Pedrosa was appointed to the PAGCOR board by president Rodrigo Duterte on July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has announced that Carmen N. Pedrosa, one of the members of its board of directors, died on June 8 at the age of 80. Pedrosa was also a well-known author and prominent newspaper columnist. She was appointed to the PAGCOR Board of Directors on July 1, 2016, by\u00a0president Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presidential communications secretary\u00a0Martin Andanar <\/strong>said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of Ms. Pedrosa as they find strength in this period of mourning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outgoing senator Richard Gordon\u00a0<\/strong>also stated: “I am saddened with the loss of Carmen, a valued friend and a pillar in the journalism industry. Chit had been involved in journalism for over six decades, and that is where the two of us met, both of us full of optimism in hoping that our country would become its best self.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pedrosa was appointed to the PAGCOR board by president Rodrigo Duterte on July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has announced the passing of Carmen N. Pedrosa, a member of its Board of Directors, at age 80. Appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, Pedrosa was also a distinguished author and newspaper columnist. Her demise marks a change in the governance structure of the Philippines' primary gaming regulator.","focusai_entities":"Carmen N. Pedrosa, PAGCOR, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, Rodrigo Duterte, Martin Andanar, Richard Gordon","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR Board Succession","query":"What is the established process for appointing a successor to the PAGCOR Board of Directors, and what is the anticipated timeline for this appointment?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact Assessment","query":"How might the change in PAGCOR's board composition influence the corporation's regulatory priorities or its approach to B2B\/B2C licensing and compliance frameworks in the short to medium term?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-30671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30676,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions\/30676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}