PHL Consul General Supports Hong Kong Diversity List Launch

Philippine Consul General Antonio A. Morales (left), together with three Filipino professionals (from left to right), Mr. Danilo Andres Reyes, Ms. Luisa Tan Castro  and Dr. Theresa Cunanan, attends the launching of Diversity 2018 at the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on March 20. The event was organized by The Zubin Foundation, a Hong Kong-based social policy non-profit think tank committed to equality and justice. Dr. Cunanan.

10 April 2018 HONG KONG – Philippine Consul General Antonio A. Morales attended the Diversity 2018 launch as a special guests at the Peninsula Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui on March 20. The event was organized by The Zubin Foundation, a Hong Kong-based social policy non-profit think tank committed to equality and justice.

The event’s guest of honor, Hong Kong Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, highlighted the need for Hong Kong to enhance the well-being of all ethnic minority citizens, to promote their upward social mobility, and to foster their integration into the city’s social fabric.

The Diversity List, Mr. Cheung said, is aimed at increasing ethnic minority’s representation including Filipinos in the government advisory body by putting forward highly-credentialed and committed Hongkongers of non-Chinese ethnicity.

Chief Secretary Cheung also announced the appointment of Dr. Theresa Cunanan, to the newly-established Human Resources Planning Commission, a Hong Kong government advisory body. Of Filipino ethnicity, Dr. Cunanan is a senior lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University’s College of International Education. 

Consul General Morales also met with two Filipino professionals, Mr. Danilo Andres Reyes and Ms. Luisa Tan Castro. Mr. Reyes is a consultant at Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), an NGO with General Consultative Status at the United Nations, Hong Kong. 

Ms. Castro is a teacher of Liberal Studies and ethics and Religious Studies at Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College.  She is a volunteer in various Muslim Associations and Committees.  END

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