During the COVID pandemic, a personal passion project bore fruit for retired Ambassador Monina Estrella Callangan Rueca. She published a book titled “Guide to Protocol, Social Graces and Etiquette: A manual for Behavior, Courtesy and Related Matters In and Out of the Diplomatic World.”
Rueca began her career at the Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Manila and served in foreign posts, such as Paris, Tokyo, Geneva and Madrid. She was then appointed as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the epublic of Hungary with concurrent jurisdiction over Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
Prior to her retirement, she was assistant secretary and …
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