About Antonio Cabangon-Chua
Antonio L. Cabangon-Chua (August 30, 1934 – March 11, 2016) was a Filipino businessman, Philippine ambassador to Laos under the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and reserved colonel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, being an honorary member of Philippine Military Academy class of 1956. He graduated from the University of the East in the same year, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree. He received a doctorate in the Humanities, honoris causa, from the Adamson University. == Early life == Being called "Tony", Cabangon–Chua, born in 1934, was the only child of a Chinese lumber dealer, Tomas Chua, and a Filipino, Dominga Lim Cabangon (1910–1962). His mother would later be a philanthropist. The family once lived a middle class life at Leveriza Street, Malate, Manila, until their house was destroyed during the Second World War. His father was said executed by the Japanese in Fort Santiago in 1944. His family experienced living in extreme poverty thereafter; they later lived at a rented room. At age eleven, he helped his mother, working then as a washerwoman, through doing odd jobs, among them being a shoeshiner in Mandaluyong—his hometown, mainly for the American soldiers at the time of the liberation of the Philippines, and selling magazines and pandesal. He managed as well to support his schooling until becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
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