INTL NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR. Lawyer Carolina Tanjutco, editor of Newstar, a leading Filipino-American weekly broadsheet based in New York, reads the citation naming Ambassador Hilario G. Davide, Jr., Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, as its International Newsmaker of the Year during the paper's anniversary dinner on 29 January 2009. Ambassador Davide was cited for advancing Philippine interests in the United Nations, particularly in interfaith cooperation, peacekeeping and reforms in the world body. Philippine Mission Photo by Elmer Cato.