Engineer Jane Alvero-Al Mahdi is not just a Filipina-UAE national. She also gives her free time to develop the computer skills of her compatriots in Dubai and happens to be the first Filipina who won the prestigious Emirates Business Women Award (EBWA) for 2008.

“Lifting the morale and lives of my kababayan (fellow countrymen) has always been embedded in my heart, and I will never fail them as I strongly believe that Filipinos have world-class talents…

MANILA, Philippines—Rather than be preoccupied with the flurry on Earth, 24-year-old Reinabelle Reyes has fostered a fascination for the bustle of outer space.
She has feasted her eyes on the splendid Milky Way in the midnight sky of Chile, probed the Great Beyond from her Ivy League school, and unveiled some secrets of the heavens.
It all [...]

The story of Rosalie Ellasus might have ended in undistinguished failure. Instead, this remarkable Filipino farmer battled against the odds to win the inaugural Dean Kleckner Trade & Technology Advancement Award, given by the Truth About Trade and Technology (TATT).
Rosalie may be a small lady, but she’s one of the most gutsy and innovative farmers [...]

Loida Nicolas-Lewis is probably the richest Filipino living outside her home country. She is the chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc., a two-billion-dollar corporation of 64 companies based [...]

The Philippines continues to bridge the gap in gender inequality, ranking sixth in the world in providing equal opportunities for women according to the latest World Economic Forum gender gap index.The WEF gender gap index showed that Filipino women have achieved equality in educational attainment, healthy life expectancy and improving opportunities for skilled women professionals. [...]

We first knew her as a ten-year-old girl singing “I Am But A Small Voice” in 1981. With her sweet and tender music, the young Lea Salonga charmed a crowd of foreign diplomats who gave her a standing ovation. Two decades passed, and the young girl with a small voice blossomed into a fine lady [...]

Dorothy Delasin, a daughter of a Filipino couple living in Daly City, is a two-time Filipino Athlete of the Year awardee, for winning three world championships (as this was being written). Delasin won the LPGA Giant Eagle Classic for two consecutive years, first in 2000 when she was only 19 and then in 2001, becoming [...]

Angela Perez Baraquio, the 24-year-old Physical Education teacher who Miss America 2001, is a daughter of Philippine-born parents living in Hawaii. Her father, Claudio Fernandez Baraquio was born in Pangasinan, while her mother, Rigolette Perez grew up in Manila.
Angela has three brothers and six sisters, the three eldest of whom were also born in the [...]

A Filipino-American has been named one of the 10 Best Nurse Leaders of the United States, an honor that Los Angeles-based senior nurse Lily Maniquiz Lara finds unparalleled.
Lara, nurse manager of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Nursing Home Care Unit 213-2, won the 2006 ADVANCE for Nurses Journal’s Best Nurse Leader award. Vital [...]