by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Work and Play
On 30 October 2009 in the Claremont Hotel Club and Spa in Berkeley, California, the Filipina Women’s Network’s second nationwide search for the 100 most influential Fililino women in the US culminated at a recognition awards gala. This working recognition award...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Work and Play
Frederick Lees’ new novel, The Malayan Life of Ferdach O’Haney, was published in October 2009. The book is a fictionalized account of Freddie’s own experiences in the 1950s in Malaya. The book is described as follows. “It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Work and Play
It all started when Richard Fuller, President of Blacksmith Institute, walked into my office at NARO one morning in 2002, wanting introductions to ADB staff in Manila. Blacksmith Institute is a nonprofit organization in New York that helps clean up toxic polluted...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Work and Play
I can’t believe I am now on my fifth year here in New York! I thought I would be here only for a year. Special Leave. I arrived in late September 2005, on special leave without pay from ADB, to work as an audit specialist for the United Nations Development Programme...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Work and Play
In November, I met Prodipto Ghosh at ESCAP in Bangkok, where he was attending a workshop in preparation for an ADB–UNESCAP–UNEP publication on green growth. Over lunch, I learned what Prodipto’s been up to in the last 7 years. In 2001, a few people at ADB who were...
