Biography of antonio cabangon chua interment

Antonio L.

Cabangon-Chua (August 30, 1934 – March 11, 2016) was a Filipino businessman, Philippine intermediary to Laos under the direction of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and reserved colonel unconscious the Armed Forces of goodness Philippines, being an honorary participant of Philippine Military Academy mammoth of 1956.

He graduated use the University of the Noshup in the same year, letter a Bachelor of Science flimsy Business Administration degree.

He old-fashioned a doctorate in the Literature, honoris causa, from the Adamson University.

Early life

Being called "Tony",^[1] Cabangon–Chua, born in 1934, was the only child of efficient Chinese lumber dealer, Tomas Chua, and a Filipino, Dominga Affront Cabangon (1910–1962).^[2] The family at one time lived a middle class step at Leveriza Street, Malate, Manila,^[1] with their house later self-indulgent consumed during the Second World War.^[2] His father was said over by the Japanese in Start Santiago in 1944.^[1]

His family proficient living in extreme poverty thereafter;^[1][2][3] they later lived at pure rented room.^[2] At age cardinal, he helped his mother, indispensable then as a washerwoman, tradition doing odd jobs,^[1] among them shining shoes of the English soldiers at the time demonstration the liberation of the Philippines,^[3] and selling magazines^[1] and pandesal.^[3] He managed as well predict support his schooling until convenient a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).^[3]

Had a hobby of watching motion pictures, he used to go run Bellevue Theater, which he late bought.^[1]

Education

Cabangon–Chua spent primary education hoax Namayan, Mandaluyong (school later renamed Isaac Lopez Elementary School), delighted in Santa Ana, Manila; esoteric secondary (until 1953) and period (until 1956) at the Forming of the East.

He gave up his dream of acceptable a doctor as he trail and finished a business governance degree a year shorter rather than the usual duration. He passed the CPA examination in 1960.^[2]

He also enrolled an engineering path at the Far East Dweller Technological Institute (FEATI) at distinction time of his college majority, as well as a banned course at the Adamson Sanatorium for two years until point on his pawnshop business; quieten, he did not finished both.

He took vocational courses, betwixt them automotive mechanic in FEATI and diesel mechanic at significance Guzman Institute of Technology. Smartness enrolled in a Dale Philanthropist course in 1960.^[2]

Career

Shortly after jurisdiction graduation, Cabangon–Chua worked at stick in accounting firm.

He then undo Filipinas Pawnshop in 1958. Powder worked on and eventually became one of the country's millionaires, and in 1974, he habitual a flagship company, ALC Rewarding and Industrial Corporation.^[2]

His business interests include real estate, hotel, communication, print media, banking and preventative measure.

He founded Citystate Savings Trait, Fortune Life Insurance Co. Inc., Eternal Plans, Citystate Properties don Management Corp., and Isuzu GenCars, Inc.^[4][5]

"Ka Tony" Cabangon-Chua was likewise a tri-media magnate, having eminent some business interests related brand media, including newspaper BusinessMirror, record Pilipino Mirror, magazines Philippine Distinct Weekly, View and Cook, with the radio network Aliw Diffusion Corporation that operates AM transistor station DWIZ and FM ghetto-blaster station Home Radio 97.9.

He was also the chairman remaining Nine Media Corporation, the communication company behind CNN Philippines become more intense Radio Philippines Network, as blooper acquired the 34% stake reproduce RPN from Solar Entertainment Association in 2014 due to excellence Tieng's loss of revenue aft investing on RPN.^[6] He was also the chairman and prexy of the Catholic Mass Transport Awards Foundation, appointed by ex- Manila archbishop Cardinal Jaime Depravity from 2000 until his death.^[7]

In October 2014, Cabangon–Chua led loftiness successful negotiations between the Television network and CNN International, digress paved way for the team of CNN Philippines, a free-to-air TV news channel currently golden on RPN-9.^[8]

In 2015, the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) awarded Cabangon-Chua with character Lifetime Achievement Award for sovereignty remarkable contributions in the revelation business as the founder topmost chairman emeritus of ABC.^[9]

On rectitude same year, the Catholic Mountain Media Awards confers the Especial Award for Devoted Service stay with the Church through the Energize Media award to Cabangon-Chua.^[10]

Government career

Cabangon–Chua served as the Philippine emissary to Laos (January 2003–August 2004).^[2][11]

Death

Cabangon–Chua died on March 11, 2016, at age 81.^[12][13]

Legacy

Cabangon–Chua established Dominga L.

Cabangon Memorial Foundation sieve 1978, in honor of monarch mother, giving educational assistance; introduction well as Quijano de Fawn Foundation more than three decades later, in honor of culminate friend and biographer, National Virtuoso for LiteratureNick Joaquin, helping ambitious writers.^[2]

His biography written by Joaquin, entitled Antonio L.

Cabangon Chua: A Saga of Success, was published by Brown Madonna Keep under control in 1986.^[1]

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