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Yugel Losorata is a journalist-musician, born and raised in the Philippines.
Since the year 2000 he has written articles touching various subjects in the fields of entertainment, arts, lifestyle, business, and sports. He has been composing and recording songs released in the form of physical and digital albums, EPs, and singles.
He co-founded two bands, Syato and The Pub Forties, where he served as chief songwriter, co-singer, and bass player for 20 years combined. He also wrote for and collaborated with other artists.
Losorata’s byline has appeared in various Philippine publications with nationwide circulation, including Manila Bulletin, Philippine Star, and Manila Standard where he has been writing a weekly column. Online, he has contributions uploaded on Yahoo Philippines (Southeast Asia), and Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP.ph). He also worked as staff writer at the Manila Bulletin and senior copy editor for CNN Philippines.
As author he wrote four books at the height of the pandemic. In 2020, he penned “How To Survive The New Normal,” and “30 Midnights Of Flash Fiction.” In 2021, his novel “The Lust Regime,” and a collection of short stories, “Rhythm & Bruise,” were published, with the latter featuring a Foreword by the Philippines’ “King of Talk” Boy Abunda.
The family man is currently residing in the United States of America.

Widely known as Mr Toilet, Jack Sim broke the global taboo around toilets and sanitation. He founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO), a global non-profit working towards a world with clean, safe toilets and sanitation for everyone, everywhere, at all times. Born in a slum in Singapore in 1957, he learned entrepreneurship and gumption from his uneducated mother who started a series of small businesses. He was also inspired by the gumption of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and grew up watching the amazing transformation of his country from third world to first. From school failure, he became a serial commercial businessman (sixteen businesses). After attaining financial independence he left the rat-race to become a serial social entrepreneur. After fighting the bureaucrats, he enrolled at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration at the age of 56. He also graduated at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program at age fifty-nine. Some of the awards he won are: Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Ashoka Global Fellow, Queen Elizabeth’s Points of Light Award, Clinton Global Initiatives Fellow, Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment for 2008. For his contribution to humanity, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK in 2022.

Lee Su Ann started weaving stories since she was in high school, usually found scribbling in the shade of a tree under the watchful eyes of her school’s majestic clock tower. The clock tower of St George’s Girls’ School in Penang would later be the inspiration and setting for her second novel, A Stitch in Time.

She published her first short story when she was 16. After graduating with a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Diploma in Comprehensive Writing, she has since then been a test-tube baby scientist, a medical writer and an amateur actress /scriptwriter in her church’s own stage production.

Her first novel, The Curse, won a literary prize in 2005 and was later used as a literature textbook in Malaysian schools. She was also a runner-up in the Calistro Prize in 2013 and a health journalism award in 2014.

She is married to her bestie and partner in crime, and enjoys creating stories for her playful twins.

T. A. Ong is an Intellectual Property lawyer in the Philippines. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of the Philippines and a Masters of Laws with Certificates of Specialization in Business Law and Law and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked in SyCipLaw and a start-up before opening her online independent bookstore, Blithe Books. She has taught intellectual property and special commercial laws in the University of Cebu.

Eliza Victoria is an award-winning Filipino author. Her books include Dwellers (winner of the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel), Wounded Little Gods, the graphic novel After Lambana (a collaboration with artist Mervin Malonzo), the science fiction novel-in-stories Nightfall, the short story collection Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother, and the poetry collection What Comes After. She has had stories and poetry published in various venues since 2007, most recently in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Apex Book of World SF, Future SF, Multispecies Cities, and Asian Literature Project. Visit her at elizavictoria.com.

The Early Learning Program of Penguin Books offers a diverse collection of children’s books designed to support curriculum learning across various age groups, from infants and toddlers to pre-schoolers, ensuring engaging and age-appropriate content. These thoughtfully crafted books cater to the developmental needs of young learners and promote essential cognitive skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity, fostering a love for reading from an early age.

The list offers picture books, story books, coloring books, activity books, workbooks, reference books and other innovative titles and formats.

NIRMALYA KUMAR is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at the Singapore Management University. Previously, he headed strategy at Tata Sons, reporting to the chairman of the $100-billion Tata Group with 6,75,000 employees. Nirmalya has taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School and Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). He has also been a visiting fellow at BITSoM, Cambridge Judge Business School, Indian School of Business and INSEAD.
Nirmalya is one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and marketing. As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with over fifty Fortune 500 companies in sixty countries. He has served on more than twelve boards of directors, including those of ACC, Ambuja Cement, Bata India, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech and Zensar.
Thrice included in Thinkers50 (the biannual listing of the top fifty management thinkers in the world), he received their Global Village Award for his contributions to the business community’s understanding of globalization and emerging markets before being inducted into their Hall of Fame.

Ronaldo Soledad Vivo Jr is a Filipino novelist, musician, and graphic artist. He is the author of the novels Ang Kapangyarihang Higit sa Ating Lahat (The Power Above Us All) and Ang Bangin sa Ilalim ng Ating mga Paa (The Abyss Beneath Our Feet). He has been recognized for his contributions to Philippine literature as the finalist for the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award and recipient of both the Gawad Bienvenido Lumbera and the Premyong LIRA. He is the founder of UngazPress, a collective of writers from the town of Pateros. He is also an award-winning filmmaker whose short films have been screened at festivals and cinemas in the Philippines and overseas. As a musician, he runs Sound Carpentry Recordings, which releases music on cassette, CD, and vinyl for worldwide distribution.

Karl R. de Mesa is a longreads journalist and photographer who has reported on stories in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Singapore. He is an award-winning author of horror fiction and reportage books—finalists for the Philippine National Book Awards for journalism and non-fiction. His photo essays have appeared on CNN Philippines Life and Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. Ronaldo Vivo Jr’s The Power Above Us All is his first novel as a translator. More at https://linktr.ee/karlrdemesa

Penguin Select Early Learning Program offers a diverse collection of children’s books designed to support curriculum learning across various age groups, from infants and toddlers to pre-schoolers, ensuring engaging and age-appropriate content. These thoughtfully crafted books cater to the developmental needs of young learners and promote essential cognitive skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity, fostering a love for reading from an early age.

The list offers picture books, story books, coloring books, activity books, workbooks, reference books and other innovative titles and formats.

Aneeta Sundararaj trained and practised as a lawyer before she decided to pursue her dream of writing. She also created and developed a website and called it How to Tell a Great Story. The aim remains to make it a resource for storytellers. Her writing has appeared in many magazines, ezines and journals. Some of the noteworthy book projects she’s worked on include Knowledge of Life: Tales of an Ayurveda Practitioner in Malaysia, The Banana Leaf Men and Mad Heaven: Biography of Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. M. Mahadevan. For a while, she contributed feature articles to the lifestyle section of a national newspaper. Many of Aneeta’s short stories have been longlisted, shortlisted and won international literary competitions and awards. Her most recent and bestselling novel, The Age of Smiling Secrets was shortlisted for the Anugerah Buku 2020 organised by the National Library of Malaysia. Incidentally, edited versions of various chapters of this novel have appeared in multiple anthologies, most notably in We Mark Your Memory: Writings from the Descendants of Indenture, School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with Commonwealth Writers, 2018. Throughout, Aneeta continued to pursue her academic interests and, in 2021, successfully defended a doctoral thesis entitled Management of Prosperity Among Artistes in Malaysia.