Glimpses Of Greatness

CITY OF URDANETA: Last night and this morning, Saturday, 17 December 2016, I was watching CNN Philippines'  Profiles  with Mitzi Borromeo interviewing former Senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani at her "Bahay Kubo" rest house in the village of Tulong in this City, before son Ranjit brought us to see Ms Leticia at noon in an official visit. The CNN link to the interview was posted on Facebook by daughter Lila. I took this photo of Ms Leticia talking to someone over the phone, with her walking stick. Next to her sits Roger Daranciang, Auditor of the new Danggay Foundation, going over the papers to be signed by her as Chair of the (old and) new Board. I was there as the new President of Danggay. This Foundation was founded by Ms Leticia when she was Senator and out of her funds she financed the construction of the Pangasinan Crafts & Production Center building, which we now simply refer to as the  Danggay House , the office building being occupied by the Foundation at th...

Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation Inc actually no date given http://appfi.ph/publications/newsletter/2016-issue-1/40-resources/publications/commentaries/205-thoughts-on-philippine-chinese-relations Philippine-Chinese relations, between these two neighbors who have peacefully interacted with each other in the past, are both profound and complex because they have been based on people-to-people relations. The Philippines, representing the smaller and younger culture, has been on the receiving end of Chinese culture and migration for centuries. With its ancient empires continuing into the People's Republic of China (PROC), and its organized systems of writing and learning, China has had a great impact on Philippine culture in a way not comparable to the impact of Philippine culture on Chinese culture (of which little is known). Think of how Chinese food has become the staple of ordinary Filipino cooking- lugaw, pancit, siopao. Or consider the countless intermarriage...

Luz Maria Martinez 11 June 2015 http://www.isiswomen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1769:the-life-and-times-of-leticia-ramos-shahani&catid=196&Itemid=449 Dr Leticia Ramos Shahani, whose life can hardly be categorized into one area of work, was honored on June 9, 2015 by the House of Representatives and the Committee on Women and Gender Equality of the Philippines for her valuable contributions in shaping the women's global agenda and pioneering initiatives for the empowerment of women through a national resolution. For those of who may not know who she is, she is no less than the first co-author of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The first working draft was known as the Philippine-Soviet Draft, and she is among the top-ranking women of the UN. Shahani, served as Chair of the UN Commission on The Status of Women; Secretary General of both the Third UN World Conference on Women and S...