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Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners among this year’s TOFA honorees
By Cristina DC Pastor A Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient are among this year’s distinguished The Outstanding Filipinos in America (TOFA) honorees. Mariel Padilla (Youth category) contributed to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Pulitzer-Prize winning project, “Seven Days of Heroin,” about the drug epidemic in the Midwest. Vivian Talambiras-Cruz (Community Service) was part […]
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Fiesta in America: ’20 years is worth celebrating’
By Cristina DC Pastor Three generations of the Policarpio family came all the way from Ossining in Upstate New York, and they came early: Eli Policarpio, his mother Leonila, and his 6-year-old son Ezar. There was a threatening thunderstorm, and the family arrived before noon because they wanted to be home before the downpour. Ossining […]
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Tax expert sees long-term growth for PHL economy through BPO, remittances
By Wendell Gaa The Philippines is one of four countries which Derren Joseph calls home. A Managing Partner at the tax consulting firm Hayden T. Joseph & Co., Derren has been delightfully enjoying living and working in the Philippines on-and-off for the past two years now. Every month you can find Derren working out of […]
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Jersey City and General Santos to promote commerce, culture as sister cities
By Cristina DC Pastor What do Jersey City in the U.S. and General Santos City in the Philippines have in common? Aside from both being highly urbanized cities, not much. In our search for some kind of a connection, we find out that J.C. is the birthplace of basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, and GenSan is […]
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Philippines Entertainment specialists set their sights on UK Football
The Hong Kong-listed International Entertainment Corporation, the leasing company behind some of the Philippines’ top entertainment properties, is looking to diversify its portfolio after announcing losses from the last financial year. IEC primarily operates within the Asian casino gaming and entertainment industries, leasing out some of the Philippines’ most well-known casino and entertainment resorts to […]
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Hudson Yards pioneer Romel Canete: ‘Never thought I’d see this in my lifetime’
By Cristina DC Pastor Romel Canete could not believe that Hudson Yards, an ambitious real estate project on Manhattan’s West Side, is nearing completion and currently almost 80 percent leased. He was part of the project from Day One. In 2004, the Cebu-born Canete, then a consultant at real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank, represented […]
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A taste of Maryland Chickan in Makati
By Wendell Gaa With his trademark grin, cap and sci-fi T-shirt, Washington D.C. native Fred Corder — affectionately known as “That Guy” — was more than delighted to share with me the mouthwatering taste of ‘Maryland Chickan.’ It is chicken the way his grandma would make it: fresh, fried, with no MSG or extenders. The […]
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Filipino ambition, talent on spotlight in June 9 mentoring summit
Filipino leaders and innovators are getting together for the first-ever PH Time Is Now: A Networking and Mentoring Event on June 9, Saturday, at the Harvard Club. The ticketed event will take place from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. PH Time Is Now aims to create a platform for Filipinos to share their personal stories […]
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The fragrance of home in Ysabel Potenciano-Cottrell’s candles
By Cristina DC Pastor She lived in Forbes Park, was chauffeured to and from Assumption with her Shih-Tzu and bodyguard. Until one day, a suspicious fire razed the family’s transportation business. Everything went up in flames – wealth, security, status, and over time, relationships. Ysabel Potenciano-Cottrell, who was 13 then, remembered distinctly how her family […]