WASHINGTON, D.C. - Everyone knows that Cristeta Comerford, the first-ever Filipino-American White House Executive Chef, feeds the most powerful people in the world.

But she also got a chance to prove her culinary mettle against some of the world's most skilled chefs.

Comerford joined forces with "Iron Chef" Bobby Flay to compete with "super chef" Emeril Lagasse and "Iron Chef" Mario Batali in a special season-opening episode of the top-rated cooking show Iron Chef America...More

CALIFORNIA, United States—Mona Pasquil has become the first woman, first Filipino American, and first Asian American to become a lieutenant governor of California.
She was appointed western political director in the Clinton White House, served as deputy chief executive officer for the 2000 Democratic National Convention and as political director of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign in California. She was one of the 30 members of the Democratic National Convention’s Rules and Bylaws Committee and one of the 11 that supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 elections.


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Pacquiao defies WHO
By Jerome Aning and Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer.net
There will be no high fives, hugging or kissing when Manny Pacquiao arrives on Friday from his historic conquest of Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton in Las Vegas.
* Pacquiao urged to do ‘social distancing’
* Pacquiao coming home despite WHO advisory
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Who's Next?
Posturing already starting for Pacquiao-Mayweather

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) — Manny Pacquiao's devastating fists sent a powerful message to Floyd Mayweather Jnr about his comeback - the path to deciding boxing's pound-for-pound king goes through the Filipino superstar.
Unbeaten American Mayweather, the former undisputed welterweight champion, tried to upstage Pacquiao's junior welterweight showdown with Ricky Hatton by announcing his return from a 17-month layoff just hours before the fight. More

Pacquiao-Hatton bout called a match between Mars and Earth

MANILA, Philippines - Who says the Pacquiao-Hatton fight was a battle between the East and the West? For The Independent’s James Lawton, the match was “more like a collision between Earth and Mars."

Lawton compared Emmanuel “Manny" Pacquiao to the red planet, named after the Roman god of war . More

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