Tag: financial crisis

• Goodbye….

  

  Two were lost last weekend: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bout with Floyd Mayweather, and Evangeline Escobillo’s life. “Tita Vangie,” as I have called her after we have moved on from our source and reporter roles to being friends, was always full of life that it is hard to imagine she is no longer alive. I consider her one of my most memorable mentors, the kind who have contributed to the shaping of my career as a business journalist.

  Lala Rimando

  8 May 2015

  Career, Governance, Journalism, Journalism award, Memorable interviews, Personal

  actuarian, actuary, Agile, Anchor Savings Bank, change, College Assurance Plan, Corruption, death, Evangeline Escobillo, financial crisis, financial industry, Gary Teves, governance, insurance, Insurance Commission, insurance industry, Pacific Plans, Platinum Plans, pre-need, Pre-Need Code, profile, reforms, Securities and Exchange Commission, statistics, Tina Turner, trust fund, USAID, Vangie Escobillo

• Marriage-ready

  I read an interesting article a month ago on the phenomenon of inter-marriages between Korean men and Vietnamese women. It read like the 21st century version of mail-to-order brides, except that instead of exchanging snail mails for months or years and pictures thereafter, the whole deal is sealed within five days.

  Lala Rimando

  9 Oct 2010

  Personal

  aviation, budget airlines, Federal Bank, financial crisis, marriage