The Libingan ng mga Bayani is a cemetery reserved for military personnel who died in line of duty or were honorably discharged, Filipino veterans, former presidents, government dignitaries, statesmen and national artists. Likewise, widows of former presidents, secretaries of national defense and chief of staff can also be buried in the same plot where their [...]

After a long while, the PBA team owners will finally meet again on January 25 to discuss some major concerns hounding the Philippine’s premiere basketball league, among those matters to be discuss is the next television station that’ll be granted the rights to televise the games. Likewise, the board will also tackle the league’s participation [...]

Good news for many of us, Mr. President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III is coming home with $2.8 billion pledges of investment. This also includes the Millennium Challenge Corp. that grant $434 million and will be using for road construction, tax administration projects and specially for fighting the poverty.
This will help our economy to grow [...]

Now that the peso has come into its highest rate this year of P43 per $1 the question is is it good or bad for filipino citizens? the answer will be yes and no because yes it may be a sign for a rising economy and no because how about the exporter and overseas Filipino [...]

The Philippine franchising today is so strong in terms of income and investment. And even the global economic crisis didnt slow it down and now with the global economic crisis slowly going to recover the franchising industry has more and more investment to offer.
The Association of Filipino Franchisers Inc. (AFFI) even said [...]

When you are a businessman you always want your children to follow your footsteps. You always want them to inherit your family business but in some families the children is forced to inherit it even if they don’t like to enter the business industry. There is also some cases that the child thought [...]

Since 2008 the etradata Corp. started to operate in the philippines. And since then they gained countless of customers and some of the known personalities in the field of
business.
Now they are planning to have a new project and the analytics said that Teradata Corp. is planning to expand their business operations and will build the [...]

Chinese delegates to the recently held 10th Philippine Travel Exchange (Phitex) at the Manila Hotel said they were impressed by the warmth and hospitality of Filipinos that they immediately enjoyed their stay right on the first two days of their visit.
Kelly Jiao from Shanghai, who led the delegation , said “At first, our group was [...]

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is intensifying their Japanese language training for those wishing to work in Japan. This is part of their initiative to provide more jobs for Filipino nurses there. According to labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, there are very few Filipino nurses who are being hired in Japan because of their [...]

The Philippine Development Foundation-USA (PDF), newly formed US-based Filipino development group is pushing for Philippine government to grant incentives for the creation of technology business incubators and business parks in order to nurture start-up investments in commercially-viable research and development fields in drug-making, food production and software.

Microsoft launched last week its latest product to its customers in the Philippines – the Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Vision 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010.
The software giant expects its new products to significantly benefit Filipino business in terms of productivity and gains and to give them higher returns on their software [...]

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said that approximately 11 million Filipino households do not have bank accounts.
BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said, “Rough estimates indicate that at the most, only one-third of our households have bank accounts,” during a conference of the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines held recently at the Sofitel Philippine [...]

A lower fees in their remittances will be enjoyed by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their beneficiaries starting on the third quarter of the year. According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), this will materialize once the the Philippine Payments and Settlements System (Philpass) Remit System becomes fully operational.
Remittances sent through the Philpass Remit [...]

Saturday, April 10, 2010 marks the first day of voting for Filipino overseas, which according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, proceeded smoothly.
Voters in Hong Kong said the automated process was “fun and simple” and most of them took less than 3 minutes to cast their voted, feed their ballots in the precinct count optical [...]

The sale of $500 million in retail treasury bonds (RTBs) has been launched by the government. This investment instruments are intended for overseas Filipino workers. They are the Fixed Rate Multicurrency Retail Bonds and they will be auctioned on April 20 and will be offered to investors on the same day until April 27, according [...]

Every year the SGV Foundation conducts the Search for the Philippines’ Entrepreneur of the Year (EoY) to encourage more entrepreneurs to help bring progress to the country. Recently, it just announced the start for this year’s search.
Nominees for this search must be Filipino entrepreneurs whose business have been in operation for at least two to [...]

Philip Morris International, Inc. (PMPI) joined forces with Philippine a cigarette company forming one big corporation that will control about 90 percent of the country’s lucrative cigarette market. The US-based tobacco giant formed a new company with local rival Fortune Tobacco Corp. (FTC), which is owned by Chinese-Filipino tycoon Lucio Tan.

Now, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and even foreign investors outside the country can check a real estate property they are interested in, without necessarily being in the Philippines. That is because the Philippine Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association (CREBA) have deployed in the Internet the Philippines’ first fully-automated Web GIS parcellary mapping service. [...]

UST Global inaugurated recently its new offshore development center in McKinley Hills, Taguig City. The new center is part of the company’s aggressive expansion plans in Asia, and is targeting to haul in $32 million revenues in its first year and catering to 2,000 clients in North America and Europe.

Bibingkinitan! has embarked on an aggressive campaign to expand its number of outlets this year. The fast-rising Filipino food chain is aiming to open up about 100 new outlets all over the country, to bring its total number of stores to at least 250 by the end of 2010.
Richard V. Sanz, president and chief executive [...]