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At about the same time, in a separate development, senators also began tackling the issue, with Sen. Raffy Tulfo noting how the poor have relied on it even as he chided regulators who turn a blind eye to smugglers. The small vendors and ordinary people should not be punished while the law prohibiting ukay-ukay stands; it’s the smugglers who should be prosecuted, added Tulfo, whose reputation as “idol” or action man to the masses with his long-running radio and TV program catapulted him to No. 2 in the last senatorial race. Tulfo pointed out how certain big businessmen make a killing smuggling used clothes which are then sold in the market. Small sell ers with their tiny rented stalls are imports are eventually donated to disaster victims. And no one thinks it’s a bad idea to do these things. Ukay-ukay has been legal in all but the law itself,” he added. Global trend, practice THE House leader also pointed to, a locator in Clark that “even im ports used clothing that they sort. They reexport the usable clothes and use the rest as rags. There is a $28-billion market for used cloth ing. In fact, supermarkets there already sell used branded clothing. These fashion stores already accept usedSclothing.”alcedacited supermarkets such as Walmart that already sell “excellent used clothing” of top brands.Salceda also cited fast fashion brands that solicit used clothing from their customers, either for re cycling as rags or reuse. Migrant workers and Fili pino travelers interviewed by the BusinessMirror have referred to ukay-ukay as a “life saver” of sorts, allowing them to buy urgently needed attire at affordable prices, for travel where their usual cloth ing here might not be suited, espe cially for OFWs traveling to coun tries during winter. A na Leah Domingo (not her real name) in recent years had patronized a couple of ukay-ukay stores near her house in Manila. One time, my husband ur gently needed a black coat for a wedding, and we found one with a look
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Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are revisiting the decades-old law banning commercial importation of ukay-ukay, an P18-billion industry that, while enriching smugglers, has provided jobs for many and clothed millions of ordinary people, including migrant workers, the past decades.
SAYING the used-clothing industry is a multibillion-peso industry that has benefited both the economy and ordinary people, the House Committee on Ways and Means chairman started this week the process for repealing a decadesold law prohibiting imports of such items. “Ukay-ukay has been legal in all but the law itself,” according to Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda. money. The next day, they called me and laid out a set of nice clothes that I could use for different occa sions—casual and formal—in win ter. So I traveled with nice, quality clothes at rock-bottom price.” Migrant workers also share experiences about patronizing used-clothing stores in their host countries. Recently, one veteran journalist recalled buying a nice trench coat—for $10—at one such store in Boston.
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SALCEDA: “Law enforcement does not raid ukay-ukay stores. Ukay has always been available as an option. For humanitarian reasons, we import ukayukay. Even apprehended ukay imports are eventually donated to disaster victims. And no one thinks it’s a bad idea to do these things. Ukay-ukay has been legal in all but the law itself.” obliged to pay taxes while import ers are not paying their duties to the Bureau of Customs. Senate Ways and Means Committee chairperson Sherwin Gatchalian formally sought the Bureau of Customs’ comments on what should be revisited with Re public Act 4653 during a hearing that he led. At the House, Salceda said he will move to repeal Republic Act 4653, or the law which prohibits the importation of used clothing or ukay-ukay, estimated to be an P18billion industry. “ We will take it up and move to repeal the bill, subject to standards prescribed by the Department of Health,” Salceda said, who added that he will file a bill on the matter. It’s time for the law to recog nize what is real and legal to the ordinary Filipino anyway,” Salceda added.The economist-lawmaker even noted that the country has tariff lines for ukay-ukay, at “15-20 percent for used clothing from countries we do not have trade agreements with, and 0 percent for Asean countries.” Major sources, he added, “will include the United States and Eu rope, which we do not have freetrade agreements with, and Japan, with which we do.” Salceda observed that, “Law enforcement does not raid ukayukay stores. Ukay has always been available as an option. For hu manitarian reasons, we import ukay-ukay. Even apprehended ukay U2 brand, for which he shelled out P175. He’s still using it for special occasions,” she said. Her cousin Gigi Casabuena recalled how the sales girls at the newly opened ukay-ukay at the ground floor of their apartment building in Makati would even “cu rate” for her and her three sisters items that they thought would fit their Onecustomers.time, I had to travel to Japan during winter, and I told them I was pressed for time and PEOPLE shop at an ukay-ukay store at Bambang Market in Manila. ROY DOMINGO
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‘Firefighting’ THE deepening divide with the US and its allies matters at home, too. Bellicose responses by nationalists on social media expressing dis appointment with China’s initial response to Pelosi show just how carefully he needs to manage the growing nationalism. Beijing’s crises at home and abroad cut at the party’s core prom ise to establish China’s prowess on the global stage and restore pros perity to its citizens. L ots of “firefighting” is needed to restore stability, said Botham from Pantheon Macroeconomics. He added that it conjures up an image of a swan: “calm and serene above water, but paddling like hell below the surface.”
P utting health standards in place, according to Salceda, can be done as part of the legislative cor rection, and guarantees a way can be found to reduce the health risks of such imports. “I would rather,” stressed Sal ceda, “that we place DOH stan dards and allow ukay-ukay busi nesses to finally register, instead of having such a large underground sector that we just choose to ig nore, because it’s big enough to provide jobs, but illegal.”
The Chinese leader emerged from the Communist Party’s se cretive summer retreat on the Yel low Sea this week facing mounting problems at home and abroad. Xi has just a few months to make sure they don’t overshadow his greatest achievement yet: securing a prece dent-breaking third term as leader at a party congress later this year. With economic growth fore casts being slashed, Covid cases rising to a three-month high and the US pushing back over Taiwan, each week seems to bring a new cri sis. That’s left Xi focused on rein ing in risks and trying to project stability, rather than promoting his achievements and marching to ward a coronation. A property rescue fund, efforts to streamline Covid Zero with pro duction bubbles and more subsi dies to keep firms afloat despite a lack of sales show the govern ment’s efforts to prevent the situ ation from worsening, said Craig Botham, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “ There will be pressure to keep the situation from boiling over,” he said. “Stability is the goal, really, as it helps the party maintain power.”
Health standards SALCEDA is not blind to the ques tion of health and hygiene, espe cially given fears of passing on infections via clothing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continued from A1 man Sachs’ chief China econo mist Hui Shan said in a Bloom berg TV interview Thursday, citing China’s low immunity and elderly vaccination rate as an ob stacle to reopening. “ When you break down the headwinds in the economy one by one, there are limits to what the government can or will do.”
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NewsSaturday BusinessMirror www.businessmirror.com.phSaturday, August 20, 2022A2 they purchased. Once a core aspi ration for the middle class, even home ownership is no longer a surefire way of bolstering personal wealth, with prices falling for an 11th month in July. It’s a difficult backdrop for Xi to make the argument that China is on pace to achieve his dream of be coming “prosperous, strong, demo cratic, culturally advanced and har monious” by the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic in 2049. Only last year, the President declared victory in building a “moderately prosperous society in all respects.”Xiisalso facing a test of strength from the US over Taiwan, long seen as the most explosive is sue between the world’s biggest economies. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the demo cratically governed island came as Xi huddled with party elders ear lier this month, prompting China’s military to hold drills around the island, including likely firing mis siles over Taipei. “ The prognosis for US-China relations is darkening,” said Ali Wyne, a senior analyst at the Eur asia Group Ltd. “If Xi continues to assess that the United States is in terminal decline and that China will succeed in achieving evergreater economic and technological self-reliance, he will be unlikely to recalibrate China’s foreign policy substantially.”
SHORTLY after President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he outlined his “Chinese Dream” for national rejuvenation. A decade later, he’s entering his most challenging period yet for turning that vision into reality.
A former diplomat in Paris used to bring Pinoy visitors to a used-clothing hub in the city, where stylish jackets and scarves could be had for just a fraction of the brand-new price. Used-clothing business could also shore up enterprises for the poor, as the Caritas Manila’s long-running “Segunda Mano” has shown. The charity periodically gets donations of old items from large retailers that want to dispose of old, idle inventory in their malls, and sells these in out lets, alongside some used clothing donated by the faithful. In making his pitch for repeal ing the law banning ukay-ukay, Salceda had pointed out, “There is a niche but increasingly larger ret ro clothing industry as well. And there seems to be a potential for us to be a sorting and reexport center for used but good clothing.” Such a repeal, in his view, will “finally formalize a large but inthe-shadows sector that so many of the rural and urban poor deem to be essential businesses.”
The economic weakness is widespread, due in part to Xi’s lockdown-dependent Covid Zero strategy. Retail sales, industrial output and investment all slowed last month, missing economists’ estimates. Even as overall employ ment recovered slightly, youth job lessness rose to a record 20 percent. A surprise rate cut by the Peo ple’s Bank of China (PBOC) and re ports that local governments may be allowed to sell 1.55 trillion yuan ahead of the party congress, the of ficial Xinhua News Agency report ed Thursday.China“must insist on self-reli ance, and make the development of the country and the people the ba sis of our strength, and firmly take the initiative of our development,” he said.The party could announce as soon as this month the dates for its twice-a-decade reshuffle, which it has previously said would be held in the second half of the year. While Xi faces no visible op position to remain as leader for the foreseeable future, perceived weak ness could influence key personnel decisions or signals about possible successors.China’s leadership has so far ruled out a repeat of past stimulus efforts that exacerbated the coun try’s debt problems. And Xi has only reaffirmed the need to main tain a zero-tolerance approach to the pandemic, which requires au thorities to shut down businesses and lock down residents when ma jor outbreaks occur. Major investment banks in cluding Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have cut their growth estimates for China for the year to 3 percent, far below the government’s original target of around 5.5 percent. It’s a tricky situation,” Gold
($228 billion) of bonds signal grow ing concern among policy makers. The latest economic data suggest a collapse in confidence among Chi nese businesses and households, and a reduced appetite to borrow. X i struck a firm tone during a tour through the northeastern province of Liaoning this week, emphasizing the need to follow the government’s orders to maintain stability, pandemic controls and economic and social development
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Social unrest THE tropical resort haven of Hain an on the South China Sea has been shut down for almost two weeks, leaving some 150,000 tour ists stranded. In Tibet, hundreds of vehicles were stuck in a traffic jam as visitors trying to flee the Covid hotspot were denied entry into the neighboring province of Yunnan.That’s adding to the risk of ris ing social unrest as people adapt to the reality of living in a seemingly endless cycle of lockdowns, weak job prospects and falling home prices. About 15 million young people are estimated to be jobless in China, just as a record number of college and vocational school graduates enter the job market this Asummer.uthorities are already grap pling with protests across more than 100 cities from homebuyers angry about delays in apartments
Sen. Pia Cayetano supported a review of the law for the livelihood that ukay-ukay production pro vides while giving ordinary folks a place to buy suitable attire. How ever, Cayetano, a staunch health advocate, also cited the environ mental concerns arising from the flooding in Africa of second-hand clothes from Western countries. I support the call for revisit ing, but we really need to have a full-blown hearing on this,” Cay etano said. Enacted in 1966, RA 4653 pro hibits the “commercial importa tion of textile articles commonly known as used clothing and rags.” It requires the burning of these items in the presence of represen tatives from the General Auditing Office, the Department of Finance, and the Office of the President. Despite the ban, ukay-ukay has grown the past decades, noted Tulfo, adding it made sense indeed to re visit the law, if only to maximize revenue benefits for the government while continuing to provide people jobs and clothing choices. “Kung hindi niyo na po talaga kayang pigilan, kausapin niyo po sig uro ’yung mga mambabatas para ba guhin ’yung batas natin, ’yung policy to make the ukay-ukay legal, na pwede na pong pumasok sa bansa at magbayad po ng tama na buwis [If you cannot stop the trade, I sug gest you ask Congress to amend the law, so they can make ukay-ukay le gal, allow its entry here and make the importers pay the right taxes],” Tulfo told BOC deputy commis sioner Edward James Dy Buco. With this, the government can raise more revenue instead of cracking down on online sellers, added Tulfo. However, Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas said the proposal of Tulfo to slap taxes on used clothes or ukay-ukay once legalized—is anti-poor. She noted that many Filipinos rely on such stores for cheap clothing. At the same time, Brosas said repealing Republic Act 4653, which bans the commercial importation of ukay-ukay, may further open up the Philippines to “unlimited” im ports and deny the local garments industry a chance to recover.
The newly approved application for registration of AOSPI will serve as a new services export provider for its Virtual Customer Services (VCS) project in its new business site at the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City.
According to the Philippine Ex port Development Plan (PEDP) for 2018 to 2022, the IT-BPM is a key export sector of the country. The project is seen to strengthen the realization of the PEDP 2018-2022 end-period target for exports of goods and services. The IT-BPM is among the sec tors that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has actively pro moted to spur the country’s exports. In 2021, the country’s IT-BPM industry recorded an estimated revenue of $29.5 billion, signify ing a 10.6-percent jump from 2020. Further, the number of full-time employees in the country soared by 120,000 in 2021, bringing the sector’s total headcount to 1.44 mil lion and recording a growth of 9.1 percent compared to 2020.
Editor: Vittorio V. Vitug A3 By Cai U. Ordinario THE National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) on Friday outlined at least a dozen domestic and ex ternal risks that could derail the country’s economic recovery. In his speech at the Manage ment Association of the Philip pines (MAP) forum on Friday, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said seven of these risks are domestic in nature while the rest are external risks posed by the global economy. Despite these risks, however, Balisacan said the President’s eco nomic team remains confident that the Philippine economy will recover and meet the government’s macro economic targets in the short- and medium-term.“Theeconomic managers re main optimistic. Despite these headwinds, we believe that the headline macroeconomic tar gets for the medium-term—out lined by the President during his State of the Nation Address— are attainable,” Balisacan said. “The overall goal from 2023 to 2028 is to reinvigorate job creation and poverty reduction by steer ing the economy back to its highgrowth path,” he added. The domestic risks highlighted by Balisacan include the spread of the African swine fever and other highly-infectious animal diseases; low production of agricultural commodities; inclement weather (typhoons, re-emergence of La Niña) and natural disasters and local value chain disruptions. He added that the list includes the government’s tighter fiscal space; limited absorptive capac ity of implementing agencies and local government units; and the emergence of new Covid-19 variants. The Neda chief said the “most pressing” concern is high infla tion, particularly for food and transportation. This, he said, was mainly caused by high commod ity prices brought by geopolitical and trace tensions. These issues, Balisacan said, are “exacerbated by disruptions in our food sector as highly-infectious animal diseases, low production levels in agricultural commodi ties, and inclement weather dis rupt the Meanwhile,sector.” Balisacan said these risks are elevated interna tional commodity and input prices and the weaker-than-expected global recovery, even slowdown/ recession in major economies. Balisacan also noted that global headwinds include monetary poli cy normalization; geopolitical and trade tensions; and global value chain disruptions that could af fect the Philippines.
“In 2021, the US ranked as the Philippines’s third largest trading partner, the top export market destination, and the fifth largest import supplier,” said Pascual. In terms of investments, the Trade chief bared that the US remains one of the Philippines’s top sources of investment. In fact, last year, it ranked fifth in total approved investments in the Philippines.
“True enough, the approval of this project shows that we are not faltering in our efforts to advance the IT-BPM industry in the country. This is just the start of more invest ments being injected into the coun try’s economy, specifically into the IT-BPM industry. We are making it happen in the Philippines,” Trade Undersecretary and BOI Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo said. The agency said the company sees the Philippines as the top priority for its new project and investments, pointing to the high technical skills and level of English proficiency of the Filipino work force. As for its potential contribu tion to the economy, the BOI said, “Based on the project’s multiplier values, it is projected to gener ate 1,058 jobs for Filipinos, with a P959.5-million contribution to the economy and P616.9 million to household income.” The project will adopt 100 per cent work-from-home operations for its contact center agents, said the BOI. Moreover, the VCS proj ect is set to expand AOSPI’s current operation in the remote workplace, not just as a response to the persist ing pandemic, which requires a hy brid workspace—combining both on-site and remote operations, but following the global work trends as well.
“Domestic and external head winds pose risks to our highgrowth trajectory. The economic team of the Marcos administra tion is aware of such risks and is committed to manage them ac cordingly,” Balisacan said. Earlier, Neda said the Philip pine economy needs two more decades of high economic growth before it can finally consider itself a high-income country and make poverty a thing of the past. Balisacan said rapid poverty re duction could only be achieved by sustaining a high level of economic growth.Henoted that the same outcome could also be facilitated by a reduc tion in inequality of opportunities and a relatively low level of inflation. In 2021, income inequality in the country as measured by the Gini coefficient was reduced to 0.4119 in 2021 from 0.4267 in 2018. By Andrea E. San Juan T HE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said it wishes to pursue a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, which it said would be a more binding mechanism to secure market access preferences.“Wenow wish to pursue a Free Trade Agreement with the US, which will be a more binding and permanent mechanism to lock in market access preferences and other binding commitments to expand trade and investment opportunities between our two countries,” said Trade Secretary Alfredo E. Pascual at the AmCham Philippines General Membership Meeting on Wednesday in Makati City. Apart from the free trade agreement, the Trade chief noted that the DTI is also working on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) with the US, which the Philippines is a member of, along with the US and 12 otherThecountries.Tradechief said, “A ministerial meeting on IPEF will be held in Los Angeles early next month.” Aside from the FTA and the IPEF, the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was also touched on by Pascual in his speech at the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines’s (AmCham) General Membership Meeting. The Trade chief underscored, “The Philippines has consistently been a top beneficiary of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and a significant source of imports for US manufacturers andTheconsumers.”GSPdeal is a unilateral preferential trade arrangement by the US to 122 beneficiary developing countries and least developed beneficiary countries, including the Philippines. It aims to promote economic growth, development and trade by providing duty-free market access to about 5,000 products into the US. While the program expired last December 31, 2020, Pascual said, “we are now awaiting the reauthorization of the GSP.” He added, “our countr y’s high utilization rates of the GSP demonstrate a growing awareness and demand for GSP-listed export goods from the Philippines.”
Prior to this project, AOSPI had three existing sites across the Phil ippines: two in Cebu City and one in Metro Manila. The BOI said the approved proj ect of AOSPI is expected to strength en the country’s IT-BPM industry. The project will commence commer cial operations in September 2022. “The VCS project will provide customer and vendor management services to support Amazon’s glob al retail business and sellers,” said BOI in a news statement issued on Friday. According to BOI, AOSPI pro vides various support services such as remote technical support services, IT development, custom er support, customer care servic es, business process outsourcing (BPO), and back-office support, which includes but is not limited to systems, hardware, software, and human resources relating to the back-office, among others.
M AKATI Mayor Abby Binay on Friday said the Department of Health (DOH) has issued a license to operate as a primary care facility to the city’s health center in Barangay Palanan. It is the first 24/7 health center in Metro Manila to be granted the license. The mayor said she was elated with the development, which means that the Palanan Health Center adheres to standards under the Universal Health Care Act. “Primary care facilities are essential, particularly in times of crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, because these centers provide the most inclusive, accessible, affordable, and efficient approach to enhancing people’s health,” Mayor Abby said in a news statement. She said the criteria for obtaining the license include patient rights and organizational ethics, patient care, leadership and management, human resource management, information management, safe practice and environment, performance, facilities, public access to information, and equipment and instruments. The mayor said the city is currently upgrading two health centers in Barangays Pitogo and Tejeros to obtain a license to operate as primary care facilities from the “PalananDOH. 24/7 will ser ve as the model for other barangay health centers in Makati to make health services more accessible to Makatizens. We are planning to upgrade other health centers soon so these can operate as primary care facilities,” she said. Established in 2014, Makati’s first 24hour health center located in Palanan is intended to serve Makatizens when other health centers are closed by 5pm. Palanan Health Center has a clinical laboratory and pharmacy. It also provides dental services, maternal and child care, immunization, nutrition counseling, communicable and non-communicable disease prevention and control, reproductive health and family planning, tuberculosis prevention and control, minor surgical procedures, and elderly care. At present, Makati has 27 health centers located in different barangays except for the six Undervillages.the Hospital Licensure Act, all hospitals and health-care facilities are required to register and secure a license to operate (LTO) from the DOH to ensure the delivery of safe and quality primary care services to Filipinos. The issuance of LTO to primary care facilities is further strengthened through the implementing rules and regulations of the Universal Health Care Act of 2019. The LTO is a prerequisite to the accreditation of a health facility by an accrediting body of theTheDOH.Universal Health Care Act states that all Filipinos will be automatically enrolled in PhilHealth and enjoy access to licensed primary health services.
Neda chief lists 12 domestic, global risks to PHL recovery BOI-approved ₧524-M Amazon project seen to boost IT-BPM PHL DETECTS 2 MORE NEW MONKEYPOX CASES–D.O.H. DTI: FTA with US secures market access preferences OPLE UPBEAT OVER JOBS IN RESURGENT CRUISE BIZ Makati’s 24/7 health center 1st in NCR to obtain DOH license–Mayor Abby
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By Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco T HE Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported that two more monkeypox cases have been detected in theDOHcountry.Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that second case is a 34-yearold Filipino national who had recent travel to countries with documented confirmed cases of monkeypox. The case was tested and confirmed positive for monkeypox via Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction or RT-PCR by the DOH Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on August 18, 2022. To date, no close contact has been identified. V ergeire said that the third case is a 29-year-old Filipino national who had recently traveled to a country with documented confirmed cases of monkeypox. The case was tested and confirmed positive for monkeypox via RT-PCR by the DOH RITM on August 19, 2022. To date, 17 close contacts of the third case have been identified. Their details are beingCaseverified.investigation and contact tracing is ongoing in both cases. Th e DOH official added that they are also being cared for and are under strict isolation. Vergeire noted that the two new cases are not related to each other, or to the first case. The first case has already recovered and been discharged from isolation as of August 6, 2022. “The Philippines is ready for monkeypox. Our surveillance systems are detecting cases. Our hospitals and health-care workers know and are implementing the latest protocols to care for cases and halt infection. Fast case investigation and contact tracing keeps the disease from spreading. Let us continue to be vigilant, to follow our health protocols, and to get the right information only from DOH and its partner agencies,” said Vergeire. The DOH said monkeypox spreads mostly by skin-to-skin contact with those who have rashes or open lesions. It is not like Covid-19 that spreads mostly through the air. Investigation of recent monkeypox cases in non-endemic countries indicates potential transmission through sexual contact. Monkeypox symptoms are mild, and the disease is rarely fatal. The DOH said that everyone could help prevent the spread of monkeypox. “Avoid close skin-to-skin contact with suspected cases, especially those with rashes or open wounds. Keep hands clean. Wear a facemask. Cover coughs using the elbow, and choose areas with good airflow. The DOH wishes to emphasize that anyone may get monkeypox. If you have a travel history to countries with monkeypox, and then have symptoms like fever, lymphadenopathy or “kulani,” and rashes, seek immediate medical attention. This will help hasten recovery,” the DOH said.
By Andrea E. San Juan T HE Board of Investments (BOI) has approved the P524.33-million project of Amazon Operation Services Philippines, Inc. (AOSPI), which is seen to bolster the information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry in the country.
T HE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is upbeat over job prospects offered by the resurgent cruise line industry for Filipino seafarers and cruise line personnel, Secretary Susan Ople said on Friday.“Weare talking of employment for thousands of seafarers. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the industry sees sustained growth in demand for our maritime workers given the uncertainty in the Ukraine,” Ople said. Ukraine is the sixth largest source of seafarers, but the ongoing conflict has forced shipping companies to look elsewhere, she explained.Atpresent, one out of five international seafarers is a Filipino. Ople said the local manning industry has assured her that they can meet the demand for Filipino seafarers. In a recent meeting, representatives of Magsaysay Maritime Corporation told Ople of plans to hire some 5,000 seafarers for various cruise ship staffing requirements in the next three months. “The cruise line industry offers highly competitive salaries and benefits, and I share the view of the manning industry that Filipino seafarers possess the skills, training, and attitude needed by the industry,” Ople said. She stressed the important role that local manning agencies play in securing stable jobs and employment for the country’s seafarers and maritime workers, and noted the strong partnership and engagement as well between the DMW and the shipping industry’s Joint Manning Group, or JMG. However, Ople reiterated her reminder for jobseekers to deal only with licensed agencies.Thecruise line industry has recorded a resurgence in operations following a painful two-year disruption caused by the Covid-19 global pandemic. In mid-2022, cruise ships resumed regular operations last year, with about 74 percent of cruise lines and 90 percent of their total fleets now back in operations. Industry estimates project a 58-percent increase in new passenger volume as cruise travel normalizes. Cruise lines are launching inaugural voyages of their newest ships to capture that market.
The GSP, the Trade chief noted, ushers in tangible benefits such as job creation and skills development for the workers in the ThePhilippines.United States, Pascual said, has been an important partner and ally of the Philippines for many years. “It has consistently been among the top trading partners of the Philippines, even against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
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Aldaba said creating a necessary EV pol icy environment would pave the way for the deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure to lead cities in the country. She listed these lead cities as Baguio, Davao, General Santos, Clark and Subic. “The mayors of these different cities have already signified their commitment to be our partners in implementing this particular project,” said Aldaba. During the event, the Trade undersec retary also disclosed that the technical as sistance from the e-mobility project will take effect from 2022 to 2027. The project will include e-trikes, ejeepneys, e-buses and other electric ve hicles depending on the transportation plan for each area. She stressed the importance of the Electric Vehicle Industry Development Act (EVIDA), adding that the Trade de partment aims to build or implement another program similar to the Compre hensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) program, which is the Electric Vehicle Incentive Strategy (EVIS).
The incentive strategy for electric ve hicles aims to narrow the cost gap between EVs and traditional motor vehicles and enable the shift of the local traditional motor vehicle industry to EVs. Aldaba’s presentation at the event indicated that the EVIS also aims to provide time-bound, targeted, perfor mance-based, and transparent fiscal and non-fiscal support. Another objective of the incentive strategy for electric vehicles is to set local production targets to be achieved within eight years from the promulgation of the EV incentive strategy. The CARS program, a government stimulus program aimed at raising lo cal vehicle manufacturing to expand the country’s auto parts making ca pabilities, is also time-bound and performance-based. InJune,DTIsaidit is targeting to im plement the incentives strategy for elec tric vehicles by early next year. According to Aldaba, DTI initially aimed to provide a total of P83-billion fiscal support for EVs. However, the Trade undersecretary told the BusinessMirror two months ago that the agency is “recalibrating” the fig ure because DTI is reviewing assumptions that it used in estimating demand for EV. This, especially given the pandemic and changes in consumer behavior and other developments along with the assumptions used in estimating fiscal support. Aldaba earlier said there are currently income-based incentives like income tax holiday and duty or tax-free importation of capital equipment and raw materials and other fiscal incentives available to EV and EV parts manufacturing and charg ing facilities through the Corporate Re covery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) law.
DTI, Unido to mount $3.8-M project to aid EV deployment in key cities
The bill proposes that the council shall be composed of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary as Chairper son; a co-chairperson to be chosen from the private sector members, to be rotated among the private sector members of the NFSC every three years, among others. Among its mandates is to provide advice to the trade department on rel evant trends and updates on innovative work force development and JobsNext program.Moreover, the bill contains a section on the creation of a Future Skills Bureau, which also tapped DTI as the lead im plementing agency of the program. Sec tion 7 of HB 00945 reads: “The Bureau shall prioritize and focus on the needs of emerging and future work force skills across industry sectors.” According to Section 3 of HB 00945, the objective of the proposed law is to institutionalize a coherent, integrat ed, and holistic system of technical skills and competency-based develop ment that will harness and strengthen innovation and competitiveness of at least 10 percent of the total Philip pine work force every five years and promote inclusive opportunities and sustainable growth, amidst effects of technological innovations and other externalSpecifically,disruptions. oneofthe objectives of the bill is to equip the Philippine work force with technical skills and com petencies that will be relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
PBEd pushes okay of JobsNext bill to hone tech competence of workers
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By Andrea E. San Juan THE Department of Trade and In dustry (DTI), in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido), will launch a $3.8-million e-mobility proj ect, which they said would enable the Philippines to deploy electric vehicles (EVs) to lead cities. At the 1st SGV Tax Symposium on Friday, DTI Undersecretary for Competi tiveness and Innovation Group Rafaelita M. Aldaba said the $3.8-million project “would provide technical assistance to both national and local government units in order for us to create the necessary EV policy environment and ecosystem.”
T HE enactment of the JobsNext bill will not just benefit at least 4.5 million Filipinos but will also equip the economy with a compe tent and resilient workforce, the Phil ippine Business for Education (PBEd), an industry-led advocacy group, said. The JobsNext bill or House Bill (HB) 00945 was filed by Quezon City 5th Dis trict Rep. Patrick Michael “PM” Vargas. It seeks to encourage and incentivize up skilling and reskilling the work force by creating a skills voucher program that will help the Filipinos adapt to automa tion and digitization.
Based on International Labour Or ganization (2020) estimates, approxi mately 7.2 million wage workers could be displaced by 2025 due to automation and“WeCovid-19. thankCongressman PM Vargas for pushing this bill. With this legisla tion, the youth will be equipped with much-needed skills to prosper amidst the continuous digitization and auto mation of industries,” said PBEd Acting Executive Director Justine B. Raagas. “We hope that the Senate will also file a similar bill and both Houses will prioritize hearing this much-needed piece of legislation,” added Raagas. PBEd is also working with select lo cal government units (LGUs) to pilot the JobsNext program. The advocacy group said together with development partners and LGUs, they will train at least 1,000 young individuals for future skills needed in areas such as data and artificial intelligence, engi neering, cloud computing, and content production. Theindustry-led advocacy group under scored that there must be access to life-long learning opportunities so that competen cies are continuously upgraded and updated, as outlined in AmBisyon Natin 2040. PBEd said it sees this policy not only to address current problems, but also to future-proof the workforce and thrive in the changing economic landscape. “With the current administra tion’s focus on upskilling the labor force, especially in growth indus tries, PBEd, with the support of the private sector, underscores the value of lifelong learning for workforce development,” said Raagas. Under the JobsNext bill, there is a section that discusses the establishment of the National Future Skills Council (NFSC), which shall generate and scale up action in all levels and areas of edu cation, training, research and develop ment towards prompting innovation in workforce employability.
NAVAJO Code Talker Thomas Begay speaks at the Arizona State Navajo Code Talkers Day celebration on August 14, 2022, in Phoenix. AP/ROSS D. FRANKLIN Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan PNA
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PHOENIX—It’s been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten na tive language to confound Japanese military cryptologists during World War II—and Thomas H. Begay, one of the last living members of the group, still remembers the struggle. “ It was the hardest thing to learn,” the 98-year-old Begay said Sunday at a Phoenix ceremony marking the anniversary. “But we were able to develop a code that couldn’t be broken by the enemy of the United States of America.”
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T HE documentary I watched recently features the story of a decent-looking Japanese young man in his mid 20s who accom panies a comely office girl for a few hours as she goes window shopping, eats in a restaurant and just sits in a park. Then at the end, he gets paid around 10,000 yen for the service. I thought she was crazy to let a com plete stranger chaperone her; it’s not only risky but also “cheapens” her since it’s a paid service. A pparently in Japan, the renta-companion service is a socially accepted phenomenon. In the said documentary, all the young man is asked to do is to show up at the appointed time, be present and listen to the woman renter talk for an agreed number of hours. He describes his activity as “a do nothing job” but it’s a decent way to make a living. He is very pro fessional about it and manages to have 3 sessions a day. T he guy is an independent service provider but there are companies that offer rent-a-companion service. Since most of the customers are men, they offer only women companions. The services do not include sexual services (that’s what they claim). F rom the looks of it, life in a city like Tokyo can be difficult without female friends. Being at the factory or office all day long sometimes up to 8 p.m. leaves no time for the typical Japanese male to cultivate relationships with the opposite sex. This makes it even worse for those who don’t have a naturally sociable disposition. They end up needing to tell someone willing to listen sympathetically about their personal troubles without being judgmental.Myonline research led me to dis cover that individuals and companies offering “Rent-a-Companion” services have grown in number not only in Ja pan but also worldwide. Would you believe there’s one website that boasts of over 500,000 friends for rent in dif ferent countries? I understand that many people Rent a companion, anyone?
MY SIXTY-ZEN’S WORTH By Nick Tayag suffer from loneliness, and some where sometime, we all need some one to be with. I have seen videos of individuals giving free hugs to strangers in the street to end lone liness. There’s even a Free Hugs Campaign involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The hugs are meant to be random acts of kindness just to make others feel better. But to learn that there are in dividuals out there who are so desperately lonely that they’re willing to pay for what essentially is a “simulated romance” or sexless platonic companionship, it’s mind opening. W hat is even more surprising is that this renting of human con tact or physical presence seems to benefit some lonely people. O ne Japanese male said that initially he didn’t like the idea of paying someone to be a com panion, but he soon realized how valuable a change of scene and good conversation has been to his mental health. Even his workmates have noticed that he’s not as irritable as he used to be. In the short documentary I watched, the woman renter says of her companion: “He improves the quality of my time.” Think about it: no petty arguments, no bickering, arguing, just some one who listens quietly, occa sionally nodding, which serves as a gesture of sympathy and understanding.Maybeso.The key word is “seems.” Seriously, deep inside, does the rent-a-companion ser vice satisfy the hunger for human interaction? To me it is more like a palliative to the pain and agony experienced by lonely people. I think the happy feeling does not last. In fact, one of the frequent users of the service spends as much as 30,000 yen or more a month. That shows the signs of an Paddiction.erhapsthe individuals or companies offering the ser vice should consider making their service more helpful or “therapeutic” by sending out companions who have an in nate disposition and attitude to listen with empathy, compas sion and understanding. They should also have had training in counseling, stress manage ment or psychotherapy. C an this companion-for-rent service thrive in the Philip pines? I highly doubt it. Loneli ness doesn’t seem to be a major problem in our part of the world. We have too wide a network of support of “pakialameros” and “entremeditas” from our im mediate family circle who won’t leave us alone. B ut who knows? Even in our families there’s probably a real hunger for human interaction. However, my quibble with our so-called support network or circle is the quality of their pres ence as companions. Our par ents, siblings and friends have a penchant for talking inces santly and giving us unsolicited advice when we are undergoing a personal crisis. Do they know what’s really troubling us deep in our heart? Are they truly lis tening? Perhaps it’s better if we talked less and instead just qui etly hugged each other more.
MANILA—Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan said at least 86.7 percent of the elderlies in the city are now considered fully inoculated after receiving two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. During the Pinaslakas vaccina tion event held at the SM Manila on Wednesday, Lacuna-Pangan reiter ated her stand that vaccination is the solution to the Covid-19 pandemic. “ We ourselves conduct home vac cination for our senior citizens, espe cially the bedridden. Here in our city, 86.7 percent of senior citizens have already received the full dose, while more than 50 percent of the total tar get population has received the first booster,” Lacuna-Pangan said. She also assured Manilenos that the city remains committed to work ing with the national government to vaccinate as many citizens against the dreaded Covid-19. K R de Asis of the Manila Public Information Office said 86.7 per cent accounts for a total of 138,332 elderlies in the city, out of the target number of around 160,000 who have completed their second dose of the Covid-19 jabs. Data from the Manila Health Department shows that as of 5 p.m. on Aug. 16, the city government has already administered a total of 3,505,030 Covid-19 vaccine doses. O f the number, at least 1,818,763 received their first dose while 1,732,237 got their full dose, which includes the singledose Janssen vaccine. T he city has also adminis tered 627,857 doses of the first booster shot and 66,864 second booster doses. Meanwhile, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Wednes day said he is considering extending the validity of the state of public health emergency amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In a media interview dur ing the “PinasLakas” vaccine cam paign at SM City Manila, the Presi dent said he is already discussing with Department of Health (DOH) Officer in Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire the possible extension of the state of public health emergency "until the end of the year.” Marcos said there was also a plan to amend the law on government procurement “in the middle of an emergency.” He was referring to Republic Act (RA) 11525 or the act expediting the vaccine procurement and administration process. Vergeire on Tuesday said the DOH is recommending amending the pro visions of RA 11525, in case the state of calamity declaration due to the Covid-19 pandemic is not extended. Vergeire said that apart from the national Covid-19 vaccination drive, there are other protocols linked with the declaration of state of calamity, including the emergency use author ity for coronavirus jabs, emergency procurement of vaccines, tax exemp tions for vaccine manufacturers and donors, price caps on medicines used for Covid-19 treatment, and addition al benefits of healthcare workers. PNA
Hundreds of Navajos were re cruited by the US Marines to serve as Code Talkers during the war. Be gay is one of three who is still alive to talk about it. T he Code Talkers participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 includ ing Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima. T hey sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications crucial to the war’s ultimate outcome. P resident Ronald Reagan estab lished Navajo Code Talkers Day in 1982 and the Aug. 14 holiday hon ors all the tribes associated with the war effort. It’s also an Arizona state holiday and Navajo Nation holiday on the vast reservation that occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and southeastern Utah. Begay and his family came from Al buquerque, New Mexico, to Phoenix for Sunday’s event at the Wesley Bo lin Plaza where a Navajo Code Talker statue is displayed. AP
I t has been applauded across the globe and has now become a space for real and unedited sto ries to come to life. Each Human Library collects and curates hu man “books” from all segments of society. From rape victims to people from the LGBTQ com munity, from journalists to those with disabilities. One of the most successful libraries is in Mumbai, India and goes by the witty tagline “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This type of human interaction leads to deeper self-reflection, which helps us question and adjust our deeply held beliefs, biases and prejudices. A t the end of the day, it takes you and I to dispel other people’s loneliness. Let’s reach out, starting with our family and friends. Why can’t each of us be a “presence on call”? Why not make ourselves available for free to others if not physically then spiritually in a refreshingly deep way? I have two long-time friends who call me occasionally to meet up for coffee. After some snacks, the three of us ran domly go to a bookstore or an art gallery or even attend a book launch or showing of a free movie. We don’t talk much except to share our comments about a book find or a piece of painting. But in a laconic way. At the end the day, we part, reenergized to resume our respec tive daily tasks: I to my writing, the second one to his painting and the third to his photogra phy and book designing. We did not do anything spectacular or astoundingly memorable. B ut just like what that Japanese woman said: “He improves the quality of my time.” In the words of Henry David Thoreau: “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
T he Human Library is a nonprofit international organiza tion based in Denmark, which is designed to encourage con versation between people with interesting stories and borrow ers who are allowed to “read” them in sessions lasting up to 30 minutes each. One “borrower” who attends the sessions says: “With a human book, you get to hear incredibly real and in teresting stories straight from the horse’s mouth and even in teract with your “books”, which isn’t something you can do at a regular library.”
By Severino Samonte MANILA—Do you know that former President Fidel V. Ramos (1992-1998), who passed away on July 31 at age 94, was the second Filipino chief ex ecutive to die at an age nearing the century mark? T he first was Gen Emilio F. Agui naldo (1898-1901), first president of the Philippine Republic, who died on Feb. 6, 1964 at 95. He was born on March 22, 1869. B oth Aguinaldo and Ramos were holders of the military rank of general.Aguinaldo was a general in the Philippine Revolutionary Army while also serving as president until he was captured by pursuing Ameri can forces in Palanan, Isabela on March 23, 1901. On the other hand, Gen. Ra mos was former chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and also served as secretary of National Defense during the administration of the late former President Corazon C. Aquino (1986-1992). He was also the last chief of the Philippine Con stabulary, precursor of the present Philippine National Police (PNP). Incidentally, the death of Ramos occurred on the eve of the obser vance on Aug. 1 of the death anni versary of two other former Philip pine presidentsManuel L. Quezon (1935-1944) and Corazon C. Aquino. Quezon, the second president of the Philippines, died on Aug. 1, 1944, while the Philippine Com monwealth government was in exile in the United States. Aquino, on the other hand, died on Aug. 1, 2009, less than a year before her only son, Benigno S. Aquino III, was to be elected as the 15th president of the Republic in the May 2010 polls. The young Aquino (20102016) died on June 24, 2021 at age 61, barely five years after leaving the presidency. Of the country’s 13 deceased presi dents as of July this year, three died while in office. They were Presidents Manuel A. Roxas (1946-1948); Ramon (2016-2022).(2001-2010);2001);ly:livingFerdinandosdado1953);(1944-1946);(1943-1945);presidentsmountainwhowhileBasevisitF.Magsaysay(1953-1957);andQuezon.RoxasdiedwhileonanofficialtotheformerClarkAirForceinPampangaonApril15,1948,MagsaysaywasamongthoseperishedinaplanecrashonainCebuonMarch17,1957.TheotherdeadformerFilipinowere:JoseP.LaurelSr.SergioS.OsmenaSr.ElpidioR.Quirino(1948-CarlosP.Garcia(1957-1961);DiP.Macapagal(1961-1965);andE.MarcosSr.(1965-1986).Atpresent,thecountryhasthreeformerchiefexecutives,nameJosephE.Estrada(1998-Jan.20,GloriaMacapagal-ArroyoandRodrigoR.Duterte
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T here’s a variant of this renta-companion that I think has a deeper and lasting benefit be cause it involves listening. It is called The Human Library, in which you don’t borrow a book, you borrow a human.
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EU, Japan send off Filipino scholars
Véron congratulated the Erasmus+ scholars, as he urged them to become envoys themselves of good will and agents of change who will help strengthen the partnership between the EU and the Philippines. He also encour aged the students to give back to their country after they finish the program in theDuringunion.the first face-to-face prede parture orientation since the pandemic, Véron said that the Philippines has re peatedly ranked as one of the countries with the highest number of Erasmus+ scholars in the region and in the world. He proudly said that this year the Philip pines ranked eighth among the countries producing the most number of Erasmus scholars worldwide. This year’s send-off rites were orga nized by the EU Delegation and Campus Erasmus, which is composed of Erasmus+ scholars in the country. The Erasmus+ Programme provides life-changing pathways for Filipino stu dents to experience Europe’s academic excellence and culture, learn European languages, and be integrated into Euro pean society for one to two years. Among leading international academic-mobility programs in the world, it promotes the re gion as a center of excellence in learning, making student mobility a reality for EU and non-EU citizens.
SoKor, UST combine forces to further K-culture, language for the participants in his residence—the first since 2019. The envoy congratulated them, and shared his hopes for the pro gram’sKoshikawagrowth.stated in this speech: “Pro moting internationalization and mutual trust, participants become cultural am bassadors that bridge Japan to their home nations. Filipino JETs do so well in this aspect, consistently paving avenues for stronger linkages between [my country] and the EarlierPhilippines.”thatdaythe participants visited the Manila Japanese School (MJS) in Taguig City, where they had the opportunity to ob serve English classes and meet with Filipino English teachers. Both sides had a fruitful exchange of views on teaching techniques and Japanese classroom practices. In addition, the Japan Information and Culture Center, in cooperation with the JET Alumni Association of the Philippines held a virtual predeparture briefing on July 30. Aimed at preparing the incoming JETs for life in Japan, the participants received es sential resource materials, as they learned more about Japanese society and culture in relation to their roles as ALTs and CIR. The JET Programme, according to the Japanese Embassy, was launched by its gov ernment in 1987 with hopes of deepening mutual understanding between its people and those of other countries through for eign-language exchange and cultural im mersion. Between its inception and 2019, around 5,761 participants from 57 countries had already been admitted into the program. In the next few years JET foresees bring ing in even more participants from across the globe, including the Philippines, to Japan. To learn more about the JET Pro gramme, visit http://www.jetprogramme.org/.
T HE Embassy of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) recently announced the opening of the King Sejong Institute’s (KSI) new branch at the University of Santo Tomas-Angelicum College (USTAC) in Quezon City this month. KSI is an educational institution supported by the Korean government providing foreign students with Korean language courses. It fos ters and supports Korean language and culture education through academic and nonacademic courses and programs. Currently it has a total of six branches in the cities of Cainta, Cebu, Balanga, San Juan, Iloilo and Taguig. The embassy notes that the newly established institute in the USTAC will enhance the acces sibility of Korean language education, as it will continue to aid learning focused on the Korean language and culture. It also hopes “the educa tion would [help motivate people] to expand their perspectives and explore Korea.” Likewise, USTAC takes its senior high school’s (SHS) “Lingua,” its foreign-language program, up a notch with the support of the college’s new partner from South Korea: Seoul National Uni versity of Science and Technology (SeoulTech). Representatives from KSI recently visited USTAC to assist in the Lingua offering to SHS learners. Their evaluation of the said program and the college’s facilities will be the basis for the support that will be given by the South Ko rean government through the establishment of a partnership with SeoulTech. The partnership will not only disseminate Korean language and culture to USTAC learners; it can also interactively supply Korean classes and language certification to students, work ers, government personnel, and immigrants in Metro Manila. Details on the enrollment process will be announced soon.
B ANDAR SERI BEGAWAN—Far Eastern University (FEU) in July entered into its first private-nursing school ven ture in Brunei Darussalam by way of a signing agreement with Jerudong Park Medical Cen tre and Darussalam Assets on the establish ment of the JPMC College of Health Sciences (JPMC-CHS)—the first health-care learning institution of its kind in the Asean country. FEU’s President Dr. Michael M. Alba and Chief Finance Officer Juan Miguel R. Montinola, Minis ter of Health Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr. Haji Md Isham Bin Haji Jaafar, as well as Minister of Finance and Economy II Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr. Awang Haji Mohd. Amin Liew Bin Abdullah, inked the joint-venture agreement. Brunei Darussalam’s minister of health is JPMC’s chairman of the board of directors, while Darussalam Assets is a private limited company under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Economy. Yang Berhormat Pehin Datu Lailaraja Major General (Ret.) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Awang Halbi bin Haji Mohd. Yussof, who is from the prime minister’s office and the event’s guest of honor, as well as the Philippines’s ambassador to Brunei Darussalam Marian Jocelyn R. TirolIgnacio, witnessed the signing. The ambassador was accompanied by Min ister and Consul General Pete Raymond V. Del fin and Labor Attaché Joan Lourdes D. Lavilla. Other members of FEU’s delegation included Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Maria Teresa Trinidad P. Tinio and Chief Ac countant Pamela Hernandez. JPMC-CHS will offer basic nursing programs beginning October 2022 as part of its founda tion program, with the intent of expanding into other fields of health sciences. The cam pus will be along Jalan Ong Sum Ping in Ban dar Seri Begawan, and is expected to be fully operational by January 2023. FEU will support JPMC-CHS’s manpower needs, and will deploy instructors and lectur ers per semester to Brunei Darussalam based on the courses’ schedules.
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In the coming weeks 75 Filipino stu dents will chase their scholastic dreams in EU member-countries after gaining scholarships from the Erasmus+ Pro gramme, which will allow them to pur sue Master’s and Ph.D courses in the bloc’sAmbassadoruniversities.Luc
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THE 2022 JET Programme Participants with Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa and Madame Yuko Koshikawa (seated, third and fourth from left) JAPANESE EMBASSYERASMUS scholars Batch 2022 with Ambassador Luc Véron (back row, center) EU DELEGATION
I F there’s a career that has remained en during through the years, it’s engineering. Engineers are relied upon by indus tries to develop innovations, systems, and products, so they’re always in demand—es pecially with the march of the Fourth Indus trialTheRevolution.collaborative research of the Depart ment of Science and Technology and the Philippine Institute for Development Stud ies even forecasts that the country will need 1.8 million engineers by 2025. Dr. Francis Aldrine A. Uy, Mapúa Univer sity’s dean of the School of Civil, Environ mental and Geological Engineering, said that engineers are in demand because they create innovations crucial for industries to survive. “Due to continuing development and change, the engineers’ work will never end, as it is part of humans’ journey to the fu ture,” Dr. Uy stated. Its longevity as well as financial and pro fessional rewards have made engineering a popular college degree. The question is, which engineering field should one choose? President and CEO Dr. Reynaldo B. Vea of Mapúa, an engineer himself, emphasized that students should pick an engineering track aligned with their interests and pursuits. This strategy ensures their thirst for knowl edge and endurance will help them surmount hurdles during their studies and career. “If one is interested, he is motivated. He will feel satisfied, fulfilled, and perhaps even happy as he takes the courses in engineer ing, which are considered very challenging,” explained Dr. Vea. Of course, the first step toward arriving at a decision would be to acquaint oneself with its different branches. Most popular are Mechanical Engineering, Electrical En gineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial En gineering, and Chemical Engineering. Other fields are offshoots or subbranches of core specializations, or blends of engineering and non-engineering fields, such as Biological Engineering. Course offerings ONE that has a very wide scope is Mechani cal Engineering, which focuses on all stages of product development: from research and design, to manufacturing and testing. Most mechanical engineers work in just about any industry worldwide: energy and power, heat ing, ventilation, air conditioning, automo tive, manufacturing, construction, robotics, nanotechnology, and biomechanics. Students who take up this course learn about statics and dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid dy namics, stress analysis, technical drawing, and mechanical design. Civil Engineering, meanwhile, involves designing and creating infrastructures like buildings, bridges, roads and public-trans port systems, commercial structures, and other projects. Aspirants should have a knack for designing and building things, and be interested in mechanics, materials science, hydraulics, and geotechnics. Budding engineers keen with electricity, circuitry, and power generation have a plus in Electrical Engineering. It oversees the production, delivery, and energy sustain ability. Electronics engineers also play a key role in industries, as their exciting na ture of work involves the whole pipeline of developing integrated circuits and systems, telecommunication technologies, and other communication and network systems. Computer Engineering is also a promis ing degree to pursue for the career oppor tunities it offers. Computer engineers de vise and maintain system hardware such as computer components, create applications for software programs, and all other relat ed technical and creative attributes using machine-level and high-level modern com puter systems, equipment, and languages. Those inclined on systems and process efficiencies will likely thrive in Industrial Engineering. It deals with production ef ficiency and systems optimization of en terprises, production floors, financial pro cesses, and Would-bemanagement.engineerswith analytical mind sets and a bent toward chemistry and life sciences should consider enrolling in Chemi cal Engineering. Its practitioners use physi cal, chemical, and biological basics; physics; mathematics and economics to develop and optimize processes for the production of fu els, petrochemicals, chemicals , food, phar maceuticals, and other commodities needed in everyday life. Attitude and motivation ON top of matching their interests and strengths to various engineering fields, in coming students should talk to people in the industry to gain insights if the degree and career they are eyeing are meant for them. Dr. Uy asserted that: “Academic records are a good basis, but they are not everything. I assess students more based on their attitude and motivation. I believe everyone has the capacity to learn, but not at the same time and in the same way.” He furthered: “As long as a person be lieves in himself [or herself], and has great motivation, he [or she] can become an en gineer. Engineering practice is determined more by a person’s attitude, as much as… academic records.” Mapúa is first in Southeast Asia to receive accreditation for its engineering programs from the United States-based Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology Inc. (ABET). Its accreditation provides assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards of the profession for which that program prepares graduates (www.abet.org ). To date, ABET’s Engineering Accredita tion Commission recognize 11 of Mapúa’s engineering courses: Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineer ing, Electronics Engineering, Environmen tal and Sanitary Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Me chanical Engineering.
THE Delegation of Europeanthe Union (EU) and the government of Japan are giving Filipino scholars the rare opportunity to fulfill their academic aspirations abroad.
47 join ‘JET’ MEANWHILE, the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme welcomed a total of 47 Filipinos who will partici pate in its annual programme for 2022. Forty-six assistant language teachers (ALTs) and a coordinator for international relations (CIR) were scheduled to fly to Japan on August 14. Prior to their flight, the participants engaged in a series of activities aimed at preparing them for duties in the Asian country. According to the Japanese embassy, the number of JET participants has been increasing since it started in 2014, and has accepted 250 in total. On July 15 Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa hosted a send-off reception
THE Philippines will need some 1.8 million engineers by 2025.
t he airline, formerly known as h a nsung Airlines, was record ed to have carried almost 2.9 million domestic passengers and 4.2 million international pas sengers in 2018. Royal Air Philippines was es tablished in 2002 and has since then broadened its domestic and international operations. Its first round trip commercial flight was from Clark to Caticlan and back. t h e airline covers domestic and international routes like Cambodia, ho ng Kong, and the Philippines.
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While mosques and temples are still to be encountered in this tiny state, the abundance of Por tuguese influences—from food, architecture, religion, to even names!—clearly sets it apart from the rest of the country. t h ere sim ply is no denying that Goa has a charm that is uniquely hers. I was in Goa for the first time back in 2015 as part of my first month-long trip around India. I stayed in o l d Goa for two days with the sole intention of visit ing its celebrated European-style churches. Four years later, I saw myself needing to return there again to pick up some things I nev er got to do previously: to spend six days by the beach and two days in the Fontainhas old quarter of the capital Panaji. Part of the lure was also being able to sample more extensively the traditional Goan cuisine, which apparently includes some of the spiciest dishes I have tried in the Churchescountry.andConvents of Goa. It is now difficult to imagine how o l d Goa in the 16th century was once a metropolis with a popu lation much larger than that of London and Paris. to day, hardly anything else stands from that prosperous era aside from its im pressive churches, seven of which are inscribed as u N ESC o World h e ritage Sites. Four of them sit at the center of the town: Se Ca thedral, Basilica de Bom Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi Church, and St. Catherine Chapel. t h e more than 400-year-old Basilica de Bom Jesus is the most important as it houses the remains of St. Fran cis Xavier who was influential in evangelizing India, East, and Southeast Asia. t h e saint’s mag nificent mausoleum was sculpted by Florentine master Giovanni Foggini in 1698, while the silver casket was a gift of Cosimo III de’ Medici. t h e interiors of the Se Cathedral and castle-looking St. Francis Church are both stun ning, containing artwork that in my opinion is superior to the Basilica’s.St.Cajetan Church, patterned after St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, sees lesser tourists and is, there fore, able to provide a better spiri tual experience. t h e fortresslooking o u r Lady of the Rosary Chapel stands on top of the hill where Alphonso de Albuquerque commanded his army in captur ing the city from its Muslim rul ers in 1510. t h e conquest took place earlier than Cortez’s with the Aztecs and Pizarro’s with the Incas on the other side of the globe. Not far away is the ruins of St. Augustine Church, believed to have been the largest church built in Asia. t h ese churches are endur ing testaments to the early Chris tianization of India and the rest of the region, as well as favorite shooting locations for countless BollywoodExcellentmovies.Beaches. A decent beach close to the airport is Bog malo beach, preferred for its clear and calm waters. Panaji’s Miramar beach, on the other hand, offers a good vista for sunset watching for those staying in the city and it just cannot be missed. While there are hundreds of beaches to choose from along Goa’s 100-km coast, Agonda beach became my base for five days and there is simply nothing to complain about. Ag onda is not only beautiful but also quite—perfect for the laid-back lifestyle. t h ose who settle there are those who want to relax, away from the hectic and crowded scen ery on the more popular beaches. Most facilities are locally-owned too, which even more adds to its welcoming vibe. t h ere are rock formations nearby where one can explore, and there is no shortage of res taurants offering old-style Goan cuisine. Dishes not to miss out on include pork vindhalo, chicken cafreal, feijoada (beans), seafood xacuti, and bebinca—a delectable dessert that shares similarities to the Filipino bibingka. o t herwise, there are also a lot of restaurants offering Western and other re gional food. o l d Quarter of Fontainhas. o l d Goa may have the best collection of Portuguese-built churches, but Fontainhas prides itself in its large ensemble of well-pre served colonial houses and cot tages painted in various pastel colors. Founded in the late 18th century when Panaji succeeded o l d Goa in becoming the capital of the Portuguese government, Fontainhas today is a pleasant visual reminder of Goa’s past splendor. In fact, it is regarded as India’s only Latin Quarter. Lined along its streets, there are shops that have continued to exist for over 100 years already. Another thing that has persisted is the tra dition laid out by the colonizers; the houses should be repainted every year after the monsoon seasons—a practice definitely worth emulating! t he re are various art galleries in town that exhibit contemporary works done by local and interna tional artists. Street art has also started coming up in recent years further adding to the attractive ness of the place. Fontainhas does not run out of fancy cafes, restau rants, and boutique hotels such as the h o spederia Abrigo de Botelho where my friend and I stayed, so it is a very convenient base in Panaji. o l d Goa can also be visited on a day trip from there. o n e cannot fall out of love with Goa easily. It simply has the best of both worlds: old and new, East and West, culture and nature. AgondA beach has impressive boulders and nice spots for sunsets, too.The historic chapel in Fontainhas, the old Latin Quarter of Panaji.
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South Korea will be more ac cessible as additional flights from Clark International Airport (CRK) resume for t way Air and Royal Air Philippines. Starting July 28, Royal Air will resume its RW 307 and RW 308 flights to Busan. t h e flights are on t hursdays and Sundays. Although commercial opera tions for Royal Air were sus pended during the pandemic in 2020, the airline played a major role in the repatriation of Filipi nos. t h ey flew in Filipinos from Wuhan, China back to the Phil ippines, being among the first to commence repatriation flights. Royal Air also continued car go operations from CRK amidst theopandemic.nJuly29, t way Air will be gin flights from Incheon to CRK via t W 147 and t W 148 every Monday, tu esday, Friday, and Saturday.tway’s daily flights commence on August 4. Based in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, t ’way Air is known for its low-cost travel offerings, fly ing to various destinations such as Bangkok, Guam, Singapore, among others.
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Story & photos by Bernard Joseph Esposo Guerrero GoinG to Goa has the capacity to somehow pull you out momentarily off india. indeed, its beaches are legendary, and a trip there is never complete without staying at one of those little packets of paradise for a couple of days.
■ “FIREFLIES” BY ADAM YOUNG AND OWL CITY. This is a 2009 song that’s been popularized again on TikTok. The song is often used for videos with a certain aesthetic on the platform. ■ “RUNNING UP THAT HILL” BY KATE BUSH. This 1985 song has had a resurgence, thanks to the Netflix hit show Stranger Things. Of course, this popularity got to TikTok. In 2021, Bush’s other song “Babooshka” was also a hit on the platform. ■ Editor: Gerard S. Ramos
WHILE it seems like the world pressed pause while the pandemic was going on, LG, the South Korean technology conglomerate, went hard at work to address the needs of the future. Covid fundamentally changed how business is done, from hybrid work setups to teleconferencing. An immediate need presented itself and LG rose to the challenge. In LG Reconnect, the fruits of LG’s labor was finally unveiled to the public. The tech event was held recently in The Podium Hall in Mandaluyong and was hosted by LG brand ambassador Andrei Felix. The function featured a vast selection of LG Commercial Displays, all ready to face the needs of the future today. Ed Kasunuran, head of business solutions, started off with a short introduction on how the event came to be. “The whole industry went into upheaval because of the pandemic, so it’s crucial to address consumer needs. LG, as expected, went over and beyond to deliver what the market wants. Now, we unveil some of LG’s innovations that showcase new technology that pushes us forward to the future.” The event showcased the different commercial display solutions that LG offers. The highlight of the event was the introduction of the massive LSAC025, a 54” LED Video Wall Display that you can connect with each other with cable-less signal transmission and power docking. Its block assembly design makes the LSAC series easier to install than before. Its maintenance, installation and replacement become practically painless. Unlike the LCD video walls, the LSAC series is truly bezelfree, so audiences can focus on visual content in its entirety without any bezel interference between displays. It is the first of its kind in the world. LG also offers something to cater to the unique needs of hotels and destination rooms. The LG 55’’ UHD Pro:Centric Hotel TV is a smart hotel TV with effective content management pre-installed. The US660H series supports clear Ultra HD and efficient content management with Pro:Centric solutions. In addition, the new webOS 5.0, for a wide variety of customer needs, provides customized content in an easier way. Newly added Mood Display and Gallery Mode enable you to utilize the TV as a customized clock and an artwork which perfectly harmonizes with your space and life. Peter Uhm, LG Philippines’ Information Display product director, gave insight regarding the brand’s vision for commercial displays. “We want our products to offer proactive solutions, not reactive. We want to anticipate the needs of tomorrow, today.” More information can be found at www.lg.com/ph.
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■ “JIGGLE JIGGLE” BY LOUIS THEROUX. Theroux is a British journalist whose Oxford-accented rap became viral on TikTok and YouTube, and even gave birth to a collaboration with Jason Derulo. Believe it or not, “Jiggle Jiggle” was born in 2000 when Theroux met some rappers and he rapped, “Jiggle Jiggle/I love it when you wiggle/It makes me want to dribble/Fancy a fiddle?” during a show. ■ “TAP IN” BY SAWEETIE. TikTok star Lesley Gonzalez started a trend by dancing to “Tap In” and since then, there have been millions of videos on the platform.
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O NE of the things I learned recently is that the TikTok-viral song “Amakabogera” was originally performed by Maymay Entrata. While we’re at it, I also realized that “Forevermore,” a song used for TikTok videos mostly showing Filipino women fetching their foreigner boyfriends from the airport, was sung by Jed Maddela. I know that I’m not the only person who (now) associates songs with TikTok videos and trends. The social-media platform has definitely had a huge impact on our lives. Artists who are already very popular, like Billie Eilish, gain more fans for themselves and their music because of TikTok. Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” was released in 2021 but it’s still very popular on TikTok. This song has been covered by Austin Sanders on TikTok and his video has millions of Anotherviews.songthat trended on TikTok was SB19’s “Mapa,” which is used for videos where creators express their gratitude to their parents, parent figures, and mentors. Of course, any song that SB19 releases becomes viral but when used for TikTok videos, “Mapa” becomes even more special. Some of songs are usually repurposed and remixed but many are used in their original context. So, here are the other songs that are very popular or became popular on TikTok: ■ “CARRYING YOUR LOVE WITH ME” BY GEORGE STRAIT. This 1997 song was repurposed for TikTok and is used for the trend where people show their tattoos, scars, piercings and even dog fur as signs of love for other people, animals and things. ■ “BEGGIN’” BY MÅNESKIN. This 2017 song is about unrequited loved and it’s very catchy, so a lot of TikTok creators have been using it. The lyrics include, “I’m beggin’, beggin’ you/And put your loving hand out, baby/I’m beggin’, beggin’ you/And put your loving hand out, darlin’.”
■ “GOOD 4 U” BY OLIVIA RODRIGO. This song is the third single from Rodrigo’s debut album Sour and it became viral on beauty TikTok where creators used the track to show themselves getting glammed-up. Another version has creators using the “Vintage Camcorder” effect.
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■ “PARO PARO G” BY SANDY OLIVERIO. A few months ago, this song was very big on TikTok, with millions dancing to the remix. It’s still very popular although not as much at it was before. The song wasn’t just viral on Pinoy Tiktok. It was also popular in Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Cambodia, the United States, and Moscow.
■ “LEFT AND RIGHT” BY CHARLIE PUTH AND JUNGKOOK OF BTS. The fan edit of this fun bop has given birth to a viral dance, which has been performed by Kyline Alcantara and Mavy Legaspi, volleyball players Kianna Dy and Majoy Baron, RJ of The Juans and Stell of SB19, and AC Bonifacio, Andrea Brillantes, Darren Espanto, Jeremy Glinoga, Angela Ken and Sheena Belarmino.
BY RIZAL RAOUL S. REYES PURSUING public-private partnerships is the key to beef up the country’s digital infrastructure and connect more Filipinos nationwide. Telecom giant PLDT, through its President and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio, has joined the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC), which was formed by Sabin Aboitiz upon instructions of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “We are honored to be part of this body. We look forward to boosting its initiatives and striving together to achieve our common goals of empowering Filipinos and driving the country’s economic ambitions,” Panlilio said. Panlilio added that their group recently met with the President to present their recommendations. “On top of those items is connectivity for more of the population. We in the private sector can help use technology to reach as many Filipinos as we can. We can use schools and barangay centers as community Wi-Fi halls to reach more students. As our chairman [Manuel V. Pangilinan] would always say, you cannot leave any learner behind,” Panlilio said. “We support the President’s aspiration to digitalize the country, including the delivery of government services,” he said, noting that the e-Government is also among the government’s top priorities.Panlilio said PLDT has been a longtime supporter of the country’s digital transformation. He added the PLDT Group continues to invest in its network, having spent ₱518.5 billion over the last 10 years up to 2021. In the first half of the year, the company has expanded its nationwide fiber infrastructure to 837,900 kilometers as of June. This fiber infrastructure supports Smart’s mobile network, whose 3G, 4G/LTE and 5G networks cover 97 percent of the population. Meanwhile, local systems integrator Radenta Technologies recently launched several products to help Philippine educational institutions to pursue digital transformation. Heading the list is Dugga, a comprehensive assessment tool for schools. It is a platform- and OS-independent exam service for all types and levels of digital knowledge evaluation with a focus on schools, high schools, colleges/universities, and education organizations throughout the world. Radenta President Randall Lozano described Dugga’s platform as a state-of-the-art solution based on scientific research in pedagogy and information technology. He said the platform is gaining wide acceptance as municipalities, schools, educational institutions and private education leaders in over 130 countries are now using Dugga. “The platform offers an easy-touse but at the same time advanced test platform, and is the fastest growing test platform in digital examinations,” he said. “Dugga is best integrated in Microsoft Teams. The integration enables teachers to create all types of exams and assignments within Teams. This also allows teachers to schedule exams ahead of time, collaborate with colleagues, publish results, and give valuable feedback to individual students or the entire class,” Lozano added. The Stockholm, Sweden-based Dugga AB runs and develops the Dugga platform. Dugga was the Microsoft Partner of the Year Winner, Education Award in 2016 and has been a Microsoft partner everMeanwhile,since. Lozano told BUSINESSMIRRO� they will be rolling out the Radenta Leasing Program whereby schools can lease laptops, so they do not have to purchase units upfront. The lease period is flexible and the devices are upgradable every one to years years. Each unit will have the Microsoft Windows operating system. Other programs are optional.
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“I’m optimistic about the ability of these stocks to outperform over the intermediate and long term, since they’re being fueled by underlying trends that remain quite strong,” said Hilary Frisch, senior research analyst at ClearBridge Investments. “Valuations are at multi-year lows in some cases, but the fundamental picture has only gotten more clear.” While none of these stocks are household names like industry giants Microsoft Corp. or Oracle Corp., investors large and small flocked to them during the bull market of the past couple of years because of their rapid sales growth and, in many cases, their exposure to hot sectors such as cloud computing or cybersecurity. This year has been tough. A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. basket of high-growth software has slumped 41 percent in 2022, more than twice the decline of the Nasdaq 100 Index, and steeper than the 23 percent drop of the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF. The slump came as the Fed began aggressively raising rates to fight inflation, a headwind to high-valuation stocks that are priced on their prospects far out in the future. Investors, however, looked optimistically at Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comment last month that the central bank will slow the pace of increases at some point, suggesting a friendlier environment for growth stocks. The yield on the 10year Treasury has gone from a recent peak near 3.5 percent to less than 2.7 percent, relieving some of the pressure on growth-stock multiples. Since a June 16 closing low for the Nasdaq 100, Goldman’s software basket has easily outperformed, jumping about 30 percent. “By and large, software weakness has been 100 percent about the macro environment, not fundamentals,” said Jordan Klein, a managing director and tech analyst at Mizuho Securities, who noted some exceptions, such as pandemic beneficiaries, like Zoom Video Communications Inc. Otherwise, he said, corporate results are illustrating the enduring strength of their businesses. The Goldman basket trades at 7.8 times forward sales, about half its average going back to 2018. In early 2021, it was trading at nearly 25 times estimated sales. The Nasdaq 100 has a multiple of about 4 times estimated sales. Among specific reports, ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. spiked more than 10 percent in the wake of its results, while Confluent Inc. rose 11 percent after hiking its forecast and Alteryx popped nearly 20 percent after its own bullish forecast. Atlassian, HubSpot Inc., and Cloudflare all gained after reports late on Thursday, with Atlassian up 8.2 percent and Cloudflare climbing 14 percent. The sector has not been uniformly strong, with ServiceNow Inc. and Datadog Inc. both falling after their reports. But of the 38 companies in the S&P 500 software and tech services sector that have reported, 28 exceeded earnings estimates, while seven have missed. A key question for investors is how growth will hold up if the economy falls into a more protracted downturn. Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management, wrote that it was too soon to move back into growth stocks, singling out unprofitable tech as an area that could be particularly vulnerable. “The rising cost of capital, tightening financial conditions, and growing recession risks are likely to limit the upside for unprofitable tech companies given limited near-term scope for strong margin expansion,” he wrote. Still, software companies are putting up the kind of growth that investors love. Wall Street expects earnings for the software and services sector will rise about 12 percent in 2023, compared with the 15 percent pace that had been expected in late February, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data. Revenue is expected to grow 11 percent, down from the 12 percent pace that had been expected in early July. While Uber Technologies Inc.’s stock is on track for the best week ever as a public company, shares of Lyft Inc. are on course of their biggest weekly gain in 20 months. Both ride-hailing firms announced betterthan-expected quarterly results this week. Lyft was up 5.6 percent after the company reported the highest earnings in its history. ■
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Editor: Gerard S. Ramos • Saturday, 20, 2022 PEOPLE now spend more time using gadgets, whether for work, learning, entertainment, or getting in touch with loved ones. As digital technologies become more entrenched in Filipinos’ daily lives, their exposure to dangers that lurk online, such as cyberbullying, has also grown.Upto 80 percent of young teens in the Philippines experience cyberbullying, according to a 2015 study by child care NGO Stairway Foundation.Tohelpequip families with protection from online risks, mobile lifestyle giant Globe has launched a web portal that provides practical information on cyber-safety and online responsibility.Thesite,www.makeitsafe.ph, brings together Globe’s various efforts to raise awareness and educate the public on internet safety, especially cyberbullying, which affects many young people. This is crucial as the safety of children online largely rests upon those who watch over them. The site aims to arm parents, guardians and caregivers with the know-how that would enable them to get actively involved in teaching online safety and responsibility to children. The easy-to-navigate site includes a glossary that lists the most popular terms and emojis that the youth currently use in chats and social media. This urban dictionary can help parents and guardians detect if their children are being exposed to offensive language or being bullied online.The website also gives free access to eModules from the award-winning Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP), a series of workshops developed by Globe based on the Optus Digital Thumbprint in-school program in Australia. It aims to promote digital citizenship and cyber-safety among the youth for a safe online experience. The eModules may be used by teachers, parents, the youth, and the general public. This is aligned with Globe’s commitment to equitable access to quality education and the promotion of lifelong learning under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Since cyberbullying can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses, the portal offers free counseling from KonsultaMD. Anyone can use the promo code MAKEITSAFEPH for a free trial session with a licensed psychologist 24/7, without an appointment. KonsultaMD is the country’s leading telemedicine platform that provides access to licensed doctors anytime, anywhere. Consultations may be done via chat, voice or video call. “We would like the public to learn more about responsible online citizenship to keep netizens safe and protected from cyber-violence, scammers, malicious attacks, and other online threats. At the same time, we are able to provide access to professional help if these concerns are already affecting their mental wellness,” said Yoly Crisanto, chief sustainability and corporate Airbnb is rolling out new screening tools to stop parties
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SAN FRANCISCO—Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party. technology that examines the would-be renter’s history on Airbnb, how far they live from the home they want to rent, whether they’re renting for a weekday or weekend, and other factors.
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SAMSUNG Electronics Co. unveiled the latest generation of its foldable devices on Wednesday, keeping prices steady despite surging costs of materials and shipping. The new Galaxy Z Fold 4, which is about the size of a notepad and opens like one, and Z Flip 4, which is square when closed and opens out to regular smartphone size, come with a suite of incremental upgrades. This year’s Fold has a 45 percent more durable main display with minimized bezels, a slimmer hinge and upgraded cameras both on the back and under the display, Samsung said. Responding to user requests, the company upgraded the battery on the smaller Flip and added a larger max storage option of Samsung512GB.surprised industry observers a year ago when it launched the Flip 3 at $999, positioning it as a direct competitor to Apple Inc.’s iPhone range and a successor to the Galaxy Note lineup. The company benefited from its aggressive pricing with record sales of its foldable lineup since then and has stated its ambition to bring the category into the mainstream. This year’s disruptions to logistics, production and materials supply have pushed tech companies, like Meta Platforms Inc. to increase pricing, but Samsung is maintaining the same levels as last year with the Flip 4 and the $1,799 Fold 4. “Samsung’s setting up an ambitious goal to expand its foldable sales to 10 million this year but it’d be challenging considering the macroeconomic situations,” said Greg Roh, head of technology research at HMC Investment & Securities.
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HE fast-growing software companies that took a pounding in this year’s technology stock selloff suddenly are stars of the market, and earnings are a big reason why. Companies from Atlassian Corp. to Alteryx Inc. and Cloudflare Inc. have reported strong results, underlining tailwinds for the industry that bulls say remain intact even in a weaker economy. At the same time, valuations have come down after the brutal first half and, just as importantly, sentiment toward the Federal Reserve has shifted and investors now are far less concerned that the central bank will go too far in raising interest rates.
The company sold about 6 million foldable devices last year and is looking for “a breakthrough with foldable phones as low-end phones sales are slumping.”
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The trial marked Xiao’s first public appearance since 2017 when he was taken from his room at the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong, where he had been staying for sev eral years after fleeing China. The Hurun Report of China’s richest people said Xiao, a student leader at the time of 1989 pro-democracy protests, was part of a fortune es timated at almost $6 billion before he went missing.
BRITAIN’S surging inflation rate is forcing consumers to pay more for the same amount of goods, underscoring a dimming outlook for the economy. Retail sales volumes unexpect edly rose 0.3 percent last month, but the cost of those sales in creased more rapidly by 1.3 per cent, the Office for National Statis tics said Friday. The volume gains came from a 4.8 percent surge from web-based stores, which offered discounts and promotions to draw in customers.Thefigures came hours after a separate report showed con sumer confidence plunged to its lowest since 1974, when oil sup ply shocks triggered a wage-price spiral and left industry working only three days a week. It capped a week of official data suggesting that the UK economy is starting to buckle under the weight of falling real wages and a squeeze on the cost of living. “The strain on the personal fi nances of many in the UK is alarm ing,” said Joe Staton, client strategy director at GfK. “Just making ends meet has become a nightmare. The crisis of confidence will only worsen with the darkening days of autumn and the colder months of winter.”
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C HINESE President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both planning to attend a Group of 20 summit in the resort island of Bali later this year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said. “Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Thursday. It was the first time the leader of the world’s fourth-most populous nation confirmed both of them were planning to show up at the November summit. The dollar moved higher against Asia-Pacific currencies on Friday after publication of the report as geopolitical tensions boosted demand for the US currency as a haven. The presence of Xi and Putin at the meeting would set up a showdown with US President Joe Biden and other democratic leaders, all of whom are set to meet in person for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The attack, which came shortly after Putin and Xi declared a “no limits” partnership, has left the G-20 divided over whether to place sanctions on Russia. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Friday declined to confirm travel plans for Xi, who hasn’t been abroad since the start of the pandemic. “We are ready to step up coordination and cooperation with Indonesia to ensure the full success of the summit,” he said at a news briefing in Beijing. Putin and Jokowi discussed preparations for the G-20 summit in Bali in a phone call Thursday, the Kremlin said in a statement that didn’t mention whether the Russian leader will attend. Putin’s attendance could also bring him face to face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since Russia’s invasion because the Ukrainian president is also slated to be in Bali. Biden had called for Russia to be removed from the G-20 following its invasion of Ukraine, and US officials had earlier been pressuring Indonesia to exclude Putin from the Bali summit. Tensions are also soaring between the US and China, even as Biden and Xi leave open the possibility of holding their first face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the Bali summit. China cut off talks with the US on defense and a range of other areas after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, while the White House has criticized Beijing’s military drills around the island. “The rivalry of the big countries is indeed worrying,” Jokowi, 61, said in the interview. “What we want is for this region is to be stable, peaceful, so that we can build economic growth. And I think not only Indonesia: Asian countries also want the same thing.”
CHINA sentenced ChineseCanadian financier Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in prison and fined his company To morrow Holding 55 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), bringing an end to a long-running saga that has seen many of the tycoon’s business interests reined in since he was seized in Hong Kong more than five years ago. Xiao was found guilty of ille gally obtaining public deposits, breach of trust, bribery and the illegal use of funds, according to a ruling by the Shanghai First Inter mediate People’s Court on Friday. Xiao used his financial network to offer pooled funds and sell insur ance and other investment prod ucts, absorbing more than 311.6 billion yuan from the public alone, according to the court.
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The probe into Xiao and his financial network, which included more than 40 finan cial institutions, was part of a broader effort by authorities to root out illicit activities and ensure financial stability as confidence in the $59 trillion financial system is eroding. Chinese regulators assumed control of nine financial firms linked to Xiao in mid-2020, after having seized control of Baoshang Bank Co.—another lender linked to the financier—a year earlier cit ing its “serious” credit risks. The country’s central bank in 2018 identified Xiao’s in vestment conglomerate as one of several “financial holding companies” that needed to be scrutinized in their ownership structure, related transactions and sources of funding. President Xi Jinping’s adminis tration is attaching greater impor tance to financial risk control in an economy that’s already facing headwinds from Covid-induced lockdowns and a slumping proper ty market. Beijing in June claimed victory in its anti-corruption drag net of financial institutions, which had probed or penalized dozens of officials to rein in risks and beef up corporate governance. Xiao’s Tomorrow Holding used the illegal proceeds mainly for the acquisition of financial institu tions, securities trading, overseas investments and others, according to the court. The firm and Xiao re turned some of the illegal proceeds through the sale of assets and the repatriation of overseas funds. The acts of Xiao and his com pany “seriously damaged the fi nancial management order and seriously endangered the national financial security,” according to the statement. Xiao was also per sonally fined 6.5 million yuan.
The valuations of Shimao and Sunac China Holdings Ltd. were also slashed by about two-thirds from their closing prices on March 31 in the HuaAn CES Hong Kong Stock Selected 100 ETF. Shares of these real estate firms remain suspended, after they failed to disclose audited fiscal results for 2021. The revisions were applied Aug. 15, and are meant to objectively reflect the fair value of the assets after trading halts and index exclusions, the asset-management firmPhonesaid. calls to the investor relations departments at China Evergrande, Evergrande Services, Sunac and Shimao were not Writinganswered.down the equity values of firms facing problems and in the midst of trading halts has precedents among China’s mutualHSBCfunds.Jintrust Fund Management Co. lowered the value of its holdings in Seazen Holdings Co. after the founder of the real estate developer was convicted of child molestation in 2019, while Tunghsu Optoelectronic Technology Co. was similarly slashed in valuation after missing a bond payment. Bloomberg News
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“Our model works on heat from hydrogen,” said Andrew Horvath, chairman of Star Scientific Ltd. The system is “plug-and-play,” he said at the company’s research fa cility in the town of Berkeley Vale. “It is quickly deployable, it’s a lot smarter to work with.” Wearing high-vis jackets and safety goggles, Chief Technology Officer Steve Heaton and another member of the team demonstrated an experimental model that looks like a French coffee press. Bottled hydrogen and oxy gen are fed into a glass cylinder containing the secret catalyst, which quickly turns orange as it heats up to around 700 degrees Celsius (1,292 Fahrenheit). If the technology can scale up, it could ultimately allow power plant op erators that burn coal to retrofit generators to run on green hydro gen without having to construct a completely new plant. “We think there are a lot of op portunities in existing steam tur bines that have some longevity,” said Horvath, citing the example of Japan where 70 percent of its turbines still have 40 years of life left. “Why would you throw them away? They’re already connected to the grid.” In January 2021, the company signed an agreement with the Phil ippine government to study retrofitting coal-fired power plants in the Southeast Asian nation. Star Scientific’s system differs from traditional ways of generat ing heat from hydrogen, such as through combustion or in fuel cells, according to Horvath, who as a child would spend weekends in the lab of his nuclear physicist father, experimenting with the gas. “We don’t burn hydrogen and that’s going to be the real key that we’ve been driving and people are taking notice of,” he said. Staff are fielding dozens of emails a day from prospective clients, he said, and the company is in talks with water-treatment companies, brewers, dairy firms and abattoirs about using the sys tem. “There’s so much demand, the market’s coming to us,” he said. A pilot project to test the system at a factory run by a local unit of Mars Inc. is awaiting regulatory approval, which Horvath expects will come in 2023. The technology “offers enor mous potential across the food manufacturing industry,” said Bill Heague, general manager of Mars Food“ThermalAustralia.energy is crucial to the business of cooking food and this technology has the capability to create limitless heat without any combustion and zero emissions.” Star Scientific was started 25 years ago to commercialize nuclear fusion work done by Horvath’s father Stephen that used heavy hydrogen containing unstable sub-atomic particles called mu ons. During the research, the team unexpectedly discovered a way to convert hydrogen into heat with out burning it, a breakthrough patented as the Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser, or HERO. “Star Scientific’s technology can be scaled up and used for a variety of different applications either direct energy generation through a turbine or just ther mal heating,” said Scott Donne, a professor at the School of En vironmental and Life Science in the University of Newcastle, near Star Scientific’s lab. “Around where we are in New castle, there are four very large coal-fired power stations that ba sically use steam to actually drive their turbines. At the moment, it’s done with coal-fired power, but it could conceivably be done with hydrogen using the existing infrastructure.” HorvathsaidStar Scientific isn’t planning to do a public share sale. “We have a unique funding model that is confidential at this time,” he said. The company in 2019 set up a subsidiary called Planet Power Finance AG in Zurich to invest in hydrogen and green electron tech nologies, hiring as CEO Franziska Blindow-Prettl, a former partner at LGT Capital Partners and head of the LGT Family Office—part of the $250 billion wealth management group of the Liechtenstein Royal Family, according to its web site.
Friday’s report follows a series of indicators that pointed to a rising risk of recession in the UK. Real wages adjusted for inflation fell 3 percent in the second quar ter, the sharpest pace on record. Consumer price growth broke into double digits last month for the first time since 1982.
–Niraj Shah, Bloomberg Economics “As summer passes, and holi day credit card bills arrive, other essential costs are also spiking,” said Paul Martin, head of retail at KPMG. “Many retailers are an ticipating the consequence of this is an autumn drop in demand at a time when their own margins are coming under further pressure.”
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The pound fell after the re ports, bringing the cumulative drop against the dollar to 12 percent so far this year. Yields on 10-year UK government bonds surged 9.2 basis points to 2.399 percent, with investors antici pating the Bank of England will continue raising interest rates sharply to fight inflation. Internet retailers accounted for 26.3 percent of all retail sales in July, up slightly from the month before. Fuel sales fell 0.1 percent in the month, reflecting a surge in prices. Supermarkets had a small gain, but stores that don’t sell food showed a sharper drop. The gains online offset a decline in sales of clothing, household goods and second-hand items, including antiques.“Thesummer sunshine brought a slight uplift in sales,” said Helen Dickinson, chief executive officer of the British Retail Consortium. “Summer clothing, air condition ing appliances and outdoor foods all benefitted from record tem peratures, but most retailers will still be seeing falling volumes in the face of rising inflation.”
S HARES of some of China’s largest property developers are now considered “almost worthless” by a mutual fund that holds the assets. An exchange-traded fund run by HuaAn Fund Management Co. has assigned a value of HK$0.01 for each share of China Evergrande Group and Evergrande Property Services Group Ltd. in its portfolio, according to a statement issued late Tuesday. Before trading in those real estate companies was suspended in mid-March, their shares were at HK$1.65 and HK$2.30, respectively.Evergrande, the world’s most-indebted developer, defaulted in December and fell short of delivering a promised restructuring plan last month, fueling concerns about its ability to repay investors and finish housingSimilarprojects.woes started showing up across many of China’s property firms, with Shimao Group Holdings Ltd. defaulting on a $1 billion bond and an increasing number of buyers of unfinished homes refusing to make further mortgage payments.
More concerning is the outlook for the labor market. New job va cancies fell for the first time since August 2020. That’s a sign that de mand for workers may be cooling, which would remove the strongest pillar of the economy since the pandemic.TheBank of England is focused on bringing inflation back to its 2 percent target and has signaled that further interest-rate increas es are likely—even if those curb growth. Investors anticipate a half-point increase in the bench mark lending rate to 2.25 percent and rates above 3.5 percent by the middle of next year. Another report this morning showed that UK government bor rowing came in higher than forecast in the first four months of the fis cal year as soaring inflation drove up debt costs. A larger-than-forecast £4.9 bil lion ($5.8 billion) budget deficit in July took the total for 2022-23 so far to £55 billion pounds—£3 bil lion more than officials forecast in March. Debt-servicing costs surged by 81 percent from a year earlier. “I know that rising inflation is creating challenges for fami lies and businesses, and it is also putting pressure on the public fi nances by pushing up the amount we spend on debt interest,” Chan cellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi said. Bloomberg News
China’s Covid czar and a vice premier, Sun Chunlan, is in Hain an to guide Covid control efforts amid tentative signs the situa tion may be stabilizing. Haikou, the capital, said it would end a 10-day lockdown on Friday if no more infections are found outside of the community for Thursday. The city’s bus routes that don’t pass through high- or medium-risk areas resumed on Friday, though other places remain under wide spreadSun’srestrictions.tripunderscores the se riousness of the outbreak in the region, and concern from Beijing about Hainan’s ability to handle the virus. It also highlights fears that people returning from popu lar vacation destinations and other areas where flareups are occurring could bring the virus with them. That’s been a problem in Tibet, with returning travelers seeding outbreaks in places like Shanghai and Qinghai. Anyone traveling from the region must quaran tine, adding further disruption for many tourists. A decision by officials in the southern Yunnan province to deny entry to travelers from Tibet over the weekend be cause of a lack of quarantine facili ties created a four-mile traffic jam involving hundreds of cars, despite police urging residents to avoid the routes that had backed up. Tibet reported a drop in cases to 680 from 889. Elsewhere, the northwestern Xinjiang region saw its daily cases drop to 256 from 269, while Shanghai detected three cases. Bloomberg News
S EOUL, South Korea—The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, accusing Seoul of recycling proposals Pyongyang already rejected.Inacommentary published by state media Friday, Kim Yo Jong stressed that her country has no intentions to give away its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program for economic cooperation, saying “no one barters its destiny for cornShecake.”questioned the sincerity of South Korea’s calls for improved bilateral relations while it continues its combined military exercises with the United States and fails to stop civilian activists from flying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and other “dirty waste” across their border. She also ridiculed South Korea’s military capabilities, saying the South misread the launch site of the North’s latest missile tests on Wednesday, hours before Yoon used a news conference to urge Pyongyang to return to diplomacy. “It would have been more favorable for his image to shut his mouth, rather than talking nonsense as he had nothing better to say,” she said about Yoon. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles interKorean affairs, expressed “strong regret” over Kim Yo Jong’s comments, and Yoon’s office called for Pyongyang to show “self-restraint” and “think deeply” about Seoul’s offer. “This attitude from North Korea will not only threaten peace on the Korean Peninsula but result in further difficulties for the North by worsening its international isolation and economic situation,” Lee Hyo-jung, a Unification Ministry spokesperson, said during a briefing. Kim Yo Jong last week had threatened “deadly” retaliation against the South over the Covid-19 outbreak in the North, which it dubiously claims was caused by leaflets and other objects dropped from balloons launched by southern activists. Yoon during a nationally televised speech on Monday proposed an “audacious” economic assistance package to North Korea if it takes steps to abandon its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program. The offers of large-scale aid in food and health care and modernizing electricity generation systems and seaports and airports weren’t meaningfully different from previous South Korean proposals rejected by the North, which is speeding the development of an arsenal Kim Jong Un sees as his strongest guarantee of survival. Kim Yo Jong, one of the most powerful officials in her brother’s government who oversees inter-Korean affairs, said Yoon displayed the “height of absurdity” with his offer, saying it was realistic as creating “mulberry fields in the dark blue ocean.” She said South Korea’s words and actions would only incite “surging hatred and wrath” from North Koreans and insisted Pyongyang has no immediate plans to revive long-stalled diplomacy with Seoul. “It is our earnest desire to live without awareness of each other,” she said. Inter-Korean ties have worsened amid a stalemate in larger nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the US that derailed in 2019 because of disagreements over a relaxation of crippling US-led sanctions on the North in exchange for disarmament steps. There are concerns that Kim Yo Jong’s threats last week over the leafletting portends a provocation, of which the possibilities may include a nuclear or missile test or even border skirmishes. The United States and South Korea kick off their biggest combined training in years next week to counter the North Korean threat. The North describes such drills as invasion rehearsals and has often responded to them with missile tests or other Duringprovocations.Wednesday’s news conference, Yoon expressed hope for meaningful dialogue with the North over his aid-fordisarmamentMaintainingproposal.areserved tone, Yoon said his government has no plans to pursue its own nuclear deterrent and doesn’t desire political change in Pyongyang that’s brought by force. Yoon spoke hours after South Korea’s military detected North Korea firing two suspected cruise missiles toward the sea and identified the western coastal site of Onchon as the launch location. Kim Yo Jong in her column said the weapons were fired from a bridge in the city of Anju, north of Onchon and farther inland, and ridiculed South Korean and US capacities to monitor North Korean missile activity. The South’s military has yet to release its analyzed flight details of those missiles. “If the data and flight trajectory (of the missiles) are known, (the South) will be so bewildered and afraid,” Kim Yo Jong said. “It will be a thing worthy of seeing how they will explain about it before their people.” The latest launches extended a record pace in North Korean missile testing in 2022, which has involved more than 30 ballistic launches, including the country’s first demonstrations of intercontinental ballistic missiles in nearly five years. North Korea’s heighted testing activity underscores its dual intent to advance its arsenal and force the United States to accept the idea of the North as a nuclear power so it can negotiate economic and security concessions from a position of strength, experts say. Kim Jong Un could up the ante soon as there are indications that the North is preparing to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017, when it claimed to have developed a thermonuclear weapon to fit on its ICBMs. AP N. Korea dismisses Seoul’s aid offer as ‘foolish’ repeat
The country reported 2,678 cas es for Thursday, down from 3,424 a day earlier. Still, there were more than 18,000 new local infections in the seven days through Aug. 18, China’s worst week since mid-May, amid outbreaks in Hainan, Tibet and Xinjiang that stranded tour ists and threw the travel plans of thousands of people into disarray. The tropical island of Hainan, which is experiencing the coun try’s worst outbreak since Shang hai’s lockdown in the spring, re ported 1,499 cases from 2,018 on Wednesday. More than 100,000 of the 150,000 tourists stranded by the island’s sudden lockdown this month have left, China News reported, though they’ll need to quarantine for three days upon their return home.
H ONG KONG—Hong Kong officials said Thursday they are seeking the re turn of citizens who traveled to Southeast Asia for jobs that en trapped them in scams and vir tualTheslavery.victims, who also came from Taiwan and mainland Chi na, took jobs in call centers that sought to cheat Chinese speakers into making payments on fabri cated bills and government fees. Michael Cheuk, undersecretary of Hong Kong’s Security Bureau, said the police and immigration department had received requests for help in bringing back 20 people since January, with 12 of them now safe, although two remain in Myanmar.Cheuksaid officials have not been able to identify the exact lo cation of the eight remaining Hong Kong“Ourcitizens.immigration officers are trying their utmost and reach out to the Chinese Embassy and the local consulate generals and ex plore all the means and avenues and try to secure their safe re turn,” he said. The scam networks, which often have links to transnational orga nized crime, are set up overseas to avoid detection, luring educated young workers with promises of highTheearnings.workers are then subject to isolation and the threat of vio lence unless they succeed in cheat ing victims in mainland China reached by phone into transfer ring payments into overseas bank accounts.Taiwanese media have also re ported on people being taken to Cambodia after being told they could earn tens of thousands of dollars a month working for fi nancialMyanmar,companies.which remains in cri sis after a military takeover, is an other location favored by the scam mers, with many victims passing through the regional transport hub of Thailand. The scammers have operated for years, working out of locations as far as away Nepal and East Af rica. China has sought to quash the practice, but the schemes ap pear to remain successful, playing on a strong deference to authority and fear of reprisals among the victims. AP
China’s coronavirus hotspots keep cases elevated, fuel fears of spread
LVIV, Ukraine—Turkey’s lead er and the UN chief met in Ukraine with President Volodymr Zelenskyy on Thursday in a high-powered bid to ratchet down a war raging for nearly six months. But little immediate progress wasTurkishreported.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would follow up with Russian President Vladimir Putin, given that most of the mat ters discussed would require the Kremlin’s agreement. With the meetings held at such a high level—it was the first visit to Ukraine by Erdogan since the war began, and the second by UN Secretary-General António Guterres—some had hoped for breakthroughs, if not toward an overall peace, then at least on spe cific issues. But none was apparent. Meeting in the western city of Lviv, far from the front lines, the leaders discussed expanding ex changes of prisoners of war and arranging for UN atomic energy experts to visit and help secure Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, which is in the middle of fierce fighting that has raised fears of catastrophe.Erdoganhas positioned him self as a go-between in efforts to stop the fighting. While Turkey is a member of Nato, its wobbly economy is reliant on Russia for trade, and it has tried to steer a middle course between the two combatants.TheTurkish President urged the international community after the talks not to abandon diplomatic ef forts to end the war that has killed tens of thousands and forced more than 10 million Ukrainians from theirHehomes.repeated that Turkey is willing to act as “mediator and facilitator” and added, “I remain convinced that the war will end at the negotiating table.” In March, Turkey hosted talks in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators that failed to end the hostilities. On the battlefield, meanwhile, at least 17 people were killed over night in heavy Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv re gion, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.Russia’s military claimed that it struck a base for foreign merce naries in Kharkiv, killing 90. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side. In the latest incident on Russian soil near the border with Ukraine, an ammunition dump caught fire in a village in the Belgorod region, the regional governor said. No casualties were reported. Video posted online, whose authenticity couldn’t be verified, showed or ange flames and black smoke, with the sound of multiple explosions. Elsewhere, Russian officials re ported that anti-aircraft defenses shot down drones in the Russianoccupied Crimean Peninsula at Kerch and near the Belbek airfield in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol. Explosions in recent weeks on the peninsula have destroyed war planes and caused other damage at militaryHeighteningairfields.international ten sions, Russia deployed warplanes carrying state-of-the-art hyper sonic missiles to its Kaliningrad re gion, an enclave surrounded by Nato members Lithuania and Poland. One major topic at the talks in Lviv was the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. Mos cow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling the complex. Condemning the Kremlin for what he called “nuclear blackmail,” Zelenskyy demanded that Russian troops leave the plant and that a team from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) be allowed in. “The area needs to be demilita rized, and we must tell it as it is: Any potential damage in Zapor izhzhia is suicide,” Guterres said at a news Erdoganconference.likewiseexpressed con cern over the fighting around the plant, saying, “We don’t want to experience another Chernobyl”—a reference to the world’s worst nu clear accident, in Ukraine in 1986. Zelenskyy and the UN chief agreed Thursday on arrangements for an IAEA mission to the plant, according to the president’s web site. But it was not immediately clear whether the Kremlin would consent to the terms. As for a pullout of troops, a Rus sian Foreign Ministry official said earlier that that would leave the plantFears“vulnerable.”mountedThursday when Russian and Ukrainian authorities accused each other of plotting to attack the site and then blame the otherLateside.Thursday, multiple rounds of Ukrainian shelling struck the city in which the power plant is lo cated, a Russian official reported. Guterres used the talks in Lviv to name Gen. Carlos dos Santos Cruz of Brazil to lead a previously announced UN fact-finding mis sion to the Olenivka prison where 53 Ukrainian POWs were killed in an explosion in July. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the blast. AP C HINA reported its worst week of Covid infections since midMay, fueled by outbreaks in vacation hotspots that risk spreading across the country as travelers return.
MICHAEL CHEUK , Under Secretary for Hong Kong’s Security Bureau speaks during a press conference held at the Immigration Department in Hong Kong on Thursday, August 18, 2022. Hong Kong officials said on Thursday they are seeking the return of citizens who traveled to Southeast Asia for jobs that entrapped them in scams and virtual slavery. AP High-level talks in Ukraine yield little reported progress
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By Josef Ramos SAN MIGUEL Beer is one hungry team while TNT Tropang Giga is one unrelenting defending champion. R eading that alone suggests what’s to expect in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup Finals that start with Game 1 at 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. It’s more than two years and we are very hungry to win … the most prestigious of all [titles], the Philippine Cup,” San Miguel Beer coach Leo Austria said on Friday during the pre-Finals news conference at the Novotel Hotel in QuezonTheCity.last time we tasted the championship was 2019,” Austria added.But Austria, who steered the Beermen to five straight all-Filipino titles until the very same team that they’ll meet in the Finals stole it away from them, knows the race-to-four duel won’t be a stroll. “ It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be more difficult than the last time we’ve met, that’s for sure,” said Austria, 64, who is gunning for his ninth PBA crown both as a player and coach. “Most of my players are new with less experience, but they are very Panlilio confident on Gilas campaign
Panlilio said there’s no reason to worry about Fajardo, Perez and Rosario missing Gilas Pilipinas’ games. “ There’s nothing to worry about, we have Magnolia’s Jio Jalalon and Ian Sangalang, Meralco’s Allein Maliksi, Chris Newsome and Raymond Almazan, among others,” he said. “But they’re a tough team and they lost to Australia by only two [points].” L ebanon yielded to Australia, 7375, in the final of the FIBA Asia Cup last month in Jakarta. Calvin Oftana and Kevin Alas of NLEX, Robert Bolick and Jamie Malonzo of NorthPort, Japeth Aguilar, Scottie Thompson, Arvin Tolentino of Ginebra, free agent Roosevelt Adams, Bobby Ray Parks, Thirdy Ravena and Kiefer Ravena, collegiate guys Carl Tamayo, Kevin Quiambao and Francis Lopez are also in the pool. The SBP, meanwhile, didn’t extend the contract of Serbian-Kiwi coach Nenad Vucinic with Gilas Pilipinas upon his request “to pursue other opportunities.”
FINIS National Finals get going at New Clark City
7s sixth season up Sunday in Taguig T EAMS playing in the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Cup for Women are in town for the tournament that starts Sunday at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City. Five-time champions China have long been in the country as an early bird and have been training at the competition venue. Teams from Australia, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam are already in the country with Chinese-Taipei, South Korea and Iran as the last arrivals.
T HE FINIS Short Course Swim Championship National Finals unwraps Saturday at the New Clark City Aquatic Center (NCC) in Capas, Tarlac. More than 300 delegates from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao started to check in at the NCC on Friday morning and took a short dip before their scheduled training session in the afternoon arranged by the organizing committee headed by FINIS Philippines Managing Director Vince Garcia. “ This is it. We’re now on the exciting part of the competition. After the culmination of the Mindanao leg in Digos City last week, question now is who’re really the best swimmers?” Garcia said. The best 16 young swimmers from each event after the qualifying stage which started last April in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are in Capas for the internationally-inspired competition.Thewinners will receive elegant medals while training package to those who break national records. “ We’re coming out with this package to really inspire our young swimmers,” Garcia said. “We’re doing this kind of training program to our swimming ambassadors like Kyla Soquillon and Jasmine Mojdeh. We’re planning to send them to the FINIS training center in the US in the future.” MINDANAO leg overall champion Mt. Apo Swim Team savor their accom plishment.
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P RINCESS SUPERAL moved into the threshold of a career breakthrough when she drove past world No. 4 Lydia Ko and erstwhile leader and former world No. 1 So Yeon Ryu with a plucky 71 on Friday and a resilient Pauline del Rosario got back into the scoring act with a 70 to help put the Philippines back in the hunt in the second round of the Asia Pacific Cup in Jakarta. Notwithstanding the Filipina aces’ flubbed birdie chances on the closing par-5 hole, the Philippines moved into strong contention in team play with a second straight 141 for a sixunder 282 total, rallying from nine down to within three as Team Korea 2 slowed down with a 147 for a 279 and Team Korea 1 battled back with a 138 to seize solo second at 281. On a day when the only constant thing at the wind-raked Pondok Indah Golf Course was changed, the lead kept on shifting from one side to the other both in individual and team competitions, setting the stage for a wild finish to the inaugural 54-hole championship, which stakes $250,000 in total prize fund in team play. ut Superal is all focused on what could be a record $100,000 top prize in individual race with the top International Container Terminal Services Inc.-backed ace putting herself on top of the elite field that features a couple of multi-major winners who are in the current world Top 10 rankings with a big bounce back from a frontside 37 with two birdies in the last six to salvage a 71. That included a brilliant putt from outside the green on No. 13 that tied her with Ko for the lead and a long bending stroke on the 16th that got her past the Kiwi ace, who fumbled with an unlikely bogey from just about two feet on No. 15 in a flight ahead. W hile her recent campaign in the Thailand Ladies PGA and Thailand Women’s PGA has been marred by late-round meltdowns, including a playoff loss and a slide outside of the Top 10 after leading the way, longtime swing coach and mentor Bong Lopez believes his multi-titled ward is ready for her biggest test. “Cess has been waiting for this kind of a chance, eager to prove her worth against some of the world’s best players. I believe she’ll hold up, she has trained hard for this,” said Lopez. Superal and del Rosario will take on Ko and Momoka Kobori of New Zealand in the final group with the two Korean teams battling it out in a flight ahead. Counting her bogey-free 66 Thursday, the 25-year-old Superal, who won here in the 2015 edition of the Pondok Indah Junior Championship, assembled a 137, now one stroke ahead of Ko, who salvaged a 72 in soft, blustery conditions after matching the former’s opening sixunder card, for a 138. But Korea 2 Bomee Lee also pulled to within 138 also after a 72 while world No. 8 Kim Hyo Joo of Korea 1 turned in the day’s best 68 to join Ryu, who fumbled with a 75 after a sterling 65, at 140 with Hwang You Min of Korea 1 pooling a 141 after a 70 to make it a crowded leaderboard.
Swimming course cleared for Penong’s 5150 Davao
The other members of that championship core are no longer with San Miguel. Gone are Christian Standhardinger, Arwind Santos and Alex Cabagnot and in their place are Vic Manuel, CJ Perez, Jericho Cruz, Rodney Brondial and Robbie Herndon.Butholdovers June Mar Fajardo, Marcio Lassiter and Chris Ross believe that everything is level when it comes to their desire to capture the crown. I think there’s a lot of excitement now with these new guys from the post-June Mar [Fajardo] injury,” the defensive specialist Ross said. “I don’t think there’s a difference between the two eras,” Fajardo said. “All I know so far is that the players before and now are both competitive and we’re just going to help each other.” L assiter thought the same way. We are the hungry team right now. I and most players are skillful,” Lassiter said. O n the other side, TNT head coach Chot Reyes said it’s going to be a toughNotmatchup.confident at all but I have faith in my team,” said Reyes, who’s seeking for his 10th PBA title. “It’s a team matchup. What’s important for now is to win Game 1—that’s part of the seven-game series—and we will do everything we can to get the W [win].”Reyes will miss Game 2 and 3 because of national team commitments and tasked to man the fort are assistant coaches Sandy Arespacochaga, Yuri Escueta and team manager Jojo Lastimosa. R eyes will coach the national team in the FIBA World Cup Asia Qualifiers in Beirut against Lebanon on August 25 and Saudi Arabia on August 29 at the Mall of Asia Arena. Veteran Jayson Castro also warned that the “old” San Miguel Beer team that won five consecutive Philippine Cup crowns is similar to the present squad. San Miguel Beer beat Meralco in seven games series while TNT ousted Magnolia in six games in their the best-of-seven semifinals. San Miguel Beer and TNT squared off last in the 2019 Commissioner’s Cup with the Beermen winning the title in six games against their opponents then coached by Bong Ravena and Mark Dickel.
COACHES Leo Austria (right) of San Miguel Beer and Chot Reyes of TNT Tropang Giga are ready for battle. COURTESY OF RUDY ESPERAS A12 | SAturdAy, AuguSt 20, 2022 Editor:mirror_sports@yahoo.com.phJunLomibao
Twice postponed due to pandemic the past two years, the Penong’s 5150 made its way to the triathlon calendar in 2019 but concerns over the quality of water in the swim stage forced the organizers to cancel the opening leg, reducing it to a duathlon format (runbike-run).Butwith the swim course all cleared, it’s finally a go for the second 5150 triathlon in two months following the successful staging of Sun Life 5150 Bohol. “ We are just making sure that everything is okay and in conformity with international standards,” added Galura. T he 40-km bike race will start upon exiting Hijo Resorts towards the main highway and heading to Daang Maharlika to Tagum City. It is a two-loop course ending at the Lanikai Hiro Estate Resort while the closing 10k run part, also made up of two loops, will start as they exit the transition area and head south inside the Hijo Resorts property across the bridge with the finish line set at the baseball field. R egistration is ongoing until race week. For details, log on to penong’s.5150philippines.com or follow us on social-media accounts: Penongs5150Davao with Hashtags (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter): #Penongs5150 and #5150Davao. The event has drawn close to 500 entries, majority of which are building up to reach Ironman level.
Joining the locals in the hunt for individual honors in various age group divisions, including the overall championship, are bidders from France, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands, Greece, France, Qatar and the US. O ther titles up for grabs are the relay all male, relay all female and relay mixed categories. A lso on tap in 5-kmtheSunriseManilaFinis,event, supported bytheLightwater,RudyProjectSante(Barley),BulletinandTempo,istheSprinttobedisputedover750-meterswim,20-kmbikeandruncourse.
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T he continental tournament begins with a Group A showdown between China and South Korea at 1 p.m., to be followed by the lone Group B match between Japan and Thailand at 3 p.m.
hungry to get the championship, so we have to play with a lot of urgency.” He added: “Remember, the Finals are a game of adjustments.”
A two-day preliminary inquiry started on Friday to determine the final rosters for the Sunday opener.
The Philippines will take on Vietnam in the other Group A match at 7 p.m. to cap the tripleheader. Placed in Pool A, the hosts look to become one of the top four teams to qualify for the quarterfinals. The fifth-placed team in Pool A will finish in ninth place. Pool B was reduced to four teams after the withdrawal of Kazahkstan on Tuesday.
T HE 7s, the biggest and widest seven-a-side football tournament in the country, kicks off its sixth season Sunday at the McKinley Hill Stadium at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City.
The women’s 7s squad of Kaya will also go for a repeat and fend off the tough challenges of Manila Nomads, Manila Digger, Azzuri Verde, Maharlika Manila, Azzurri SC A, Payatas FC and Manila Nomads Braves. There will also be competition from men’s Division 2 and 3 and women’s Division 2 with 30 matches across all divisions played on opening day. The 7s is coming back full steam for its sixth season,” league president and former long-time Azkals player Anton del Rosario said. “We’ve got 52 youth teams and 46 adult teams playing every Sunday for the 12-week season.” That’s 4,000 people who will troop to the McKinley Hill Stadium to play, support and cheer their respective squads,” del Rosario said. “It’s a great way to usher back football after this long pandemic.” B esides the 7s, del Rosario also announced that the Kampeon Cup, the national version of the regular league, will also be played. It will be held in either Bacolod or Cebu,” del Rosario said. “We promise to announce the dates and venue ahead of time. All these tournaments will also prepare us for the Asia 7s that will be held in February of 2023.” Rick Olivares
PRINCESS SUPERAL and Pauline del Rosario are very much in the hunt.
O RGANIZERS of the Penong’s 5150 Davao have allayed concerns over the tidal flow in the swim course thus clearing the way for the staging of the 1.5-km swim/40-km-bike/10-km run event over the Olympic-style layout on September 4 in Tagum City. The opening swim leg, originally set to start and end at the triangular clockwise course at Hijo Resorts Davao beach, will now be a counterclockwise route starting at the Banana Beach, also at Hijo Resorts, featuring a 270-meter stretch with participants turning left to the 630-meter part of the course before heading to the final turn for the last 600Thmeters. eywill then exit the boat ramp and enter transition at the tennis courts.“Itwas super low tide for the past couple of weeks in the original swim area, so we have to modify the swim course,” said Princess Galura, general manager of the organizing The Ironman Group/Sunrise Events Inc.
S AMAHANG Basketbol ng Pilipi nas (SBP) President Al Panlilio is confident on the country’s campaign in the fourth window of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup Asia Qualifiers. The Philippines travels to Beirut for its August 25 match against Lebanon and returns for a home game on August 29 against Saudi Arabia. We’re trying to form the best team we have and the main goal is to play well, compete and beat Lebanon,” said Panlilio on Friday during the pre-Finals news conference for the Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup at Novotel in Cubao. We’re bringing the best team except for June Mar [Fajardo], CJ [Perez] and Troy [Rosario],” added Panlilio, referring to the three players who’re playing in the PBA Finals. Seven-foot-three Kai Sotto arrived on Friday from Australia while National Basketball Association Jordan Clarkson, Gilas Pilipinas’s naturalized player, is arriving after.
SUPERAL, DEL ROSARIO MAKE STRONG MOVE
D efending men’s Division 1 champion Manila Digger is out to defend the men’s Division 1 crown and establish their own dynasty. N ine other clubs—Sino FC, Maharlika Manila, Manila Stars, Spoly FC, Garelli United, Rangers FC Philippines, Middle Beast, En Fuego and Manhur Fatima— however, are out to spoil Manila Digger’s fun.
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Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months customer experience/goodservice in oral communication and PhpSalarywritten.Range:30,000-Php 59,999 GOLD CORPORATION 503, Nueva St., Barangay 289, Binondo, City Of Manila 64. WANG, MarketingXIULIAnd Sales Agent Brief Job ResearchesDescription:anddevelops various marketing strategies for products and and implements marketing plans and works to meet sales quotas.
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GAMMA INTERACTIVE INC. 21/f Alphaland Makati Place, 7232 Ayala Ave. Cor. Malugay St., Bel-air, City Of Makati 76. ROBIN BusinessHERWANTODevelopment Indonesian Speaking Brief Job Description: Assist collaborating with management on sales goals, planning and forecasting; maintaining short and long term business development plans.
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75. ZHOU, MandarinQINGTeam Leader Brief Job Description: Maintain and drive program knowledge for self and team Basic Qualification: Can speak mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999
77. FERRY LearningTANUJAYA&Development
Basic Qualification: 21 years old and above with PhpSalaryexperience.developmentbusinessRange:30,000-Php59,999
Basic PhpSalaryaexperiencePortuguese/1-yearKorean,BahasaBahasa,Cantonese,English,followingatinFluentQualification:andproficientwritingandspeakingleasttwoofthelanguages:Mandarin,Thai,Malaysia,Indonesian,Spanish,andofworkinginsimilarrole.Range:60,000-Php89,999 Bi-lingualFUTINGSpeaking
81. TRAN CHI VietnameseHAOCustomer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services.
80. TANG QUANG MINH Vietnamese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services. Basic
Basic PhpSalaryaexperiencePortuguese/1-yearKorean,BahasaBahasa,Cantonese,English,followingatinFluentQualification:andproficientwritingandspeakingleasttwoofthelanguages:Mandarin,Thai,Malaysia,Indonesian,Spanish,andofworkinginsimilarrole.Range:30,000-Php59,999 TONG AIK
Basic PhpSalarymanagementBachelorQualification:degree,experience.Range:30,000-Php59,999 213 Sen. Gil Puyat San Antonio, City Of Makati
79. LE MINH VietnameseHIEUCustomer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999 PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
Indonesian Speaking Brief Job Description: Identify the current and future skills requirement of an organization and creates flexible learning interventions.
Basic PhpSalaryVietnamese.readingProficientQualification:inspeakingandwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999 PhpSalaryVietnamese.readingProficientQualification:inspeakingandwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999 TAT KIM VietnamesePHATSpeaking Customer Service
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999 GATEWAYSOLUTIONS CORP. Unit 2306 Antel Global Corporate Center, Tower 6789, 6789 Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati 86. SMITS, MICHIEL CORNELIS JACOBUS Technical Lead/senior Pm Dredging And ContributeBriefReclamationJobDescription:tothedrafting and execution of the business development plan for the W&M ag with a particular focus on the reclamation and dredging market Basic 499,999PhpSalaryengineeringMinimumQualification:BSCincivilRange:150,000-Php
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President For Customer Solutions BriefDivisionJob Description: Oversees financial and administrative operations of the department Basic 149,999PhpSalarylanguageProficiencyQualification:inJapanese(native-level)Range:90,000-Php MEGA INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK CO. LTD. 3 Pacific Star Bldg., Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave. Cor. Makati Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati 107. CHANG, PreparesBriefAssistantCHIN-MINGVicePresidentJobDescription:variouscreditreport and loan proposal; Prepares Head Office related
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SPEEDWELL INC. 5/f King’s Court 2 Bldg., 2129 Chino Roces Ave., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati 123. WEI, ChineseHAISpeaking Technical Consultant Brief Job Assist/helpDescription:customers, give customers information about product and services
117. LI, CivilXIAOBOWork Technologies
Basic PhpSalaryandofrequired;interpersonalcommunication,Outstandingetc.Einstein,MuleSoft,Enterprise,as:technologies,andCloudknowledgeExperienceindustryconsulting7experience;relevantBachelor’sQualification:DegreeorprofessionalMinimumyearsofprofessionalorrelevantexperience;andofleadingDataIntegrationAnalyticssuchTableau,TalendBoomi,Jitterbit,Informatica,isaplus;analytical,andskillsUnderstandingcloudtechnologiesapplicableusecasesRange:500,000andabove
OUTWIT, INC. 2/f Marvin Plaza, 2153 Chino Roces Ave., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati WANG, MandarinJIACHENGSpeaking Recruitment Specialist Brief Job Description: Sourcing out to qualified candidates for current open roles
102. ZHONG, EquipmentDONGHONGInstallation Specialist Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same
POWERCHINA PHILIPPINES CORPORATION Unit 2101 21/f Bdo Equitable Tower, 8751 Paseo De Roxas, Bel-air, City Of Makati CUI, ChineseZHANGYANEquipment Installation Specialist Brief Job OrganizingDescription:andadministrating the strategies and of the company and setting up the machineries and with experimenting on FluentQualification:inMandarin and English Language in Written and Verbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php
Brief Job Description: Conduct surveys to collect data on site conditions and inspect structures; test appropriateness of construction materials and soil samples
97. HE, EquipmentMENG Installation Specialist
104. CHO, ChineseWEI-CHENCustomer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service queries; suggesting information about other products and services.
Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
Basic Qualification: Good social PhpSalaryskillswrittenexcellentpresentationsandskills,oralandcommunicationRange:30,000-Php59,999 XU, MandarinXIULINGSpeaking Recruitment Specialist Brief Job Description: Sourcing out to qualified candidates for current open roles
Basic 499,999PhpSalaryorcreativeindigitalyearscourses.andcommunicationmulti-mediacommunicationcourseGraduateQualification:ofa4-5yearpreferablyinarts,arts,studiesotherrelatedWith10-12ofbrandandexperienceeitheramediaoragencysettingataclientend.Range:150,000-Php
Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months customer experience/goodservice in oral communication and PhpSalarywrittenRange:30,000-Php 59,999
SAFEWAY PHILTECH INC. 22nd Floor, Bonifacio Stop Over,, 31st Street Corner 2nd Avenue And Rizal Drive, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig 120. NGUYEN, TRUNG HAO VP & General Manager Information Technology, BriefManilaJob ResponsibleDescription:forpartnering with the onshore it leaders to ensure close alignment in it strategy and execution. Basic Qualification: More than 12 years of senior PhpSalaryoperationsretail/technologyinstrategicexperiencemanagementwithprovenleadershiplargemultinationalenvironment.Range:500,000andabove SHANXI HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION BUREAU CO., LTD. Unit 2608 26/f Cityland 10 Tower 1, 156 H.v. Dela Costa St., Bel-air, City Of Makati 121. GUO, ExecuteBriefDeputyHONGTAOProjectManagerJobDescription:andmonitorproject activities. Basic PhpSalarybachelor’sGraduateQualification:ofanydegree.Range:30,000-Php59,999
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Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.mandarinfluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor;inchines/isanRange:30,000-Php59,999
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SPRING DRAGON TRADING LTD. INC. 35th Flr. Penthouse 1,2 & 4 Manila Eco Tower, 9th Ave. Cor. 32nd St., Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig
RUNNINGMAN CORPORATION 8/f Techzone Bldg., 213 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., San Antonio, City Of Makati 119. FOO CHEE WEE Head Of Operations Brief Job Description: Acts as head and provides leadership and direction to the company’s overall operations Basic Qualification: A Native Speaker of the 499,999PhpSalaryWritten)LanguageChinese/Mandarin(SpokenandRange:150,000-Php
SPAULDING RIDGE PHILIPPINES, INC. 41/f, Gt Tower International,, 6813 Ayala Avenue Corner H.v. Dela Costa St., Bel-air, City Of Makati 122. O’CONNELL, SEAN MICHAEL Salesforce Development Director Brief Job Description: Ability to lead and manage team members to design and implement technology that aligns with client business objectives; Ability to create new solution offerings around Salesforce platform; Ability to work with Integration and Analytics Technologies such as Tableau, Einstein, Snowflake, MuleSoft, Talend, and other key offerings; Ability to identify issues and structural problems and generate actionable recommendations using standard methodologies that you may be required to develop.
101. WANG, EquipmentYANYUNInstallation Specialist
Basic 499,999PhpSalarypreference.graduatecourses.andcommunicationmultimediacommunicationcourseGraduateQualification:of4-5yearspreferablyinarts,arts,studiesotherrelatedCompletedschoolisaRange:150,000-Php 110. HATILA, VARUN Director – Digital Brief Job Description: This role will lead, manage and inspire the digital team and will build trusted and influential relationships with clients and media partners.
Basic Qualification: Good social PhpSalaryskillswrittenexcellentpresentationsandskills,oralandcommunicationRange:30,000-Php59,999
Basic Qualification: Able To Speak, Read, And Write Chinese PhpSalaryLanguageRange:30,000-Php 59,999 MOVENT, INC. 8th Floor Picadilly Star Building, 4th Avenue Corner 27th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig 109. SHARMA, ABHISHEK Director - Client Leadership Brief Job Description: The role will focus on advising clients and internal stakeholders (regional and global) touch-points on the local market. Tasked with supporting the management for the; profitable and efficient running of each account through allocation of resources, process and systems across portfolio. Establish leadership stance among key stakeholders; and translate client’s need into clear direction and leadership.
98. LIU, EquipmentGUOWEIInstallation Specialist
Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No. NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No. NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No. NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE 88. LUONG BA THAI SON Vietnamese Speaking Associate Brief Job Description: Attends to customers’ inquiries and complaints regarding Philips products via phone calls and emails. Responds to consumer inquiries regarding Philips products. Basic Qualification: At least high school graduate. Strictly follow procedures and requirements outlined in addressing customer issues / requests. Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES PHILS. INC. U-5302, 53/f Pbcom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave., Cor., V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of Makati89. ZHAO, ProjectYIXINManagement Office Director For Globe Wireless Expansion And DITO Wireless Project Brief Job Description: In charge in project integration plan, support the rolling forecast supply, procurement operation and resource business and be responsible for the accuracy of the integrated plan. Basic 499,999PhpSalaryMandarin.readingProficientQualification:inspeakingandwritinginRange:150,000-Php HYTERA COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATIONS LIMITED Unit D, 8th Floor, Inoza Tower,, 32nd St. Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig 90. OUYANG, LITAO General Representative Brief Job ExtensiveDescription:experience in the field of manufacturing Basic FluentQualification:inMandarin and English language both verbal and written Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 IBM SOLUTIONS DELIVERY, INC. 5th Floor, Ibm Plaza, 8 Eastwood Avenue, Eastwood City Cyberpark, Brgy. Bagumbayan, Quezon City 91. ASHIHARA, SOICHI Japan CSU Growth And Delivery Excellence BriefLeaderJob Description: ISD Go-To-Market for Japan Business Unit, Growth and delivery excellence leader, Manage programs and Complex projects, Oversee all JP CSU Project Delivery and Risk Management , Act as liaison between ISD and IBM Japan, Engagement lead for Japan clients Basic PhpSalaryJapaneseexperience12InsurancetransformationundercomplexProjectQualification:Manager-programshybridcloudwithIndustry.YearsofITworkandnativeSpeakerRange:500,000andabove IGT TECHNOLOGIES PHILIPPINES INC. 6th Floor, 18/20 Upper Mckinley Road, Mckinley Hill Cyberpark, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig 92. GEORGE, PRINCE Head - Business Excellence And International InteractBriefComplianceJobDescription:withcustomers and internal stakeholders presenting the audit plan , data privacy plan, etc. Basic 499,999PhpSalarycertificationcomplianceimplementation,businessinternationalExperienceQualification:instandardsandRange:150,000-Php INQUICK SERVICES INC. Unit 606 6/f Itc Bldg., 337 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati 93. ZHANG, MandarinSHUPINGSpeaking Customer Service IdentifyBriefRepresentativeJobDescription:andassesscustomer’s needs to achieve satisfaction. Basic PhpSalaryMandarin.readingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999 JIANGSU DIBANG CONSTRUCTION PHILIPPINES CORPORATION Unit 2106-a West Tower, Psec Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, San Antonio, City Of Pasig94. GAO, EquipmentHONGSHANInstallation Specialist Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic PhpSalaryConstructionWorkingandLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothWrittenVerbal;WithKnowledgeinRange:30,000-Php59,999 95. GU, EquipmentCHUNYANInstallation Specialist Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
100. QIN, EquipmentJUDI Installation Specialist
Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
Brief Job Description: Working as per the requirements of the clients and performing all kinds of general installation; Programming and setting up the machineries and equipment along with experimenting on the same Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
Basic PhpSalaryresearchgovernancespecificallyexperienceinwithtoandskillswrittenExcellentQualification:verbal&communicationinEnglish,SpanishPortuguese.Abilityeffectivelyworkdiverseculturesaglobalteam.PriorwithESG,corporatedataandanalysisRange:60,000-Php89,999 NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. MANILA BRANCH 26/f Yuchengco Tower, Rcbc Plaza, 6819 Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati 112. YAMASHITA, CHIE ToBriefConsultantJobDescription:researchonlatestdevelopmental issues/ODA related updates, implement projects.
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Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.mandarinfluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor;inchines/isanRange:30,000-Php59,999
K2 TOP CORPORATION 112 Cls I Bldg., Dagat-dagatan Area,, District 2, Barangay 14, City Of Caloocan 105. KIM, OverseeBriefMarketingWOOKYENGDirectorJobDescription:theentiremarketing group Basic PhpSalaryliterateEnglishHands-on,Qualification:competent,&TagalogRange:30,000-Php59,999 KUBOTA PHILIPPINES, INC. 232, Quirino H-way, Baesa, Quezon City 106. OHSHIGE, TAKAHIRO Assistant Vice reports; Communicate with Credit and Loan Division of Head Office; Other matters as may be assigned Basic 149,999PhpSalaryMandarinandinprocessing;andbackgroundindustry;experiencethanpreferablyCollegeQualification:graduatewithmore5yearsmanagerialinbankingwithstronginCreditLoanbusinessproficientspeaking,writingreadingEnglishandLanguageRange:90,000-Php MOA CLOUDZONE CORP. 4th-11th Flr. Nexgen Tower, C4 Rd. Edsa Ext., Barangay 76, Pasay City 108. JING, ChineseRENJIECustomer Service Representative Brief Job ManagingDescription:IncomingCalls And Customer Service Inquires
Basic WrittenLanguageFluentQualification:inEnglishBothinandVerbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
CHIANG, PEI-SHAN Chinese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service queries; suggesting information about other products and services.
XIE, InspectingBriefChineseLIANGHUASiteSupervisorJobDescription:construction sites regularly to identify and eliminate potential safety hazards. and instructing the construction team as well
96. GUO, EquipmentWEIJIEInstallation Specialist
Basic PhpSalaryofKnowledgeVerbal.BothandFluentQualification:inMandarinEnglishLanguageWrittenandWithWorkingintheFieldConstructionRange:30,000-Php59,999
RUBIO, NAZARETH Corporate Governance Operations Associate (Spanish-Portuguese Specialist) Brief Job Description: Part of the MSCI Corporate Governance Data team. Use language skills to help gather and process information available only in Spanish or Portuguese.
Basic FluentQualification:inMandarin and English, with at least 1 year experience in PhpSalarypaymentsRange:150,000- Php 499,999
Basic FluentQualification:inMandarin and English Language Both in Written and Verbal; With Working Knowledge in PhpSalaryConstructionRange:30,000-Php 59,999
JIU ZHOU TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. U-3401 34/f Pbcom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of Makati103.
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MSCI HONG KONG LIMITED U-1,2,3,4,7 & 8 29/f Zuellig Bldg., Makati Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas, Urdaneta, City Of 111.MakatiAGUIRRE
RICECASH ASIA PHILIPPINES, INC. 26/f Yuchengco Tower, Rcbc Plaza, Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati 118. GUI, TIENAN Cn Payments Night Shift Manager Brief Job Description: Manages and handles payments associates in handling deposit and fund transfer transactions
132. GRANADOS KOPP, CRISTIAN ALBERTO Customer Care Specialist I, Bilingual Spanish Brief Job Description: Respond professionally, accurately and in a timely manner to customer contacts (primarily inbound calls and may also encompass outbound calls, email, etc.).
Basic FluentQualification:inmandarin and English language both verbal and written. Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 *Date Generated: Aug 19, 2022
Basic PhpSalarymandarin.readingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999
TIAN XIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 6/f Filinvest Cyberzone Bldg. B, Superblock A Central Business Park 1 Bay City St., Barangay 76, Pasay City 135. CHAN, ChineseHUA-HSUANMarketing Specialist
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999 PHAM CANH HUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services.
Basic PhpSalaryskills.verballistening,ExcellentQualification:interpersonal,writtenandcommunicationRange:60,000-Php89,999
Brief Job Description: Handles administrative request and queries from senior managers/officers
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999 NGUYEN TONG MY LINH Vietnamese Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers PhpSalaryadvantage.mandarinfluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor;inchines/isanRange:30,000-Php59,999 being offered.
Basic PhpSalaryskills.verballistening,ExcellentQualification:interpersonal,writtenandcommunicationRange:60,000-Php89,999
144. JAIPHACHIT, LALITPAT Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
145. LAKKHAM, CHOMPOONUCH Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
VPC CORPORATE SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED 11/f 100 West, Sen Gil Puyat Ave. Cor., Washington St., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati 140. TEPJANTA, Thai-speakingPEERAYACustomer Service Officer Job ResponsibleDescription:toresolve queries of the Malaycustomers through email and chats.
149. SRIUDOMLERT, KORRANANNAT Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
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Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
134. RODRIGUEZ ZORRO, HANS DMITRI Customer Care Specialist I, Bilingual Spanish Brief Job Description: Respond professionally, accurately and in a timely manner to customer contacts (primarily inbound calls and may also encompass outbound calls, email, etc.).
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142. BURANABURUTTHAM, CHUTIKHAN Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
147. PROMRAKSA, JITTIMA Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No. NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE
Brief Job Description: Define a region-specific marketing plan that supports the regional sales strategy.
Brief
124. CUI, Asses’BriefConformanceYUNPENGAnalystJobDescription:productand/or exporter risk levels, identification of product essential requirements and capable standards following the business rules on conformity assessment, classification, import eligibility and process flows. Conformity assessments instructions (CAIs), and other related references. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be fluent in English and Vietnamese.
Basic PhpSalaryQualification:Range:500,000andabove
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
131. AMPUEA RODRIGUEZ, MAICOLL JOSE Customer Care Specialist I, Bilingual Spanish Brief Job Description: Respond professionally, accurately and in a timely manner to customer contacts (primarily inbound calls and may also encompass outbound calls, email, etc.).
137. XU, BilingualSHI-HANField Marketing Officer Brief Job Description: Define region-specific marketing plan that supports the regional sales strategy.
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133. LAURIN, LEANDRO MIGUEL Customer Care Specialist I, Bilingual Spanish Brief Job Description: Respond professionally, accurately and in a timely manner to customer contacts (primarily inbound calls and may also encompass outbound calls, email, etc.).
UNI-GREEN, INC. 2/f Prime Corporate Center Km 15 East Service Road, Cor. Marian Road 2, San Martin De Porres, City Of Parañaque 139. KITAMURA, KAZUNARI President And General Manager Job Exporter/importerDescription:of Ornamental Plants
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
151. NGUYEN NHUT THUY DUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services.
ZHONG TIAN STEEL PIPE CORPORATION 3/f Salcedo One Center, 170 Salcedo St., San Lorenzo, City Of Makati
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.mandarinfluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor;inchines/isanRange:30,000-Php59,999
TRI7 SOLUTIONS, INC. Unit 9-a 9/f Marvin Plaza Bldg., 2153 Don Chino Roces Ave., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati138. YE, ChineseDECHAOLanguage Customer Service
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158. NGUYEN NHU DUOC Vietnamese Language - Marketing Staff Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to service being offered.
Basic Qualification: Must have an excellent research and analysis skills needed to find and examine new existing laws, rules and regulations, critical thinking skills are required to develop workable solutions for new analysis. Problem solving skills are needed to rectify any compliance issues that may pop up during compliance audits. Must be fluent in English and Vietnamese language. Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
148. RUANGRAT, NACHICHA Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
Basic PhpSalaryVietnamese.writingExcellentQualification:inreading,andspeakingRange:30,000-Php59,999 WANFANG TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, INC. U-3501/02 35/f Pbcom Tower, Cor. Ayala Ave. & V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of 6-9/fMakatiTower 2 Double Dragon Plaza, Edsa Cor. Macapagal Ave., Barangay 76, Pasay City141. WANG (A.K.A. JEANETTE WANG), HSING-YI Chinese Admin Support Specialist
Basic 149,999PhpSalaryequivalentHRmanagementadministrationDegreeQualification:inbusinessorormanagementorcourseRange:90,000-Php Floor, W Fifth Building, 32nd St. Cor. 5th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig
Basic PhpSalaryskills.verballistening,ExcellentQualification:interpersonal,writtenandcommunicationRange:60,000-Php89,999
ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No. NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE
Basic Qualification: 5 yrs. experience in the same field and bachelor’s degree. Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999
152. NGUYEN VAN TUAN Vietnamese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services.
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
Basic PhpSalaryVietnamese/MalayBahasa/Thai/Chinese/inreadingProficientQualification:inwriting,andspeakingbothEnglish/Range:30,000-Php59,999
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Basic readingProficientQualification:inwriting,andspeaking in PhpSalaryVietnamese.Range:30,000-Php 59,999
NHIN QUAN LENH Senior Associate & Supply Planning (non-finished Goods/ Material Planning) Brief Job ResponsibleDescription:forcoordination of raw material as well as other parts and resources that are needed to manufacture products. Execute core materials planning process to ensure material availability (overstocks, understocks) Order all necessary components raw materials to support the MPS (Master Production Schedule) plan utilizing the standard operating procedures. Basic planningKnowledgeableQualification:inofconsumer in goods industry. Ability to think strategically and analytically. Strong critical thinking and negotiation skills. Strong communication and presentation skills. Must be fluent in English and PhpSalaryVietnameseRange:30,000-Php 59,999 METAL MINING PHILIPPINE HOLDINGS CORPORATION 24th & 25th Floor Nac Tower, 32nd Street, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of 127.TaguigKONDO, DAISUKE HR Affairs Section Manager Job FormulateDescription:HRPolicies. with structure
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150. TOMEE, MUNTANA Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
Basic PhpSalaryskills.verballistening,ExcellentQualification:interpersonal,writtenandcommunicationRange:60,000-Php89,999
Basic PhpSalarymandarin.readingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999
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125. WANG, Asses’BriefConformanceJINGSHENGAnalystJobDescription:productand/or exporter risk levels, identification of product essential requirements and capable standards following the business rules on conformity assessment, classification, import eligibility and process flows. Conformity assessments instructions (CAIs), and other related references. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be fluent in English and Vietnamese. Basic Qualification: Must have an excellent research and analysis skills needed to find and examine new existing laws, rules and regulations, critical thinking skills are required to develop workable solutions for new analysis. Problem solving skills are needed to rectify any compliance issues that may pop up during compliance audits. Must be fluent in English and Vietnamese language. Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999
Brief Job Description: Conduct market research; brainstorm and develop ideas for creative marketing campaign; assist in outbound and inbound marketing activities
ReportBriefRepresentativeJobDescription:onadailybasis operation of call center activities performing customer-oriented telephone activities & various background operation duties.
143. CHOKKIRATIKUN, PHONNIPHA Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
146. ONNIM, PAKJIRA Thai Marketing Specialist Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.
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Basic readingProficientQualification:inwriting,andspeaking in PhpSalaryVietnamese.Range:30,000-Php 59,999 XAVIER SCHOOL, INC. (ALSO KNOWN AS KUANG CHI SCHOOL) #64, Xavier St., Greenhills, City Of San Juan 159. XU, AcademicWEIJIANConsultant For Primary Grades Brief Job Description: Work closely with the primary grades Chinese language teachers and the integrated Chinese dept. Head for the constant improvement of the Chinese language curriculum for the said grade levels.
WISHLAND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY INC. 28/f Techzone Condo Corp., 213 Buendia Ave., San Antonio, City Of Makati 155. QIU, ChineseYUYINGLanguage-customer Service Staff Brief Job Description: Deal with and help resolve customer complaints. Basic PhpSalaryChinese.readingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritinginRange:30,000-Php59,999 156. BUI THI THUY DUNG Vietnamese Language - Marketing Staff Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to services being offered. Basic readingProficientQualification:inwriting,andspeaking in PhpSalaryVietnameseRange:30,000-Php 59,999 157. NGUYEN NGOC THAO VY Vietnamese Language - Marketing Staff Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to service
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
Basic FluentQualification:inmandarin and English language both verbal and written. Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999
160. MU, PlanningBriefProjectXUANManagerJobDescription:andoverseeing projects to ensure completion within budget.
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161. SONG, PlanningBriefProjectBOManagerJobDescription:andoverseeing projects to ensure completion within budget.
Basic Qualification: - At least 19y/old - Ability to speak write and communicate in PhpSalaryVietnameseRange:30,000-Php 59,999
Basic PhpSalaryadvantage.MandarinFluentpositionlanguagerespectiveinreadingProficientQualification:inspeaking,andwritingEnglishandtheirnativefortheappliedfor,inChineseisanRange:30,000-Php59,999
128. WATANABE, AKIFUMI Vice President For Corporate Management Brief Job ResponsibleDescription:forcorporate governance, corporate planning, business and investment strategies, internal corporate communication and new projects. Basic 149,999PhpSalaryindustry-specifiedorstudiesDegreeQualification:inbusinessormarketingsimilarrelevantorfields.Range:90,000-Php TAIWAN COOPERATIVE BANK-MANILA OFFSHORE BANKING BRANCH 26/f Bdo Towers, Valero & Villar Sts., Bel-air, City Of Makati 129. WU, LoansBriefBankingYI-LINOfficerJobDescription:&helpingcustomer research loans Basic 499,999PhpSalaryexperienceProvenQualification:professionalRange:150,000-Php 130. YANG, HSIN-JUNG VP & General Manager Brief Job Description: Overall in charge of the operation of the company Basic PhpSalaryexperienceProvenQualification:professionalRange:500,000andabove TENERITY PHILIPPINES CORP. 12th
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