Airspeed Group: Empowering SMEs for success

The Philippines continues to be resilient in the face of global economic headwinds, demonstrating its commitment to economic growth and development. Airspeed, an endto-end logistics company, has been a key partner of the Asia CEO for the last four years, encouraging business owners and entrepreneurs to grow beyond borders and make it happen for their stakeholders.

Airspeed is the title sponsor during the last Asia SME Forum 2023, held at the Manila Mariotte Hotel. Business leaders from the different industries gathered for the event, all with the same aim - to help build the nation’s prosperity through innovation, collaboration, and support the booming Small and Medium Enterprises.

Airspeed understands the challenges faced by SMEs in the competitive business landscape. Through Airspeed’s expertise in logistics and supply chain management, coupled with the forum’s extensive network, they offer SMEs an unparalleled opportunity and comprehensive range of services.

With Airspeed, SMEs can experience a Seamless Logistics ¬-- As a trusted leader in logistics, Airspeed offers end-to-end supply chain solutions customized to meet the specific requirements of their clients and stakeholders, from warehousing, efficient inventory management, piece picking, to delivery. It’s a one-stop-shop solution that enable their clients to focus on core business activities while they handle the logistics seamlessly. Airspeed can also help SMEs for their Market Expansion plans – They can unlock new markets and explore untapped opportunities with the Amazing Philippines Digital Economy Corporation, the digital arm of Airspeed Group that provides digital marketing services and e-commerce training for the micro, small and medium entrepreneurs.

Kahanga-Hanga PH, SpeedGifts and Pinaspeed provide SMEs with valu- without compromising on quality. Partner for growth – Airspeed Group prioritizes helping their clients grow beyond borders and make it happen for their businesses. They have a dedicated business unit that is always on hand to provide personalized support and guidance for SMEs. Airspeed Express, Inc. a subsidiary of Airspeed Group specializes in e-commerce logistics, from the transfer of stocks through First Mile delivery, e-commerce order fulfilment (whether from Lazada, Shopee, Shopify, and Tiktok shop), and last mile delivery or handover to 3PL of choice. Airspeed is ready to help SMEs overcome challenges and achieve their business goals.

The forum unlocked the limitless potential that awaits SMEs. To empower business, elevate your brand, and pave the way for sustainable success. Visit Airspeed’s website to learn more about how they can revolutionize your business journey. Seize this opportunity and let Airspeed be your catalyst and make it happen for your success!

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ippine Eagle.

“Even the trees na nagiging nest ng Philippine Eagle, pinuputol na. We still need to put more effort to educate our people specially on the ground. We believe kung naa ang atong Philippine Eagle in our forests indicates a good ecosystem that also indicates it’s a healthy forest and once there is a healthy forest it can provide us with clean water, clean air, and food kasi it provides us the resources but if it is depleted, during the time of pandemic our forest areas are depleting and degrading. We need more effort to rehabilitate it,” she said.

To strengthen conservation efforts, PEF has partnered with the indigenous communities in the uplands by training them to become volunteers and forest guards or Bantay Bukid.

In Davao City, currently there are 170 bantay bukid that are also protecting the city’s watersheds. These forest guards are being supported by the city government of Davao.

“We trained them as our volunteers and also partners, organized and empowered them so that they will be the one to advocate for the conservation and protection of the Philippine Eagle. Through our conservation efforts ito ang tinatawag natin na culture-based conservation by partnering with the indigenous communities in the uplands because nandoon din ang Philippine Eagle. They shared habitat in the ancestral domains of our IPs,” Lucino said.

The PEF has four programs for the conservation and protection of the Philippine Eagle: conservation, which is dedicated to the propagation of the Philippine Eagle in captivity; building more public awareness and developing sympathy for the Eagle and the environment through conservation and education programs; development program through delivering compelling messages and effective branding and fundraising for the foundation’s various initiatives; and engaging the community called community-based resource management.

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be passed.”

He said the city is also eyeing sisterhood deals with a city in South Korea and Israel.

Forging sister city agreements, according to him, aims to enhance the exchange of best governance practices and identify areas of cooperation.

“Sometimes, it’s cooperation in tourism, security, or trade. It also boosts the exchange of people and ideas with the hope that more investors will come and more direct flights will be added to open Davao City for more people to experience,” he said. “At the same time, Dabawenyos can also visit their places and see what they have to offer and bring the best back to our city.”

Davao City currently has 10 foreign and 13 local sister cities.

The city partnered with Bitung in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and Manado, North Sulawesi in 1993; Tacoma in Washington State, USA in 1994; Koror in Palau, USA and Nanning, China in 2007; Kitakyushu, Japan in 2017; Kauai County in Hawaii, USA and Jinchang, China in 2018; Chongqing, China in 2019; and Senan, Japan in 2023.

Davao City’s sister cities in the country include Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte (2000); Angeles City, Pampanga (2015); Basud, Camarines Norte (2015); San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (2015); Liloan, Cebu; San Juan, Quezon City, and Marikina in Metro Manila (2018), Zamboanga City (2019); Tagudin, Ilocos Sur (2019); Pandi, Bulacan (2020); and Mati City, Davao Oriental (2022).

He also said there is a pending resolution appreciating the Embassy of Israel for opening a consular office in the city in 2020. Campos said, “They have been very active in innovation. Most recently, they donated equipment and materials worth US$9,000 to the City Health Office for upgrading three health centers.” CIO

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nances. Violators of these ordinances are penalized.

Anti-smoking violators are fined P1,000 for the first offense and P2,000 for the second offense.

VRU is the lead enforcement of the New Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance in coordination with the Anti-Smoking Task Force.

Anti-smoking violators are fined P1,000 for the first offense and P2,000 for the second offense.

Las urged Dabawenyos, “Unta dili na magpabadlong. Magsigarilyo lang sa designated smoking areas o magtago sila sa sulod sa ilang balay para dili sila madakpan (Don’t be headstrong. Only smoke in designated smoking areas or hide inside their house so they don’t get caught).”

The VRU provides a Smoking Cessation Program, issuance of a permit to sell cigarettes, issuance of a certificate of compliance for designated outdoor smoking areas, and smoking awareness lectures. For inquiries, contact VRU at telephone number (082)-224 0079 or email vru@davaocity.gov. ph.

Meanwhile, the Davao City Health Office, on its Facebook page, underscored that they offer nicotine replacement therapy consultation for those who wish to quit smoking. CIO

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Ferdinand Marcos Jr. highlighted the immense opportunities for investment in our renewable energy sector. We, therefore, welcome Chinese and other foreign investment in renewable energy projects in the Philippines,” he said. (PNA)

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“I want to bring the best technology here. I don’t want the Philippines to be second class. The investment is big. But (even now) our business is already a billion peso industry. And it employs thousands,” Lorenzo said in a statement.

It was reported that Rizome plans to cultivate some 50,000 hectares of bamboo land in Cagayan de Oro.

Each hectare of bamboo land can sustain one family, so, 50,000 hectares can potentially provide livelihood for that many families, according to a PBIDC study.

Meanwhile, Flor Tesoro, president of the Philippine Bamboo Society of Advocates, told the Philippine News Agency that CS First Green AIDI, a company in Bayambang, Pangasinan, is serving as a model of sustainable bamboo cultivation and product development.

The town is host to a 164foot statue of St. Vincent Ferrer, which is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest bamboo sculpture.

Tesoro, a former Department of Science and Technology (DOST) undersecretary, said the colossal statue is a testament to recent technological leaps in engineering bamboo into a more durable and aesthetically pleasing building material.

“Bamboo is no longer just for building bahay kubos,” he added. (PNA)

RMC, Inc. is partly owned by the Magno family with Sec. Magno as chairman since 2009 until 2022 before he accepted the post as OPAMINE secretary under the Marcos Jr. administration.

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FROM 3 than 3,000 applicants from Davao City who filed for examination.

She said applications can be processed in different offices of CSC in the four provinces of the Davao Region: Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao de Oro, and Davao Oriental.

“Each province targets to cater to at least 3,000 applications. Puwede pud sila mag accept for Davao City,” she said.

Application for the examination costs P500.

Eamiguel advised the applicants not to wait for the deadline for application on June 21, 2023.

“It is important that they will file their applications on or before June 21, 2023,” he said. By Maya M.

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gency response; and drought management.

“After the drought contingency plan is developed, regular monitoring and evaluation will ensure that it remains adaptable to changing conditions and emerging technologies,” Garde added.

Nine sub-clusters under drought response were also created, consisting of food, health, law and order, logistics, emergency telecommunications, and education, among others. (PNA)

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was implemented.

RCEP is composed of the 10 ASEAN countries, including the Philippines, and its FTA partners such as China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

The region accounts for onethird of the world’s population and economy. RCEP is currently the largest free trade deal in the world. (PNA)

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tomorrow with most of the 12 disciplines calendared here including medal-rich athletics and swimming unfurling mostly at the complex and a couple of venues just inside the Cambodian capital.

In centerpiece track and field, a total of 24 gold will be staked in Day One and the Filipinos, who fielded in a total of 23 athletes, hope to snatch a fair share of glory in the sport where the country had a sixgold haul in Surakarta.

“Handa na kami,” said national track and field coach Joel Deriada.

For the Filipino swimmers, they will field in the same 12 tankers they sent in the last staging where they harvested a massive 12-mint haul including three from Aligarbes.

Battle-scarred Gary Bejino and Ernie Gawilan will get to take the first cracks at a gold in the 400-meter freestyle for S6 and S7 classes, respectively, starting at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

“Our goal is to make the country proud,” said national swimming mentor Tony Ong.

“In the first three rounds they won their first game when they traveled on the road and we didn’t want to have that to happen. I think we did a good job.”

Bam Adebayo scored 26 points to lead Miami. Gabe Vincent added 19 and Haywood Highsmith scored 18 off the bench, but Heat star Jimmy Butler was limited to 13.

Trailing by 21 entering the fourth quarter, Miami used an 11-0 run to cut the deficit to 10. Highsmith’s three-pointer got the gap to nine points with 2:34 to play.

But as they had all night, the Nuggets seamlessly pulled away.

Jokic fed Kentavious Caldwell-Pope for a jump shot, Caldwell-Pope came up with a steal and Aaron Gordon made two free throws as the Nuggets rebuilt the lead.

Jokic added a pair of free throws and a turnaround jump shot and the ecstatic crowd of 19,528 at Ball Arena in Denver could start the celebrations.

“Everybody contributed,” Jokic said. “It’s a great win for us.”

Jokic was content to play facilitator in the first quarter, handing out six assists as the Nuggets clicked quickly despite the 10-day gap since they finished off their sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals.

Gordon scored 12 points in the first quarter. Jokic didn’t take a shot until the waning seconds of the period, when he stripped the ball from Cody Zeller and made a layup that put Denver up, 29-20, at the end of the period.

Meanwhile the Heat, who flew straight to Denver from Boston after finally polishing off the Celtics in game seven of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday, connected on just nine of their 26 attempts in the first quarter.

“They are in a pretty good rhythm, especially in that first half, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Our disposition, the multiple efforts, the resolve in the second half was much better.

“But you get to this level, it has to be complete games of that kind of disposition.”

Any way possible Denver kept up the relentless pace in the second quarter, Murray scoring 10 points in the period as the Nuggets connected on 60% of their shots.

Four Denver players scored in double figures in the first half. Adebayo had 16 before the break for Miami, but Caleb Martin went 0-for-5 and Max Strus 0-for-7.

Not only were the Heat unable to convert the good looks they had, they couldn’t stop the Nuggets inside. Denver outscored Miami 32-18 in the paint in the first half.

Jokic’s 10 points and 10 assists before the break made him the only player besides LeBron James in the past 25 years to reach double digits in both categories in any half of an NBA Finals game.

He posted his 15th playoff triple double with his 10th rebound in the fourth quarter.

The Heat quickly sliced the deficit to 10 points to open the third quarter, but Denver had the answer to every adjustment they made.

“Right now the most important thing is to win a game,” Jokic said. “We’re trying to win a game any way possible. I don’t need to shoot, I don’t need to score to affect the game. I think I did a good job today. Agence France-Presse