NEW YORK (via PLDT) - President Aquino’s meetings with businessmen here are expected to translate into investments and thousands of jobs for Filipinos.
“We have embarked on this journey to send a message to the world, and particularly to our biggest trading partners, the United States of America: The Philippines is open for business,” the President said in his statement before leaving for this city to attend the United Nations General Assembly and the US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Meeting, and meet with other world leaders, prospective investors and the Filipino community.
AS THE world economy recovers and consumer demand goes up, manufacturers in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) are turning to information technology to allow them to better serve their customers and to regain the ground they lost during the financial downturn.
Although hardware spending will continue to take up the lion’s share of the overall Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) manufacturing information technology (IT) spending budget, software and IT services are expected to register double digit growth over the next five years, indicating the increasing maturity of the region’s manufacturing IT landscape.
Millions of Pinoys leave home to work abroad, representing the country’s “Brain Drain”. But these 4 Filipinos have chosen to return to serve the country in amazing ways.
Gemma Bulos, a Filipino-American who grew up in the US, advocates the philosophy that “it takes a single drop of water to start a wave, and one person to initiate social change.”
Ami Evangelista Swanepoel grew up in Manila, and moved to the US when she was 19 to study at Wellesley College. After graduating, she spent two years with Human Rights Watch doing challenging work that further inspired her to pursue her Masters in health and human rights.
Patricia Tumang — Patty to friends and family — grew up in California longing to understand more about her country and her heritage. “In Los Angeles, my sense of what being Filipino meant was very artificial,” she recalls.
Rina Malonzo was a New York-based creative director with experience in graphic design, creative direction, fashion advertising, fashion show production and corporate brand strategy.
THE PHILIPPINES is poised to gain from the diminishing work force abroad but top managers will have to adopt key strategies to retain local talent in the meantime, an expert yesterday said.
Tailored incentives to keep young employees and also defer the early retirement of more senior workers are needed alongside stronger links between leaders and team members, Towers Watson regional managing director Bob Charles said at the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) International CEO Conference.
WITH THE car population rapidly increasing in urban centers like Metro Manila, the demand for parking space is booming.
While the Phillipines faces a cycle of seemingly never-ending political crisis, a new breed of Technopreneur is quietly rising in the background.
POVERTY and scarcity are proverbial constraints invoked to account for mediocrity in the education and training of the youth.
Anchored on the competitiveness framework, a World Bank study points to the need to improve overall competitiveness to fully harness the role of exports as a tool for growth and development.
The country rank improved by two notches in the latest World Competitiveness Report, placing 85th among 139 countries covered. The Philippines ranked 87th last year.
