Catherine "Cathy" Yu Untalan is a Filipina

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and beauty pageant titleholder. She won Miss Philippines-Earth 2006 and the international Miss Earth Water 2006. She is the executive director of the

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, the environmental-social-humanitarian outreach arm of Miss Earth beauty pageant. She is a TV anchor at

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in the Philippines.

Background

Untalan finished her high school education at St. Paul College of Parañaque. She graduated

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at the

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and received her master's degree in Environment and Natural Resource Management from the

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. On August 18, 2006, she cohosted the awards night of Moonrise Film Festival, an annual film festival covering various environmental and cultural issues, sponsored by the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education, which was held at the Gateway Mall in

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, Quezon City. She was a courtside reporter for the

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during the first half of the 82nd season of the

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. Two years later, she became the courtside reporter for her alma mater's team, the

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during the

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' 67th season. She is the spokesperson of the Philippine

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for various campaigns and of the Philippine Department of Health for their anti-tobacco smoking campaign. The Sustainable Energy Development Program of the

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(USAID) also chose her to be the spokesperson of their biofuels campaigns. The USAID cited her efforts and participation in their programs and she was awarded an environmental ambassador recognition, the first to be given such distinction by the agency. She hosted a show in NBN Channel 4 entitled ''Kapihan ng Bayan'' with veteran broadcast journalists, Mario Garcia and Ely Saludar. She went on to anchor PTV News with Charms Espina and Richmond Cruz as late-night and with Alex Santos as primetime, Ulat Bayan with

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and PTV News Tonight with Espina and Joee Guilas. She also hosted radio shows on DZRH. She used to be a columnist in the first green

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in the Philippines, called, Gen G Magazine.

Beauty pageants

She was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2006, and represented the Philippines at

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, where she won Miss Water (second runner-up).

External links

Official Miss Earth websiteMiss Earth Foundation website

References

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