Basketball Without Borders Day 4, June 2

The fourth and final day of Basketball Without Borders Asia 2018 concluded in thrilling fashion as the 66 campers from 16 countries and territories in Asia-Pacific competed in championship games and a pair of All-Star games.

The camp got underway in the morning with the girls championship game between the New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx.  Coached on the sidelines by Ruth Riley and Sakshi Sheoran, the Lynx defeated the Liberty 20-13.  Paige Price from Australia led the Lynx with a game-high 7 points.

The boys championship game then followed, with the Milwaukee Bucks going up against the Brooklyn Nets.  Led by coaches Darvin Ham and Satnam Singh, the Bucks edged past the Bret Brielmaier and Caris LeVert led Nets team 22-18.  Samuel Jenkins from New Zealand scored 8 points in the winning effort.

At the conclusion of the championship games, two boys and two girls All-Star teams were announced.  Team Red of the girls All-Star team was coached by Ruth Riley, while Ebony Hoffman served as coach for Team White.  Team Red defeated Team White 27-18, with Dan Zhao from China leading her team to victory with 8 points.

Following that, the boys All-Star Game was played between Team Red (coached by Bret Brielmaier, Caris LeVert, Darvin Ham and Satnam Singh) and Team White (coached by Ryan Saunders, Mike Wells and Corey Brewer).  Team Red emerged with the 39-37 win thanks to a team-high 8 points from both Clancey Bird and Mac Stodart.

During a break in the boys All-Star game, the boys and girls 3-point champions took part in fun shooting games.  Boys 3-point champion Amir Hossein from Iran went up against Caris LeVert, while girls 3-point Champion Indiah Bowyer from Australia competed against Ebony Hoffman.

The 10^th BWB Asia camp wrapped up with the Awards Ceremony.  Rence Forthsky Padrigao (Philippines) was named Boys MVP, while Sanjana Ramesh from India was crowned as MVP on the girls side.  The All-Star rosters and full-list of awards winners is as follows:

Girls All-Star Team:

Team Red - Rajvi Desai (India), Suniskha Karthik (India), Sreekala Rani (India), Indiah Bowyer (Australia), Pushpa Senthil Kumar (India), Jianjun Gao (China), Dan Zhao (China)

Team White - Siya Deodhar (India), Grishma Niranjan (India), Khushi Dongre (India), Sanjana Ramesh (India), Priyanka Behal (India), Paige Price (Australia), Guanpeng Liu (China)

Boys All-Star Team:

Team Red - Kaiga Matsuo (Japan), Rence Padrigao (Philippines), Joshua James Giddey (Australia), Chien-Hao Ma (China), Amir Hossein Aliyari Dehkordi (Iran), Kian Jamie Dennis (Australia), Matin Aghajanpour (Iran), Clancy Bird (Australia), Mac Stodart (New Zealand)

Team White - Dwight Powell Chiang-Shuang Chen (Chinese Taipei), Mohammed Sina Vahedi (Iran), Samuel Jenkins (New Zealand), Shintaro Ehara (Japan), Daniel Foster (Australia), Andre Tannoury (Lebanon), Lachlan Joseph Bofinger (Australia), Chao Wu (China), Harshwardhan Tomar (India), Princepal Singh (India)

List of Awards:

Boys Grit Award: Taine Murray (New Zealand)

Girls Grit Award: Vaishnavi Yadav (India)

High-Flyer Award: Lachlan Joseph Bofinger (Australia)

Boys 3-Point Champion: Amir Hossein (Iran)

Girls 3-Point Champion: Indiah Bowyer (Australia)

Boys All-Star Game MVP: Chen Chiang-Shuan (Chinese-Taipei)

Girls All-Star Game MVP: Dan Zhao (China)

Boys MVP: Rence Forthsky (Philippines)

Girls MVP: Sanjana Ramesh (India)

MVP Quotes:

Boys MVP Rence Forthsky, Philippines

“I have not only improved as a basketball player but also as an individual. The focus here was on your overall development at the personal and professional level, and I am glad to have won MVP at the end of all of it.”

Girls MVP: Sanjana Ramesh, India

“Whatever I have learnt here playing with international players and coaches I am going to take that back and share the knowledge with my fellow players. Basketball is my life and these four days at the camp were the best I have had in my life.”

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MICHAEL FERMIN REPRESENTING ALAY-BUHAY PARTY LIST

Alay-Buhay Party List, held a press conference to introduce its chosen representative in the image of Mr. Michael C. Fermin, for the upcoming election in 2019.

Held at Max’s Restaurant along Sct. Tuazon in Quezon City, the party list had chosen a pride of Bulacan to be their primary representative in Congress and serve as the voice for Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises (MSME) in the years to come.  Alay-Buhay is a firm believer that its new voice will do well in and out of the legislative halls and pursue the very core of the party list and that is to empower and help develop those categorized as MSME.

A pride of the province of Bulacan, Michael C. Fermin, has been in the public service for 20 years which started in his hometown of Calumpit and continued onto his provincial area (1st District of Bulacan).  A father of two children, he spends his time with those he loves and values the most.  At present, he is a director for the Poro Point Management Corporation – responsible in developing an evacuated military base into a dynamic economic zone in La Union.

With the thrust of the party list now officially on his hand, Michael C. Fermin, is to serve as the Voice of Thriving Businesses and be a level that is competitive and dynamic to those who are considered big in the business world.  He believes that giving the people what they need in terms of skills and financial support is not enough to truly give them a push in the right direction.  What the people need is the right knowledge in management and venues to pursue their desired growth for their own business.  They have to be educated with what the government can give them, not just the private sectors and skills formation giving bodies, and take advantage of those assistance and benefits to fully give them a chance in the competitive world of business.
“Proper education is the key to everything. Those who dream big must not only know the basic skills to manifest and improve their craft but also what possible benefits and business advantage he may have when availing the various entrepreneurship program of the government.” – Michael C. Fermin’s thoughts on the present status of MSME in the country.  “We already have a good number of those in the private sector giving assistance to those starting-up businesses.  Skill development is both offered by private and public groups also. This time around, Alay-Buhay will not only give support in the usual way of giving skills and finance to MSME but give them solutions and guides to programs that government groups have for some years now.  MSME’s are not taking advantage of this opportunities and it is about time that they do.  I help them, they help the government, and the local and national scene of economy will definitely improve in the coming years.”

With the skills gained from training and experience, Alay-Buhay is sure to expect more interaction and coordination to come; a result from their new Voice Michael C. Fermin.

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Alay Buhay

One of the Major project of each city representative or LGU is to help those depressed people in need, primarily food, clothes, and shelter. The purposed is to bewitched these people to vote you on the next level of being public servant, but then again to some of these promises are in good will when released to the public and question is how many from the promises are ACCOMPLISHED.

Alay Buhay Representative Mike Fermin commit himself of infinite help to his people, Mike Fermin is a simple man who lives in a province of Bulacan who’s aim is to level up his position to help more people to where he stands. In good heart and willingness fermin stand is to help his people to be more productive which I think is one of the good quality that we need, and god fearing heart.

Looking forward to load up your infinite willingness to help your people in good heart without bewitch of kindness.     

Citi Philippines Appoints a 27 Year Veteran, Manoj Varma as New Consumer Business Manager

Citi, the leading global bank, announced the appointment of Manoj Varma as consumer business manager for the Philippines. A 27 year Citi veteran, Varma will be responsible for managing the company’s consumer franchise in the Philippines. Citi has been in the Philippines since 1902 and provides a full suite of consumer banking products and solutions including credit cards and wealth management.

Citi Philippines chief executive officer Aftab Ahmed said, “Manoj is a great addition to the Citi Philippines team. His wealth of experience at Citi in different regions will further strengthen our ability to being the best through the eyes of our clients.”

Prior to his new appointment, Manoj served as managing director and general manager of the Specialty Partners Group within the Citi Retail Services Business in the U.S. The seasoned retail banking executive has an extensive international experience having worked with Citi in the United States and the Asia Pacific region.

Manoj started as a design engineer, manufacturing computers for HCL India. He joined Citibank India as a management associate in 1990. In New Delhi, he handled Marketing and Product Development for the Auto Loan business and then led Citi’s Customer Services unit for Retail Loans in North India.

In 1993, after a brief stint in Auto Sales, he was appointed head of Retail Banking Operations in Chennai. He moved back to Delhi in 1995 as regional head of the Indian Cards business.

Manoj was named in 1999 product director for the cards business in Citibank Taiwan. Three years later he was transferred to Korea to lead the Cards business in the country.

In August 2006, Manoj became initiatives director for the Partnership Business of Citi USA’s Retail Partner Cards. He was named in early 2010 general manager for the Specialty Partners Group, with overall responsibility for majority of the partnerships within the Citi Retail Services business.

Manoj has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University (1987) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University (1990).

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