PH-Born Teen Is First Filipino to Win Formula 1 Academy Car Race

Bianca Bustamante (Source: ABC News)

Eighteen-year-old Bianca Bustamante just became the first Filipino to win an F1 Academy race with PREMA Racing. F1 Academy is a new all-female racing series founded by Formula 1 (See ABC News for story).

Kasama Is World's First Michelin-Starred Filipino-Themed Restaurant

Chefs Tim Flores and Genie Kwon of Kasama

Kasama, a Filipino-themed restaurant in Chicago, USA, is the first restaurant owned by a Filipino to have earned a Michelin star. Owned by Tim Flores and Genie Kwon, it was recently awarded by the prestigious guide as deserving of its star, Michelin reports on its website.

Team PH Rakes 430 Math Awards at Asian Math Olympiad

Team Philippines impressively clinched a staggering 430 awards, including a perfect score, at the Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad (SASMO 2023), held online April 1 and attended by a staggering 44,639 elite math students from across 39 countries and territories.

Filipina's Reinterpretation of Vermeer Painting Chosen for Dutch Exhibition

Maria Glensie Hombrebueno

A Hague-based Filipina engineer’s interpretation of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is one of the 170 artworks selected for exhibition, among 3,500 entrants, by the Mauritshuis Museum until June 4, 2023. Maria Glensie Hombrebueno, 32, an engineer from Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, migrated to the Netherlands in 2019 (See PhilippineCanadianNews.com for story). 

Fi-Am Food Writer Jennifer Fergesen Nominated for James Beard Award

Jennifer Fergesen (Source: Twitter)

Jennifer Fergesen [a Positively Filipino contributor] who travels the world to write about food and the lives of the people who make them—many of them Filipino—has been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award (See ABS-CBN News for story). 

Meet Skydiving Lola Iluminada, 82

Iluminada Fabroa (Source: Skydive Siquijor)

Iluminada Fabroa, 82, was named the oldest skydiver ever in the Skydive Siquijor dropzone, a feat that surely not many could achieve. The adventurous octogenarian also conquered the Philippines’ highest peak, Mt. Apo in December 2022 (See PEP.ph for story).

Four Fil-Am Football Stars Get Rookie Contracts

Zaire Barnes (Source: Kollective Hustle)

Four superstar Filipino Americans football players signed rookie contracts: Zaire Barnes was drafted by the New York Jets, Andrei Iosivas was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals, and both Nikko Remigio and Anthony Witherstone Jr. will be joining defending Super Bowl champs Kansas City Chiefs (See Kollective Hustle for story).

Vallejo, CA's Fil-Am Vice Mayor Gets Backing for State Senate

Dr. Rozzana Verder-Aliga (Source: Davis Vanguard)

Dr. Rozzana Verder-Aliga, Vallejo Vice Mayor and a City Councilmember since 2014, announced receiving the endorsement of Senate District 3’s current State Senator, Bill Dodd in her run for State Senate (See The Davis Vanguard for story).