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The travel website Choose Philippines is a brainchild of RNG. It started off as “Pili-Pinas,” a Web portal with a oneman crew in Enzo Lacap. Two years later, in February 2011, Villa took it under her wing at the request of RNG head Jerry Bennett.

Villa was the perfect fit for the site. As the network’s News Gathering and Online and Mobile Group head, she propelled www.abs-cbnnews.com to become the country’s number one news site according to the Australia-based audience measurement company Effective Measure.

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