Korea tops the list of foreign investors in the Philippines, pledging some P8.5 billion investments. National Statistical Coordinating Board (NSCB) Secretary General Romulo Virola disclosed that Korea’s investments in the Philippines comprises about 42.6 percent of the total Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) committed for the first quarter of 2008. He said that majority of Korea’s [...]
TechTeam to expand its global multilingual delivery capability TechTeam Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: TEAM), a worldwide provider of information technology (IT), enterprise support and business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Rainmaker Asia, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rainmaker Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMKR), to establish service desk operations in [...]
Convergys Corporation will expand its contact center operations in the Philippines, adding five new contact centers there, the company said Tuesday. The company already operates nine contact centers in the country, which employ about 13,000, according to a news release. The new centers will add another 7,000 jobs. “Our continued growth is based on demands [...]
Come and celebrate Filipino culture via your tastebuds at The Filipino Food Festival, opening on Wednesday 11 June at The Grace Hotel in Sydney. Guest chefs from The Travel Café Philippines in Manila, the Philippines dynamic capital city, are preparing specially designed Filipino fare. In the Philippines dining out for tanghalían (lunch) or hapúnan (dinner) [...]
The Arroyo administration’s efforts at promoting the Philippines as a tourism destination is paying off with tourists spending a total of some $ 1 billion in the country during the first quarter of 2008 alone. This was revealed by the Department of Tourism (DOT) which enthused that “these positive results have laid down the groundwork [...]
A hard-hitting Filipino film about a family living in a porn movie theatre, “Serbis”, enters the running for Cannes gold Sunday in a boost to the country’s struggling independent cinema sector. The title of the edgy drama by Brillante Mendoza, which in English means “service” refers to male prostitutes who ply their services to the [...]
A 104-year old woman in a remote town in Capiz has claimed that her secret formula for longevity is eating grilled termite eggs. Lisa Castor, one of the four known remaining members of the indigenous group called Pan-ayanon who have reached the century mark, said she gets in drinking water from the stream near her [...]
Pinoy Tattoo lovers in region 8 and other parts of the country will be joining two separate tattooing events on May 18, 2008 at CAP Bldg. (Price Mansion) and RTR Plaza, Tacloban City. The tattoo symposium which will be held morning of May 18 at CAP Bldg will speculate on the “Pintado” tattoo motifs of [...]
Ramiele Malubay (born September 6, 1987 in Dammam, Saudi Arabia) is a Filipino American singer and was the 9th place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. Malubay was born in Saudi Arabia to Filipino parents Roger Malubay and Alicia Macrowon, who worked in Saudi Arabia. She grew up in the Philippines and the [...]
Every culture throughout history has created some form of martial art so their people can defend themselves in a time of crisis. But the only true test of a martial art is actual combat. Known as Kali in Europe and the United States, the knife and stick fighting based art is actually called Eskrima or [...]
