James Alexander Fung: NEWS: Corazon Aquino: Diagnosed Cancer

Wednesday, 15 October 2008

NEWS: Corazon Aquino: Diagnosed Cancer

There' a health crisis for the woman who led the "people power" revolt in the Philippines that ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Corazon Aquino's daughter choked back tears as she announced on television that her mother has colon cancer. The 75-year-old former president went in for tests after suffering from high blood pressure, difficulty breathing and fever during the Christmas and New Year holidays and also began losing weight.

Corazon Aquino took over as Marcos' main challenger after her opposition leader-husband was gunned down at Manila's airport in 1983. Marcos won an election amid charges of massive vote fraud. Aquino was later swept into power after the military brass turned against Marcos. Usually dressed in her trademark yellow in public, Aquino has remained active in social and political causes. Most recently, she has been attending rallies calling for the resignation of President Gloria Arroyo.

Get Well Soon, Corazon!!

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Prelude

James was the Dean of Perwira Education Group from 1999-2002 and became the General Manager of Perwira Education Group from 2003-2004 before he decided to explore worldwide. He chose Beijing as his first destination in advancing his career globally. He was offered at the Zhuozhan Days Hotel and Shangri-La Beijing Hotel as its English Training Specialist, responsible for enhancing the entire English standard of the staff and management. He then pursued with the Pre-opening team of The Westin Beijing, Financial Street and Manzhouli Holiday International Hotel. His latest involvement is with the pre-opening/post opening of The Legation Quarter Beijing as Training Manager.

He was actively involved in the school co-curriculum activities such as Trilingual Speech Contest (English, Malay & Mandarin), Chinese Impromptu Speech Contest where he emerged as the Champion, Student Forum Competition, Essay Writting Competition, and Public Speaking Contest where he was the 1st ever Asian student to have won the Top 3 Prizes in the Auckland Inter-High School Public Speaking Contest representing Lynfield College. He was awarded with the Lynfield College Oratory Award in 1996 and Principal's Congratulatory Letter by bringin Fame to his College. James was the 1st Asian student to be awrded with the Oratory Award since 1962.

James' passion lies more in language and literature where he was the regular guest speaker of the Malaysia National Language and Literature Ministry. From Seminars to Workshops and Forum, he was always in the speaker's list. With his blessed and gifted ability to communicate in multilingual such as English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Kadazan (and currently learning Korean), he hope to be able to guide and teach more people by encouraging them to be at least a bilingual speaker in this new age of era.

2004 Trip to Ayutthaya Ancient City of Thailand