The Bot Bubble: Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency. Every morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework in Lapu-Lapu City.
The building towers above the slums surrounding it—houses made of scrap wood with muddy goat pens in place of yards. She is a pretty, milk-skinned, 17-year-old girl who loves the movie Frozen and whose favorite pastime is singing karaoke. She is on her way to do her part in bringing down Facebook. ToitagL sur Twitter : "@gautoz HAN <3"... Ronnel Rivera. Rodrigo Rivera Sr.: Richest Filipino Fisherman. Rodrigo Rivera Sr.
Mr. Rodrigo E. Rivera, Sr. was a banker for 20 years before he decided to put up his own company, RD Pawnshop, with very limited capital in 1976. While the pawnshop business was flourishing, Mr. Rivera and his wife, Mrs. In less than two decades, the family business grew into a group of 42 companies and subsidiaries. With 8,000 employees, the RD Group of Companies is also into banking real estate, hotels, and resorts, agriculture, credit and gemology, and pawnshop operations. In 1999, Mr. On January 22, 2010 Philippine Star reported that Filipino owned RD Corp. announced they will be investing $15 million for a new plant in General Santos City for its canned tuna export business. PH road quality on par with Indonesia’s but well behind Thailand, Malaysia.
ByJerry E.
EsplanadaPhilippine Daily Inquirer MANILA—About 73 percent of national, provincial, city, municipal and barangay roads nationwide remain unpaved, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways. Despite this, the DPWH has noted a slight improvement in the quality of Philippine roads following the “adoption of new construction design specifications like the increase in concrete pavement thickness from 230 mm to 280 mm and outsourcing project inspection and quality control,” among other measures.
In its midterm accomplishment report, the department said the country’s roads were already “at par with Indonesia” and targeted to be comparable to those in China and Thailand by 2016. Citing the latest Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, the DPWH reported that on a scale of 1 to 7—1 being extremely underdeveloped and 7 extensive and efficient by global standards— the Philippines scored a 3.4 for its road network in the 2012-2013 period. Le thon mis en boîte / Tuna Canning in General Santos, Philippines. Philippines pushes for more transparency in extractive industries.
New Philippine Peso Bills:Currency of Hope and Change ~ What's New Philippines? New peso bills starting this Christmas 2010, imagine little kids, such as grandson (apo), nephew (pamangkin), godchild (inaanak) asking for their aginaldo the new peso bills.
Starting December 17, 2010 new design peso bills will be ready in circulation. The latest security features of the bank notes include security fibers/thread, embossed prints, serial numbers, watermarks, a see-through mark and optically variable ink /device. As the value of the note goes up the amount of feature increases.The Currency of Hope and Change Manuel L. Quezon on the front of twenty peso bills.BSP Official Description: (taken from the official BSP Media release)President Manuel L. "Popularly known as the 'Father of the National Language,' Manuel L. The Philppines: International economic sick man no more. Johann Carpio MANILA, March 12, 2013- The Philippine stock exchange has been cited as the third best performing market in 2012 according to the Paris-based, Word Federation of Exchanges.
The country’s economic comeback has shed it at last of its image as the “sick man of Asia,” and is now making even the most skeptical heads turn. This is a major development, which prompted World Bank country director Motoo Konishi to regard the island-nation as a “rising tiger.” There are four key points that have contributed to the improvement in the country’s economy. Court shuts down Baguio’s Irisan dump, site of fatal trash slide. The Court of Appeals has ordered the Baguio City government to permanently close its Irisan dumpsite following a catastrophic trash slide that claimed the lives of five people last year.
In a 13-page ruling penned by Associate Justice Ricardo Rosario, the CA’s Former Special Sixth Division approved the joint motion for rendition of a “consent decree” submitted by petitioner Benguet Rep. Ronald Cosalan and other concerned residents and by respondents Mayor Mauricio Domogan and the city council led by Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas.
The Philippines: signs of economic improvement. Author: Cesar Virata, Manila The Philippines began 2011 with high expectations and optimism after the Aquino administration announced various reform-minded plans and programs.
These included a vigorous anti-corruption campaign, plans for greater government transparency and accountability, a number of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for major infrastructure projects, social programs addressing poverty alleviation, and improved education and health programs. Still, the national economy slowed down in 2011 as compared with 2010, which was a year of high election spending.
In 2011 there was no compensatory infrastructure spending because many (10 or so) PPP projects were not yet ready. Philippines posts 7.3% GDP growth.