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Ex-SF Consul-General Jun Paynor, now Ambassador to US

MANILA, August 30, 2016 – During the testimonial dinner at Malakanyang for wounded soldiers, President Rodrigo Duterte announced that Marciano Paynor, Jr. will be replacing Jose Cuisia as the Philippine Ambassador to the …

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Broadway’s First Ethnic ‘Matilda’ is Filipina

I consider musicals the highest form of popular entertainment. The sales of show tickets will never equate the real value of what goes on in a musical – a perfect convergence of different …

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Seattle

History of Filipino-Americans in Seattle

With an estimated population of 30,000 (in the late 1990s), the Filipino American community forms the largest group of Asian Americans in the Seattle area. Beginning with the first known Filipino resident in …

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