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tv HONG KONG - A Filipino author here hopes his recently published book "100 Filipinos", will reframe how Filipino achievements are celebrated and commemorated in everyday life and in schools.
It was in November 2018, a "regular working day" as the Manila-born author had described it, when he chanced upon pioneering Filipino pediatrician and founder of The Children's Medical Center, the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines, Dr. Fe Del Mundo, who was featured on Google Doodle. He clicked on her profile and found out she was "an amazing person".
In his initial, mostly internet-based research, De Guzman says the list swelled to 500 before he narrowed it down to the 200-page book, which he admits was a "difficult process". Joining him on the team to help verify are historian Dr.
De Guzman, a father of two and who is himself an accomplished artist having worked with international companies such as Kraft, McDonalds, IBM, Citi, Shangri-La Hotels, South China Morning Post, the World Health Organization, the Hong Kong Design Institute, Lan Kwai Fong Group, and KPMG among many others, says being a Filipino has no boundaries, is "not defined by geography", and not defined by blood when asked to describe what a Filipino means to him after having lived abroad for...
From the Filipino physician who discovered erythromycin to the "computer genius who rocked the Silicon Valley", as well as the only man who could use a leaf to play music as recognized by the Guinness World Records to the first Filipino woman nutritionist, the collection of biographies also includes past presidents such as Ferdinand Marcos, Hong Kong-educated Manuel Roxas, Ramon Magsaysay, Manuel Quezon, and pioneers in religion, human rights, media, the environment, marine field,...
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