FACC president thanks Asian community for support to typhoon victims

Malette /Aquino-Oliveros (right) with Vietnamese-American residents.  

by Susan Palmes-Dennis

MALETTE Aquino-Oliveros, Fil-American Association of the Carolinas (FACC) president attends the Chinese New Year Gala Night at the UNCC's Cone Center in Charlotte, North Carolina that started at 4 p.m and ended at 9 p.m. last Jan. 25. 

The following day she also represented the Fil-American community in the Vietnamese Lunar festival Jan. 26. She attended the event to express the community's gratitude to fellow Asians for their generous donations to Haiyan typhoon victims. 

The Fil-American community is represented in the Carolinas Asian-American Chamber of Commerce.