also featured on the ten peso bill that circulated or printed starting with the Pilipino Series in 1972 and continued until the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas stopped printing these notes (New Design series version) in 2001. From 1972 to 1997, he was the only one to portray on the front of the banknote until it added Andrés Bonifacio that were printed from 1997 to 2001. Government Awards and Citations The Gawad Mabini is awarded to Filipinos for distinguished foreign service, or promoting the interests and prestige of the Philippines abroad. It was established by Presidential Decree No. 490, s. 1974 in Mabini's honor since he was the first Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the First Philippine Republic. The Philippine government presents the annual Apolinario Mabini Awards to outstanding persons with disabilities. Media portrayals Ronnie Quizon in the film, El Presidente (2012). Delphine Buencamino (2015), Liesl Batucan (2016), Monique Wilson (2019) in the musical "Mabining Mandirigma" Epi Quizon in the film, Heneral Luna (2015), and its sequel, Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral (2018). At the height of the film Heneral Luna popularity, reports of numerous incidents - including one during a Q&A with actor Epi Quizon - in which school-age youths asked why Mabini just sat in a chair throughout the film, implying a lack of familiarity with the famously paralytic statesman. Even President Benigno Aquino III remarked on the implications of the lack of awareness among students, saying "even if only a few students said this, we can say that this is a reflection of how little some of the youth know about history. Later, I will call up (Education Secretary) Armin (Luistro) to act on this." Po-on (in English: "Dusk"): In this abstract and enigmatic novel, Apolinario Mabini visited Rosales, Pangasinan, which was adapted by writer F. Sionil Jose into an intricate miasma of a novel wherein his visit was intertwined with bona fide and phantasmic people and events alike.Editorial Reviews, Amazon.com, retrieved on: April 17, 2008"Dusk", About this Book , Random House, Inc., RandomHouse.ca, retrieved on: April 17, 2008Gibney Frank, Everybody's Colony (page 1), A book review about F. Sionil Jose's Dusk, New York: The Modern Library. 323 pp., The New York Times, NYTimes.com, August 2, 1998Po-on has since been described by famed essayist, poet and playwright Ricaredo Demetillo as "the first great Filipino novels written in English". It is mentioned by American book reviews as --Ian Buruma, New