tolentino (Source: facebook)
Marvin Lee Balaoro Tolentino, a proud Cordilleran from Abra, a summa cum laude from the University of Surrey in London, may be the first Filipino bar topnotcher in the United Kingdom, having finished fifth in the bar exam (See Igorot Age for story).
An Albany, New York hospital agreed to stop imposing big fines on nurses recruited from the Philippines and other countries if they leave their jobs within three years. It also agreed to return $90,000 to seven nurses it formerly employed (See Inquirer.net for story).
Chelsea Anne Manalo
Chelsea Anne Manalo became the talk of the town after a Facebook page posted a rumored list of Miss Universe Philippines 2021 aspirants. The 22-year-old stunner from Meycauayan, Bulacan is a Filipino-American who is not new on the pageant scene (See Philstar for story).
Cesar Echano
An elderly Filipino man was verbally and physically assaulted while walking in a California park with his wife earlier this month. Cesar Echano, 70, and his wife were at Don Knabe Community Regional Park in Cerritos, California on June 5 when a white man in his 20s started verbally harassing them (See Inquirer.net for story).
Despite social media-generated impressions that anti-Asian violence is committed mostly by Blacks, the majority of attackers are white, according to a new analysis. Janelle Wong, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, released analysis last week, based on official crime statistics and other studies (See Inquirer.net for story),
Partially paralyzed, Eden San Andres, a social worker, had been in a hospital in Naga, Camarines Sur, for more than two weeks last January. Her doctors sought help from neurosurgeon Elmer Jose Meceda, a Bicolano based in Manila (See Inquirer.net for story).
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