More than 70 Filipino nurses are already being prepared for Saskatchewan, Canada’s emergency rooms, as the provincial government evaluates more than 3,000 applications from health-care workers in the Philippines (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Electoral politics in National City, a municipality neighboring San Diego, California, has changed overnight, as shown by the results of its Nov. 8 local election, thanks to the successful reform efforts of Filipino American community leaders (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Filipino community leaders and University of Hawaii-Manoa graduates — many of whom are now lawyers, doctors and other professionals – held a reunion Nov. 19 to mark the 50th year of the state university’s very first program to promote diversity and equal access to education (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Aliya Nora Adre
A 10-year-old girl from this city, Aliya Nora Adre, a fifth grader at the Immaculate Conception School in Ormoc City,won a gold medal in a triathlon competition held in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. last Sunday, November 20 (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Ronald Solomon Jalmanza
Ronald Solomon Jalmanza, a former city prosecutor in Quezon City, Philippines, was recently appointed as a crown prosecutor in Saskatchewan, Canada, likely the first such designation of a Filipino immigrant in the province (See INQUIRER.net for story).
Leading the Filipino victors (all of whom but one are in California in this report), are young trailblazer Steven Raga who won New York’s State Assembly seat for District 30 with nearly 60% of the votes, and re-electionist California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who also reaped nearly 60% (See INQUIRER.net for story).
The Michelin Guide awarded Kadence one star (short for "High quality cooking, worth a stop"), praising the "free-spirited" way it serves while still keeping classic Japanese methods in mind (See Spot.ph for story).
Dr. Roberto Mariano (Source: CBCP)
Pope Francis has appointed a Filipino American economist, Dr. Roberto Mariano, to the Vatican's financial intelligence and anti-money laundering unit, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said on Friday (See CNN Philippines for story).
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