Filipina college student hopes to find her long-lost Taiwanese mother by Christmas
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/11/30
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Filipina college student in the Philippine province of Isabela is
Sentar Chung (mother, left) Aivan Chung (daughter, right).
hoping to find her long-lost Taiwanese mother before Christmas.
Aivan Chung, 22, who is majoring in Entrepreneurship at the Cauayan Campus of Isabela State University, is hoping to finally find her long-long Taiwanese mother by Christmas of this year.
Aivan’s mother, who went by the Filipino name of Sentar Chung, was born in Taiwan on Mar. 9, 1969, under the Chinese name Chung Zhen-ching. In the 1990s, Sentar met her father Nelson Ong Lacaden, a Chinese-Filipino, when he was working in Taiwan, where he worked for 10 years in construction.
When Sentar became pregnant, the couple went to the Philippines. Aivan was born on Feb. 24, 1995 in Masangkay St. Sta. Cruz, Metro Manila, Philippines. [FULL STORY]