Two Filipinos Named Among Canada's Top 25 Immigrants

Edsel Mutia and Ida Beltran-Lucila

Filipino Canadians Edsel Mutia and Ida Beltran-Lucila were named by Canadian Immigrant Magazine and COSTI Immigrant Services among this year’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants for their outstanding work and contributions to Canada (See GoodNewsPilipinas.com for story).

Filipinos Ranked Third Least Accurate on World Issues

Filipinos ranked third worst in the world in having an accurate understanding of key global issues such as teenage pregnancy, diabetes, immigrant prisoners, and suicide, in a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI, a UK-based market research group. (See Asia Times for story).

Another Fil-Am Now Playing in the NFL

Minnesota Vikings rookie safety Camryn Bynum

Minnesota Vikings rookie safety Camryn Bynum, a Filipino American was on the visiting side when his team came into Levi’s Stadium on Nov. 28 against the San Francisco 49ers. Approximately 200 combined friends and family — some as far as Hawaii, New York, Detroit — came to Santa Clara and supported Bynum, according to his mother, Jennifer (See KRON4.com for story).

Ex-Construction Worker Now Owns One of PH’s Biggest Pekin Duck Farms

Eulalio “Dr. Ayong” Lorenzo

A former construction worker Eulalio “Dr. Ayong” Lorenzo is now a veterinarian and the owner of one of the biggest Pekin duck farms in the Philippines, with 10,000 ducks. His son manages a restaurant that is visited by many for its roasted Pekin duck and Pekin duck ham (See Businessnews.com for story). 

Filipina Earns Highest Honors Distinction at Oxford

Filipino student Ellaine Joy Calapao Sanidad received the highest honors distinction at the prestigious University of Oxford in the United Kingdom this December 2 under the Master of Studies in Diplomatic Studies program at the university (See Interaksyon.Philstar for story).

UP Alumna Wins 2nd Place in Swedish Forskar Researchers Grand Prix

Sophia Raine Hernandez

Sophia Raine C. Hernandez, a Ph.D. student at the Umeå University in Sweden and working with the Bushell Lab at the Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, won second prize in the final heat of the Forskar Grand Prix (Researchers’ Grand Prix) held on November 25 in Stockholm. The title of her winning presentation is “Tackling Malaria by Looking at the Biology of Parasites” (See UP.Edu.PH for story).

Samar Village Is Runner-Up in UN Top Villages 2021

The village of Tenani in Paranas, Samar, known for its extreme riverboat ride, has been listed as one of the runners-up in the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) Best Tourism Villages for 2021 (See Philippine News Agency for story).

Filipino Priest Gets Dutch Human Rights Award for Helping Families of EJK Victims

Fr. Flaviano Villanueva (left)

Fr. Flaviano Villanueva of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), received this year's Human Rights Tulip award from the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs  in recognition of his work as co-founder of PAGHILOM program which supports families of victims of extrajudicial killings, according to the Embassy of the Netherlands in the Philippines (See MSN.com for story).