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There was a time when amid EJ Obiena’s struggles to make it big in the world stage of pole vault, near-irresistible offers poured in for him to switch to another country.
“I think I need to go back to understand why I decided to stick with the Philippines even though it was probably not the decision that would make sense around that time,” said Obiena, a scholar alumnus of the Chiang Kai Shek College in Tondo. Asian Games gold medallist Ernest John Obiena was given a special gift of support worth P5M by the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc., led by President Dr. Cecilio Pedro.
The FFCCCI’s P5-million gift was apart from the P5 million he received from other Filipino-Chinese donors, P1 million from FFCCCII honorary executive adviser Carlos Chan of Oishi Snacks/Liwayway Group, P3 million from Chiang Kai Shek College and P1 million from philanthropist Anson Tan.
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