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Outstanding Professional Award 2014

He then returned to the Philippines in 1993 where he began International Development agency or CIDa which has benefited
to use his journalistic skills for the common good. many government agencies and organizations in the Philippines
for the betterment of the Filipino.
Shortly after his return, Klink was appointed as the
Foreign Information Officer at the Philippine Consulate general Through his efforts as an intermediary in such collaborations,
in Toronto, a position which he held until 1997. Klink while abroad, contributed to Filipino communities here at
home and to our country’s economic growth.
It was here that Klink discovered the opportunity, not only
to serve as a bridge between our country and our fellow Filipinos after his foreign tour of duty in 1997, Klink returned home
in Canada as the Philippine government liaison to Canadian to resume his career in journalism and launched Kabayan, a
media and Filipino community press, but also to play a very respectable national daily broadsheet in Filipino which soon
important role in significant diplomatic activities, specifically in became a well-regarded newspaper.
holding consultations with the stakeholders in Canada’s Official
Development assistance (ODa) Program. In 2001, his family acquired The Manila Times, where
Klink was able to fully utilize the skills which he had honed in
The ODa is a program wherein the Canadian government his many years in the field as the Executive Vice President of The
bestows grants or loans to developing countries, such as ours, Manila Times Publishing Corporation, successfully merging it
with the main objective of promoting economic development with Kabayan Publishing in order to publish what we now know
and welfare, much of which goes through the Canadian as the new, updated and dynamic version of The Manila Times.

President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan receives Dante “Klink” Ang II during a visit to Taipei.

Dante “Klink” Ang II, past president of the Rotary Club of Makati North, Dante “Klink” Ang II with President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam before an
delivers a speech at a club fundraising event. interview with journalists in Manila.

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