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Accuracy in establishing causes of deaths is crucial in identifying and planning for the next pandemic, says a UN report.

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By Cai U. Ordinario

ONITORING the number of deaths and their causes can help identify the next pandemic or health crisis, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Unescap).

Unescap said this is one of the key messages of the latest report on the region’s progress in achieving universal civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems by 2024. The Regional Action Framework contains 15 targets.

The report noted that the timely mortality statistics disaggregated by causes of death are needed to develop and monitor public health policies and detect emerging health crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The recent surge in Covid-19 in our region once again highlights the urgent need for universal civil registration of births, deaths and causes of death,” Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of Unescap, said.

“These developments emphasize the importance of our work to improve CRVS systems in the region.”

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UNESCAP stressed that there is a need to further train doctors and increase their awareness of the importance of accurate death certification.

These, the UN agency said, are some of the actions that countries can take to help combat this trend.

“While many countries have reported great success in reducing

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UNITED Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of Unescap Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana: “The recent surge in Covid-19 in our region once again highlights the urgent need for universal civil registration of births, deaths and causes of death.” UNESCAP.ORG

the number of children born without a birth certificate, far too few deaths in the region are registered with a medically certified cause of death,” Unescap said.

Based on the report, the Philippines is stagnating in meeting the targets on reducing ill-defined cause of death code and in the use of verbal autopsy.

The report stated that 22 countries did not have regular training provided on cause of death coding. The report added that nine of these countries did not have ad hoc training either.

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Unescap said verbal autopsy involves interviewing persons familiar with the deceased to determine the likely cause of death. This is currently used by 13 countries, and more are planning to do so by the end of the decade.

Meanwhile, the Philippines was also stagnating in achieving higher birth registration of children under five and the population whose birth has been registered.

Unescap noted that birth registration is crucial in creating a legal identity and “permanent” record of a child’s existence.

This is also part of the targets set under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which need to be met by 2030.

“Even for countries with high birth registration completeness, it is not clear if they have truly achieved universal registration, and even one unregistered birth is one too many,” Unescap said.

The Unescap said since 2012,

This is 22,579 less than the 56,830 Filipinos who died of the disease between 2015 and 2019.

“The top three causes of death in 2020 retained their respective ranks in terms of their averages in the last five years,” the PSA added.

Filipinos who died of ischemic heart diseases in 2020 posted the highest increase compared to their five-year average, while pneumonia posted the largest reduction compared to the 2015 to 2019 period.

The top three causes of death in 2020 were ischemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases. A total of 66,179 Filipinos died of neoplasms and 64,104 passed away due to cerebrovascular diseases.

Deaths caused by Covid-19 last year accounted for a total of 30.14 deaths or 4.9 percent of the total registered deaths in 2020.

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the number of unregistered children under five across Asia and the Pacific has been reduced by half, resulting in greater access to health, education and financial services.

However, death registration is lagging behind with only a third of all deaths in the region receiving a death certificate and medically certified cause of death. A key reason for this is a lack of training for doctors and coroners.

Causes of death

MOST of the 10 leading causes of death have already exceeded their averages in the last five years, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Based on PSA data, ischemic heart diseases have killed 105,114 Filipinos in 2020. This is 22,567 more than the total average of 82,547 Filipinos who died of the disease between 2015 and 2019.

However, a total of 34,251 Filipinos died of pneumonia in 2020.

n JAPAN 0.4544 n UK 68.7558 n HK 6.4201 n CHINA 7.6829 n SINGAPORE 36.8834 n AUSTRALIA 37.0484 n EU 59.0810 n SAUDI ARABIA 13.2969

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Countries using Chinese, Astra shots increasingly eye boosters

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By Bloomberg News

HEY’RE the main source of Covid-19 vaccines for much of the developing world, but concerns over the protection level provided by Chinese developers and AstraZeneca Plc., particularly against the virulent new delta strain, has some countries looking to provide extra doses.

Though definitive evidence is yet to emerge validating the necessity of so-called “booster” shots, health officials from Thailand to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have already decided to offer third doses for some people previously fully inoculated with vaccines from makers like Sinovac Biotech Ltd., Sinopharm and AstraZeneca.

Officials are being driven by concerns that delta and other variants appear to be breaking down defenses of vaccines not made from the super-effective messenger RNA technology. In places like Mongolia and the UAE, high levels of coverage by Chinese shots using the older, less effective inactivated platform hasn’t stopped a surge in cases. In the Seychelles, five people fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s shot have died.

Research shows that the delta mutation is powerful enough to even make mRNA shots from Bio­N Tech SE and Moderna Inc. less effective, bringing down ef-

ficacy to below 90 percent. The effectiveness of AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccine against symptomatic infections caused by the variant was lower at 60 percent, a study showed, though it can still prevent more than 90 percent of hospitalizations.

Countries are hoping a booster —either mRNA or a dose of another shot previously taken— could bolster protection ahead of the return of colder weather that’s optimal for the virus’s spread. Unlike Western developers, Sinovac and Sinopharm have shared little about how their vaccines could protect against variants. Shao Yiming, a researcher with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in May that preliminary studies indicated Chinese vaccines were still protective against variants emerging from India, without elaborating.

The two inactivated vaccines produced by Sinopharm were 73 percent and 78 percent effective against symptomatic Covid in

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Phase III trials. Various results from Sinovac’s clinical trials across Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey put efficacy at a wide range of 50 percent to over 80 percent,

which has fueled uncertainty about how well it works.

“We recognize that the weaker vaccines in particular seem to lose their ability to protect against Covid-19 relatively quickly, particularly against the variant strains,” said Nikolai Petrovsky, a professor at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Australia’s Flinders University.

“Even the better vaccines seem to be showing increasing levels of vaccine failure due to variant infections.”

Yet any plans by wealthier nations to acquire additional shots stands to further strain global supply and exacerbate the inequality gap that has left poor countries with fewer inoculations. The World Health Organization has called on richer nations to share doses to help meet a goal of vaccinating at least 40 percent of every country’s population by the end of the year.

Global deaths passed 4 million this week, as the disparity leaves poorer places exposed to outbreaks.

Giving extra doses “could easily divert one to two billion doses of vaccines over the coming 12 months to boost people already immunized that might otherwise go to developing countries where people have yet to receive their first immunization,” Petrovsky said.

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THE WHO has expressed caution in encouraging third doses. Chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan

said in June that such a recommendation was unnecessary and premature given the paucity of data on booster shots and the fact that high-risk individuals in much of the world still haven’t been fully vaccinated.

But governments are racing ahead as the delta variant spreads to more than 100 countries after devastating India, where it was first identified. The concern is particularly acute in places which had earlier relied on Chinese vaccines, which are available in nearly 100 nations.

In the Middle East, some countries have already started offering booster shots—including Pfizer and Sinopharm—for people who completed their vaccinations months ago, mostly with Sinopharm.

Thailand plans to use vaccines from AstraZeneca and Pfizer as boosters for health-care workers who earlier received Sinovac shots. The Indonesian Doctors Association this week also called for booster shots for health workers, after some medical staffers died despite being fully inoculated with Sinovac and AstraZeneca.

In Singapore—which has indicated that it’s preparing to ensure booster shots can be administered as early as year-end should they be needed—people inoculated with Sinovac aren’t being counted in the official vaccine tally, amid efficacy concerns and risk of vaccine breakthrough.

Preliminary studies from Thailand show that a first dose of Sinovac followed by an AstraZeneca shot three to four weeks later can elicit a stronger immune response than two doses of the Sinovac jab.

Even China, which has fully immunized more than a third of its 1.4 billion people with homegrown vaccines, has a study underway to evaluate the benefit of booster shots. Sinovac CEO Yin Weidong has said a third shot of the company’s vaccine, given three to six months after full inoculation, could raise antibody levels by as much as 20 times.

China is currently reviewing the BioNTech vaccine for approval.

A few options are being considered by officials, including using it as a booster shot for people already fully inoculated with local vaccines, according to people familiar with the matter, asking not to be named as the talks are not public. No decision has been made, and adding the mRNA shot as another option in China’s general rollout is also being discussed, the people said.

“If you can explore different combinations, there frequently is a combination where you get a better outcome than just using the same vaccine twice in a row,” said Shane Crotty, a professor at the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research at California’s La Jolla Institute for Immunology. “I do think that’ll happen for Covid vaccines.”

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By classification, Covid-19 with virus not identified was the seventh leading cause of death in the country with 20,840 cases or 3.4 percent of the total deaths in 2020.

Meanwhile, registered deaths due to Covid-19 with virus identified accounted for 9,300 or 1.5 percent of the total deaths in 2020, making it the top 14 cause of death during the year.

By regions

AMONG the 17 regions, the National Capital Region (NCR) registered the highest number of deaths due to Covid-19 with 13,004 or 43.1 percent of the total Covid-19 deaths.

In NCR, Quezon City reported the highest number of deaths due to Covid-19, with 2,637 deaths or

20.3 percent of the total Covid-19 deaths in the region.

This was followed by the City of Manila and City of Pasig with 1,961 or 15.1 percent and 1,465 or 11.3 percent Covid-19 deaths, respectively.

The data also showed that Covid-19 deaths in Calabarzon ranked second with 7,001 deaths or 23.2 percent of total deaths in the country last year.

This was followed by Central Luzon, which came in third with 2,692 deaths, or a share of 8.9 percent of total Covid-19 deaths.

Other regions that registered over a thousand Covid-19 deaths were Central Visayas and Western Visayas, with 2,362 or a 7.8-percent share; and 1,138 or 3.8-percent share of deaths, respectively.

Meanwhile, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) reported the least num-

ber of registered Covid-19 deaths with only 52 or 0.2 percent of the total.

The PSA noted that the data on causes of death presented in this press release were obtained from the timely and late registered deaths at the Office of the City/ Municipal Registrars throughout the country and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the PSA Provincial Statistical Offices for encoding.

Information presented includes deaths that occurred from January 2020 until December 2020 (cut-off date is as of 17 June 2021 on the processed death certificates).

The data is considered preliminary and may differ in the final counts. Deaths of Filipinos abroad were also not yet included—only those who died in the country but whose usual residence is abroad.

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WESM prices push up Meralco power rates this month

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By Lenie Lectura

LECTRICITY rates in the franchise area of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) are going up this month by P0.2353 per kilowatthour (kWh) to P8.9071 per kWh, mainly due to charges in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM).

The overall rate for a typical household, or those with an average monthly consumption of 200 kWh, increased by P0.2353 per kWh, from last month’s P8.6718 to P8.9071 per kWh this month. This is equivalent to an increase of around P47 in the total bill.

Generation charge—a major component of a power bill—for July stood at P4.8707 per kWh, a P0.2536 increase from last month’s P4.6171 per kWh. WESM charges remained high at P8.7424 per kWh due to tight supply conditions in the Luzon grid, aggravated by the ongoing Malampaya natural gas supply restriction.

It can be recalled that the Luzon grid was placed on Red Alert from May 31 to June 2 and on Yellow Alert on June 4 as major power plants went on forced and prolonged shutdowns, shaving off as much as 4,000 megawatt (MW) of power from the grid.

Moreover, Luzon demand reached 11,640 MW on May 28, the highest so far on record.

As a result of these, WESM prices were persistently high for extended periods, almost doubling the times when the secondary price cap was imposed during the June supply month.

Charges from Independent Power Producers (IPP) also increased by P0.1929 per kWh. With reduced gas supply from Malampaya, affected plants resorted to the use of more

expensive liquid fuel to continue operating and avoid more or longer brownouts.

IPP charges were also pushed up by the peso’s depreciation, as dollardenominated charges account for 97 percent of IPP costs. Meanwhile, cost of power from Power Supply Agreements (PSA) decreased by P0.0521 per kWh. WESM, IPPs, and PSAs provided 7.8 percent, 39.5 percent, and 52.7 percent of Meralco’s energy requirement this month, respectively.

Meanwhile, transmission charge for residential customers registered a reduction of P0.1463 per kWh due to a significant decrease in Ancillary Service charges. Taxes and other charges registered an increase of P0.1280 per kWh. Meanwhile, collection of the Universal Charge-Environmental Charge remains suspended, as directed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

Distribution, supply, and metering charges of Meralco have remained unchanged.

Meralco said this month’s increase was tempered by the continued implementation of the Distribution Rate True-Up refund, which began March.

The ERC provisionally approved Meralco’s proposal to refund around P13.9 billion over a period of 24 months or until the amount is fully refunded.

T h i s a mou nt re pre s e nt s t he d i f fe re nc e b e t w e e n t he A c t u a l Weighted Average Tariff and the ERC-approved Interim Average Rate for distribution-related charges for the period July 2015 to November 2020. For residential customers, the refund rate is P0.2761 per kW h and appears in customer bills as a line item called “Dist True-Up.”

Duterte thanks Japan for over 1-M AstraZeneca vax donation

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resident Duterte on Thursday ex pressed gratitude to the Japanese government for its donation of more than 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to the Philippines.

During the turnover rites of 1.124 million coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) jabs developed by AstraZeneca, Duterte thanked the Japanese government for helping the Philippine government have an “equitable” access to vaccines.

“These more than 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will surely go a long way in our quest for herd immunity,” Duterte said in a speech delivered at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City.

Duterte said the Philippines and Japan’s cooperation in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic indicates the two countries’ “deep friendship.”

“Ja p a n c o nt i nu e s t o b e o u r strong partner in various development prog rams,” he sa id. “A ga in, I ex press my hear tfelt g ratitude to Japan for a l l of t he assistance you have e x tended to our countr y dur ing t hese cha l leng ing times.”

Duterte also thanked Japan for ensuring the “safe and efficient” delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines to the Philippines and preserving the jabs’

quality and integrity by providing cold-chain transport and ancillaries.

The donation of the 1.124 million vials of AstraZeneca vaccine to the Philippines is part of the Japanese government’s initiatives to support Southeast Asian nations amid the pandemic.

In a message read by Minister Nakata Masahiro of the Embassy of Japan, Prime Minister of Japan Suga Yoshihide said, “Japan has ensured to provide Covid-19 vaccines to the Philippines. This initiative is a clear testament to the deep-rooted bonds of friendship between our two nations. As we commemorate this year the 65th anniversary of the normalization of Japan-Phi lippines d iplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of our strategic partnership, Japan will work to surpass the unprecedented challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, in unison with the Philippines, a true friend closer than a brother.”

At the same, Duterte renewed his call on his fellow Filipinos to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to stop its further transmission.

Duterte reassured the public that Covid-19 vaccines being delivered to the country are “safe and effective.”

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IATF allows outdoor activities for kids 5 years and above in GCQ, MGCQ zones

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hildren can now go outdoors in areas with low community quarantine classifications under a new Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) issuance.

In a news statement issued on Fr id ay, P resident i a l s pokesm a n Harr y Roque said the new I ATF policy will apply to those ages five and above in areas under modified ge ne r a l com mu n it y qu a r a nt i ne (MGCQ ) and genera l communit y quarantine (GCQ ), e xcept t hose under heightened restr ictions.

The Palace official said local government units (LGU) would be given the discretion to increase the age restriction in their respective jurisdiction.

“Children must be supervised by adults and observe minimum public

health standards, such as wearing of face masks and social distancing,” Roque said.

He said children will be limited to the following outdoor areas: parks, playgrounds, beaches, biking and hiking trails, outdoor tourist sites and attractions as may be defined by t he Depar tment of Tour ism, outdoor non-contact sports courts and venues, and al-fresco dining establishments in the previously mentioned areas.

Roque noted children would still not be allowed in mixed-use indoor/ outdoor buildings and facilities such as malls and similar establishments.

To recall, the government banned children from leaving their homes since the Covid-19 pandemic started last year. Samuel P. Medenilla

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PHL exports, imports post double-digit jump in May

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By Cai U. Ordinario

he country’s export and import performance continued to post double-digit growth in May 2021, according to the latest data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

The PSA said the country’s total export sales in May 2021 reached $5.89 billion representing a growth of 29.8 percent from $4.54 billion in May 2020. This growth was slower than the 74.1 percent in April 2021 but faster than the contraction of 26.7 percent in May last year.

Imports, meanwhile, grew 47.7 percent to $8.65 billion in May 2021 from $5.855 billion in May 2020. The growth was slower than the 152.8 percent in April 2021 but faster than the decline of 40.5 percent in May 2020.

PSA said the country’s cumulative export earnings from January to May 2021 amounted to $29.35 billion, a 21.4-percent increase from the export value earned from January to May 2020.

In the first five months of the year, imports amounted to $43.53 billion, representing a growth of 27.6 percent from the import value of $34.12 billion in the same period of 2020.

The PSA said the country’s total external trade in goods in May 2021, which amounted to $14.54 billion, representing a growth of 39.9 percent.

In the previous month, the annual increase was recorded at 114.5 percent, while in May 2020, the decline was 35.2 percent.

“Of the total external trade in May 2021, 59.5 percent were imported goods, while the rest were exported goods,” PSA said.

PSA said the Balance of trade in goods (BoT-G), in May 2021 amounted to $2.76 billion, representing a trade deficit with an annual increase of 109.7 percent.

The trade deficit in the previous month recorded an annual increase of 1,548.9 percent, while in May 2020, it declined 64 percent.

The PSA said the BOT-G is the difference between the value of export and import.

Goods

The PSA said electronic products continued to be the country’s top export in May 2021 with total earnings of $3.43 billion. This amount accounted for 58.2 percent of the total exports during the period.

This was followed by other manufactured goods with an export value of $374.62 million or 6.4 percent of the total and export of cathodes and sections of cathodes of refined copper, which amounted to $194.97 million or 3.3 percent of the total.

However, in terms of growth rate, the top exports are Other Sugar and Products posted the fastest growth at 1,090 percent followed by Travel Goods and Handbags, which grew 884.1 percent and Christmas Decor which grew 433.6 percent.

Exports over the past five months saw Christmas Decor posting the fastest growth of 507.2 percent followed

by Other Sugar and Products at 377.7 percent; and Ceramic Tiles and Décor, 292.9 percent.

In terms of imports, PSA data showed electronic products were the country’s top import with a value of $2.39 billion or a share of 27.7 percent to the total imports in May 2021.

This was followed by mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials, valued at $973.57 million which accounted for 11.3 percent of the total and transport equipment which amounted to $585.06 million or 6.8 percent.

In terms of growth rate, Chemical

Compounds posted the fastest growth at 303.4 percent followed by Mineral Fuels, Lubricants and Related Materials which posted 301.6 percent and Home Appliances, 253 percent.

PSA data showed that in the past five months, the top imports in terms of growth rates are Chemical Compounds which posted an average growth of 134.2 percent; Home Appliances, 84.1 percent; and Metalliferous Ores and Metal Scrap, 75.7 percent.

Markets The country’s top export markets in May 2021 were the People’s Republic of China, which accounted for $954.28 million or a share of 16.2 percent to the total exports during the month.

Other top export markets included the United States of America (USA) with $918.11 million or 15.6 percent of the total; Japan, $829.01 million or 14.1 percent; Hong Kong, $792.05 million or 13.4 percent; and Singapore, $324.95 million or 5.5 percent.

The Philippines’s imports in May 2021 were sourced mainly from the People’s Republic of China worth $2.21 billion or 25.6 percent of the total imports in May 2021.

The country’s top import sources also included Japan with imports worth $758.91 million or 8.8 percent of the total; Republic of Korea, $615.09 million or 7.1 percent; Indonesia, $601.04 million or 6.9 percent; and the USA, $584.84 million or 6.8 percent.

World Bank says sorry to PHL over release of education report

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he World Bank has decided to “temporarily remove” its report on the state of education in the Philippines after the Department of Finance (DOF) called on the Washington-based lender to recall the report.

In a news statement sent on Thursday evening, the World Bank expressed regrets that the report was “inadvertently published earlier than scheduled.”

T he multilateral development bank admitted that the report was released sans inputs from the Department of Education (DepEd).

“This was an oversight on our part, and we conveyed our personal apologies in our communication with

the government. Recognizing the inadvertent release of the report, we have taken steps to temporarily remove it from the web site,” the World Bank said.

The World Bank also agreed with Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones and said the quality of education in the Philippines had a “long historical context.”

“We have reached out to Secretary Briones on this matter and look forward to continuing our dialogue with the Department of Education on the opportunities and challenges in the education sector,” it added.

World Bank data showed it had 32 projects that were dedicated to or linked to education. Five of these

Govt OKs special flights to bring home stranded Filipinos abroad

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By Samuel P. Medenilla

tranded Filipinos from countries with existing travel restrictions due to incidents of the delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may soon finally be able to come home.

This after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) issued the guidelines for the conduct of “special commercial flights” in the said countries to repatriate stranded Filipinos.

P resident i a l spokesm a n Ha r r y Roque sa id t he I AT F c reated a Spec i a l Work i ng Group (S WG) to oversee t he spec i a l com merc i a l f l ight s to be mou nted by a i rl i ne f i r ms.

“The special commercial flights, which must have prior approval from the SWG, shall likewise be exclusive for Filipinos,” Roque said in a news statement.

The members of the SWG include the Department of Health, the Bureau of Quarantine, the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration, the Department of

Foreign Affairs, the Department of Transportation and its One-Stop Shop, the Philippine Coast Guard and the Department of Tourism.

Roque said the IATF guidelines on the implementation of exemptions would apply passengers of the said special flights.

Last May, the IATF imposed travel restrictions from travelers coming from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, and Oman as part of the government’s efforts to prevent the entry of the delta variant in the country.

The said variant, which is set to be more infectious compared to the regular SARS-CoV-2, has led to the spike of Covid-19 in several countries.

The effectivity of the ban has been extended until July 15, 2021.

projects are currently active.

The active projects include Social Welfare Development and Reform Project II Additional Financing and Philippines Social Welfare Development and Reform Project II. The projects aim to support the Conditional Cash Transfer Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to improve the use of health and education services by poor children.

Some education projects funded by the World Bank that have already been closed include the Learning, Equity and Accountability Program Support Project with DepEd, as well as the Early Childhood development implemented by DepEd, Department

of Health, and DSWD. The oldest education-related project of the World Bank in the Philippines, based on available public records of the bank, was to construct facilities and procure equipment for the College of Agriculture at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños.

Half of the cost of the project was financed through a World Bank loan. The loan amounted to $6 million and had an interest rate of 5.5 percent annually.

The loan, signed by former Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos P. Romulo and the World Bank’s fourth President George D. Woods in October 1964, was closed in December 1972.

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AIRO—Anti-poverty organization Oxfam said Thursday that 11 people die of hunger each minute and that the number facing famine-like conditions around the globe has increased six times over the last year.

In a report, titled “The Hunger Virus Multiplies,” Oxfam said that the death toll from famine outpaces that of Covid-19, which kills around seven people per minute. “ The statistics are staggering, but we must remember that these figures are made up of individual people facing unimaginable suffering. Even one person is too many,” said Oxfam America’s President and CEO Abby Maxman.

The humanitarian group also said that 155 million people around the world are now living in crisis levels of food insecurity or worse—some 20 million more than last year. Around two thirds of them face hunger because their country is in military conf lict.

“Today, unrelenting conflict on top of the Covid-19 economic fallout, and a worsening climate crisis, has pushed more than 520,000 people to the brink of starvation,” added Maxman. “Instead of battling the pandemic, warring parties fought each other, too often landing the last blow to millions already battered by weather disasters and economic shocks.”

Despite the pandemic, Oxfam said that global military spending increased by $51 billion during the pandemic—an amount that exceeds by at least six times what the UN needs to stop hunger.

In this May 11, file photo, Abeba Gebru, 37, from the village of Getskimilesley, holds the hands of her malnourished daughter, Tigsti Mahderekal, 20 days old, in the treatment tent of a medical clinic in the town of Abi Adi, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there. The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world’s worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying,” the head of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said on June 26, adding that millions more people are at risk. AP The report listed a number of countries as “the worst hunger hot spots” including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—all embroiled in conflict.

“Starvation continues to be used as a weapon of war, depriving civilians of food and water and impeding humanitarian relief. People can’t live safely or find food when their markets are being bombed and crops and livestock are destroyed,” said Maxman.

The organization urged governments to stop conf licts from continuing to spawn “catastrophic hunger” and to ensure that relief agencies could operate in conf lict zones and reach those in need. It also called

on donor countries to “immediately and fully” fund the UN’s efforts to alleviate hunger.

“We work together with more than 694 partners across 68 countries. Oxfam aims to reach millions of people over the coming months and is urgently seeking funding to support its programs across the world,” the report’s news statement said.

Meanwhile, global warming and the economic repercussions of the pandemic have caused a 40-percent increase in global food prices, the highest in over a decade. This surge has contributed significantly to pushing tens of millions more people into hunger, said the report. AP

APE CANAVER AL, Florida— Two billionaires are putting ever ything on the line this month to ride their ow n rockets into space.

It’s intended to be a flashy confidence boost for customers seeking their own short joyrides.

The lucrative, high-stakes chase for space tourists will unfold on the fringes of space 88 kilometers to 106 kilometers up, pitting Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson against the world’s richest man, Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos.

Branson is due to take off Sunday from New Mexico, launching with two pilots and three other employees aboard a rocket plane carried aloft by a double-fuselage aircraft.

Bezos departs nine days later from West Texas, blasting off in a fully automated capsule with three guests: his brother, an 82-year-old female aviation pioneer who’s waited si x decades for a shot at space and the w inner of a $28 -million charity auction.

Branson’s flight will be longer, but Bezos’s will be higher.

Branson’s craft has more windows, but Bezos’s windows are bigger.

Branson’s piloted plane has already flown to space three times. Bezos’ has five times as many test flights, though none with people on board.

Either way, they’re shooting for sky-high bragging rights as the first person to fly his own rocket to space and experience three to four minutes of weightlessness.

Branson, who turns 71 in another week, considers it “very important” to try it out before allowing space tourists on board. He insists he’s not apprehensive; this is the thrill-seeking adventurer who’s kite-surfed across the English Channel and attempted to circle the world in a hot-air balloon.

“As a child, I wanted to go to space.

When that did not look likely for my generation, I registered the name Virgin Galactic with the notion of creating a company that could make it

happen,” Branson wrote in a blog this week. Seventeen years after founding Virgin Galactic, he’s on the cusp of experiencing space for himself.

“It’s amazing where an idea can lead you, no matter how far-fetched it may seem at first.”

Bezos, 57, who stepped down Monday as Amazon’s CEO, announced in early June that he’d be on his New Shepard rocket’s first passenger flight, choosing the 52nd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moon landing.

He too had childhood dreams of traveling to space, Bezos said via Instagram. “On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend.”

Branson was supposed to fly later this year on the second of three more test flights planned by Virgin Galactic before flying ticket holders next year. But late last week, he leapfrogged ahead.

He insists he’s not trying to beat Bezos and that it’s not a race. Yet his announcement came just hours after Bezos revealed he’d be joined in space

by Wally Funk, one of the last surviving members of the so-called Mercury 13. The 13 female pilots never made it to space despite passing the same tests in the early 1960s as NASA’s original, all-male Mercury 7 astronauts.

Bezos hasn’t commented publicly on Branson’s upcoming flight.

But some at Blue Origin already are nitpicking the fact that their capsule surpasses the designated Karman line of space 100 kilometers up, while Virgin Galactic’s peak altitude is 88 kilometers. International aeronautic and astronautic federations in Europe recognize the Karman line as the official boundary between the upper atmosphere and space, while NASA, the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and some astrophysicists accept a minimum altitude of 80 kilometers.

Blue O r ig i n’s f l ig ht s l a st 10 minutes by the time the capsule

parachutes onto the desert f loor.

Virgin Galactic’s last around 14 to 17 minutes from the time the space plane drops from the mothership and fires its rocket motor for a steep climb until it glides to a runway landing.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk doesn’t do quick up-and-down hops to the edge of space. His capsules go all the way to orbit, and he’s shooting for Mars.

“There is a big difference between reaching space and reaching orbit,” Musk said last week on Twitter.

Musk already has carried 10 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, and his company’s first private spaceflight is coming up in September for another billionaire who’s purchased a three-day, globecircling ride.

Regardless of how high they fly, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin already are referring to their prospective clients as “astronauts.” More than 600 have reserved seats with Virgin Galactic at $250,000. Blue Origin expects to announce prices and open ticket sales once Bezos flies.

Phil McAlister, NASA’s commercial spaceflight director, considers it a space renaissance, especially as the space station gets set to welcome a string of paying visitors, beginning with a Russian actress and movie producer in October, a pair of Japanese in December and a SpaceX-delivered crew of businessmen in January.

“The way I see it is the more, the better, right?” McAlister said. “More, better.”

T h i s i s pre c i s e l y t he f ut u re NASA wanted once the shuttles retired and private companies took over space station ferr y f lights. Atlantis blasted off on the last shuttle f light 10 years ago Thursday.

NASA’s final shuttle commander, Chris Ferguson, who now works for Boeing on its Starliner crew capsule, is impressed that Branson and Bezos are launching ahead of customers.

“That’s one surefire way to show confidence in your product is to get on it,” Ferguson said at Thursday’s 10th anniversary shuttle celebrations.

“I’m sure that this was not a decision made lightly. I wish them both well.

I think it’s great.” AP

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‘Overdue’: Biden sets Aug. 31 for US exit from Afghanistan

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ASHINGTON—President Joe Biden says the US military operation in Afghanistan will end on August 31, delivering an impassioned argument for exiting the nearly 20year war without sacrificing more American lives even as he bluntly acknowledged there will be no “mission accomplished” moment to celebrate.

Biden pushed back against the notion the US mission has failed but also noted that it remains unlikely the government would control all of Afghanistan after the US leaves. He urged the Afghan government and Taliban, which he said remains as formidable as it did before the start of the war, to come to a peace agreement.

“We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build,” Biden said in a Thursday speech from the White House’s East Room. “Afghan leaders have to come together and drive toward a future.”

The administration in recent days has sought to frame ending the conflict as a decision that Biden made after concluding it’s an “unwinnable war” and one that “does not have a military solution.”

On Thursday he amplified the justification of his decision even as the Taliban make rapid advances in significant swaths of the country.

“How many more, how many more thousands of A merican daughters and sons are you willing to risk?” Biden said to those calling for the US to extend the military operation. He added, “I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan, with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome.”

T he ne w w it hd raw a l d ate comes after former President Donald Trump’s administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban to end the US military mission by May 1. Biden after taking office announced US troops would be out by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack, which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden plotted from Afghanistan, where he had been given refuge by the Taliban.

With US and Nato ally forces rapidly drawing down in the past week, there was growing speculation that US combat operations have already effectively ended.

But by setting August 31 as the drawdown date, the administration nodded to the reality that the long war is in its final phase, while providing itself some cushion to deal with outstanding matters.

The administration has yet to complete talks with Turkey on an arrangement for maintaining security at the Kabul airport and is still ironing out details for the potential evacuation of thousands of Afghans who assisted the US military operation.

Biden said that prolonging US military involvement, considering Trump had already agreed to withdraw US troops, would have led to an escalation of attacks on

American troops and Nato allies.

“The Taliban would have again begun to target our forces,” Biden said. “The status quo was not an option. Staying meant US troops taking casualties. American men and women. Back in the middle of a civil war. And we would run the risk of having to send more troops back in Afghanistan to defend our remaining troops.”

The President added that there is no “mission accomplished ” moment as the US war comes to an end.

“The mission was accomplished in that we got Osama bin Laden and terrorism is not emanating from that part of the world,” he said. US forces killed bin Laden in 2011.

US forces this week vacated Bagram Airfield—the US epicenter of the conflict to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the 2001 terrorist attacks that triggered the war.

Remaining US troops are now concentrated in Kabul, the capital. The Pentagon said the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, is expected to end his tour of duty this month as final arrangements are made for a reduced US military mission.

Biden, answering questions from reporters after his remarks on Thursday, said that Kabul falling to the Taliban would not be an acceptable outcome. The President also pushed back against the notion that such a scenario was certain.

“Do I trust the Taliban? No,” Biden said. “But I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war.”

To be certain, the West hopes Taliban gains will be confined mostly to rural areas, with the Afghan government and its allies retaining control of the cities where much of Afghanistan’s population resides. And while the Taliban remain a major power in Afghanistan, the government’s supporters hope that Afghans will work out the Taliban role in the post-US Afghanistan power structure more through political than military means, partly through the inducements of international legitimacy, aid and other support.

Asked by a reporter whether rampant corruption within the Afghan government contributed to the failure of achieving the sort of stability that his predecessors and American military commanders envisioned, Biden didn’t exactly dismiss the notion.

“The mission hasn’t failed—yet.”

Biden continues to face pressure from congressional lawmakers to offer further detail on how he intends to go about assisting thousands of Afghans who helped the US military as translators, drivers and in other jobs. Many are fearful they will be targets of the Taliban once the US withdrawal is complete. AP

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from Seoul and nearby metropolitan regions, home to half of the country’s 51 million people, where officials will elevate social distancing restrictions to an unprecedented “Level 4” for two weeks beginning Monday.

The measures include prohibiting private social gatherings of more than 3 people after 6 p.m., shutting down nightclubs and churches, banning visitors at hospitals and nursing homes and limiting weddings and funerals to family-only gatherings. Protests will be banned and shopping malls will have to close after 10 p.m.

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2 Americans, ex-Colombia army men held in Haiti assassination

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ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual US-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army.

Léon Charles, chief of Haiti’s National Police, said Thursday night that 15 of the detainees were from Colombia.

The police chief said eight more suspects were being sought and three others had been killed by police. Charles had earlier said seven were killed.

“We are going to bring them to justice,” the police chief said, the 17 handcuffed suspects sitting on the floor during a news conference on developments following the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moïse at his home before dawn Wednesday.

Colombia’s government said it had been asked about six of the suspects in Haiti, including two of those killed, and had determined they were retired members of its army. It didn’t release their identities.

The head of the Colombian national police, Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia, said President Iván Duque had ordered the high command of Colombia’s army and police to cooperate in the investigation.

“A team was formed with the best investigators...they are going to send dates, flight times, financial information that is already being collected to be sent to Port-au-Prince,” Vargas said.

The US State Department said it was aware of reports that Haitian Americans were in custody but could not confirm or comment.

The Haitian Americans were identified by Haitian officials as James Solages and Joseph Vincent.

Solages, at age 35, is the youngest of the suspects and the oldest is 55, according to a document shared

by Haiti’s minister of elections, Mathias Pierre. He would not provide further information on those in custody.

Solages described himself as a “certified diplomatic agent,” an advocate for children and budding politician on a web site for a charity he started in 2019 in south Florida to assist people in the Haitian coastal town of Jacmel. On his bio page for the charity, Solages said he previously worked as a bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti.

Canada’s foreign relation department released a statement that did not refer to Solages by name but said one of the men detained for his alleged role in the killing had been “briefly employed as a reserve bodyguard” at its embassy by a private contractor. He gave no other details.

Calls to the charity and Solages’s associates at the charity either did not go through or weren’t answered.

Witnesses said a crowd discovered two of the suspects Thursday hiding in bushes in Port-au-Prince, and some people grabbed the men by their shirts and pants, pushed them and occasionally slapped them. An Associated Press journalist saw officers put the pair in the back of a pickup and drive away as the crowd ran after them to a nearby police station.

“They killed the president! Give them to us! We’re going to burn them,” people chanted outside.

The crowd later set fire to several abandoned cars riddled with bullet holes that they believed belonged to the suspects. The cars didn’t have license plates, and inside one was an empty box of bullets and some water.

Later, Charles urged people to stay calm and let his officers do their work. He cautioned that authorities needed evidence that was being destroyed, including the burned cars.

Officials have given out little information on the killing, other than to say the attack was carried out by “a highly trained and heavily armed group.”

Not everyone was buying the government’s description of the attack. When Haitian journalist Robenson Geffrard, who writes for a local newspaper and has a radio show, tweeted a report on comments by the police chief, he drew a f lood of responses expressing skepticism.

Many wondered how the sophisticated attackers described by police could penetrate Moïse’s home, security detail and panic room and escape unharmed but then be caught without planning a successful getaway.

S. Korea to enforce ‘strictest’ social distancing in capital to highest level EOUL , Sout h Korea— South Korea will enforce its strongest social distancing restr ictions in t he g reater capita l area star t ing next week as it wrestles with what appears to be the worst wave of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.

T he pl a ns, wh ic h may br ing Seou l ’s t hr iv ing night l ife to a st a nd st i l l, were a nnou nced shor t ly before t he Korea Disease Cont rol a nd Prevent ion A genc y repor ted a not her new 1 , 316 c a s e s o n We d n e s d a y, brea k ing t he cou nt r y ’s prev ious one - d ay record of 1,275 set t he d ay before.

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country where a shortage in vaccine supplies have left 70 percent of the population still waiting for their first shot.

The country’s caseload is now at 165,344 after adding more

than 8,300 cases in July alone.

Critics say the government made things worse by pushing for a premature easing of social distancing over economic concerns. AP

Police guard detained suspects in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on, July 8, 2021. Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday. AP/Jean Marc Hervé Abélard

A Haitian judge involved in the investigation said Moïse was shot a dozen times and his office and bedroom were ransacked, according to the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste. It quoted Judge Carl Henry Destin as saying investigators found 5.56 and 7.62 mm cartridges between the gatehouse and inside the house.

Moïse’s daughter, Jomarlie Jovenel, hid in her brother’s bedroom during the attack, and a maid and another worker were tied up by the attackers, the judge said.

Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who assumed leadership of Haiti with the backing of police and the military, asked people to reopen businesses and go back to work as he ordered the reopening of the international airport.

Joseph decreed a two-week state of siege after the assassination, which stunned a nation already in crisis from some of the Western Hemisphere’s worst poverty, widespread violence and political instability.

Haiti had grown increasingly unstable under Moïse, who had been ruling by decree for more than a year and faced violent protests as critics accused him of trying to amass more power while the opposition demanded he step down.

The UN Security Council met privately Thursday to discuss the

situation in Haiti, and UN special envoy Helen La Lime said afterward that Haitian officials had asked for additional security assistance.

Publ ic t ra nspor t at ion a nd street vendors remained scarce Thursday, an unusual sight for the normally bustling streets of Port-au-Prince.

Marco Destin was walking to see his family since no buses, known as tap-taps, were available.

He was carrying a loaf of bread for them because they had not left their house since the president’s killing out of fear for their lives.

“Every one at home is sleeping with one eye open and one eye closed,” he said. “If the head of state is not protected, I don’t have any protection whatsoever.”

Gunfire rang out intermittently across the city hours after the killing, a grim reminder of the growing power of gangs that displaced more than 14,700 people last month alone as they torched and ransacked homes in a fight over territory.

Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said gangs were a force to contend with and it isn’t certain Haiti’s security forces can enforce a state of siege.

“It’s a really explosive situation,” he said. AP

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Pinoy fashion brands raise PHL flag in Japan

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HOWCASING Filipinos’ ingenuity and creativity, eight local fashion brands debuted their latest collections, which stemmed from a pioneering mentorship program, during the just-concluded showroom exhibition in Lifork Harajuku in Tokyo, Japan.

From July 7 to 9, communicationsolutions company H3O Fashion Bureau and LIT Fashion Consultancy presented the designs of each of the homegrown fashion brands—Bagasao, Feanne, HA.MÜ, J Makitalo, Jill Lao, Kelvin Morales, Lorico, and Neil Felipp—to prospective Japanese buyers, press, and influencers.

The three-day event culminated PHx Tokyo where market specialists Jason Lee Coates and Hirohito Suzuki of H3O and Tetta Ortiz-Mattera of LIT Fashion equipped the participating design-

ers with vital skills in marketing, branding, and the rudiments of Japanese retailing.

Spearheaded by the PHx Fashion Group and the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (Citem), PHx Tokyo is an eight-month program that was conducted online due to the ensuing Covid-19 pandemic.

“Alongside aesthetic, of course, there was always the commercial component that they had to consider. Under the watchful and expert eye of Jason, Hiro, and Tetta,

MARKET specialists Jason Lee Coates (right) and Hirohito Suzuki (left) of H3O Fashion Bureau and Tetta Ortiz-Mattera (middle) of LIT Fashion Consultancy equip participating Filipino designers with vital skills in marketing, branding, and the rudiments of Japanese retailing.

our PHx Tokyo designers were also able to tailor their sartorial voices for the discerning Japanese market,” said Citem Executive Director Pauline Suaco-Juan.

While the Japanese fashion industry, which accounts for billions of US dollars in sales annually, is one of the best platforms worldwide for a young brand to launch, it also proves to be inscrutable and impenetrable, according to Coates.

“Japanese buyers are always fascinated to look at new brands. So hopefully we can have that knowledge with respect to quality, with respect to cut and fit, with respect to fabrications and pricing,” he said.

To cater to them at the best of their ability, Matera emphasized the need for local designers, who know their design aesthetic and market, to pivot and understand that what they know in the Philippines does not necessarily apply to the Japanese market.

“So the mentoring program addresses that,” she said. “The designers we are working with are very receptive. They acknowledge that what they already know is not the end-all and be-all of fashion. And there’s also the mutual respect be-

tween us and designers.”

Feanne, one of the mentees of the program, shared that PHx Tokyo arrived at an ideal point in her career. She said: “Having been self-taught and self-directed for so many years, I feel that structured guidance from industry veterans could help me take my creative career to the next level.”

PHx Tokyo was developed from a 2019 iteration of the PHx Fashion Conference, an initiative by Seph Bagasao, Esme Palaganas, and Trickie Lopa in coordination with the Philippine Trade Training Center to spark conversations on how the Philippine fashion industry could move forward.

The program and its participants were introduced in the October 2020 launch of FAME+, Citem’s digital platform for the country’s home, fashion, and lifestyle sectors.

PHx Tokyo then commenced in November, with one-on-one sessions with designers and a different topic every month until June 2021.

To date, designers involved here have produced a 292-strong and Japanese market-ready collection of apparel and accessories. All PHx Tokyo brands are also housed on FAME+.

BARMM lists ₧998-M petro PHL Arabica entries emerge as one of world’s best in coffee tilt investment under PCECP D C

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OTABATO CITY— The Regional Board of Investments-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-BARMM) has provisionally registered the P998-million petroleum project by the Esmaulana Global Ventures Company Inc. (EMGVCI) in the region under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Philippine Conventional Energy Contracting Program (PCECP).

RBOI-BARMM Chairman Ishak Mastura revealed this in a statement Tuesday following a recent zoom meeting with DOE and EMGVCI representatives.

“The proposed investment project covers the Liguasan Marsh in Maguindanao and the Sulu Sea but the areas that fall within the BARMM jurisdiction are subject to the joint determination by the BARMM regional government and the national government,” Mastura, a lawyer, said.

He said the EMGVCI

participated in the PCECP of the DOE and purchased the appropriate data package for pre-determined areas in the BARMM—the Cotabato Basin and Sulu Basin—amounting to over P2 million.

“As such, the DOE informed EMGVCI that the awarding of the service contracts for BARMM areas were held in abeyance since the modality of processing and awarding of such contracts in the BARMM for petroleum investments still have to be worked out in the Intergovernmental Relations Body, as established under the Bangsamoro Organic Law [BOL],” Mastura said.

He said the EMGVCI registered with the RBOIBARMM subject to the final approval of a service contract

by President Duterte so they can prepare, recruit, and train manpower as well as obtain capital equipment for future exploration, utilization, and development of their target areas in the BARMM. Mastura said the registration of the investment project

does not mean that EMGVCI can proceed with their study, but rather the latter is only recognized as a firm operating in the BARMM area since the BOI provides preference to BARMM residents in the exploitation of its natural resources, particularly oil and gas reserves if any.

He said no financial incentives were given to EMGVCI by the RBOI-BARMM because petroleum companies have their own terms and conditions under a service contract.

“However, EMGVCI can apply in the future for reduced duties and taxes for the importation of capital equipment should their oil and gas venture progress during their talks with the BARMM regional government and the national government,” he said.

The EMGVCI is a registered Filipino company with 40-percent foreign equity engaged in the business of oil/gas petroleum minerals, mining exploration, extraction, refinery, import, and export of its by-products.

AVAO CITY—Philippine coffee entries to the recently concluded Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC) 2021 impressed the international judges, with the country’s Arabica entries getting the accolade of being one of the world’s “best washed coffees.”

The outstanding impressions Philippine coffee entries have elicited from the international judges generated strong sales in the online auction held at the side of the competition.

In his final report as one of the international judges, Krude CheHao Lin, founder of Taiwan Coffee Laboratory, said that some of the winning specialty Arabica coffee entries of PCQC 2021 “could rival the best washed coffees” that he has ever tasted, according to the Washington, DC-based international development organization ACDI/VOCA. “Tremendous insight and efforts were clearly put into the coffee’s cultivation, harvest, and processing,” the ACDI/VOCA said in a news statement sent to the BusinessMirror, quoting Lin as saying.

The judge, likewise, was impressed with the improvement in quality of the other widely grown Robusta coffee from the Philippines. Lin said the fine Robusta coffee entries

from the Philippines were “clean, sweet, and flavorful and came very close to their Arabica counterparts.”

“I believe this to be a crucial breakthrough in the world of coffee, as coffee growers are facing various challenges due to climate change,” he said.

He said the Philippine Robusta entries he cupped for the PCQC were exemplary, which he said, should improve the status of Robusta coffee.

He said Robusta coffee “has been unfairly treated as second-class citizen in the world of specialty coffee.”

The ACDI/VOCA also quoted Shaun Ong of Better Coffee Co. in Singapore, head judge of this year’s competition, as saying that the entries “have shown that the quality of Philippine coffee is improving year after year.”

“I was blown away by this year’s entries. The top 3 Arabica winners are among the best in the Philippines, while the Robusta top 3 winners are the best that I have tasted as a judge in the last four years,” he said. Ong said the PCQC organizers “have done an outstanding job in the execution of the event which covered two local and three international venues.”

“The leadership and hard work of the technical working group, the organizers, administrators, roasters, judges, and volunteers should be cel-

ebrated as this was the first competition to be held long distance due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.

The winning entries also notched a golden feather when it fetched alltime record-high prices during the online auction facilitated and hosted by the Philippine Coffee Guild in partnership with USDA’s PhilCAFE Project, the ACDI/VOCA added.

The entry of Marites Arellano of Balutakay, Davao del Sur, which won the top prize for the specialty Arabica category secured the highest bid price of $52.20 (P2,550) per kilogram. Meanwhile, Mabini Ubuan’s entry of Robusta coffee from Sigay, Ilocos Sur fetched the highest bid price of $18.00 (P879) per kilogram for Robusta entries.

All 22 Arabica and Robusta coffees, which totaled to 3,016 kilograms were sold during the auction with an aggregate value of $51,689.40 (P2,481,091). The auction successfully sold 1,478 kilograms of specialty Arabica, and 1,538 kilograms of fine Robusta. Of the 29 registered bidders, four were from outside the Philippines, and the rest were from across the country. Nine local roasters and three international buyers secured the winning entries during the auction proper. Manuel Cayon

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PHL assumes ILO group chairmanship; pushes for protection of elder workers

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ber” and “deputy member,” which means the country has no speaking right and voting right in the said international body.

Currently, only countries with industrial importance are given voting powers and speaking rights in ILO, she said.

“This [system] is what we want to be abolished, to give a voice to smaller countries [in the ILO],” Yañgot said.

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USHING for better protection of elder workers and gaining a more equitable country representation will be among the top agenda of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) during the country’s chairmanship of the International Labor Organization (ILO) government group.

In an online press briefing, Labor attaché in Geneva, Switzerland Cheryl Daytec-Yañgot said this will be included in the list of their additional agenda in the ILO, along with the protection of migrant workers and indigenous people.

In a report to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Geneva said the Philippines formally assumed the post last week after completing its vice chairmanship position. This is a historic moment for the Philippines, which is the first nonregular member country of the ILO to take such role.

This marks a significant shift in the policy-making global tripartite body that has been traditionally led by big, powerful member-countries, DOLE said.

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Yañgot said Secretary Bello has issued instructions for them to include the interest of older person “every time we craft policies in ILO.” International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Director Alice Visperas said they opted to prioritize senior citizens since they are among the most vulnerable during the economic disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the displacement of millions of workers worldwide.

“Act u a l ly, it was not on ly the Secretary who is pushing for this, but also the other labor ministers in the recent International Labor Conference,” Visperas told the BusinessMir-

ror in a phone interview.

Governance reform

THE idea was introduced after the country assumed the chairmanship of the ILO government body during the International Labor Conference (ILC) last month, which gives it considerable influence in setting the agenda of the labor-arm of the United Nations.

As the head of the government body, the country is developing consensus among the ILO memberstates, as well as serving as mediator between the employee and employer groups, Yañgot said.

Yañgot considered this as a significant appointment since the country is not an ILO “regular mem-

ONE of the needed steps to make the proposed reform take effect is through the ratification of the 1986 amendment to the ILO Constitution, which will “democratize ILO governance” by increasing the size of the governing body from 56 to 112.

“It’s been more than 30 years since the amendment was passed but it still has yet to take effect because of the lack [of countries] that ratified it,” Yañgot said.

The Philippines is currently among the countries that have yet to ratify the said amendment.

Yañgot said DOLE already coordinated with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for the country to finally ratify the proposed amendment.

Britain to force care home staff to have Covid-19 jab

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ARE home workers in England will be required to have a Covid-19 vaccination or risk losing their jobs.

New legislation will require people working in Care Quality Commission-accredited care homes to be fully vaccinated with two doses from October, the Department for Health and Social Care said on Wednesday in a statement. The measure won’t apply to those who are medically exempt, and is subject to Parliamentary approval, it said. There will also be a 16-week grace period.

The move marks the first time Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made Covid-19 injections manda-

tory and could provoke push back.

The GMB union, which represents around 100,000 care home workers, claimed more than a third of their members working as carers would consider leaving their jobs if vaccinations become compulsory.

Research published last month by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found Black African and mixed Black African staff are almost twice as likely to decline a vaccination as White British and White Irish participants, citing distrust in the vaccines themselves, health-care providers and the authorities.

The requirement follows a consultation designed to protect the most

vulnerable from Covid-19. Ministers argue that testing would not be adequate to protect care home residents who are elderly or unwell. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland oversee their own health policy.

“Vaccines save lives and while staff and residents in care homes have been prioritized and the majority are now vaccinated, we need to do everything we can to keep reducing the risk,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in the statement.

“This is the right thing to do and a vitally important step to continue protecting care homes now and in the future.”

Hancock came under fire again

Wednesday from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief aide, Dominic Cummings, who released messages showing Johnson had dubbed Hancock “hopeless” in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.

The requirement will apply to all workers employed directly by the care home or care home provider, those employed by an agency and volunteers, the Department for Health and Social Care said in a statement.

People coming into care homes to work, such as tradespeople, hairdressers and beauticians must also follow the regulations, unless they have a medical exemption, the department said. Bloomberg News

Archaeologists say ancient rock art sheds light on folk migration

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UGUEGARAO CITY—A directly dated rock art created 3,500 years ago and found at the Callao Caves in Peñablanca town is believed to help answer queries on folk migration in Cagayan, archaeologists said.

Dr. Andrea Jalandoni, who heads the Griffith University’s Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, on Tuesday said dated samples from the art rock were taken last year from a black pigment human figure, which was found in Hermoso Tuliao Cave, one of the about 19 included in the Callao Caves.

Jalandoni, together with Jennifer Baquiran, Cagayan provincial tourism officer, and Noel Hidalgo Tan, a senior specialist in Archaeology of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts in Bangkok, Thailand, spoke in a virtual media briefing.

Jalandoni, who is the lead author of a paper, dubbed “First Directly Dated Rock Art in Southeast Asia and The Archaeological Implications,” said the first-time art rock discovery was earlier published in the Radiocarbon Journal and uncovers a timeline in the human activities at that time such as foraging in Eme and Arku Caves and pottery in the Callao Caves.

Untapped potential for dating similar charcoal rock art figures shows a “holistic view” of the

A ROCK art dating back some 3,500 years ago found in Callao Caves in Cagayan province. Dr. Andrea Jalandoni, an archaeologist, said on July 6, 2021, the discovery uncovers a timeline in the human activities at that time such as foraging and pottery. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES

early folks in the countryside, she added.

The rock art was believed to have been created by either early Austronesians, who arrived around 4,000 years ago, or the Agta Negritos who migrated during the Ice Age, Jalandoni said. The groups still live in the area, “so more rock art needs to be dated to determine its origin,” she noted.

“The [3,500 years] date is older than anyone expected it. The discovery marks the beginning of the direct rock art dating revolution in Southeast Asia. Hopefully, this will lead to a better appreciation and more protection for this significant cultural heritage in the Philippines,”

Jalandoni told the Philippine News Agency in a virtual interview.

Direct dating rock art involves a process whereby the paint material from the artwork itself is dated, rather than the materials around or on top of the artwork, she explained.

“The black pigment human figure forms part of a gallery of paintings with two other human figures, and a few leaf and circle motifs. Similar motifs have been found in other places in Southeast Asia,” she added.

Tan said black rock art is more recent because it is placed over red art, or because the subjects depicted are quite modern.

The new finding has prompted archaeologists to be more cautious

about attributing black rock art as “recent” and to do direct dating for more rock art sites in the region, he added.

Earlier, archaeologists and historians predicted that more fossils of unique animal species are expected to be unearthed after the discovery of three erstwhile unknown species of giant cloud rat fossils, locally known as buot, in Callao Caves.

Baquiran said more fossils are expected to be dug after those of extinct mammals have earlier been discovered in Callao such as an endemic deer, a giant hog, dwarf water buffalo, rhinoceros and other species.

These species include those fossils of Homo luzonensis, believed to be the first species of people in the area some 50,000 to 67,000 years ago.

Fossils of archaic humans, that lived during the Late Pleistocene were first discovered in the cave and documented in 2007 by a team led by UP’s Armand Mijares and reaffirmed with the discovery of now-extinct human sub-species, Calla, according to studies.

Scientists describe a cache of seven teeth and six bones from the feet, hands and thigh of at least three individuals. They were recovered from Callao Cave in the northern town of Peñablanca in Cagayan province in 2007, 2011, and 2015. Tests on two samples show minimum ages of 50,000 years and 67,000 years, research showed.

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What empty nest?

By Nick Tayag

MY SIXTY-ZEN’S WORTH

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N the traditional scenario, at this stage of our life, my wife and I are supposed to enjoy a house that’s without kids. Our home should have become what they call an “empty nest.”

But look, everyone is here: all three of our grown-up kids, one married and two unmarried, with the addition of two grand kids who are growing up in our midst.

I am not complaining. In fact, my wife and I are delighted. We are physically together as family every day of the year.

My friends and my neighbors are in similar situations. In fact, there are at least three young families living in the house next door. The children have gotten married but they did not move out. I have a friend who has two daughters in their late 30s who are still unmarried and who have no plans of living on their own. He nudges them to get married, but they seem to shun the idea of marriage.

Is this a trend now?

In our case, it’s not because they did not try. One son got married and had two kids and they lived in an apartment until his young wife died of cancer. After trying it out as a working single parent, he decided to just build a two-story structure on the empty space in our yard and moved in with his two kids.

Another son, the youngest in the brood, tried to live an independent life and after a while he found it unsuitable to his health, as well as his wallet. After a year, we invited him to move back and he did not hesitate to do so. That’s why ours is a full house once again.

Nowadays, it seems that young adults ages 18 to 34 are more likely to be living at home with their parents than with a lifetime partner, not surprising given the rising cost of living. Many never left home, and many have also returned after living independently.

Another observation is that young people are delaying marriage and some of them have marriage far from their minds because of other priorities.

We usually expect our children to equal or surpass their parents in building a life of comfort and convenience for their respective families in a place of their own.

As for me, I was really itching to get a job and be on my own after college graduation. Thankfully, I got employed shortly and that got me started on the journey to an independent life. I made sure to pull myself up by my bootstraps, to use the cliché.

Even when I got married, my wife andInevertroubledourparentswiththe expenses.Werentedourownapartment and with our little savings, we were able to acquire a home and lot of our own.

We even managed to help both parents financially as they aged and faced health issues.

In contrast, it looks like it’s not turning out that way for many with today’s younger generations. Expenses have doubled; home ownership is out of reach; and the stability of a five-day-a-week job is being replaced by the gig economy.

So it looks like we have to embrace the new trend of full nest. I think it naturally suits the Filipino because we have close family ties, so strong that sometimes people choose to stay at home even after graduation or even aftermarriage.Extendedfamilymembers are living under one roof—grandparents, cousins, grandchildren, parents, uncles, aunts, and so on. A happy Pinoy home is addition, not subtraction.

Another reason why young Filipinos stay in their family homes is because they don’t know how to summon the will (courage and stamina) to live an independent life. Takot makipagsapalaran, as we say. I know from experience that paying for rent, utilities,

and taxes is complicated business, and today’s young adults, it seems, don’t want to go through that. Living with one’s parents has all the perks: free food, comfortable bed, and even some weekly free laundry. Their easy way out is to just give back to their families and help them with their finances whether that means paying for rent, groceries, medical bills and/or utilities.

Of course, a full nest has its plusses and minuses. There are new joys, but also new headaches.

One of the things my wife and I most appreciate is that there is no physical distance between the children and us. There is no need for us to travel to different locations to check on them.

Their physical presence in our house is considered an everyday blessing for my wife because she is a constant worrier.

In fact, we are reverting to our parenting mode—making sure they’re eating enough and eating healthfully, and washing their clothes. It’s a good thing they also seem to like being with us. We are their comfort zone. They have a relaxed companionable relationship with us.

The art of co-living also means sharing in adult responsibilities. We don’t encourage loafing and dependency.

They have to earn their keep. One welcome side benefit is that I now have a handyman in my eldest son, who does the small repairing tasks at our home, including old appliances that break down. My youngest son is a techie of sort and he is helpful when we encounter problems with our digital gadgets.

What’s the downside? Maybe lack of space. And less privacy. Our house is not exactly a mansion. Our kids and grandkids freely enter our room. There are modus vivendi arrangements and unspoken house rules that we observe so family members don’t get on top of one another.

Then because of the pandemic, our kidshavebeenworkingfromhome.The grandkids are also into virtual schooling. This means everybody is always at home. We have to make adjustments andscheduleouractivitiessothey’renot bothered while having a zoom meeting or having online lessons.

The good thing is we have been so physically close together for a long time, we know each other’s likes, dislikes, faults, quirks and because of this, we’ve learned to get out of each other’s way and minimize vexations, which can’t be helped sometimes.

We’ve always known that this arrangement is temporary, and we want to help our children out in every way possible to live a life on their own. We keep reminding them of the value of saving for their future. We really don’t know how many more years we can give them, because sooner or later the fatigue of it all will slowly begin to set in, not to mention the inevitable health issues of aging. It is possible to love your children completely and simultaneously be exhausted by them.

That is the truth, and there is nothing shameful about acknowledging that.

Yet, as parents, it is the most important and fulfilling thing we’ve ever done. At the end of the day we can truly say, we rose to the challenge and have given it our all.

For now, my wife and I just want to enjoy the joy of their company. We savor the good times of being together underoneroof:thepandemicstaycation at home, the family movie nights while snacking, the occasional birthday celebrations, being together on Christmas and New Year’s eve, praying and going tomasstogether(nowjustonlinemass), cheering each other up in sad moments, watching each other’s health, and so on.

If in poker a full house is a winning hand, then our family’s full house seems to be a win-win deal for our children and us.

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Phinma Educ., CARD MRI link up for Laguna’s underserved students

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HINMA Education has partnered with local microfinance institution Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) to bring accessible, quality education to underserved students in Laguna and nearby provinces via its Flex and RAD Learning programs.

The agreement signed on June 23 will benefit Phinma’s learning network in the said province and nearby locales such as Rizal College of Laguna and Union College of Laguna (Phinma UCL).

Phinma RCL’s students in School Year 2020-2021 also hailed from Quezon, Batangas and neighboring areas.

“Phinma Education has always been guided by the mission of making lives better through education,” said Ramon R. del Rosario Jr., president and CEO of Phinma. “We believe…the underserved youth of the Philippines have the potential to build a better nation, if they are equipped with the skills and values to do so.”

According to Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, CARD MRI found-

er and chairman emeritus, the partnership will allow Phinma RCL and UCL students to benefit from CARD MRI’s loan programs, internships and employment opportunities.

“We are also looking forward to CARD MRI’s members and their children, as well as employees, to study in Phinma Education schools, and be able to avail the HK50 scholarship,” Alip shared.

“With our significant experience in microfinance, we will give our inputs on the [Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Bachelor of Arts], Major in Banking and Microfinance curriculum, among others.”

Phinma Education has molded scholars in nine schools nationwide to notch high licensureexamination scores, and even higher employment rates. Stu-

PHINMA President and CEO Ramon R. del Rosario Jr.

CARD MRI Founder and Chairman Emeritus Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip

PHINMA Education Philippine Country Head Dr. Raymundo P. Reyes

dents credit the program for helping them hurdle learning challenges amid the pandemic.

“When I learned classes wouldn’t be face-to-face, I thought I would need to stop because I would not be able to keep up,” shared Clarence Balonzo, a BS Education Major in Filipino student. “But when Phinma RCL offered RAD Learning, it gave me hope.”

Phinma Education caters to firstgeneration college students who are unable to afford private education.

Its Philippine country head Dr. Raymundo P. Reyes explained: “Our learning strategies, especially during the pandemic, takes into account their resources at home. Because of weak or no Internet connectivity, we opted for printed modules with remote coaching through mobile data and devices.”

“I want to finish my studies, and I’m...thankful because our teachers are very understanding. As a mother, I also teach my own children, and I stopped studying for a long time, so I had no idea if I could study [during the pandemic],” said Czarina Marie Obe, a B.S. Secondary Education Major in English student. “I was able to finish all the activities with the help of my teachers, classmates, and by reading modules.”

Obe’s batchmates also noted that studying with Phinma RCL developed their sense of responsibility and independence, while encouraging them to make friends.

Phinma Education has an 80-percent average first-time passing rate for licensure exams, with some 82 percent of students getting hired within

a year of graduation. It has had 104 board exam topnotchers since its inception in 2004.

Its network in Laguna will offer several high-employability programs like Criminology, Accounting, Business Administration, as well as Education, and provide a number of Hawak Kamay scholarships to qualified students.

Del Rosario Jr. concluded that, because of this partnership with CARD MRI, the potential of Phinma Education in making lives better is greatly amplified. “We are happy to have you with us, as we put the underserved students first, ensuring that our shared mission for this new partnership will positively impact lives. Let us learn together, grow together, and make lives better together.”

Smart gives back in a big way with P100K promo for students

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Tourism, hospitality post-grad programs evolve for the demands of the new world

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DDRESSING and adapting to the ever-changing, always-evolving demands of the modern domestic and global tourism and hospitality industry, the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management (SHRIM) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) has announced two new postgraduate programs to foster continuous learning and development.

T he Doc tor i n Tou r ism and Hospitality Management (DTHM) course is designed with relevant and progressive curricula to equip professionals with knowledge and skills needed to reach the top echelons and expert posts in international enterprises.

Meanwhile, the Doctor of Philosophy in Tourism and Hospitality Management by Research (PhD by Research) is ideal for those who may wish to further pursue privately and publicly backed and funded scientific researches in lauded academic institutions, foundations and nongovernment organizations.

DTHM has a total of 36 academic units: 24 for coursework, and 12 for dissertation writing. It may be completed in two years or six terms. Meanwhile, the PhD by Research has a total of 36 dissertation units, or

12 units per academic year. It may be fulfilled in three years or nine terms, with a requirement of one accomplished dissertation per year.

The college’s roster of industry experts-educators will mentor and hone postgraduates to become excellent leaders equipped with modern dataanalysis techniques, emerging tools, as well as creativity and critical thinking skills. Learners will earn multidisciplinary research processes that meet worldwide standards, enabling them to produce groundbreaking models in education, as well as scholarly works for presentation and publication.

Trained to commit to their profession with breakthrough goals of innovation and inclusion, students will learn ways to recognize emerging trends and opportunities in the global context, which will serve as their guide in creating transformative and pioneering business strategies.

Both programs are ideal for professionals, faculty members, administrators and graduates of other higher education institutions and Master of Science in Tourism and Hospitality Management. For more information, visit https://www. benilde.edu.ph/academics/gradschool.html.

HINKING it was too good to be true, 19-year-old B.S. Biology major Richard Christopher Bornea said that receiving P100,000 from Smart Communications Inc.’s “Balik Tuition” was “heaven sent.”

“I couldn’t believe it. At first, I was shocked. But I was extremely grateful,” exclaimed Bornea.

While he already won a Smart Bro Pocket WiFi in the same draw last year, pocketing the grand prize will go a long way for the Biology major: “This money will greatly help me in my studies, and my family as well.”

With P100,000 in his pocket, Bornea bought a new laptop and gave his old unit to his sister who will start senior high school this school year.

He’s also setting aside a budget for a postpaid Internet connection. But that will have to wait until his family has found a permanent home they can transfer to. He shared his plans to use part of his prize as a down payment for their new home.

For the future, Bornea plans to go to medical school, and hopefully become a rural doctor. Having spent a significant amount of time in Negros Occidental, he saw the scarcity of doctors in rural areas: “I saw how much we need doctors. And now with a raging pandemic, we even need more of them to serve the growing number of patients. I want to give back to the community.”

In October 2020, Smart launched the “Balik Tuition” promo: an electronic raffle where students using Smart and TNT prepaid SIMs can win cash, gadgets and data loads to help Filipino students get on with the new normal of e-learning.

Aside from Bornea, three other students from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao have also won P100,000 each

RICHARD Bornea is now fully equipped to finish his studies.

for joining.

Like a lot of students, the sophomore student at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila had to migrate to online learning brought about by the pandemic, as Internet connectivity also became a challenge.

Moreover, the health crisis had a huge impact on the family, as his father was furloughed from work. Thus, fixed-line Internet was not an option, as the family had to change apartments.

Later they moved to a new place when his father was eventually employed as a private driver at a construction firm. His mother returned home after finishing her contract in Saudi Arabia. Living on a spartan budget, Bornea had to make do with his prepaid mobile data. But what got him through were Smart’s Giga promos.

“I had to mind my data use. I survived by subscribing to promos,” he narrated.

“I usually avail Giga Study 99, because it allows me to maximize the learning tools that I need for online classes.”

Giga Study 99 is the ideal student load, which comes with 2 gigabytes of open-access data for seven days, plus 1 GB daily allocation for tools such as Google, Google Search, Google Plus, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft 365.

Those who need more can check out other Giga Study offers available on the Smart GigaLife App. “The [health] crisis has highlighted the need for connectivity, especially in the new normal for education. The Internet has made it possible for students to continue with their studies,” said Jane Basas, SVP and head of Smart’s Consumer Wireless Business Group.

“And with our GIGA Data Products, we were able to offer an innovation that allows our subscribers to stay connected to the Internet and to their passions every day, without having to worry about fully utilizing their data allocation immediately. This continuous connectivity will empower...students to live smarter for a better world.”

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Ateneo’s new research group brings Pinoys’ insights, voices on national issues

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HE Ateneo School of Government, through its public policy think tank Ateneo Policy Center, recently launched the first university-based opinion and survey research unit that will provide stronger evidence and information to secure the Filipino voice on significant public-policy issues.

“Boses, Opinyon, Siyasat, at Siyensya para sa Pilipinas [BOSES Pilipinas]” centers on advancing empirical, interdisciplinary and policy-oriented public opinion studies on democracy, governance, and development.

Dr. Imelda Deinla, BOSES Pilipinas convenor, said the survey group promises “to provide knowledge and credible information that can assist [the public] in making informed choices” on issues, such as choosing the right leaders for the upcoming 2022 national elections, priorities that should be performed by the government, and the needed policies to address poverty and the pandemic.

The group also aims to conduct studies other than politics and economics.

“There are critical issues that we need to probe,” Deinla noted, while citing ways Filipinos view their foreign policy, the West Philippine Sea issue, those that affect their individual and collective security, and the impact of global issues on their lives and the country’s future direction.

According to Deinla, BOSES Pilipinas is composed of very competent and recognized experts from various fields, such as political science, economics, psychology, law, public administration, and mass communication.

She added they will also use an interdisciplinary lens in probing influences of peoples’ feelings: “We will combine disciplines in the way we examine complex problems... the country faces,” the convenor explained. “It is our goal that our leaders and decision-makers will use those survey results in crafting responsive and effective policies and decisions.”

Deinla pointed out that BOSES Pilipinas is nonpartisan and academic-based, and will “not accept commissioned surveys from politicians.”

“As an academic unit, we are duty-bound to observe the highest degree of rigor, transparency, and ethical conduct in our work,” she insisted. “Therefore, the public can [take comfort in the fact that our surveys will be conducted only after undergoing university review and approval of our survey protocols compliant] with ethical guidelines,” she said.

In the coming months, BOSES Pilipinas, together with nonpartisan and pro-democracy coalition Participate, will release opinion polls and evidence-based studies on presidential satisfaction, 2022 elections voting preferences among the youth, disinformation and fake news, youth leadership and Sangguniang Kabataan, as well as votebuying, among others.

Deinla said that through a thorough process of conducting a survey, Filipinos can expect that they can bring the voices of the people to concerned authorities and their fellowmen. Roderick L. Abad

UST-Philippines, Chile biodiversity professionals deliver lectures

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cience, Technology and Society (STS) Summit, as well as the first UST Chile-UST Phils. Joint Symposium, with “Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management in the Time of Change” as the theme on April 20.

The experts shared their interdisciplinary approaches in using science-based pieces of evidence to address social issues related to biodiversity.

Prof. Cecilia B. Moran from UST Phils.-Manila Campus delivered a lecture on her recently concluded bio-

diversity assessment project in the Del Carmen Mangrove Ecosystem in Siargao Island, as it bids to become one of the country’s sites under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat. Meanwhile, her colleague Asst. Prof. Richard Thomas B. Pavia Jr., PhD discussed “Coral Reef Management Strategies in the Age of Climate Change.”

UST Chile’s Prof. Rodrigo Estevéz delivered a talk about the usage of multicriteria decision analysis as a

tool in conserving marine habitats in his country, while compatriot Prof.

Fabio Labra shared the way Earth observation systems and geographic information-system technology can be used to alleviate the invasive macrophyte problem in the Rio Cruces wetlands.

In 2018 UST’s Manila campus started to offer STS as a course under the General Education curriculum to inculcate science appreciation among the students—especially on the way science and scientific skills can be used

to address pertinent social issues of this generation.

UST’s STS offering is unique in the manner it is anchored on the teachings of Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’, which champions the care for our planet.

The milestone led by the team of organizers of the STS summit fostered collaboration between the two UST institutions, and also inculcated the scientific values of working with nature to conserve biodiversity aligned with society’s needs.

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Tales from a small but terrible volcano

The scene at the Taal Volcano and lake (2007) is beautiful and mesmerizing.

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MOUNT Binintiang Malaki as seen from the lake level (2008).

Story & photos By Benjamin Locsin Layug

n January 12, 2020, just two months before the Covid-19 lockdown on March 16, 2020, Taal Volcano awoke from 43 years of quiet and began to spew gases, ash, and lava into the air. The ash affected, to varying degrees, a number of cities and municipalities of Batangas within the 14 and 17 km. danger zones, reaching as far as Metro Manila as well as the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Rizal and Bulacan.

Dur ing the er uption, 39 people perished due to healthrelated problems. W hen people were evacuated from the island, large numbers of livestock and pets left behind also died from starvation. Ash even affected the tilapia and milkfish being raised in aquaculture pens in Taal Lake as about 30 percent of the fish cages in Taal lake were destroyed due to changes in acidity and temperature.

Today, one and a half years after that fateful day, the view of volcano from the 686-m high Tagaytay Ridge in Tagaytay City, is way different when it was years ago prior to the eruption as the island ’s lush vegetation have all been killed or stripped of leaves, turning much of the island into a ghostly gray desert. However, some vegetation remains at the northern part. Even after the eruption, volcanic activity still continues. Last March 9 of this year, the volcano was placed under Alert Level 2 (increased unrest) and on July 1, at the time of this writing, it was raised to Alert Level 3 after a phreatomagmatic eruption.

Now that it’s back in the headlines, let’s get to know more about this volcano as well as its surrounding lake.

Although it’s grand viewpoint is in Tagaytay City in Cavite, the volcano and its lake are entirely located in the province of Batangas, with 10 towns (Agoncillo, Alitagtag, Balete, Cuenca, Laurel, Mataas na Kahoy, San Nicolas, Santa Teresita, Taa l and Talisay) and two cities (Lipa a nd Ta nau a n) encirc l ing t he lake. The northern half of the island is under the jurisdiction of Talisay, the southern half to San Nicolas.

T he volc a no i n most Ta a l Volcano postcards, the 311-m high Mount Binintiang Malaki (translated as “giant leg”), the northwest cinder cone which emerged overnight during the 1707 eruption, is actually old and dormant. It may seemingly look like an island, but Mount Binintiang Malaki is actually connected to the 16-sq-km , 8.8km long Volcano Island. In fact, it is the island ’s highest point.

The aforementioned is also not the volcano’s only cone. In fact, there are 47 identified cones (26 tuff cones, 5 cinder cones and 4 maars), each a past eruption site.

Speaking of records, Taal Volcano is the lowest active volcano in the world (only the 180-m high, inactive Pali-Aike volcanic field in the Argentina-Chile

VULCAN point

THE Main Crater Lake is (2008) filled with water, sulfuric acid and other chemicals.

The now desert-like landscape of Volcano Island

border region is lower). It is also the second most active (out of 37 volcanoes, 21 of which are active) volcano in the country, after Mayon Volcano in Albay, with 41 recorded historical eruptions. The most notable eruptions are the violent, 7 month long eruption of 1754 (May 15 to December 12) and the American colonial period eruption of 1911 (January 27 to February 8) which killed 1,335 people.

Most major eruptions, from 1749 to 1911, were from the Main Crater Lake, the largest lake on the island. The nearly

300-m high crater, with a diameter of about 2-kms, has a small rocky island called Vulcan Point.

This setup was immortalized in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” as an island (Vulcan Point) on a lake (Main Crater Lake) on an island (Volcano Island) on a lake (Taal Lake) on an island (Luzon Island). After the 2020 eruption, the Main Crater Lake mostly evaporated or drained but, after a series of typhoons, rainwater allowed the lake to fill up again.

The lake is formerly called Bonbon Lake. The present day

Taal Lake itself is thought to be a remnant of a huge, 5,500- to 6,000-m high, perfectly formed, cone-shaped volcano that collapsed during a gigantic and violent eruption. Today, this big volcano is now considered by scientists to be dormant or extinct. Volcano Island, of course, is a different story.

For the record, it is the third largest lake (at 268-sq-kms) in the country (after the 949-sqkm Laguna de Bay and 340-sqkm Lake Lanao), with an irregular shoreline measuring about 23 by 16 kms. It is classified as a

freshwater lake yet, before 1754, its waters were referred to by Spanish priests and historians as “salty.” The lake’s water salinity only ranges from 1/1000th to almost 1 percent (the ocean is 3 percent). The remains of dead coral and unusual marine life are found in Taal Lake in what you would normally find in the sea.

How is all this possible?

The answer can be found in old maps that once showed Lake Taal as a bay connected to the West Philippine Sea by a wide, clear channel. Taal Volcano’s 1754 eruption may have blocked this channel with tephra, causing the waters to rise and, eventually, submerging the lakeside towns of Tanauan, Taal and Lipa, causing them to transfer to their present sites. It also trapped t hese m a r i ne c re at u res a nd forced them to adapt to a freshwater environment. Today, only a wide fissure at the southwest edge of the crater enables the lake to drain via the 10-km. long Pansipit River into Balayan Bay. Today, the lake is home to marine anomalies such as the generally docile but poisonous Hydrophis semperi (one of five Hydrophis genus, it is one of only two freshwater sea snakes in the world); the tasty and very expensive, 1-m long maliputo or yellowfin jack (Caranx ignobilis); the 10-cm long, overharvested tawilis (Harengula tawilis, a lake delicacy, it is one of a few freshwater sardine species in the world); the archer fish and pipefish (Dunck-erkocampus dactiliophorus). Up until the 1930s, bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) once swam the lake’s waters until they became extinct, again through overfishing.

KLOOK partners with Manila HealthTek for affordable Covid-19 testing

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he Department of Tourism recently announced that pointto-point (P2P) air travel for leisure and staycation will be allowed for those under the NCR Plus bubble. This includes Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite.

KLOOK, world-leading travel and leisure platform, partners with Manila HealthTek (MTek) to help ensure that those eager to go on a safe, leisure break can continue with safety protocols by having access to quality, low-cost Cov-

id-19 testing.

MTek is the countr y’s first and only biotech company in diagnostics which is behind the countr y’s own reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) swab testing kit. It is offering the test at only

P2,950 per person.

Dr. Raul Destura, founder and CEO of MTek, states, “Even while taking a breather from all the Covid-19 stress, we should remain vigilant. We have to keep our guard up by following all safety measures, which

includes Covid-19 testing.”

He adds “We are keeping our costs affordable so more would take the test.

We hope that with this partnership with KLOOK, we will be able to test more.”

Testing can be done at

home or at either of the two testing facilities of MTek in Metro Manila. These are located at Palacio de Manila parking lot at Barangay 699, MH Del Pilar Street in Ermita, Manila and at 09 Brgy.

Sta. Elena, Mayor Gil Fernando Avenue, Marikina.

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Seamless bills payment option enabled for e-wallet VisMin customers FROM giving users in Metro Manila access to seamless payment solutions using their GCash app, the country’s leading e-wallet is now extending its reach to the Visayas and Mindanao (VisMin) region by building partnerships and ecosystems with LGUs through GCash Pay Bills.

True to its mission of providing “financial inclusion for all,” GCash has enabled VisMin customers in the said regions to pay their bills and send payments from the comfort and safety of their homes anytime, offering greater convenience and empowering a digital financial lifestyle in the region.

“GCash remains committed to its mission to enable

financial access for all consumers and merchants, including those in Visayas and Mindanao. Aside from financial inclusion, our platform continues to provide Filipinos with seamless access to their digital financial lifestyle and help keep them safe during the pandemic,” said Martha Sazon, president and CEO of GCash.

E-payment penetration at VisMin regions have been low, particularly attributable to lack of access to proper infrastructure, and education and awareness on new payment technologies. With GCash, both consumers and businesses can benefit because of the app’s easy-to-use nature for

consumers, and an easier integration process for businesses.

Recently, GCash has onboarded Lapu-Lapu City as its first LGU bills payment partner in the VisMin region. With the partnership, Lapu-Lapu residents and business owners can now use GCash to pay for their real property tax, business tax, cedula and other fees.

“With GCash, Filipinos in the VisMin area need not travel physically anymore to payment centers to pay their bills. They can simply use the app and pay, saving them precious time while keeping them safe from the pandemic,” added Sazon.

More information is available at www.gcash.com/business.

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THE ASUS BR1100 educational laptops, the BR1100C (left) and the BR1100F

A partnership for education

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NLINE youth platform Edukasyon.ph and tech firm ASUS have teamed up to provide educators with the right tools so they can continue to teach and guide students through the difficult and challenging online setup.

“There’s no telling how much tougher distance learning could get in the coming months. To help address this, we need to help the ecosystem and not only students/teachers” said Edukasyon.ph CEO Grace David.

The World Bank has raised the alarm on the crisis in Philippine education which started in 2019, pre Covid-19, and has worsened since the start of distance learning.

According to three different multi-country assessments spearheaded by the World Bank, one in every four Grade 5 students in the Philippines does not have the reading and mathematics skills for Grade 2 or 3, and four in every five 15-year-old students do not understand basic mathematical concepts such as fractions and decimals that should be mastered by fifth graders.

The Philippines participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa) for the first time in 2018, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 2019 after a break of 16 years, and the first cycle of the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) in 2019.

Pisa assessed achievement and application of key knowledge and skills of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics and science, while TIMSS measured proficiency in mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades. Meanwhile, SEA-PLM evaluated reading, writing and mathematical literacy, with an initial focus on Grade 5.

Poor learning results were observed among students in the Philippines, with more than 80 percent of them falling below minimum levels of proficiency expected for the respective grades.

The Philippines was last in reading and second to last in science and mathematics among 79 countries in Pisa. It ranked last in mathematics and science among 58 countries in the fourth-grade assessment and was among the bottom half of the six countries in reading,

mathematics and writing literacy.

As the largest education tech platform in the country, Edukasyon.PH aims to tap into the IT departments of each school to assist in their skillsbuilding and digital transformation efforts.

ASUS is a go-to brand for reliable and affordable gadgets for online learning over the past year, and has partnered with local movements to provide laptops and other devices to various public schools.

“ASUS believes that no aid is too small to make a difference. That’s why we recognize the value even just one quality device has in shaping a child’s future,” said George Su, country manager for ASUS Philippines.

Among the benefits under the ASUS Edukasyon School Partner Program is a Yearly School Development Fund to help boost their respective IT facilities and education programs. They also have offers for students and instructors, including tech learning seminars, internship opportunities, and exclusive discounts on ASUS products.

Through the program, ASUS will highlight their latest laptop for K-12 learning, the ASUS BR1100.

It comes in two models—the ASUS BR1100C, a clamshell non-touch version; and the ASUS BR1100F, a premium flip version with touch-enabled display.

Built for durable, all-around use, the ASUS BR1100 is an educational laptop with a military-standard design and features suited for online learning.

INDIE MUSICIAN RELEASES NEW SONG

MUSICIAN Enzo Brillantes, who is also known as ROBOTMODEACTIVATED, recently launched a new original single, called “Different Lies,” an emotive hip-

hop/emo rap anthem.

“The song speaks about a love so beautiful yet in a way impossible to have. You could say it’s also about a lost man looking for love in the wrong places. On the side, it talks of a beautiful yet fundamentally broken story of two lovers torn apart by circumstances,” said the 23-year-old Brillantes.

“When I write a song, the first thing I do is make the beat for it. It takes about three hours to finally arrive at something I’m satisfied with. And then the rest follows. The thing is, I treat my music as an outlet for my emotions or the current situation I am in, so I have to be in a certain kind of mood when I create music, otherwise it doesn’t feel sincere.”

Brillantes is currently working on an EP, which would be composed of original tracks that he started sharing with the public last year. Apart from that, he has some good songs produced by big names such as NiNETY8 and RIAA, two-time Certified Gold Producer/Billboard Top 100 Producer Ant Chamberlain and many more.

“The plan is to release a song each month if circumstances permit. I released one last April, then there is the ‘Different Lies,’ and then there’s also one that I plan to launch next month or so,” he said.

ROBOTMODEACTIVATED, as Brillantes prefers to be called nowadays, is very much open to collaborations with other musicians and artists believing that will lend his voice and music a whole new perspective.

“Different Lies,” released on July 2 under Distrokid, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio and other online platforms. ■

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Twitter revamps misinformation labels LAST May, as Twitter was testing warning labels for false and misleading tweets, it tried out the word “disputed” with a small focus group. It didn’t go over well. “People were like, well, who’s disputing it?” said Anita Butler, a San Francisco-based design director at Twitter who has been working on the labels since December 2019. The word “disputed,” it turns out, had the opposite effect of what Twitter intended, which was to “increase clarity and transparency,” she said.

The labels are an update from those Twitter used for election misinformation before and after the 2020 presidential contest. Those labels drew criticism for not doing enough to keep people from spreading obvious falsehoods. Now, Twitter is overhauling them in an attempt to make them more useful and easier to notice, among other things. Beginning Thursday, the company will start testing the redesigns with some US users on the desktop version of its app.

Experts say such labels—used by Facebook as well—can be helpful to users. But they can also allow social-media platforms to sidestep the more difficult work of content moderation—that is, deciding whether or not to remove posts, photos and videos that spread conspiracies and falsehoods.

“It’s the best of both worlds” for the companies, said Lisa Fazio, a Vanderbilt University psychology professor who studies how false claims spread online.

“It’s seen as doing something about misinformation without making content decisions.”

While there is some evidence that labels can be effective, she added, social-media companies don’t make public enough data for outside researchers to study how well they work. Twitter only labels three types of misinformation: “manipulated media,” such as videos and audio that have been deceptively altered in ways that could cause real-world harm; election and voting-related misinformation, and false or misleading tweets related to Covid-19.

One thing that’s clear, though, is that they need to be noticeable in a way that prevents eyes from glossing over them in a phone scroll. It’s a problem similar to the one faced by designers of cigarette warning labels. Twitter’s election labels, for instance, were blue, which is also the platform’s regular color scheme. So they tended to blend in.

The proposed designs added orange and red so they stand out more. While this can help, Twitter says its tests also showed that if a label is too eyecatching, it leads to more people to retweet and reply to the original tweet. Not what you want with misinformation.

Then there’s the wording. When “disputed” didn’t go over well, Twitter went with “stay informed.”

In the current test, tweets that get this label will get an orange icon and people will still be able to reply or retweet them. Such a label might go on a tweet containing an untruth that could be but isn’t necessarily immediately harmful.

More serious misinformation—for instance, a tweet claiming that vaccines cause autism—would likely get a stronger label, with the word “misleading” and a red exclamation point. It won’t be possible to reply to, like or retweet these messages.

“One of the things we learned was that words that build trust were important and also words that that were not judgmental, non-confrontational, friendly,” Butler said.

This makes sense from Twitter’s perspective, Fazio said. After all, “a lot of people don’t like to see the platforms have a heavy hand,” she added.

As a result, she said, it’s hard to tell if Twitter’s main goal is to avoid making people angry and alienating them from the platform instead of simply helping them understand “what is and isn’t misinformation.” AP

New games from IEST

BY RIZAL RAOUL S. REYES IEST, a subsidiary of leading IT solutions provider DFNN, and Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor)regulated mobile gaming platform aptly named InPlay.ph has recently added new games with the launch of another gaming partner, Spadegaming. Asia-based Spadegaming is the developer of extremely popular Asian-themed games that fit the mobile and desktop platform replete with stunning graphics and sound effects for maximum entertainment value. The Spadegaming suite will initially launch 71 games which include the following popular games: 168 Fortunes, Da Fu Xiao Fu, FaFaFa, Lucky Cai Shen, and Shanghai 008. This will further propel revenues for the first PAGCOR online-gaming licensee.

Meanwhile, IEST’s electronic casino platform InstaWin

has also received Pagcor’s approval for the addition and launch of nine new games from Real Time Gaming (RTG).

The games include popular titles, such as Five Wishes, Achilles Deluxe, Epic Holiday Party, Frog Fortune, Vegas Luxe, Wild Hog Luau and Witchy Wins.

This is in addition to the already approved 14 games from Triple Profit Games (TPG) comprised of 88 Fortunes, 777 Dragons, 8 Dragons, DJ Rock, Fruity Fruit Farm, King of Fruits, Lucky Leprechaun, Sea World, Space Galaxy, TPG777, Vampire’s Feast, Fortune Hotpot, and Tarot Deck.

IEST’s InPlay.ph and InstaWin continue to widen the gamut of choices of games available in all its platforms for registered players and add a greater elevated entertainment experience. Since its launch in November 2020, InPlay. ph has experienced sustained growth in terms of Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and will continue its growth

trajectory as more technological innovation and updates are added as well as an increased number of gaming offerings. IEST said it has been able to leverage the wide technological capabilities of the DFNN Group to provide an advanced and safe mobile and terminal-based gaming environment, as evidenced by its rollout of an advanced cash management system and the first facial recognition log-in feature, one of the many first-in-the-industry security features for the know-your-client process that IEST has brought into the regulated gaming space.

The military-grade security tools are provided by the DFNN Group through its vast array of proprietary applications developed and maintained through its subsidiaries.

All games offered in InPlay.ph and InstaWin platforms are approved and regulated by Pagcor.

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A budget leap to 5G which can house two nano-sized SIM cards and a microSD card for up to 1TB. On the right is the power button, which also doubles as a fingerprint scanner.

There’s nothing up top but located at the bottom are its 3.5mm headphone jack, microphone, USB-C port and loudspeaker.

DISPLAY AND SOUND

Viber, Snap partnership brings augmented reality fun to messaging A GLOBAL leader in cross-platform messaging and voice-based communication, Rakuten Viber will bring the magic of augmented reality (AR) Lenses to its app through a partnership with Snap Inc. Using Snap’s developer tools including Camera Kit, Creative Kit and Bitmoji, the Viber app will integrate AR Lenses, enable sharing to Snapchat, and bring customizable Bitmoji avatars to Viber.

Viber Lenses Powered by Snap will offer ARenabled video messaging and photos to Viber users for the first time. The launch includes 30 new Viber Lenses, including animal masks and Viber Characters, an underwater Lens, silly cat interactions, and more.

The new Viber features include Instant Augmented Reality (overlay images on top of surroundings and harness the power of AR at your fingertips); Attention-Grabbing Filters, which allow users to add a creative layer to visuals and spark conversations with friends; Expressive Masks (select from a variety of masks that accurately follow users’ facial movements); Beautification Features, for the user to enhance their images with realistic touches like lipstick, blush, and a variety of hair colors; and Customized Bitmoji (integrate personalized Bitmoji characters into photos and videos).

Viber is one of the world’s leading calling and messaging apps that connects people and allows them to express themselves creatively—no matter who or where they are. Personal and group chats on Viber are end-to-end encrypted, so users can be sure that their communications are always private and secure.

Viber Lenses are an uplifting addition to the app’s existing sticker collections, which allow users to express themselves visually while chatting away.

And the adoption of Snap’s Camera Kit, Bitmoji, and Creative Kit by Viber are additional ways for the app to bring people closer together and make those connections even more meaningful and enjoyable.

The company plans to add at least 20 additional Lenses each quarter, and businesses will have the opportunity to create their own exclusive Lenses on Viber. The World Wildlife Federation, FC Barcelona, and the World Health Organization are among the first Viber partners to offer new Lenses on the messaging app. The customized Lenses will boost engagement between users and the brands they love on the Viber platform, while the ability to offer sponsored and branded Lenses will provide an additional revenue stream to Viber.

“Snap’s partnership with Rakuten Viber is a win-win situation for us both,” says Elliot Solomon, director, Camera Platform Partnerships at Snap Inc. “It will help us expand our Augmented Reality technology into regions where Viber already has a solid footprint, and help Viber’s users express themselves through AR on the Viber platform.”

“We’re excited to bring the Snap camera to Viber users,” says Djamel Agaoua, CEO of Rakuten Viber.

“Through this partnership, we want to empower the creativity of our users with AR, and we’re looking forward to inspiring new fun-filled ways for people to keep in touch with their friends and family members.”

The iOS version on the app with these new features, as well as the Android beta version in English language, are now available in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Maldives, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US. Viber will progressively roll out the features to all top 30 Viber regions, including the Philippines, and to all Android users in the coming months.

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HEN realme contacted me about reviewing another phone, I thought it was going to be the realme 8i. Afterall, their number series always comes in threes and since the 8 and 8 Pro are out, all that’s left was the 8i. So, I was quite surprised when I opened the package and saw the realme 8 5g instead. realme has had long line of solid, inexpensive phones that made them the No. 1 smartphone brand in the country, and the realme 8 5G is their first device to help you make the leap to 5G as cheaply as possible.

It offers an appealing design, and some impressive specs, with next-gen connectivity being one of the highlights, but should you take the leap now?

DESIGN AND BUILD

THE first thing you’ll notice is the missing “Dare To Leap” branding on the back unlike its siblings. The design has been quite divisive, but if you are really part of the squad, there’s no better way to show off your love than with that emblazoned tagline on your phone.

Then there’s the textured back of the 8 Pro, instead of that sandblasted finish (which I love) we get with the realme 8 5G, what the company calls a Dynamic Speed Light design. Its shiny, shimmering but not that splendid as we’ve seen it in a lot of other phones.

The sides and back of the phone are made of plastic, but the color scheme does give it a little personality. We have the Supersonic Blue, which is more fun to look at, but you could also get it in Supersonic Black for a more mature vibe.

I do like the fact that its superslim at just 8.5mm and feels light to hold at only 185g despite having a 5000mAh battery. Located on the left side are the volume buttons together with the triple-card tray

UP front you get a 6.5-inch LCD screen with relatively slim bezels and a slightly thicker chin. It’s got a punch hole on the upper left for the selfie camera and above it in the bezel is the earpiece. The 2400 x 1080 HD resolution was better than I expected and when you ramp up the brightness, it’s more than enough for games and movies. You won’t have any problems even outdoors.

But the highlight of its display is its 90Hz refresh rate. If you’re going to use it on the fastest Internet connection, enjoy buttery-smooth scrolling and browsing. If you want to save battery, though, head over to the display setting and turn on “auto select” and it will dynamically switch between 90Hz and 60Hz refresh rates depending on the task.

As for sound quality, its decent at best since you only get a single loudspeaker. It’s good enough if you are alone in a small room, otherwise there always the headphone jack available if you want better sound output.

CAMERAS

THE realme 8 5G is equipped with a humble triple rear camera array, although you might have noticed four circles within the bump. One of them doesn’t actually contain a lens, but just an “AI” badge. It’s a bit deceiving, but it serves the purpose of keeping the layout balanced and make the phone look fancier.

The phone’s 48MP main sensor is no slouch and for everyday quick snaps, it’s perfectly fine. The depth sensor and the 2MP macro are there to give it a bit more versatility as the camera modes are a bit limited.

Macro shots can be a bit tricky to pull off and the 2MP can only do so much.

You can still get photos at night, with a reasonable amount of detail by activating night mode and keeping your subject close. It boosts the brightness up a bit, just make sure to keep your phone steady for longer.

For selfies, the 16MP front camera works best under natural lighting and again the quality is just okay with fair enough details and a bit of depth in portrait mode.

PERFORMANCE AND BATTERY

THE realme 8 5G is equipped with a MediaTek Dimensity 700 chip paired with a Mali-G57 GPU, and a generous 8GB of RAM +128GB storage. This 5G processor mixes two highly capable Arm Cortex-A76 cores in its octa-core CPU operating up to a speedy 2.2GHz. That said, using the realme 8 5G for the past few weeks was an overall pleasant experience. There was no noticeable lag when switching between apps and menus, and opening multiple websites and media files were snappy. I also loaded several casual games and it was able to handle all of them quite well with the help of Gamespace.

Now, it doesn’t mean you could play those resource-heavy games, but you have to be content with the default settings.

The realme 8 5G is equipped with a 5000mAh battery

which again is enough for moderate day-to-day use.

You also get an 18W type-c charger which gets you 48 percent in 30 minutes.

It’s also worth noting that the phone supports Smart 5G Power Saving. As 5G brings more power consumption to the phone, this feature helps to lessen the strain on its battery life. Smart 5G technology can intelligently sense the surrounding signal environment and “senselessly” switch between 4G and 5G without switching time, which achieves 30 percent lower power consumption than phones without the Smart 5G feature.

As we were finishing this review, realme launched several new TechLife products; the realme Watch 2 Series, the realme Buds Wireless 2 Neo, the realme Night Light, and the realme Pocket Bluetooth Speaker.

The realme Watch 2 Pro seeks to be the professional sports and fitness companion, featuring a massive 1.75” Ultra Large Display with a high resolution of 320 x 385 pixels and 30FPS refresh rate for increased smoothness and reactiveness. It has Dual Satellite GPS and an incredible battery life of up to 14 days. The realme Watch 2, on the other hand, features realme’s industry-leading blood oxygen and 24/7 heart rate monitor to help you keep track of your health, and supports up to 90 kinds of sports modes to monitor your physical activities like cycling, strength training, running, among many others. The realme Watch 2’s battery can last up to 12 days.

FINAL WORD: So should you get this budget 5G device? Everybody is talking about 5G and the telcos are going all out to make it available in more locations nationwide. If you do live in an area that has 5G coverage, and you are thinking about getting a 5G phone, the realme 8 5G is one of the most affordable options at P11,990. ■

Self-charging headphones use solar cells to keep music blaring

BY TIM LOH | Bloomberg News SOLAR panels already changed the game for largescale utilities and many people with roofs over their heads. Now, electronics makers are turning to the technology to tackle a smaller-scale problem— headphones running out of power.

Swedish start-up Exeger is pushing the trend, putting its thin and flexible solar-cell material into headphones made by the company Urbanista, also from Sweden. Capable of self-charging from either the sun or indoor lighting, the roughly $200 product promises users “virtually infinite playtime”

without the need for finding an electrical socket.

On Wednesday, Exeger announced another partnership with an affiliate of German sports giant Adidas AG. This venture—which also includes headphone maker Zound Industries International AB, a licensee of Adidas—is gearing its offering more toward athletes than Urbanista’s version. The product should be available for purchase in 2022 and hasn’t been priced yet.

“I want to personalize solar,” Giovanni Fili, chief executive officer of Exeger, said in a phone interview of his goals for a technology many people probably associate with their monthly power bills.

Founded in 2009, Exeger’s material—called “Powerfoyle”—is also being used in a bike helmet from yet another Swedish company, POC, that automatically lights up when it gets dark. Exeger aims to put the solar cells in a variety of other products, including web-connected devices in homes and workplaces, Fili said.

Exeger-powered headphones can store enough energy from one hour in the bright sun to enable three hours of play, according to the CEO. A cloudy day would limit that to two hours. Even in dimmer settings, the headphones’ batteries would continue to slowly recharge.

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5-birdie binge propels Superal to 1-shot victory in Sherwood

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| Saturday, July 10, 2021 mirror_sports@yahoo.com.ph Editor: Jun Lomibao

SUNS HALFWAY THERE

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HOENIX—The ball went from Chris Paul to Devin Booker and didn’t stop moving until Deandre Ayton scored after every Suns player had touched it.

The 10-pass sequence was the prettiest play of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals and the kind the one-man show Bucks couldn’t dream of.

“We actually talked about that play right after the game, me and Mikal [Bridges], and he was like, ‘I think that was the most pumped I’ve ever been after a play,’” Booker said. “And I was like, me too.”

Imagine the feeling if his team gets two more wins.

Booker scored 31 points, Paul had 23 and the Suns beat Milwaukee, 118-108, on Thursday night to take a 2-0 series lead.

The Suns have never been closer to an NBA title. Not bad for a team whose coach told them earlier this season had the league’s sorriest starting unit, forcing the players to figure things out.

“We did and we’re going to keep it going,” Paul said.

Booker made seven 3-pointers and the Suns went 20 for 40 behind the arc. Bridges scored 27 points, and Paul finished with eight assists.

The Suns surged ahead late in the first half, withstood Giannis Antetokounmpo’s all-around effort to bring the Bucks back, and walked off winners again as fans swung orange rally towels all around them.

Antetokounmpo had 42 points and 12 rebounds in his second

game back after missing two games because of a hyperextended left knee.

The Suns never even had a lead in the NBA Finals until their 118-105 victory in Game One. They dropped the first two games in both 1976 and 1993, their only other appearances, and didn’t win more than two games in either series.

They’ve already got two this time and will go after a third Sunday in Milwaukee, which will host the NBA Finals for the first time since 1974.

“We know what the deal is,” Antetokounmpo said. “We’ve got to go back home and protect home.”

Jrue Holiday played more aggressively but didn’t shoot a whole lot better than in Game One, scoring 17 points but hitting only seven for 21. Khris Middleton was five for 16, forcing Antetokounmpo to carry an even heavier load on his sore left leg.

It adds up to the Bucks having to overcome a 2-0 deficit for the second time this postseason. They did it against the Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference semifinals, but had some help when first James Harden and then Kyrie Irving were injured.

Now they are facing a Suns team loaded with weapons all over the lineup, and showed off all of them in their highlight play.

They whipped the ball all around the perimeter for the final basket of the first half. It went from Paul to Booker to Jae Crowder to Bridges, back to Crowder to Paul, then over to Crowder and once again Bridges.

He then finally fed it inside to Ayton, who scored while being fouled with 14.9 seconds left for a 56-45 lead at the break.

The Bucks could only dream of having that many guys involved.

Antetokounmpo’s 15 field goals were more than twice as many as any other Milwaukee player.

Phoenix

opened a 65-50 lead with a good start to the third, but Antetokounmpo—and pretty much only Antetokounmpo— kept the game from getting away from the Bucks. He scored 20 of the Bucks’ 33 points in the third, the first 20-point period in the finals since Michael Jordan against the Suns in 1993.

“Nothing Giannis does surprises me anymore. He’s got the nickname Freak for a reason,” Bucks guard Pat Connaughton said. “I will say it’s incredible what he’s been able to do, and it hasn’t happened without time he’s put in to get himself ready, get his body better and continue to do the things that he does to be a two-time MVP.” AP

PRINCESS SUPERAL sticks to her routine and keeps her focus.

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DEVIN BOOKER and the Suns have never been closer to a National Basketball Association title. AP

PBA, FINALLY, GOOD TO GO FRIDAY T

By Josef Ramos

HE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has finally earned the government’s approval to open Season 46 on July 16 with a triple-header at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City.

PBA Commissioner Willie

Marcial made the announcement on Friday stressing the Philippine Cup is officially a go.

“I would like to thank first some key persons and our government for making this happen,” said Marcial, referring to Senator Bong Go, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and Covid-19 testing czar Secretary Vince Dizon.

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, through Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr., and Games and Amusements Board

Trials participants unfazed

by SEAG postponement

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HE postponement of the Hanoi 31st Southeast Asian Games didn’t matter at all to the 111 cyclists vying in the PhilCycling National Trials for Road that hits the road under a bubble set up today (Saturday, July 10) at the Clark Freeport Zone’s wellmaintained roads.

“It’s disappointing [SEA Games postponement], but as an athlete, I will still give my best,” said Mark Lexer Galedo, one of the veterans competing in the Trials presented

by Standard Insurance, Smart, MVP Sports Foundation, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority and Clark Development Corp.

Galedo, the men’s individual time trial gold medalist in the Myanmar 2013 SEA Games, as well as the 2014 Le Tour de Filipinas and 2012 Ronda Pilipinas champion, is entered in both the ITT and men’s criterium of the trials also supported

by Go for Gold, Chooksto-Go, GAC Motor, Gatorade, Versa, 7-Eleven, Le Tour de Filipinas, 7-Eleven, UBE Express Inc., Powerade, Wilkins, Coca-Cola, Shimano, Bike-X and MadCrank.

Philippine Navy-Standard Insurance teammates George Oconer, last year’s Ronda Pilipinas winner, and veteran Ronald Oranza, as

well as Go For Gold leader Ronnel Hualda also vowed to fight it off in the trials that also feature the women’s ITT and criterium (today) and the road races for both genders tomorrow (Sunday).

“These are the national trials and as national athletes, a lot is expected of us,” Oconer said.

Today’s (Saturday) races start at 8 a.m. with the women’s ITT followed by the men’s race-againstthe-clock contest and at midday the criterium.

But activities at the Clark Parade Grounds get going at 6 a.m. as all participants— riders, race officials and staff—need to undergo Antigen tests.

Everyone involved in the races also underwent RT-PCR tests as prescribed by the Regional Task Force-

Central Luzon.

Host Vietnam officially announced the SEA Games postponement on Thursday because of the uncurbed Covid-19 cases in the region.

Chairman Abraham Khalil Mitra confirmed the government’s approval for the PBA to resume.

Marcial also thanked Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benhur Abalos, Ynares Governor Junjun Ynares, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto and Undersecretary Brigido Dulay of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Mitra.

Triple-headers starting at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays will be played in the Philippine Cup. For Sundays, the

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matches will start at 2:30 p.m.

Marcial said there will only be two conferences although bringing in imports for the second conference remains in the air.

“We will start assessing a variety of factors by September.

First, we will check and see if the government will allow foreigners to fly in,” he said.

“Two, we will gauge if imports will agree to play here, and three, we have to prepare for a scenario where teams wanted to change imports?”

The first conference will end in October.

RINCESS SUPERAL overwhelmed Harmie Constantino and Chihiro Ikeda with a birdie-binge at the front but needed to thwart Chanelle Avaricio’s spirited challenge with a clutch birdie on the 17th to fire a 65 and hack out a one-stroke victory in the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) Sherwood Ladies Challenge in Trece Martires, Cavite, on Friday.

Avaricio took up the challenger’s role after Constantino and Ikeda failed to match Superal’s blistering frontside 32 which she did with a brilliant five-birdie, one-bogey start at the Sherwood Hills Golf Club. Playing in a flight ahead, she then forced a tie with Superal at seven-under 209 total after capping a career-best 65 with three straight birdies from No. 15.

But the multi-titled Superal displayed grace under pressure, unleashing a solid drive and a 6-iron approach shot from 160 yards on the 17th then canned in a lead-grabbing birdie from 15 feet before preserving the lead and securing the victory with a closing routine par.

She totaled 208 that included a 74 and a 69 and pocketed the top purse of P112,000 for her second win in four events. She ruled the first of two bubble tournaments at Riviera late last year, finished second in the next then placed behind Constantino at Eagle Ridge last March before the organizing Pilipinas Golf Tournaments Inc. suspended play due to resurgence of coronavirus cases in NCR Plus.

“I actually had no idea of Chanelle’s surge but I knew there would be one who will go low,” said Superal, who hiked her lead to two with back-toback birdies from No. 14 but slipped into a tie with Avaricio

German Politt wins Tour de France Stage 12 in Nimes

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IMES, France—Rarely in the spotlight, Nils Politt struggled to believe victory was his when it finally came at the Tour de France.

After dropping his last remaining rivals on the road leading to the city of Nimes in southern France, the German rider hit his helmet several times and shook his head as if to say, “I can’t believe it.”

After the strange feeling sank in, with the finish in sight, Politt made a big heart sign with his hands and crossed the line on his own to post only the second stage win of his professional career.

Politt was part of a larger group that jumped out of the main pack in the early stages of the windy 159.4-kilometer Stage 12 between Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and Nimes.

The German rider from the Bora-Hansgrohe team had attacked with three other rivals from the 13-man breakaway group about 40 kilometers from the finish. He then went solo with 12 kilometers left with a sudden acceleration that was left unanswered.

“There were quite a lot of sprinters in our group, so I had to make the race hard and attack quite early,” Politt said. “I made first attack. I gave everything. To finish

solo is unbelievable.”

Imanol Erviti and Harry Sweeny finished second and third, respectively, 31 seconds behind.

A one-day classic specialist, the 27-year-old Politt has posted many honorable results at prestigious events in the past, including a runner-up finish at Paris-Roubaix two years ago. But despite his combative skills, Politt had never tasted victory on the biggest stage.

“Winning a Tour stage is a dream, it’s really the best moment of my career,” he added through a translator. “It’s my second win, but here it’s different.”

Politt’s victory brought comfort to his team just hours after leader Peter Sagan withdrew from the race before the start of the stage due to a knee injury.

Race leader Tadej Pogacar rode with all other main contenders well behind the breakaway and crossed nearly 16 minutes behind the winner. With none of the breakaway riders a threat in the general classification, the defending champion enjoyed a quiet day in the peloton after strong crosswinds created splits in the early stages.

There was no significant change in the overall standings. Pogacar kept his 5:18 lead over second-placed Rigoberto Uran, with Jonas Vingegaard in third, 5:33 off the pace. AP

following the latter’s late threebirdie blast. “But I just did what I was supposed to do, stuck to my routine and stayed focused.”

While Superal, the 2019 Ladies PGT Order of Merit champion, basked in the glory of another victory, Avaricio missed the chance to finally hit paydirt after finishing no higher than fourth in the past four tournaments of the ICTSI-backed circuit in pandemichit 2020-21 seasons.

She settled for second at 209 worth P90,000.

It was actually a windup that would’ve defined Avaricio’s career as she kept on pressing her bid for a breakthrough after matching Superal’s frontside 32 marked by five birdies in the first eight holes but marred by a bogey on the ninth.

She recovered the stroke on No. 12, only to yield it again on the next but the comely former Alabama State U mainstay blitzed home with three straight birdies to nurture hopes of forcing a playoff or clinching it outright.

But Superal had other things in mind.

Constantino, who led by one after 36 holes, stayed in the hunt despite a lone birdie after three holes but came undone when she double-bogeyed the par-5 No. 4 and dropped two more strokes on No. 7 after a bogey on the sixth.

She, however, gunned down two birdies at the back to save a 72 for solo third at 214 worth P75,000 while Chihiro Ikeda carded a 73 to end up fourth at 216.

Gretchen Villacencio stumbled with a 75 and wound up fifth at 222, Daniella Uy saved a 73 for sixth at 223 while Sunshine Baraquiel broke par with a 71 for seventh at 229 and Marvi Monsalve matched par 72 for eighth at 234 in the first of four bubble tournaments in Cavite in the next five weeks.

Next up for LPGT is the ICTSI Eagle Ridge Ladies Classic at the Norman course from July 14 to 16 before action swings to Riviera in Silang for a couple of events, the ICTSI Riviera Ladies Challenge at Langer from July 28 to 30 and the ICTSI Ladies Challenge at the adjacent Couples layout from August 4 to 6.

Burberry Zhang ran away with the low amateur honors with a 237 total after a 78, beating Korean Jang Jeong, who carded an 82 for a 243, by six for ninth.

Zhang claimed the trophy and P10,000 worth of items from SHGC pro shop.

Ipil game stopped

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OP brass of the 2021 Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup canceled the Iligan Archangels-ALZA Alayon Zamboanga match on Friday because of the Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Gymnasium’s slippery floor.

“We would like to apologize to everyone,” the league’s Head of Basketball Operations Chelito Caro said. “We had to prioritize the safety of the players.”

The rainy weather in Ipil cause the Ipil gym’s floor to be damp and slippery.

The match was stopped after the first quarter with Zamboanga Del Sur ahead, 13-11.

No amount of mopping could make the floor playable.

The game will be rescheduled to another day and the scores will be reset to 0-0.

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24/7 BUSINESS PROCESSING INC. 5th-6th-7th Flr. 81 Newport Bl Newport City Brgy. 183 Pasay City 11/f Capella Bldg. L-3&4 B2, Asean Drive Filinvest Alabang Muntinlupa City

1.

CHANG, KUO-HSIEN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

No.

MA, WENWEN Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative 13.

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DONG, ZHEN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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LAI, HAITAO Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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MA, KANG Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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SHAO, ZHUANG Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

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SHU, TEWEN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

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ZENG, NI Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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ZHANG, JINGYUN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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ZHANG, LONGJUN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

TSELISHCHEV, ARTUR Business Consultant 16.

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ZHANG, YING Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assist Clients with all their concerns

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 FANG, ZHEN Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative 11.

Brief Job Description: Responding Promptly to the inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction

JI, XIANG Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative 12.

Brief Job Description: Responding Promptly to the inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin

No.

Brief Job Description: Business consultancy, computer aided design, coordination with Foreign Markets.

GUO, ZHEN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HA VAN CONG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries OOI BENG KEONG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries PHU PHI YEN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SU, ZHIHUA Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries TRAN DINH AN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries TRUONG CONG PHUONG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries UNG SENH LONG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WEI, GUOXING Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WEI, LIANGLIANG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries XIAO, JINYUE Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

YANG, QIYU Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION LI, XIANGLU Mandarin Customer Relations Officer

30.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Handles the concerns of the people who buy their company’s products or services.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin

LI, ZHINAN Mandarin Customer Relations Officer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

31.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree; with at least 5 years experience and contacts with Eastern European Market.

XIAO, KAIYU Mandarin Customer Relations Officer 32.

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Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language 36.

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

37.

GARCIA FIGUEROA, JUAN PABLO Process Specialist 38.

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

39.

Brief Job Description: Service Support Solution includes diagnosis, resolution and reporting of customer issues and questions relating YouTube paid content products. Service is Tier 1 end user support with escalations to Google

CHOK ZOE Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 40.

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Has excellent problemsolving and communication skills in MANDARIN, with related BPO experience Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Has excellent problemsolving and communication skills in MANDARIN, with related BPO experience Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Has excellent problemsolving and communication skills in MANDARIN, with related BPO experience Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: At least college level and able to speak, read write and type fluently in MANDARIN language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Has excellent problemsolving and communication skills in MANDARIN, with related BPO experience Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: At least college level and able to speak, read write and type fluently in MANDARIN language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: At least college level and able to speak, read write and type fluently in MANDARIN language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: 4 plus years of experience in handling customers within call center environment Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: BA or BS Degree Holder; Minimum 2-year(s) customer service support experience (voice, e-mail, or chat), working with direct consumers preferably in a B2C environment Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

COSMOLINK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC. Flr. No. 6th, 7th & 8th Bldg. No. 100 Necc Bldg., Andrews Ave. St. Newport City Subd. District 1, Barangay 183 Pasay City

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999

Brief Job Description: Data software management; Spanish language proficiency

GRADOS TORRES, ALEX ALONSO Senior Process Executive

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language

Brief Job Description: Offer full range of customer service to employer and clients.

Basic Qualification: Has excellent problemsolving and communication skills in MANDARIN, with related BPO experience

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PHILIPPINES, INC. 2nd, 3rd, And 4th Floors, Science Hub Tower 4 Bldg. Mckinley Hill Cyberpark Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

Brief Job Description: Offer full range of customer service to employer and clients.

ZHANG, SHUAI Mandarin Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Brief Job Description: Handles the concerns of the people who buy their company’s products or services

WU, JUNYUAN Mandarin Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Brief Job Description: Offer full range of customer service to employer and clients.

LIANG, JUI-TING Mandarin Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Brief Job Description: Handles the concerns of the people who buy their company’s products or services

LI, SHUANG Mandarin Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

Brief Job Description: Handles the concerns of the people who buy their company’s products or services

YANG, LI Mandarin Customer Relations Officer

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language

Brief Job Description: Handles the concerns of the people who buy their company’s products or services.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

GOU, YUHUA Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 41.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese), at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

AUST-PHILS. ALUMINUM INTERNATIONAL, INC. 8 Acsie Compound West Svc. Road Marcelo Green Parañaque City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

ANOC99 CORPORATION 5/f To 10/f Ayala Malls Manila Bay Building D. Macapagal Blvd. Cor. Aseana Street Tambo Parañaque City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

Brief Job Description: Responding Promptly to the inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

ALINDOGAN DESIGN GROUP, INC. U-220 Prince Plaza I 106 Legazpi St. San Lorenzo Makati City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

Brief Job Description: Responding Promptly to the inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction ZHANG, YUTING Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

Brief Job Description: Responding Promptly to the inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction MA, MINGZHU Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently *preferably 6 months to 1 yr customer service experience detailoriented and has the ability to multi task

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Saturday, July 10, 2021 A13

29.

LUI, CHI WAI Chief Executive Officer

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree

Brief Job Description: Overview of Operations and Marketing

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

BIG EMPEROR TECHNOLOGY CORP. Eastfield Center Cbp1, Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

LIM CHOON KEAT Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 42.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese), at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

LU, YUMEI Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 43.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

MAI, HONGJU Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 44.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

TAO, LIFANG Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 45.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

WANG, MING Admin Officer (Mandarin Translator) 46.

Brief Job Description: Renders spoken message accurately, quickly, and clearly.

HE, HUILAN Customer Service Representative 47.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders, and other queries.

HUANG, XIA Customer Service Representative

48.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders, and other queries.

LI, TINGTING Customer Service Representative

49.

Brief Job Description: Interacting w/ customers via email, assists w/ complaints, orders and other queries.

PEE HWEE LING Customer Service Representative

50.

Brief Job Description: Interacting w/ customers via email, assists w/ complaints, orders and other queries.

TANG, MIN Customer Service Representative

51.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders, and other queries.

TONG, MEILING Customer Service Representative

52.

Brief Job Description: Interacting w/ customers via email, assists w/ complaints, orders, and other queries.

XIANG, FAQIANG Customer Service Representative

53.

Brief Job Description: Interacting w/ customers via email, assists w/ complaints, orders and other queries.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates

No.

HUI, YAWEI Marketing And Sales Agent 61.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese), at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese), at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in speaking, writing and reading (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese), at least college graduate, 2-3years work experience or fresh graduates Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

54.

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

XIONG, WEI Mandarin Customer Support Representative 55.

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

ZHANG, YILE Mandarin Customer Support Representative 56.

57.

58.

59.

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

LI, YIRONGXIAO Chinese Cargo Office Agent Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation.

LONG, GUIXU Chinese Cargo Office Agent Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation.

WANG, XI Chinese Cargo Office Agent Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation.

62.

63.

60.

Brief Job Description: Researches and develops various marketing strategies for products and services and implements marketing plans and works to meet sales quotas

GENG, XIN Mandarin Site Technical Officer Brief Job Description: Reporting urgent maintenance and repair tasks

YANG, HUI Mandarin Site Technical Officer Brief Job Description: Reporting urgent maintenance and repair tasks

BUI THI THU Customer Service Representative

64.

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 FAN, ZHIYONG Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese 65.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

66.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

HAN, YUYI Customer Service Representative

67.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

LI, MENGXING Customer Service Representative

68.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MANDARIN/FUKIEN and at least college level with related BPO experience.

NGUYEN THUY LINH DIEM Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MANDARIN/FUKIEN and at least college level with related BPO experience.

69.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

Basic Qualification: Have skills in Documentation Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Have skills in Documentation

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin

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VU THI HANG Customer Service Representative

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Have skills in Documentation

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints. They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and they help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can Prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can Manage large amounts of incoming calls Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

76.

Basic Qualification: Can contributes information, ideas, and research to help develop marketing strategies; can help to detail, design, and implement marketing plans for each product or service being offered.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

YANG, CHENGJUN Customer Service Representative

71.

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

LIM YEANG CHONG Sales Manager Brief Job Description: Responsible in all sales marketing strategies.

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

WANG, WEI Mandarin Customer Support Representative 77.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Can speak and write fluently in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Brief Job Description: Supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints.

Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MALAY and at least college level with related BPO experience.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MANDARIN/FUKIEN and at least college level with related BPO experience.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MANDARIN/FUKIEN and at least college level with related BPO experience.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

J-NA ALLOUT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP. 3/f Lipams Bldg. #48 President Avenue Bf Homes Parañaque City FENG, ZHONGLI Chinese Customer Service Representative 78.

Brief Job Description: Make recommendations through the analysis of Chinese digital channel across the web, social media, and mobile.

HE, SHUMING Chinese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

LI, YUNFEI Chinese Customer Service Representative

80.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

LU, TENGYUN Chinese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

LUO, CIQIN Chinese Customer Service Representative

82.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

SHI, QIAOLU Chinese Customer Service Representative

83.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

YUAN, HAO Chinese Customer Service Representative

84.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

ZHANG, LIANGKANG Chinese Customer Service Representative

85.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

ZHANG, LONG Chinese Customer Service Representative

86.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

ZHANG, SHUCHAO Chinese Customer Service Representative

87.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

Brief Job Description: Reporting urgent maintenance and repair tasks

JIA, CHENGZHEN Mandarin Customer Support Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

ZHANG, SI Site Technical Support-mandarin

LAI WAI YE Malaysian Customer Support Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

INVECH TREASURE PROCESSING CORPORATION Ground, 2nd, 3rd And 4th Floor Eight West Campus Mckinley West Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

INTERQUEST MANPOWER INC. Unit 602 6/f Richville Corporate Tower Madrigal Business Park Ayala Alabang Muntinlupa City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

GRANDTECH SUPPORT SERVICES INC. 4/f U-2c One E-com Ctr. Bldg. Ocean Drive Brgy. 076 Pasay City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Must be a College graduate; Can prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information; Can contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; Can manage large amounts of incoming calls

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

YIN, JIAN Customer Service Representative

81.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in MANDARIN/FUKIEN and at least college level with related BPO experience.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: A customer service representative supports customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, and responding to complaints, They’re the front line of support for clients and customers and the help ensure that customers are satisfied with products, services, and features.

FU, YANGHAO Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

Basic Qualification: Can contributes information, ideas, and research to help develop marketing strategies; can help to detail, design, and implement marketing plans for each product or service being offered.

GATEWAYSOLUTIONS CORP. Unit 2306 Antel Global Corporate Center Julia Vargas Ave. Ortigas Center, San Antonio Pasig City

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

ECHOTECH SERVICES INC. 18/f Philamlife Tower 8767 Paseo De Roxas Bel-air Makati City

EASTERN GOLD CORPORATION 503 Nueva St Binondo Manila

CHEN, MIMI Marketing And Sales Agent

Brief Job Description: Researches and develops various marketing strategies for products and services and implements marketing plans and works to meet sales quotas

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

DEXIN 999, INC. Red Hotel No. 345 Edsa Cor. Don Carlos Revilla St. Barangay 147 Pasay City LIN, YUHUA Mandarin Customer Support Representative

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

www.businessmirror.com.ph

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

ZHANG, YADI Chinese Customer Service Representative` 88.

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

ANTON TAN Indonesian Customer Service Representative

89.

Brief Job Description: Track main industry trends in Indonesian through blogs, micro blogs and forums.

Basic Qualification: At least college graduate Chinese and mandarin speaking Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin and English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate; Speaks and write fluently in Mandarin/English.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: at least college graduate Indonesian speaking Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION AN, JUGWAN Korean Customer Service Representative

90.

Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Korean customer service representative KIM, DONGKYU Korean Customer Service Representative

91.

Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Korean customer service representative PARK, KYOUNGKOOK Korean Customer Service Representative

92.

Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Korean customer service representative

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: at least college graduate speaks and write fluently (Korean & English)

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Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: at least college graduate speaks and write fluently (Korean & English)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: at least college graduate speaks and write fluently (Korean & English)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

KING-MERCHANT BUSINESS TRADING INCORPORATED Unit 2505-f The Finance Centre 26th St. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City CAI, BINHUA Mandarin Speaking Marketing Specialist 93.

Brief Job Description: Conducting Research and Marketing Strategies to Develop Areas of the Business CHAN, CHE-WEI Mandarin Speaking Marketing Specialist

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Brief Job Description: Conducting Research and Marketing Strategies to Develop Areas of the Business LEI, MING Mandarin Speaking Marketing Specialist

95.

Brief Job Description: Conducting Research and Marketing Strategies to Develop Areas of the Business

96.

Brief Job Description: Manage Projects, conduct preventive maintenance of electro-mechanical systems, do onsite inspections, and organize the technical and hydraulic department

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking Reading and Writing in Mandarin

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking Reading and Writing in Mandarin

Brief Job Description: To lead the development of L’Oreal’s business (Turnover, market share and profitability), organization, employees and image in a given country.

111.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking Reading and Writing in Mandarin

112.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Master’s Degree or better in Electro-Mechanical/ Marine Engineering or equivalent; at least 10 years’ experience in industrial hydraulics and electrical systems: installation/repair/ maintenance/design/ safety; at least 10 years hands-on experience in marine industry-service/ project engineer level or higher; experienced in repair of European shipboard electro-hydraulic systems

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Basic Qualification: N/A Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above

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MACH 86 TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 5th-13th Flr. Workspace Bldg. 1419 Industry St. Corner Finance St. Mbp Ayala Alabang Ayalaalabang Muntinlupa City

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CHEN, QINZHOU Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

CHI, XINYU Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

CONG, JIEZI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

DING, SONGYAN Customer Service Representative 101.

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Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

FAN, MING Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

FENG, HANCONG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

FENG, HANQUAN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

FENG, QUANYU Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

GAO, YANG Customer Service Representative 106.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

KONG, KAI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

LI, ZHIFENG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

118.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

119.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

120.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

121.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

LIU, PENG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

LIU, YONGQI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

PANG, YUANHUA Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

QIN, YUHANG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

SIOW WING HONG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

TAN JUN HONG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

TIAN, LONGFEI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

WANG, GENGJIE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

WANG, PING Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

WANG, YUEHUA Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

WEI, RENYAN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

WEN, HONGPENG Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

LIU, WEN Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

L’OREAL PHILIPPINES, INC. 2nd, 2208-2209, 23/f Robinsons Equitable Tower Adb Ave. Ortigas Ctr, San Antonio Pasig City

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110.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

RAYNAUD, YANNICK President/country Managing Director

HUANG, ZHEWEI Customer Service Representative

LI, ZHAOHUA Customer Service Representative

KMC MAG SOLUTIONS, INC. 20/f, Picadilly Star Building 4th Avenue Corner 27th Street Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

SWITON, KRZYSZTOF Human Resources Manager

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

125.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

WU, DI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

XIAO, WANG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

XU, HAIFEI Customer Service Representative 126.

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ZOU, YOULIANG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Manage day to day activities in the project management office

Basic Qualification: Proficient; with certain management experience Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

LIU, CHAO Mandarin Speaking Customer Relations Service Provider

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, Reading and Writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

MIGHTY-MERCHANT BUSINESS TRADING INCORPORATED Unit 2505- E The Finance Centre 26th St. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City CHEN, ZILONG Mandarin Speaking Marketing Specialist 134.

Brief Job Description: Conducting research and marketing strategies to develop areas of the business.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

MOA CLOUDZONE CORP. 4th-11th Flr. Nexgen Tower C4 Rd. Edsa Ext. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

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Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

MEGA-WEB TECHNOLOGIES INC. 6,7,8,9,10,11/f Met Live Bldg. Edsa Cor. Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

ZHANG, YONGJUN Customer Service Representative

HUI, KAR CHUN Project Management Manager

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers via email, assists with complaints, orders and other queries.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

MARINA SQUARE PROPERTIES, INC. 5/f Ag New World Manila Bay Hotel 1588 1588 Mh Del Pilar Cor. P Gil. 076 Bgy. 699 Malate Manila

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese) Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Interacting with customers queries

ZHAO, WENQIANG Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fukien, Cantonese)

XU, JUNHUA Customer Service Representative

YANG, JINGSAI Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese dialect (Mandarin, Fookien & Cantonese)

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

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146.

BO, JIALIN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CAI, ZHIHONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CHEN, ZHONGYUN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CHEN, LONGFEI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries DAI, MUNAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries DUONG DINH TONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries FENG, JINLONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries GAN, HAO Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HE, WEI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HUANG, AOQIANG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

JIANG, TAO Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

LEI, QINGMU Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION LI, JICHANG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LI, HAIRUI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LI, HONGKUN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LI, LEI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LIU, CHENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LIU, QIANG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LIU, QIANQIAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries NGUYEN TIEN KHANG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHEN, KAI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHEN, XIANGYANG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHI, GUIFENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SU, ZHENCHENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SU, ZHI Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WANG, WENBO Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WANG, JUN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WU, ZEWEN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries XU, PENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries XU, HAORAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YAO, JIANZHOU Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YI, ZILIN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YOU, DEPENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

ZHANG, HAOJIE Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

ZHANG, XUDONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

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170.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

171.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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Brief Job Description: Develop and drive strategic medium/long term commercial plans and financial budgets through a holistic understanding of the entire value chain to achieve company objectives and business targets

Brief Job Description: To solve problems, create value, improve growth and maximize business

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints , provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints , provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents

Brief Job Description: Provides specialized program support for the administration

JING, PENGFEI Mandarin Customer Service Brief Job Description: Responding promptly to customer inquiries

YANG, ZHIPING Mandarin Customer Service Brief Job Description: Responding promptly to customer inquiries

YAO, PAN Mandarin Customer Service Brief Job Description: Responding promptly to customer inquiries

Brief Job Description: Recruiting staff who can speak mandarin, Maintaining employees file YU, ZHICHENG Mandarin Trchnical Support

184.

Brief Job Description: Monitoring and Maintaining computer systems and netwroks

HUANG, BING Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 185.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

187.

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION MU, SHIYU Chinese Speaking Admin Associate Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

WU, XIN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 188.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

GUO, FULIN Chinese Speaking Business Analyst 189.

Brief Job Description: Planning, maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Strong commercial and data driven mindset with ability in strategic planning, managing P&L and analyzing financial data Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999

HOU, LIQIANG Chinese Speaking Business Analyst 190.

Brief Job Description: Planning, maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research

LI, PENG Chinese Speaking Business Analyst 191.

Basic Qualification: College graduate and fluent in English

Brief Job Description: Planning, maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

WEN, ZHANFEI Chinese Speaking Business Analyst 192.

Basic Qualification: College graduate , preferably 1 year Chinese customer service experience in the similar field, must be fluent in mandarin and English written and orally

Brief Job Description: Planning, maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research

CHEN, SHUANG Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 193.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate , preferably 1 year Chinese customer service experience in the similar field, must be fluent in mandarin and English written and orally Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

LIU, NANNAN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 186.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Brief Job Description: Developing, implementing sales strategies, client service, plan and analyzing sales data

CHENG, LUYAO Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 197.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Excellent in Writing, Reading and Speaking in Mandarin

Brief Job Description: Developing, implementing sales strategies, client service, plan and analyzing sales data

LYU, JUNLIANG Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

Basic Qualification: Excellent in Writing, Reading and Speaking in Mandarin

Basic Qualification: Excellent in Writing, Reading and Speaking in Mandarin

Brief Job Description: Developing, implementing sales strategies, client service, plan and analyzing sales data

LIU, MIN Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Developing, implementing sales strategies, client service, plan and analyzing sales data

DU, JUNTAO Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

LIU, SHIWEI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 198.

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

PAN, YUBO Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 199.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking , Reading and Writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills

200.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

ZHAO, JUN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 201.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

XU, WENWEN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

PERFECTZEST INC. 16th Floor Tower 6789 6789 Ayala Avenue Bel-air Makati City

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

HUANG, JUN-HAO Mandarin Hr Specialist

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

PENG, LIN Chinese Customer Specialist

QUACH DUY CO Mandarin Administrative Specialist

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

NEWBAY INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INC. 2/f Mezzanine Tower 1 The Enterprise Center 6766 Ayala Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas Makati City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ZHU, SHUKE Chinese Customer Service

ZHUANG, ZHONG Chinese Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

WU, LIUJUN Chinese Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

ZHOU, JUNHUA Chinese Customer Service

No.

NEW ORIENTAL CLUB88 CORPORATION 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th/f Pearl Marina Building Pacific Drive Don Galo Parañaque City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak , Read and Write Chinese Language

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

LEECH, GLEN NOEL Consultant

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

ZHANG, QIAN Chinese Customer Service

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

NEW CHANGE TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS INC. 7/f Glorietta 4 Ayala Center San Lorenzo Makati City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

ELLINGWORTH, MICHAEL KENNETH Commercial Director

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

Basic Qualification: Able to Speak , Read and Write Chinese Language

ZHANG, JIAN Chinese Customer Service

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

MOET HENNESSY PHILIPPINES INC. U-1 26/f Zuellig Bldg. Makati Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas Urdaneta Makati City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write Chinese language

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

www.businessmirror.com.ph

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

CHANG, YUYING Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 202.

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information and confidential

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent Mandarin communication skill Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent Mandarin communication skill Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent Mandarin communication skill Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent Mandarin communication skill Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

BusinessMirror

www.businessmirror.com.ph

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION HUANG, LIMING Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

203.

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information and confidential

LIU, YANGYANG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 204.

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information and confidential

SHI, CHENGLONG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 205.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information and confidential

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills

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209.

Brief Job Description: Technical support service HUANG, LU Mandarin Technical Support Brief Job Description: Technical support service WANG, KANGFAN Mandarin Technical Support Brief Job Description: Technical support service ZHI, ZHICHAO Mandarin Technical Support Brief Job Description: Technical support service

210.

Brief Job Description: Conducting research and marketing strategies to develop areas of the business

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Skills in Computer Networking and Hardware

211.

Brief Job Description: Identify and suggest possible improvements on procedures

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin

212.

Brief Job Description: 1. Responsible in providing end to end HR operations support to employees, line managers, and local HR 2.

Responsible in executing complex local HR processes, in line with existing policies and procedures, 3. Assuring high quality data management in shell people, as well as documentation

221.

213.

Brief Job Description: Directly interact with Chinese clients and immediately respond to their problems concerns suggestions and request on matters related to sky dragon global technologies corp. services HUANG, SHANGYI Customer Service Representative

214.

Brief Job Description: Directly interact with Chinese clients and immediately respond to their problems concerns suggestions and request on matters related to sky dragon global technologies corp. services HUANG, MAOHUI Customer Service Representative

215.

Brief Job Description: Directly interact with Chinese clients and immediately respond to their problems concerns suggestions and request on matters related to sky dragon global technologies corp. services LI, FENGJIAO Customer Service Representative

216.

Brief Job Description: Directly interact with Chinese clients and immediately respond to their problems concerns suggestions and request on matters related to sky dragon global technologies corp. services TRAN DUC DONG Customer Service Representative

217.

Brief Job Description: Directly interact with Chinese clients and immediately respond to their problems concerns suggestions and request on matters related to sky dragon global technologies corp. services

222.

218.

Brief Job Description: Manage Projects, conduct preventive maintenance of electro-mechanical systems, do onsite inspections, and organize the technical and hydraulic department

Brief Job Description: Maintain customer records by updating account information LIU, YUANQING Mandarin Technical Support

223.

Brief Job Description: Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications

224.

LEI, TAO Mandarin Customer Service Brief Job Description: Answering products and service questions

NOAH NTONGA, YVAN ROGER French Operations CSR 225.

Brief Job Description: Provides expedient and accurate customer service to French Speaking clients and customers

CHENG, BIN Chinese Visa Consultant

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

CHENG, YUANYUAN Chinese Visa Consultant 227.

228.

229.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in mandarin and English

230.

231.

Brief Job Description: Organize and oversee the operations of number of stores

LEI, HUI Purchaser-mandarin Speaking 232.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin.

237.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin.

238.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Excellent in reading, writing and speaking in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

239.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

240.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin both Oral and written Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Skilled in French language

241.

Brief Job Description: Evaluating vendors, negotiating contracts and preparing reports

234.

LIEW ZE WEE Bilingual Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Answer customers question and manages staff.

TAN YONG XIANG Bilingual Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Answer customers question and manages staff.

CHEN, CAIBIN Chinese IT Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months - 1 year as sales consultant: fluent in Mandarin and English language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months - 1 year as sales consultant: fluent in Mandarin and English language

242.

243.

244.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

YANG, ZHENGMING Chinese IT Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

ZHAN, LEI Chinese IT Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

Basic Qualification: Excellent in writing, reading and speaking in bilingual languages Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services

Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services

Basic Qualification: at least 19y/old - ability to speak, write and communicate in Chinese Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: at least 19y/old - ability to speak, write and communicate in Chinese Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

MULAJKAR, SANDEEP ASHOK Head Of Consumer & Small Business Banking Operations India & Philippines And Country Head Philippines Brief Job Description: Responsible for overall direction and operations of WFIP Governance, VMO, transitions and Country Management Office.

Basic Qualification: Desire candidate should have a strong experience in CSBB fulfillment.

Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above

WISHLAND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY INC. 28/f Techzone Condo Corp. 213 Buendia Ave. San Antonio Makati City JIANG, QI Chinese Language-marketing Staff Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to services being offered XU, GUIYAN Chinese Language-marketing Staff 247.

Basic Qualification: Degree holder in business administration and 3-5 yrs working experience in wholesale/retail industry

Basic Qualification: Degree holder in business administration and 3-5 yrs working experience in wholesale/retail industry

Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

WELLS FARGO INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS LLC-PHILIPPINES Wells Fargo Center 1180 Wells Fargo Drive Mckinley Hill Cyberpark Taguig City

Basic Qualification: Degree holder in computer science with relevant certifications and trainings

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

XU, ZHIXING Chinese IT Specialist

HOANG THI HUYEN Vietnamese Customer Service Representative

246.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

DO VAN TUYEN Vietnamese Customer Service Representative

245.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

GUO, YUQIN Chinese IT Specialist

Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English

WANFANG TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, INC. 6-9/f Double Dragon Plaza Edsa Cor. Macapagal Ave. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months - 1 year as sales consultant: fluent in Mandarin and English language

Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

CAI, SHENGPENG Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months - 1 year as sales consultant: fluent in Mandarin and English language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

CHEN, HAILIN Chinese IT Specialist

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

VPC CORPORATE SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED 11/f 100 West, Sen Gil Puyat Ave. Cor. Washington St. Pio Del Pilar Makati City

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

VASTLINE BUSINESS SUPPORT INC. U-504p Five E-com Ctr. Bldg. Pacific Drive Brgy. 076 Pasay City

233.

Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999

Brief Job Description: Provide administrative support to organizations by assisting with data entry

WANG, MINGHUI Chinese-area Manager

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Master’s Degree or better in Electro-Mechanical/ Marine Engineering or equivalent; at least 10 years’ experience in industrial hydraulics and electrical systems: installation/repair/ maintenance/design/ safety; at least 10 years hands-on experience in marine industry-service/ project engineer level or higher; experienced in repair of European shipboard electro-hydraulic systems

Brief Job Description: Responsible to follow up local liaison officer of all immigration and operations remaining up to date with any changes to legislation and overseeing all the aspects involved in processing a visa and immigration services

CHEN, ZHIHUI Assistant Database/system Administrator

Basic Qualification: Fluent in mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

236.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

UNITOP GENERAL MERCHANDISE INC. 12th Floor, Ri Rance Bldg. Aseana City Tambo Parañaque City

Basic Qualification: Fluent in mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Responsible to follow up local liaison officer of all immigration and operations remaining up to date with any changes to legislation and overseeing all the aspects involved in processing a visa and immigration services WU, FUWEN Chinese Visa Consultant

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Responsible to follow up local liaison officer of all immigration and operations remaining up to date with any changes to legislation and overseeing all the aspects involved in processing a visa and immigration services LI, JIADONG Chinese Visa Consultant

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

Basic Qualification: Fluent in mandarin and English

Basic Qualification: Excellent in reading, writing and speaking in Mandarin

UNITED MOTION BUSINESS CONSULTANCY INC. U-2215 22f Cityland 10 Tower 2 154 H.v. Dela Costa Cor. Valero Sts. Bel-air Makati City

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Mandarin

Basic Qualification: Fluent in mandarin and English

No.

TELUS INTERNATIONAL PHILIPPINES, INC. Units 23/f, 31st/f - 37th/f Discovery Centre Adb Avenue, Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City

Brief Job Description: Responsible to follow up local liaison officer of all immigration and operations remaining up to date with any changes to legislation and overseeing all the aspects involved in processing a visa and immigration services

Basic Qualification: • Tertiary qualification – preferably in HR or business administration. • Minimum 1-2 years’ work experience – previous experience in shared service, call center, service environment is an advantage. • English and Spanish (good command, both written & oral)

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

TELOQUET OUTSOURCING SERVICES INC. Upper 2/f Unit B 2444-a Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy 727 Malate Manila

226.

TAITECH MARINE SALES AND SERVICES CORPORATION Unit 510 Jocfer Bldg. Commonwealth Ave. Holy Spirit 2 Quezon City

DE WAELE, SAM ANDRE A Technical Manager And Hydraulic Specialist

Brief Job Description: Serves customers by providing product and service information and resolving product and service problems.

YIN YIN NWE Mandarin Customer Service

SKY DRAGON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 2f-5f Unit 710 Shaw Blvd. Global Link Center, Brgy. Wack Wack Mandaluyong City CHEN, MENGKE Chinese Customer Service Representative

Brief Job Description: Serves customers by providing product and service information and resolving product and service problems.

WONG SIN CHEONG Mandarin Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

SHELL SHARED SERVICES (ASIA) B.V. 16/f-25/f Solaris One Bldg. 130 Dela Rosa St. San Lorenzo Makati City

ESONO NZENG AVOMO, FRANCISCO JAVIER Project HR Advisor

220.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Skills in Computer Networking and Hardware

Brief Job Description: Handles administrative requests and queries from senior managers and officers LIU, CHAO Mandarin Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Skills in Computer Networking and Hardware

SECURE SMARTER SERVICES INC. Unit A 9/ F Bpi-philam Life Bldg. 6811 Ayala Ave. Bel-air Makati City WU, YI-YING Chinese Speaking Site Technician

219.

Basic Qualification: Skills in Computer Networking and Hardware

RED DOT MARKETING AND BRANDING INC. Unit 1514 Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy. 727 Malate Manila LONG, PENG Mandarin Marketing Specialist

TAN GEH RHEE Mandarin Admin Specialist

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

TELFA OUTSOURCING SERVICES INC. Unit 3b Mrb 1160 J. Bocobo St., 072 Bgy. 670 Ermita Manila

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

PRANCING DESEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES INC. Unit 1620 Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy. 727 Malate Manila DU, ZHONGDONG Mandarin Technical Support

No.

Saturday, July 10, 2021 A17

Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to services being offered TRUONG MY LINH Vietnamese Language- Marketing Staff

248.

Brief Job Description: Providing details to clients relative to services being offered

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, Reading and Writing Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, Reading and Writing Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, Reading and Writing Vientnamese language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

YOFC INTERNATIONAL (PHILIPPINES) CORPORATION U-307-309, #99 Reliance It Center Bldg. E. Rodriguez Jr. Ave. Ugong Pasig City LIU, QIANGWEI Project Controller Manager 249.

Brief Job Description: Track, monitor, and evaluate the progress of each projectsw

Basic Qualification: College degree; Fluent in Mandarin language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, reading and writing in Malaysian

*Date Generated: Jul 9, 2021 In the ad material of Notice of Filing of Application for Alien Employment Permits published on July 09, 2021, the name of LIU, LANG under MOA CLOUDZONE CORP., should have been read as LIU, LIANG and not as published.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Any person in the Philippines who is competent, able and willing to perform the services for which the foreign national is desired may file an objection at DOLE-NCR Regional Office located at DOLE-NCR Building, 967 Maligaya St., Malate Manila, within 30 days after this publication.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, reading and writing in Malaysian

Please inform DOLE-NCR if you have any information on criminal offense committed by the foreign nationals.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

VERTEX DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1439 Adriatico Cor. Sta. Monica St. 072 Bgy. 669 Ermita Manila

235.

BAI, PENG Chinese IT Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operations of electronic gaming device

Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in maintaining gaming devices. Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ATTY. SARAH BUENA S. MIRASOL REGIONAL DIRECTOR