The future presidential candidate in Hong Kong during the time he was writing and publishing historical novels.On record, he is the only historical novelist in the world who has authored and published 13 novels in 37 months.This record in historical novel writing is unsurpassed by any world historical novelist until now, showing to other races that Filipinos are highly cultured and can succeed in their chosen fields of endeavor.
Asian Travels
Dr. Norberto L. Mercado, Bishop of the Council of Overseers of the Nation's Evangelization, with Dr. Kishore Mahbubani, former two-time president of the U.N. Security Council, share happy times in Singapore. Dr. Mahbubani holds a set of Bishop Mercado's novels.
Having lunch with Filipina Overseas Workers at Chater Garden in Hong Kong
The Historical Novelist at Blake Pier in Hong Kong Island
Addressing Filipino Overseas Workers at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong
At United Arab Emirates where there are many Filipino Overseas Workers
In Hong Kong with his wife June, sister-in-law Beng, family friend Mrs. Lourdes Navarro of San Narcisso, Zambales and two other Filipina friends
With multi-awarded Time correspondent Sandra Burton in Hong Kong. Miss Burton holds one of Norbert Mercado's novels entitled "I Don't Need A Throne", a historical love story of a princess of Thailand
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With Filipino Overseas Workers in Macau
Dr. Mercado with his wife, June, at Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (click to enlarge)
With Filipina overseas workers in Hong Kong as judge of a Filipina beauty pageant
With Mr. and Mrs. Jun Tabeta in Bangkok, Thailand
With a Vietnamese merchant on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam (click to enlarge)
In Indonesia with a Muslim associate
With his wife, June, at the Imperial Palace, Beijing, People's Republic of China(click to enlarge)
Visiting the war museum in Hanoi, Vietnam
At the Great Wall of China, Badaling, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Cycling in Hanoi, Vietnam (click to enlarge)
Dr. Mercado at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, Thailand (click to enlarge)
Bishop Mercado on a trip to Thailand
European Travels
Dr. Mercado in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (click to enlarge)
With an Ilocana OFW from Ilocos Norte, in Cologne, West Germany, beside the Danube River
At the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France (click to enlarge)
With his Dutch friends at the Windmills, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
At L'Arc de Triomphe (Arc of Triumph), Paris, France with American friends
Near the Temple of Apollo, Old Corinth, Greece
At the UN Headquarters in Vienna, Austria (click to enlarge)
At Les Invalides, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's resting place in Paris, France
In Elburg, The Netherlands with fellow Filipino delegates to the International Christian Media Conference 1986. Photo shows Awit Cachola Castillo,( right seated), Miss Ruivivar (center), and Melba Maggay (left). Beside him is Efren Pallorina of Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC)
Dr. Mercado at the Parthenon, in Athens, Greece (click to enlarge)
Dr. Mercado in Rome, Italy
Philippine Pictures
Joining the Aurelio Mercado Sr. marathon in San Manuel, Tarlac in December 1988
Dr. Mercado speaks on how he will solve the problem of insurgency in the Philippines during the first Dr. Norberto Mercado Forum on National Security (click to enlarge)
Pondering on the goodness and majesty of God at Nalinac Beach Resort, Bauang, La Union during the U.P. Campus Crusade for Christ LTI in October 1973, at the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
As a journalism student at the University of the Philippines Quezon Hall, Diliman, Quezon City
With girlfriend and future wife, June, and baby Jen-Jen Morales-Estella circa 1976
In Baguio City, with his wife, June
With Celia Diaz Laurel and Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto during his graduation at the National Defense College of the Philippines, the War College of the Philippines, with the degree of Master of National Security Administration (MNSA), Regular Class 21. He is the youngest graduate in his batch and the youngest graduate in the history of the National Defense College of the Philippines (click to enlarge)
Bishop Mercado swims from one island to another at 100 Islands, Sual, Alaminos, Pangasinan (click to enlarge)
Dr. Mercado with his family: (from left) Joanne, Jerusalem, Dr. Mercado, Mrs. June Mercado and John Mark. All of them are products of public schools. Joanne is a graduate of U.P. Integrated School, Jerusalem of Philippine Science High School in Quezon City, and John Mark also of Philippine Science High School in Quezon City. Dr. Mercado is a product of San Manuel Elementary School in San Manuel, Tarlac and Mrs. Mercado is a product of Pilot Elementary School in Koronadal, South Cotabato.