The stockholders of Mindanao Star Bus Transport Inc. — sister enterprise of Bacolod-based Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI) — re-elected Leo Rey Yanson as the president and chief government officer of the company.

In a statement over the weekend, the bus firm said that the youngest Yanson was elected at some point of its annual stockholders’ assembly on January 18.
Leo Rey is accompanied by means of Ginnette Dumancas, Charles Dumancas, Arvin John Villaruel and onlinemarketshare broker as individuals of the board of directors.
They have a one-yr term concluding on January 2021 or “till their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.”
The Yanson matriarch Olivia Yanson, meanwhile, is the firm’s corporate secretary and treasurer.
According to the firm’s through-legal guidelines, annual stockholders’ meeting must be held every 1/3 of Saturday of January at its important office, which is located in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro.
Mindanao Star Bus Transport is beneath the Yanson Group of Bus Companies which has operations in Bacolod, Iloilo, Dumaguete, Cebu, Cagayan De Oro, Butuan, Davao, Pagadian, Dipolog, Bohol and Batangas.
The different bus strains being operated with the aid of the Yanson own family are VTI, Rural Transit of Mindanao Inc., Bachelor Express Inc., Southern Star Bus Transit Inc., Ceres Transport Inc. And Gold Star Bus Transit Inc.
Last month, Leo Rey become additionally reappointed as the president of VTI, which operates Ceres Liner and Sugbo Transit.
THE Philippine Council of Associations and Association Executives (PCAAE), referred to as the “affiliation of institutions” in the country, diagnosed National President of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) Benjamin Panganiban Jr. As 2019 PCAAE Association Board Member of the Year awardee all through its gala dinner and awards night time at the Philippine International Convention Center final Nov. 27, 2019 in Pasay City.
UAP President Benjamin Panganiban named Board Member of the Year throughout PCAA Summit 7 closing November 2019.
Bestowed in conjunction with the PCAAE Summit 7 and 2019 Ang Susi Awards Night, the award is conferred upon a board member of an employer who has proven wonderful service to the association and u . S ., to the practice of accurate governance, and to the ideals and advocacy of the PCAAE through volunteering time, expertise, and assets as a board member.
Panganiban changed into commemorated for bringing the programs and services of a 48,000-robust association down to the grassroots stage, displaying how top notch structure genuinely makes a distinction in human beings’s lives.
A made of the University of Mindanao, he has 34 years of personal practice beneath his belt, along with the distinction of being the primary Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) architect and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) architect from Davao City with a specialization in imported material specs. He is a fellow of the UAP, and turned into conferred a medical doctor fellow title by the Royal Institute Architects Singapore.
Panganiban is likewise a normal contributor of The Manila Times under the column “The Architect’s Perspective” of the Build and Design Section.
What sets him aside from others, however, is his deep involvement in uplifting the photograph and expert improvement of Filipino architects.
The architect’s voice
From 2010 to 2013, Panganiban turned into already searching for a option to a commonplace picture problem architects across the united states of america confronted.
“Whenever I went to the provinces and speak to the locals there, they might always name me ‘engineer.’ Without offense to other professions, it was a perception that afflicted me in the beginning.
Eventually as I went up the ladder of the corporation, I commenced to comprehend that we ought to initiate extreme public training on what registered and certified architects truly do so the general public will have a better understanding of our roles in society,” he said.
This paved the way for the advocacy campaign, “For Your Plans and Designs, Get an Architect,” which additionally spawned the #GetAnArchitect campaign in partnership with The Manila Times, Davies Paints, Wilcon Depot, Rain or Shine, Citihardware Inc. And stakeholders inside the production enterprise, and a series of cognizance articles and guides.
“Architects see the big image. They don’t just design basic four partitions and a roof. They create total environments, interiors, and exteriors that fulfill useful desires,” he stated, emphasizing the architects’ confirmed mastery of areas such as worldwide building codes, nearby legal guidelines, or even environmental concerns.
While it is able to be tough to quantify effects from the marketing campaign, Panganiban said he has acquired sparkling remarks from architects in terms of employment and tasks ordinarily coming from the regions. These have been aligned together with his purpose to be the voice of the areas on the national degree of UAP, which became fashioned in 1975 with the integration of the League of Philippine Architects, Association of Philippine Government Architects, and Philippine Institute of Architects.
A time of ‘firsts’
Aside from being the first UAP countrywide president from Mindanao, Panganiban is likewise regarded for different ‘firsts.’ He is the primary countrywide president of a large association with 174 chapters regionally and round the sector and some 2,000 to 3,000 new contributors every year.
Nearing the end of his first term, UAP received the PRC Most Outstanding Accredited Professional Organization Award in June 2019. This award he even promised the membership at the start of the 12 months. UAP also took domestic the International Achievement Award from the European Business Assembly in Milan, Italy on the begin of his 2nd term.
Under his leadership, UAP also partnered with the Department of Trade and Industry for the First Innovation and Construction Forum, PRC-PAPRB’s (Professional Regulatory Board-The Philippine Association of Professional Regulatory Board) seventh Professional Summit, Asian Institute of Management, NLEx Corporation, Green Architecture Advocacy Philippines, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation and GMA Kapuso Foundation, Architects Regional Council Asia for the web hosting of the primary-ever Asian Architects within the Academe Assembly, and the third Asean Architects Congress inside the Philippines. He controlled to cozy the hosting of the ninth APEC Architect Central Council so one can be held in the Philippines in 2020 at the side of the website hosting of the International Conference of Architects in September of the same yr.
Financial viability, at the same time as a not unusual undertaking amongst associations, turned into the various hallmarks of UAP under Panganiban’s presidency. A prudent stewardship of the yearly countrywide club dues for 2 monetary years has led to time deposits really worth extra than P20 million — any other first for the association. He acknowledges the autonomy of UAP chapters in control and fund sourcing, as well as sharing plans for the affiliation to enter belongings investments for accelerated economic solvency in the future.
He is also pushing for persevering with professional improvement for UAP contributors in light of latest, contemporary virtual technology employed inside the career. In addition, he’s a staunch advocate of corporate social responsibility through UAP’s initiative “Bayanihang Arkitektura,” which ambitions to deliver together a completely unique know-how base to assist communities and promote sustainable designs and practices.
Leading a big expert association is not any small feat, and Panganiban believes his success is going past being “a guy from the provincial architect’s ranks.” It is all approximately changing one’s sympathy into willful movement to obtain collective progress.
“It’s just sincerely essential to carry the activities of the national office down to the level of the UAP chapters and to the communities, interacting with all members and guaranteeing that we cost their membership and are looking to be provider-oriented at all times,” he said.
“The chapters are the backbone of the organisation and must be taken well of first and fundamental. And consequently we must be capable of enhance the general club to be participative by empowering them to uplift the career and the specialists. Break the monopoly of some and deliver the chapters the electricity to carry out. I am grateful the chapters have been receptive and feature given this leadership the mandate to pursue their visions and aspirations, to give them the voice essential to expose society and the neighborhood governments there are architects, to empower the chapters to train the public on what we do aside from drawing fantastically, and align all our bankruptcy’s actions as one toward making sure the architects are the right specialists for vertical structures and habitat for guy,” he delivered.