Archive for June, 2008

Pacquiao makes history after Knock Out win over David Diaz

Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao made history by becoming the first Asian to win four weight divisions when he knocked out World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion David Diaz in the 9th round in their scheduled 12-round fight in Mandalay Bay, last Vegas on Sunday. Pacquiao came out smoking right after the bell rang in [...]

Call Center News : iQor Expands in Philippines

Clark Expansion Announced at Meeting with President Arroyo; New Center of Excellence Will Create 700 New Jobs At a meeting in New York City with Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, iQor President and CEO Vikas Kapoor announced the opening of iQor’s third call center in the Philippines that will create 700 new jobs. iQor plans to [...]

Miss Universe organizers admit spelling error on Miss Philippines’ sash

By REYMA BUAN-DEVEZA for abs-cbnNEWS.com The Philippines’ bet for Miss Universe, Jennifer Barrientos was given an official Miss Universe sash that misspelled her country’s name. “Philippines” was spelled with two Ls instead of one. In a photo published in seattlepi.com’s Miss Universe Gallery, picture number 22 shows that Barrientos wore the misspelled sash, while sitting [...]

Australia donates money to help Philippine typhoon victims

Australia announced Thursday it has donated an initial 500,000 Australian dollars (478,000 U.S. dollars) to the Philippines National Red Cross to help the typhoon victims. Typhoon Fengshen struck the Philippines last week, leaving more than 280 people dead. An AusAid officer has been dispatched to the disaster area to determine how much further assistance will [...]

Jennifer Barrientos represents the Philippines in Miss Universe 2008

Jennifer Tarol Barrientos was born in San Mateo Rizal. She is also the Binibining Pilipinas titleholder for 2008. She is the official representative of the Philippines to the Miss Universe pageant which will take place in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008. Jennifer Barrientos won the crown for Binibining Pilipinas Universe, Patricia Fernandez for [...]

Nicole Scherzinger – Proud to be PiNaY

It is difficult to decide that weather a celebrity is singer, actor, or a model but at the end we know they are popular among the entire world. Shockingly most hot celebrities have very poor background and childhood. Almost all of them have worst relations between their parents so they started showbiz at very early [...]

Call Center Lifestyle in the Philippines

Yuppie Filipinos get the chance to be employed easily once they obtained their bachelor or diploma degrees because of the emergence of contact centers everywhere in the Philippines. These workers started to fill the 24-hour skyscrapers that gives a colorful background to metro Manila’s financial districts at nighttime. This only shows that people employed in [...]

Myleene Klass : determined to prove that Filipina women are Worldclass!

Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is an English actress, singer, model, pianist, radio and television presenter, formerly a member of the short lived UK pop band Hear’Say. Musician, writer and, latterly, M&S model, Klass has been playing the piano and violin since she was four and was recently nominated for a Classical Brit [...]

100 University of the Philippines students participated in the yearly Oblation Run

Members of a fraternity at the University of the Philippines held their annual ritual of running naked on campus six months early on Wednesday — by official request — to celebrate the state-run school’s centennial anniversary. Hundreds of cheering students lined the main campus avenue, jostling for positions with their digital and cell phone cameras. [...]

Jollibee acquires Taiwanese restaurant chain

Philippine fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. announced Friday it had acquired 70 percent of Taiwanese restaurant chain Lao Dong for 61.1 million pesos (1.37 million dollars). In a disclosure to the stock exchange, the publicly-listed Jollibee said that as part of the sale, it would invest an additional 30.6 million pesos while Lao Dong’s owners [...]