The Center for Small Entrepreneurs (CSE) periodically organizes a business forum which has been known as the “Kapihang Entrepinoy.” Through the years, thousands of micro and small entrepreneurs have gathered together with…
University of the Philippines represents ASIA Pacific in the CFA Institute
World’s top finance students will congregate in Hong Kong on April 17, 2010 to compete in the 4th Annual CFA Institute Global Investment Research Challenge (Global IRC) organized by CFA Institute. From…
Greenpeace installs ‘historical’ marker in IRRI compound
Los Baños, Laguna, 14 April 2010 — Greenpeace activists today delivered puto (rice cake) to the International Rice Research Institute on its 50th birthday, carrying the message “IRRI GO GE-Free!” and installed…
ABS-CBN’s Charo Santos Concio and Gina Lopez win in 2010 CEO EXCEL Awards
ABS-CBN president and chief operating officer Charo Santos Concio and ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. managing director Gina Lopez were honored recently at the 2010 CEO Communication Excellence in Organizations (CEO EXCEL) Awards given…
Gibo takes commanding lead in MB mock polls
Lakas-Kampi CMD standard bearer Gibo Teodoro has grabbed a commanding lead in the online mock elections for presidential candidates in the upcoming May elections conducted by the media giant Manila Bulletin by…
NP waiting for Nograles
PNS — NACIONALISTA Party standard bearer Sen. Manuel Villar, Jr. said more officials are now choosing who to support for president as the May 10 automated polls draw near. Villar’s statement came…
New U.S. envoy to RP: I am delighted to be here
PNS — THE new United States ambassador to Manila Harry Thomas arrived in the country last Saturday. Thomas said he is looking forward to working with the Filipinos and the U.S. citizens…
Be positive of automated polls — Palace
PNS — MALACAÑANG yesterday appealed to the voters to think positively about the first-ever automated elections in the country on May 10. Deputy presidential adviser Prof. Gary Olivar made the appeal following…
GMA invited by Obama to join nuclear summit
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will fly to Washington D.C. to attend the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) envisioned to avert nuclear terrorism. The NSS meeting is slated on April 12 to 13 to…
Kris Aquino in-law backs Gibo
BACOLOD CITY—The magic of basketball star James Yap, husband of showbiz celebrity Kris Aquino, is apparently not potent enough in his home city of Escalante to push the presidential bid of his…
We’ll make Negros a ‘Gibo Country’, vows Rep. Iggy Arroyo
HIMAMAYLAN CITY—“We will make Negros Occidental a ‘Gibo Country,’ Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo has said as Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer Gibo Teodoro campaigned here with firecracker bursts welcoming him. Arroyo, the President’s brother-in-law who…
What looks like vote buying?
Vote buying, if it does exist, is undemocratic. It is one form of ‘clientelism’ and it benefits only that candidate who can give away awesome amounts of money in exchange of patronage….
Luis, nagulat sa pagtakbo ni Edu
The decision of his dad, vice presidentiable Edu Manzano, to seek the second highest post in the land surprised his son, Luis Manzano. “I was in Las Vegas to watch the fight…
Boracay eyes 50% reduction in diesel energy consumption
Boracay Island, Aklan. 31 March 2010. Efforts by Greenpeace and the tourism industry in this popular destination have been stepped up to keep peak-season energy demand comparable to off-peak levels in the…
The Filipino Wrecking Machine Mark Munoz Prepares for UFC 112
First International Fight of Munoz’s Career LAKE FOREST, Calif. – (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) – April 3, 2010 — With the grand opening of Reign Training Center (RTC) on March 13th behind him,…