source: philstar.com
MANILA, Philippines - For sacrificing his belongings to rescue a helpless elderly neighbor at the height of Typhoon Ondoy three years ago, Joven Mallo was nominated by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to join a cast of 8,000 torchbearers in a 70-day, 8,000-mile relay journey ending with the opening of the London Olympics on July 27.
source: cbcpnews.com
A Filipino missionary of the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) congregation was recently appointed as the national director for the Pontifical Mission Societies in New Zealand.
source: philstar.com
It’s not only a handful of athletes who will be representing the Philippines at the London Olympics 2012 in July, which the British government and media are understandably hyping up as “the Greatest Show on Earth.”
source: gmanetwork.com
In January, Michael Purugganan, 48, was named dean for Science at NYU. For the former Collegian features editor who rose to become a leading plant biologist and now a distinguished New York science educator, the journey began quite inauspiciously — with rice.
source: mb.com.ph
MANILA, Philippines — A New Zealand citizen of Filipino descent was named as one of the awardees of the Queen’s Service Medal for service to the Filipino Community in New Zealand’s National Year-end Awards for 2011.
source: mb.com.ph
MANILA, Philippines — The medal haul of the Philippines in the most prestigious mathematics and science competitions in the world continued as four high school students bagged gold, silver and bronze medals in the recently-concluded 5th International Earth Science Olympiad, the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DoST-SEI) disclosed Thursday.
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