Maria Corazon Sumulong Conjuangco was born on January 25, 1933, in Paniqui, Tarlac, located in central Luzon,Philippines, north of Manila. Her parents were Jose Chichioco Cojuangco and Demetria "Metring" Sumulong, and the family was of mixed Chinese, Filipino, and Spanish descent. The family...
Cristeta Pasia Comerford (born October 27, 1962) is a Filipino-American chef who has been the White House Executive Chef since 2005. She is the first woman and first person of Asian descent to hold the post. Age: 62 Birthplace: Manila, Philippines Profession: Chef 165 votes Is this cool...
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This is largely because most Filipino languages don’t use gender in their words, and this came in handy when José Miguel Arroyo became the first (and so far, only) male First Spouse of the Philippines when his wife, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, was President of the Philippines. 25. Call ...
First Yaya: Created by Marlon Miguel, Jojo Nones. With Gabby Concepcion, Sanya Lopez, Pancho Magno, Cassy Legaspi. The story of an ordinary woman who gets to lead an extraordinary life as the nanny of the children of a widower Philippine Vice-President w
one of the nation’s largest cities. And it includes becoming just the third person and first woman ever to hold both of the Legislature’s top jobs: speaker of the Assembly and president pro tempore of the Senate, where she negotiated eight state operating budgets and...
Between 1996 and 2015 the rights to the pageant were part-owned by former US president Donald Trump. Ms Jakkaphong, who has previously said she was inspired by chat show host Oprah Winfrey, has often spoken about life as a transgender woman, and is now the first woman to host a beauty...
R'Bonney Gabriel, a fashion designer, model and sewing instructor from Texas who competition officials said is the first Filipino American to win Miss USA, was crowned Miss Universe on Saturday night. Gabriel closed her eyes and clasped hands with runner-up Miss Venezuela, Amanda Dudamel, at ...
Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician who was the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936 — over ten years before the school officially began admitting women.
Rachel Nance, who is Filipino and Black and outlasted Tran on Graziadei’s season, tearfully recounted in March getting “hundreds” of DMs and comments using racial slurs for both Black and Asian people. (Some viewers were disappointed that host Jesse Palmer did not call it racism but...