First Filipina: Corazon Yap-Bahjin

12.08.2009

Corazon Yap-Bahjin

Corazon Yap-Bahjin

1st Filipina Muslim ambassador (2009)
1st Filipina Muslim to pass the diplomat career Foreign Service Officers' examination (1979)

QUOTE
"We must disabuse non-Muslims of their pre-judgments about us and Muslims have to fight negative stereotypes"

USEFUL LINKS

1st Muslim Filipina envoy, off to Bahrain
Bahrain gets first Muslim Filipina ambassador
Philippines: Commission confirms first Muslim woman as ambassador

Did you know...

...that President Noynoy Aquino was the first Filipino bachelor to become President of the Republic of the Philippines?
...that Astronomer Armando Lee was the first Filipino Master of Science (MS) degree holder in Astronomy in the Philippines?
...that race driver Marlon Stockinger was the first Filipino-Swiss race winner in the Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship?
...that Joy Rojas was the first Filipina to run across 3,107 miles across the United States?
...that boxing champion Manny Pacquiao was the first Filipino sports billionaire?
...that José Rizal was given the label 'First Filipino' by Leon Ma. Guerrero, the first Filipino Ambassador to Germany?

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