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The tricky business of restarting tourism

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OURISTS from the National Capital Region (NCR) eagerly trooped to Boracay Island on June 3, as government relaxed restrictions for residents of the region and four surrounding provinces traveling to areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ).

By June 5, tourist arrivals on the island reached 2,149 with residents from Metro Manila accounting for 64 percent of the three-day total, much to the joy of its residents and businesses. Malay Councilor Nenette Aguirre-Graf eagerly announced on her Facebook page on June 6, “Good news! 959 tour-

ists arrived yesterday and booked in 83 resorts. Welcome and enjoy our Boracay!!!”

In the same breath, however, she said, “Hope it’s not close-open,” a constant fear among islanders who have had to endure a triple whammy of closures starting with the six-month rehabilitation of the

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island in 2018, the pandemic in 2020, and just as hotels and resorts were booked for the Holy Week, the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) clamped down on leisure tourism for residents in NCR, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna, due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in these areas. Boracay used to record 1 million visitors from domestic markets, with the NCR being its main source.

But no sooner had the island reopened to tourism, an old problem was back—11 visitors from NCR were caught with fake RT-PCR negative test results, much to the consternation of the Malay LGU and the Department of Tourism (DOT). The latter had earlier haled to court six tourists from Metro Manila who had presented fake negative Covid-test results in January, three of whom were found to actually be positive for the disease.

Start and stop and start again

DUE to uncertain developments in the global arena, for now the Philippines remains closed to international leisure travelers.

Balikbayans (homecoming Filipinos) are currently allowed but, vaccinated or not, they still need to quarantine for 14 days—10 in an accredited quarantine hotel, and four days at home. Domestic tourism is being firmly pushed, also a not-so-easy feat.

Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat acknowledges the difficulties of reopening leisure destinations and restarting tourism in general due to the constantly changing Covid-19 developments in the Philippines. “We were so ready for Holy Week. Many resorts in Boracay received a lot of bookings, then the surge happened. It was disappointing for many, of course, most of all for the tourism stakeholders there who were counting on the revenues.

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Celebrations (and questions) greet US vaccine donation plan

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APE TOWN, South Africa —US plans to donate 500 million more Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries were met Thursday with both celebration and hesitation amid questions over whether the effort will be enough to help poor regions desperate for doses.

Some health officials and experts expressed hope that the pledge would encourage more donations to ease the inequities in vaccine supplies that have become pronounced in recent months.

Other observers stressed that the doses needed to roll out quickly.

“Saving lives requires shots in arms now. Not at the end of 2021, not in 2022, but now,” said Kate Elder, senior vaccines policy advisor to the Doctors Without Borders organization. The donated vaccines “better come in sufficient volumes and urgently.”

Hours after the US President Joe Biden’s administration committed to the donation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the Group of Seven nations were set to share at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, with half coming from the

US and 100 million from the UK. The announcement on the eve of the G-7 summit in England previewed a coordinated effort by the world’s advanced economies to make vaccination available everywhere.

The first 200 million doses from the US will start to arrive in countries in August, the White House and manufacturer Pfizer said, with the rest following in the first half of 2022.

Searing reminder

INOCULATION campaigns in several richer countries have surged ahead while efforts have barely begun in many poorer nations.

The recent surge in cases in India offered a searing reminder of how Covid-19 can devastate entire countries when vaccines are scarce or nonexistent.

“We’ve seen that the virus is not over. It might feel like it’s nearly over for some of us living in countries where we’re lucky enough to have been vaccinated. But in other parts of the world, the virus is still absolutely raging out of control,” said Lily Caprani, head of vaccines advocacy for Unicef.

The Biden administration’s decision to donate Pfizer vaccines raised doubts about whether the

doses would reach the poorest of the poor because those doses need to be stored in ultra-cold conditions. Many low-income countries with limited infrastructure will probably be unable to take them to their most remote areas.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it would advise its countries to use the Pfizer shots in major cities.

Big help

STILL, the administration’s promise was “clearly a cause for celebration,” said Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, particularly at a time when infections are increasing on the continent of 1.3 billion people, and some countries still have not administered a single dose.

“Absolutely, it’s going to be a big help,” Nkengasong said.

The donation of the Pfizer shots is crucial because the global disparity in vaccination has become a multidimensional threat: a human catastrophe, a $5-trillion economic loss for advanced economies and a contributor to the generation of mutant viruses, said Jerome Kim, head of the International Vaccine Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to making vaccines available to developing countries.

The US will work with the global Covax vaccine alliance to deliver the shots.

The G-7 summit might also give an indication of whether and how far other nations in the elite club are willing to follow the US and the UK on vaccine sharing.

Richer countries have been the focus of widespread criticism that they have fallen woefully short of lofty promises of fairness when the vaccines were being developed.

Germany and France have each promised to donate 30 million doses by the end of the year.

The gaps in vaccine access are clear: The US and Britain have fully vaccinated more than 40 percent of their populations, according to a global tracker kept by Johns Hopkins University. Countries like Hai-

IN this December 13, 2020, file photo, dry ice is poured into a box containing the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as it is prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan. AP

ti, on America’s doorstep, Burundi and many others have vaccinated few, if any, of their people.

“So far, 77 percent of all the vaccines administered have gone into the arms of people in 10 countries,” said Covax co-chairman Jane Halton. “Now that has got to change.”

Virus mutations

THE inequality is not just a matter of fairness. There is also increasing concern over virus variants emerging from areas with consistently high Covid -19 circulation. At least three variants are circulating in Africa, the African CDC said, and driving infections. Even countries like Britain, with high rates of vaccination, have cited variants as an ongoing concern.

“While Biden’s plan is welcome, it is a small piece of the puzzle, and it doesn’t help countries that are struggling now,” said Fifa Rahman, who is a civil

society representative on a World Health Organization (WHO) body focused on increasing access to Covid-19 vaccines.

She cited the East African nation of Uganda as an example, saying the country’s intensive care units are already full, and it has only small numbers of vaccines left.

Biden’s announcement is also tangled up in geopolitics. He hopes to put the US and its allies at the forefront of the global virus fight in the face of a growing supply of Chinese and Russian vaccines.

China has exported 350 million doses of its vaccines to dozens of nations, according to its Foreign Ministry. While those vaccines have faced scrutiny because of a lack of transparency in the sharing of clinical trial data, many poorer nations were eager to receive anything at all.

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But the developments are so fast,” she says with a sigh and a shrug.

Romulo Puyat says in every IATF meeting, she constantly bats for the lifting of more and more travel restrictions and help tourism stakeholders to regain their footing. About 4.8 million tourism workers have been affected by the Covid-19 restrictions, either losing their jobs, or now working part-time. “But we always have to defer to the health experts, to the Department of Health (DOH). For instance, even as travel restrictions to MGCQ areas were lifted, we had to respect the wishes of the DOH that NCR-plus residents still [take the RT-PCR] test before [traveling]. This applies even if the tourist has been vaccinated.”

She has also forwarded a proposal for green lanes for vaccinated balikbayans that would cut their quarantine to seven days.

This is still being studied by the IATF technical working group. She has also had to contend with a number of leisure destinations, like surfing capital Baler, which continue to remain firmly closed to tourism.

Confusion among LGU, DILG, IATF, DOT

VETERAN hotelier J., who oversees a number of properties in many parts of the country, points his finger at local government units (LGUs) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the difficulties in kickstarting tourism. “It’s already been more than a year, it’s still the same banana—each LGU differs from the other [in terms of travel requirements]….

Does the DILG try to harmonize? There seems to be no progress on that front. On

a marketing standpoint, how can the country sell itself as a destination when regulations change from one region to another?”

J. requested that he not be identified as he didn’t want his hospitality company to encounter difficulties with the government.

“For instance, in Puerto Princesa, there are no protocols. They are still talking about drafting of protocols in contrast to those LGUs with established online registrations. When they finally came up with it, their website was always down, or no flights available per CAB [Civil Aeronautics Board]. In Nuvali, which is Biñan, Laguna, we have to follow the rules of Silang, Cavite [where our hotel is located], across a creek.”

An aviation source who also requested anonymity blames the confusing regulations issued by the IATF as among the reasons the tourism industry can’t really take off.

Just recently, the airline industry was confounded by IATF Resolution 118-A, which lifted the restrictions on NCR-Plus residents, regardless of age, allowing them to travel to MGCQ areas from June 1 to 15.

In the same resolution, however, the IATF said, travel will be allowed to MGCQ areas “subject to an RT-PCR test-before-travel requirement for those below 18 and above 65, and other protocols and restrictions as may be imposed by the DOT and the [LGU] of destination.” It didn’t help that the DOT issued a similarly baffling news statement, merely copying the bewildering IATF provision. Did they mean NCR-Plus tourists between the ages of 18 and 65 no longer needed to present a negative RT-PCR test?

The aviation source said then, without any clarification, “the airline will have

to follow the IATF resolution.” Eventually, as in more than five hours later, the DOT issued another news statement clarifying that the RT-PCR test requirement “still applies to travelers within the 18 to 65 age group, if so required by the LGU of destination.” Whew.

DOT’s own travel app has had to play catchup to the speedy turn of events. On Friday, it showed a number of destinations under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) still open for NCRPlus tourists.

A door opens, but a window closes

IN a separate interview, Philippine Airlines spokesperson Cielo Villaluna said the carrier has had to deal with passengers presenting incomplete documents. “In some instances, they present fake RT-PCR tests.

We have a tieup with the [Philippine National Police] Aviation Security Group, which has led to several apprehensions.”

On the upside, the reopening of domestic tourism has led to an “improvement in passenger loads to leisure destinations for PAL,” she underscored. “For our flights to Caticlan on June 10 totaling three, we had an average of 77 percent load factor.

Passenger loads to Caticlan on previous days were slightly lower, which can be attributed to the fact that the green light for domestic tourist travel has just been given.

Passenger loads to Puerto Princesa, Tagbilaran (Panglao Island), Siargao, etc., are building up gradually, with passenger volume to Caticlan taking the lead.” Among the challenges the airline industry faces with regard to restarting tourism: is one, “For international travel, passengers who

Biden administration will go to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union. Pfizer said the doses are part of a previous pledge, with its partner BioNTech, to provide 2 billion doses to developing countries over the next 18 months.

The White House had earlier announced separate plans to share 80 million doses globally by the end of June, most through Covax.

Some experts said donations alone will not be enough to close the huge gaps in supplies and called for allowing qualified companies around the world to manufacture vaccines without intellectual property constraints.

The US has expressed support for suspending IP protections on vaccines, and some other countries have agreed it should be explored.

But in an indication of the disjointed response from the G-7 nations, Germany on Thursday repeated its opposition to such a waiver.

are fully vaccinated and eligible to fly to the Philippines wonder why they still have to go through hotel quarantine.”

Even as NCR-Plus residents are now allowed to travel to MGCQ areas, other leisure destinations, however, are again closed. The surge in daily Covid cases in Davao City, for instance, has resulted in the area being placed under MECQ from June 3 to 20. Earlier, the LGU had already started allowing Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions (MICE) events, one of the key revenue earners for its tourism sector.

Although located in Davao del Norte, Samal Island’s resorts have been ordered closed by its mayor, as most visitors access it from the city. This is expected to impact some 130 resorts on the island, as only DOT-star rated hotels and those with staycation certificates are allowed to continue operating.

At the end of May, also declared hands-off from tourists until June 15 are Iloilo City and its heritage homes and palate-pleasing cuisine; and Zamboanga City and its popular pink-sand beach and resorts. These two have recently been put under MECQ. It will be a long uphill climb for the tourism industry, and its footing will remain unsure while Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in the country. Romulo Puyat believes the only way out of this uncertainty will be the vaccination of more Filipinos. “Our real goal, since we have already started our vaccination, is ‘no quarantine’ at all [for international tourists], and the lifting of domestic travel restrictions. But that can only happen if we have more vaccinated people.”

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Nationalism in the New Normal

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By Stephanie Joy Ching

such a long time is isolating, but at the end of the day, these health protocols were put in for a reason. According to the Center for Disease Control, masks, when worn properly over the nose and mouth, serve as a barrier to help prevent diseases from reaching others. In this manner, disease is less likely to spread and infect more vulnerable members of the population, but it must also be paired with practicing social distancing to further prevent spreading. So while wearing a mask feels stifling, it actually saves people from getting infected. By observing these health protocols, one ensures the safety of both their loved ones and their community.

NDEPENDENCE day in the Philippines is the day we commemorate every hero who fought, bled and died for the freedom we currently enjoy. Under normal circumstances, this day would be celebrated with a yearly flag raising at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite, followed by a reading of the Declaration of Independence. In some years, a civil military parade is held in the capital of Manila. Symbolically, the day represents the centuries of Filipino resilience and nationalist pride that shaped our history.

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However, since the country is still on lockdown due to the pandemic, these celebrations have been cancelled to keep close contact as minimal as possible.

Moreover, the dire state of the economy combined with the perceived mishandling of the

situation committed by some government officials may make one feel that there is nothing to be proud of. Be that as it may, actions do speak louder than words, and Filipinos can do just that in the new normal. In fact, nationalist pride is something that is necessary to pull

the country out of its current state.

By showing nationalism in another, more timely and practical way, Filipinos can not only overcome the pandemic, but also push the country in the right direction towards progress.

Follow health protocols

ONE way of expressing nationalism under the new normal is to simply follow health protocols. One may feel that wearing a mask is uncomfortable and having not seen people for

ANOTHER way of expressing nationalism in the new normal is by supporting local businesses. Since many businesses have suffered during lockdown, the importance of every sale is suddenly magnified, especially for small and medium enterprises.

Therefore, if one has the means, it is only right to help these SMEs by patronizing their goods. If one cannot purchase, then you can direct others who can to that business. Through the power of the Internet, people have been sharing and creating posts of

businesses and individuals who have been defying the odds to survive in the hopes it will bring awareness towards them.

In this way, many Filipinos will be able to lend a hand in helping the economy get back on its feet faster.

Vote Wisely

IT’S been all over social media to the point of exhaustion, but it still holds true-vote wisely.

Government officials should be elected because they share the values and the drive of the common people. They should not act based on their own selfish needs, but rather they must work with the people and use their platform to create laws that would benefit everyone. They should not be voted in based on name recognition or connections, but based on their integrity, work ethic and credentials. The Philippines cannot expect progress if the government is constantly at odds with the population. At the same time, people cannot expect any positive changes when they do not elect people who embody the change they want to see.

Nationalism under the new normal does not have to die even in the most dire of circumstances. Rather, it should be a driving force towards a brighter, better future for the Filipino people.

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China slams US-Australian navy drills in SCS as ‘muscle flexing’

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EIJING—China on Friday said the US and Australia were “flexing their muscles” with recent naval drills in the South China Sea (SCS), underscoring Beijing’s sensitivity over the strategic waterway it claims as its own.

The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur and the Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Ballarat concluded a week of joint operations in the SCS. Those included maneuvering drills along with resupplying vessels,

cross-deck helicopter operations and live-fire gunnery exercises.

“The ships honed their advanced mariner skills in a joint environment while enforcing the normalcy of routine operations throughout the region in accordance with

international law,” the Navy said.

At a daily briefing in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the two countries should “do things that are conducive to regional peace and stability, instead of flexing their muscles.”

The US and China’s neighbors have rejected Beijing’s claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, through which an estimated $5 trillion in trade travels each year.

Australia has joined them in expressing concern over China’s growing presence in the SCS, most notably through its construction of militarized manmade islands built atop coral reefs in the highly disputed Spratly island group. Taiwan, the

Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam have claims that overlap with China’s.

China for its part calls the US naval presence in Southeast Asia the biggest threat to regional security, particularly its insistence on sailing close to Chinese-held territories in what is termed freedom of navigation operations.

In a bid to assuage concerns, Beijing hosted foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations this week, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi telling them China remained committed to signing a long-stalled code of conduct on activities in the SCS to prevent conflicts.

In this, April 12, file photo, people sit, drinking and eating, outside cafes and pubs in Soho, central London, on the day some of England’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions were eased by the British government. The easing of lockdown restrictions in April helped the British economy grow at its fastest rate since July 2020 and recoup further ground lost during the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed June 11. AP

UK economy edges to pre-Covid-19 levels with easing of pandemic curbs

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ONDON—The easing of lockdown restrictions in April helped the British economy grow at its fastest rate since July 2020 and recoup further ground lost during the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed Friday.

The Office for National Statistics said the economy grew by 2.3 percent during April, which saw the reopening of shops selling non-essential items and a number of other service providers, such as hairdressers, resuming work. Schools were fully open for inclass learning, while pubs and restaurants were able to serve customers outdoors for the whole month.

The four nations of the UK—England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland— have been lifting lockdown restrictions in stages after new coronavirus infections fell sharply and vaccines were rolled out rapidly.

Despite the growth recorded in April, the British economy remained 3.7 percent smaller than it was in February 2020, before the UK’s first virus lockdown. Of the major sectors in the economy, only construction was above the level it was at on the eve of the pandemic.

The British economy is expected to regain more ground over the summer as remaining restrictions are lifted.

“Following the historic collapse in spring 2020, the UK remains on track to return to its pre-pandemic level by the turn of the year,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank. “Judging by recent data trends, that could happen even sooner.”

Though most sectors of the economy have reopened, there are concerns that the next planned easing for England, scheduled for later this month, may have to be delayed because of a recent spike in new infections largely due to the delta variant that was first identified in India.

The hope is that the rapid rollout of vaccines will dramatically break the link between new infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

So far, the evidence suggests that a large proportion of the people being infected are in younger age groups, many of which have yet to receive a first dose.

Under the government’s plan for ending lockdown measures, social distancing restrictions are set to be lifted on June 21, which would be a particular boon to businesses such as pubs and cinemas. They are currently operating with capacity limits to meet the need to keep people apart.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to announce Monday whether the next easing will take place. AP

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World’s richest face tax squeeze after 40% run-up in fortunes

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mazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.

In many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.

The world’s wealthiest 500 individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40 percent in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.

Now, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.

While the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.

“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”

The deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.

The proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains, inheritances, and wealth that have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.

“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.

Amazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has also voiced support for higher US corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.

Advocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.

“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”

Sinkhole at central Mexico farm swallows more land, traps 2 dogs

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EXICO CIT Y—A large sinkhole that appeared in late May at a farm in central Mexico has grown larger than a football field, begun swallowing a house and trapped two dogs in its depths.

The government of the central state of Puebla responded Thursday to emotional requests from animal lovers to try to rescue the two dogs, who are trapped on a ledge on the sheer sides of the hole dropping 50 feet to water.

Because the loose soil at the edges keeps collapsing into the water at the bottom of the pit, it would be dangerous to try to rescue the animals. But officials said they have been throwing food down to the two pups, who are named Spay and Spike.

“In a responsible way, the rescue of Spay and Spike, who fell into the sinkhole in Santa María Zacatepec, is being analyzed,” the state government said in a news statement.

“Despite the risky conditions and taking all precautions, the dogs have been fed.”

Pressure built on officials to do something. The dogs, which were apparently playing in the farm field surrounding the sinkhole, fell in about four days ago.

A nonprofit animal rescue squad volunteered to attempt to bring the dogs up. The unit proposed sending a rescuer down on a rope and said the animals might have to be tranquilized so that they could be caught and pulled up.

The sinkhole is now over 400 feet across in some places, and may be 150 deep at its deepest point. It is hard to tell, because water fills the crater.

The Mexican government has sent in soldiers to keep people 2,000 feet away from the edge of the hole, which is 50 feet deep.

“It’s a very hard time for us. It hurts, because this is all that we have,” said Magdalena Xalamigua Xopillacle, whose brick and cinderblock house was slowly collapsing into the sinkhole. “At times we feel sick from so much sadness.”

Some residents believe the sinkhole is the result of excessive ground water extraction by factories or a water bottling plant in the area. But the bottom of the hole is filled with water that appears to have strong currents, and the national civil defense office said experts think it was caused by something like an underground river.

“It is highly probable that the origin is associated with the presence of subterranean water flows,” the office said.

Puebla Gov. Miguel Barbosa said experts are studying both possibilities, and if water extraction is the culprit, he would cancel any permits. AP

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A R BIS BAY, England—World leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are set to commit at their summit to share at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with struggling countries around the world—half the doses coming from the US and 100 million from the UK. Vaccine sharing commitments from President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday set the stage for the G-7 leaders’ meeting in England, where leaders will pivot Friday from opening greetings and a “family photo” directly into a session on “Building Back Better From Covid-19.”

“We’re going to help lead the world out of this pandemic working alongside our global partners,” Biden said, adding that the G-7 nations would join the US in outlining their vaccine donation

commitments at the three-day summit.

The G-7 also includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

The G-7 leaders have faced mounting pressure to outline their global vaccine sharing plans, especially as inequities in supply around the world have become more pronounced. In the US, there is a large vaccine stockpile and the demand for shots has dropped precipitously in recent weeks.

Biden said the US will donate 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses and previewed a coordinated effort by the advanced economies to make vaccination widely and speedily available everywhere. The commitment was on top of 80 million doses Biden has already pledged to donate by the end of June.

Johnson, for his part, said the first 5 million UK doses would be shared in

the coming weeks, with the remainder coming over the next year.

“At the G7 Summit I hope my fellow leaders will make similar pledges so that, together, we can vaccinate the world by the end of next year and build back better from coronavirus,” Johnson said in a statement referencing the US president’s campaign slogan.

Earlier Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the US commitment and said Europe should do the same. He said France would share at least 30 million doses globally by year’s end.

“The European Union needs to have at least the same level of ambition as the United States,” he said at a news conference. He added that time was of the essence, saying, “It’s almost more important to say how many [doses] we deliver

the next month than making promises to be fulfilled in 18 months from now.”

Biden predicted the US doses and the overall G-7 commitment would “supercharge” the global vaccination campaign, adding that the US doses come with no strings attached.

“Our vaccine donations don’t include pressure for favors or potential concessions,” Biden said. “We’re doing this to save lives, to end this pandemic, that’s it.”

He added: “Our values call on us to do everything that we can to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.”

The US commitment is to buy and donate 500 million Pfizer doses for distribution through the global COVAX alliance to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union, bringing the first steady supply of mRNA vaccine to the countries that need it most. AP

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Meralco adjusts June power rates

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ower rates for residential customers of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will go up this month by P0.0798 per kilowatt hour (kWh), or about P16 for those consuming 200 kWh. T he sl ight upwa rd adjustment this June is a result of higher charges in the W holesa le Elect r ic it y Spot Ma rket (WESM). However, this month’s overall rate is still lower than

last year’s rate by P0.0534 per kW h and also the lowest rate for June since 2018.

Generation charge for J u n e s t o o d a t P4 . 6 17 1 p e r kW h, a slight P0.0697 per kW h

i n c r e a s e f r o m l a s t mo nt h ’s P4.5474 per kW h.

WESM charges increased by P1.6322 per kWh due to tight supply conditions in the Luzon grid.

With the increase in temperature and economic activity, demand in the grid increased by 1,131 megawatts from 10,425 MW in April to 11,556 MW in May. The Luzon grid was placed on Yellow A lert on May 5 due to insufficient operating reser ves as average capacity on outage remained at the 3,000 MW level.

In the same period last year, capacity on outage was around 2,700 MW. As a result, WESM prices were persistently high for extended periods, triggering the imposition of the secondary price cap from May 4 to 7 and then again from May 20 to 22.

The increase in WESM charges was mitigated by the lower charges from the Power Supp l y A g re e me nt s ( P S A s) a nd I nd e p e nd e nt Po w e r P ro du c ers (IPPs), which decreased by P0.0476 per kW h and P0.0037 per kW h, respectively, due to i mproved average pl a nt d is patch and peso appreciation.

PSAs and IPPs provided 52 percent and 42 percent of Meralco’s energy requirement this month, respectively. Meanwhile, the share of WESM further declined to 6 percent.

Transmission charge, taxes, and other charges for residential customers also registered a slight increase of P0.0101 per kWh. Meanwhile, collection of the Universal Charge-Environmental Charge amounting to P0.0025

per kWh remains suspended as directed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

The distribution, supply, and metering charges, meanwhile, have remained unchanged for 71 months, after these registered reductions in July 2015.

Meralco said it does not earn from the pass-through charges, such as the generation and transmission charges. Payment for the generation charge goes to the power suppliers, while payment for the transmission c ha rge goes to t he Nat iona l Grid Cor poration of the Philippines. Ta xes and other public policy charges like the Universal Charges and the FIT-A ll are remitted to the government.

The increase this month was tempered by Meralco’s continued

implementation of the Distribution Rate True-Up refund, which began March 2021. 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.

This amount represents the difference between the Actual Weighted Average Tariff and the ERC-approved Interim Average R ate for d istr ibution-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.” Meralco continues to encourage its over 7 million customers to practice energy efficiency initiatives at home to help manage their consumption.

Aboitiz Group vows support for expanded vaccination rollout to economic frontliners

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he Aboitiz Group, together with a coalition of publicprivate sector partners under

the Taskforce T3 (Test, Trace, Treat), pledged support to the government’s vaccination program for economic frontliners or A4 priority group.

In a hybrid event held simultaneously

on June 7, 2021 at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City and via virtual platform, the National Task Force Against Covid-19 led by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. formalized the partnership with Taskforce T3.

The A4 group includes frontline personnel in essential sectors and, according to Covid-19 Deputy

Chief Implementer Vince Dizon, all who need to be outside of their residence for livelihood reasons, including informal sector workers.

“This marks a turning point in our efforts to bring Covid-19 under control.

Expanding vaccination coverage to include workers from across all industries is our single most crucial step towards reopening a more inclusive economy.

The Aboitiz Group will

continue to support our fellow Filipinos in taking full advantage of this long-awaited opportunity to restore their livelihood,” said Sabin M. Aboitiz, president and CEO of the Aboitiz Group in a news statement.

He said the conglomerate believes close collaboration between the private and public sector is vital in managing the current health crisis.

Its latest efforts include

partnering with the National Economic and Development Authority through the Aboitiz Foundation and its pioneer data school, the Asian Institute of ManagementAboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (AIM-ASITE) in the development of an automated contact tracing system to consolidate and fortify the national contact-tracing database.

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Villar announces opening of Sta. Monica-Lawton Bridge

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REEDOM from traffic!

That’s the promise that may be fittingly claimed on Independence Day by motorists when public access is finally opened to the Sta. Monica-Lawton Bridge across Pasig River, a stretch that also acts as a major component of the BGC-Ortigas Center Link Road Project.

Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar said the opening of the bridge to facilitate connectivity between Kalayaan Avenue, Makati City, leading to Bonifacio Global City (BGC) Taguig City, and Pasig City/Mandaluyong City is timely for the commemoration of the 123rd anniversary of the proclamation of the Philippine Independence.

“Sta. Monica-Lawton Bridge

is a timely Independence Day gift of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to the general public who will be relieved from traffic congestion going in and out of Makati/BGC Taguig and Pasig/Mandaluyong City,” added Secretary Villar on the eve of the much-awaited bridge inauguration.

With the new access, the cities of Pasig and Mandaluyong can be reached in just 12 minutes from Kalayaan Avenue, Makati City, and BGC Taguig City, by using the Sta. Monica-Lawton Bridge.

Aside from the construction of the bridge, the P1.79billion BGC-Ortigas Center Link Road Project also involves the rehabilitation and widening of the 476.58-meter stretch from Brixton (corner Reliance

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Street) to Fairlane Street and the 232.34-meter BGC 8th Avenue; the construction of the 125-meter upward and downward ramps at Kalayaan Avenue Intersection;

and construction of the Lawton Avenue-Global City Viaduct.

The viaduct structure traversing Lawton Avenue up to the entrance of BGC is targeted for com-

pletion by the last quarter of 2021.

The BGC-Ortigas Center Link Road Project, which intends to decongest Edsa, is one of the big-ticket projects under the Duterte ad-

ministration’s Build, Build, Build program.

It was designed to relieve around 20 percent of the traffic volume on Edsa and C5 Road.

DOH to VisMin hospitals: Hike Covid bed numbers by 50%

By Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco

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HE Department of Health (DOH) has ordered both public and private hospitals in Visayas and Mindanao to increase their Covid-19 beds by up to 50 percent as they experience a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections.

In an online media for um Health Undersecretary Abdullah Dumama and CESO III for the Field Implementation and

Coordination Team (Visayas and Mindanao), also said that in Regions 6, 9, 11, 12, and 13, a total of 365 intensive care unit beds and 957 ward beds were added.

Likewise, Dumama said that the contact tracing and testing capacities were strengthened in Visayas and Mindanao due to the “fast increase” in the number of Covid-19 cases in Regions 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, Caraga, and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Dumama also said that around

4,000 health-care workers were deployed to the hospitals in Visayas and Mindanao.

“Ipinag-utos na sa mga pampublikong ospital na bisitahin at pag aralan ulit ang kanilang [We already ordered public hospitals to revisit and study their] Covid-19 surge plans,” Dumama said.

Meanwhile, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that clustering in workplaces has been identified as the reason in the increase in cases.

Other factors, she said, are the presence of variants and noncompliance with minimum public health standards.

Mindanao logged 13,425 active cases, while 9,725 new infections were recorded in the Visayas on June 8.

Covid cases

On Friday, the DOH logged 6,686 additional cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,300,349.

Locsin hails Queen Elizabeth’s ‘true commitment to duty’ on her 95th birthday

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By Recto L. Mercene

OREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. on Friday greeted Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on her 95th birthday, calling her “the singular example in our time, of true commitment to duty, holding back nothing of herself, yet never showing the strain.”

In a virtual greeting arranged

by Ambassador to Manila, Daniel Pruce, Locsin said, “On this most auspicious occasion of the Queen’s 95th birthday, we convey our best wishes for her majesty’s continued good health and happiness and the prosperity and well-being of the British people.”

He added, “She has given her all, in trying times with gratuity and grace, with unfailing elegance and charm, in the most regal aspect of rule, and in the most mundane aspect of life. She is the light of her race to be envied on her account.”

Actually, Queen Elizabeth has two birthdays—her real one—on April 21, as she was born on April 21, 1926; and a second one—the

official celebration—on the second Saturday of June, the 12th for this year.

Locsin said everyone looked to Queen Elizabeth “as a font of strength, wisdom, inspiration and sobriety, a quality essential to governance, possessed pre-eminently by women rulers.”

“Call it grace under pressure,” he added, “ hence, maybe the words of the hymn, long live our gracious queen.”

According to Manila’s highest envoy, the Filipino people, including the 200,000 Filipinos residing in the United Kingdom, “share in the joy of the royal family and the British People, and members of the Commonwealth on this momentous occasion.”

Filipinos, he noted, have an enduring fascination with British culture and traditions: “high tea, no milk though, for Filipinos are lactose intolerant,” and the charming British accent, “which many tried to copy with mixed result.”

The Harvard-trained lawyer counted the many British institutions and personalities that

remain dear to the heart of many Filipinos such as “The Beatles, James Bond, British Royalty, Churchill and the British novels; Smileys People, Downton Abbey, and Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre. “The list is long,” Locsin said.

A month from now, the 75th anniversar y of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and the United Kingdom, “an important milestone,” w ill be obser ved.

“In this 75 years, our two countries have forged strong ties, anchored on our ever-growing cooperation in many fields, and underpinned by our shared values, respect for the rule of law and steadfast adherence to a rules-based international order, commitment to freedom, democracy and inequality.”

He added there is also the shared belief in rough-and-tumble free market principles but softened with labor protection. “This was introduced and also opposed

by English aristocracy, The Magna Carta, United Kingdom’s timeless gift to humanity remains the back-

bone of our democracy.”

Locsin said it is evident that the two countries and peoples are inextricably linked by historical, economic and cultural ties, noting that national hero, Doctor Jose Rizal, “found inspiration in the freedoms and joys in the United Kingdom, as he embarked on his own quest for his country’s freedom.”

He said Rizal’s residence is commemorated in a blue plaque on a house where he lived in the 1880s, in Primrose Hill, the local of (John) le Carré’s, Agent Running in the Field, his final novel before he died in 2020.

The envoy said the Filipinos deeply appreciated UK’s help in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and their invaluable contributions to secure greater access to muchneeded Covid-19 vaccines.

He said highly competent Filipino nurses and other workers in the UK “continue to go above and beyond the call of duty in fighting this pandemic, and their manifold contributions to British society and economy.”

There were also 3,190 recoveries and 196 deaths.

Of the total number of cases, 4.7 percent (61,345) are active, 93.6 percent (1,216,497) have recovered, and 1.73 percent (22,507) have died.

Twenty-four duplicates were removed from the total case count.

Of these, 20 are recoveries and 1 is a death.

Moreover, 127 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.

A lso, 1,000 cases prev iously c l a ssi fed a s recover ies were ret ag ged as act ive cases a f ter va l id at ion.

All laboratories were operational on June 9, 2021 but three failed to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.

Based on data in the last 14 days, the three non-reporting laboratories contribute, on average, 0.27 percent of samples tested and 0.38 percent of positive individuals.

Pampanga power co-op inks supply accord with Vivant-led consortium

By Lenie Lectura

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AMPANGA II Electric Cooperative (Pelco II) and La Pampanga Energy Corporation (LPEC) have signed a 15-year power supply agreement (PSA) that would provide a stable and secure power supply in the former’s franchise area.

LPEC—a consortium of Vivant Energy, its wholly owned subsidiary Amberdust Holding Corporation (AHC), and Gigawatt Power Inc.— will construct and operate a power generation facility with a total dependable capacity of 15 megawatts (MW) peaking power supply with ancillary service capability.

The 3 x 5.76-MW dieselfueled power plant of LPEC will be constructed in Porac, Pampanga and will maintain grid stability and security in the franchise area of Pelco II. The power project will be able to address the peaking power supply requirements of

Pelco II. Also, it will provide stable, reliable and quality power to its coverage area even during peak hours.

“We look forward to becoming part of the recovery and growth of the Province of Pampanga by providing stable and reliable power to Pelco 2,” said Vivant Energy Corporation EVP and COO Emil Andre M. Garcia.

“As we expand our power generation portfolio, we remain committed to provide adaptable and forward-looking solutions, not just to the electric cooperatives that are our customers, but also with the communities they serve.

To fulfill that commitment, we choose partners who share our core values.”

Vivant Energy and Gigawatt Power are partners in providing stable and reliable power in Puerto Princesa, Culion and Busuanga in Palawan and are currently constructing a 23-MW power plant in Bantayan Island, Cebu.

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Government reopens gyms, museums in NCR plus; vaccinated seniors allowed to roam in GCQ areas

By Samuel P. Medenilla

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y ms, f it ness st ud ios, skating rinks, and racket sports courts in the National Capital Region (NCR) and its surrounding provinces will be allowed to resume operations starting next week.

Last Thursday, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management

of Emerging Infectious Diseases issued its Resolution 120 allowing these establishments to operate in NCR plus—the collective term for Metro Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan and Rizal—at 30 percent venue capacity once they obtain the necessary Safety Seal Certification.

The Safety Seal Certification issued by several government

agencies ensure that these establishments are compliant with minimum health standards.

IATF also allowed historical sites and museums in NCR plus to reopen at 20 percent venue capacity provided these establishments comply with minimum health standards, suspend guided tours, and have the approval of concerned local government units (LGU).

Senior citizen policy

U nder i t s n e w i s s u a n c e , I AT F a l s o e n a bl e f u l l y v a c c i n at e d s e n ior c it i z e n s i n a r ea s u nder gener a l com mu n it y qu a ra nt i ne a nd mod i f ied gene r a l com mu n it y q u a r a nt i ne , t o l e av e t he i r home s .

When traveling outside their residences, senior citizens are, however, required to carry their

duly issued Covid-19 vaccination card, and strictly obser ve minimum public health standards and only travel within their specific “zone.”

Presidential spokesman Harr y Roque said interzonal travel for these senior citizens are still prohibited, except for point-topoint travel that was previously allowed by the I ATF.

A s of Ju ne 8 , 2021, on ly 37 3,493 se n ior c it i z e n s n a t io nw i d e w e re “ f u l l y v a c c i n at e d ” a f t e r t he y got t he i r Cov id-19 shots.

Around 1.2 million senior citizens, however, have yet to get their second dose of the vaccine.

Roque said the provisions of IATF Resolution 120 will take effect on June 16, 2021.

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oreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. and Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Cooperation in the Deployment of Private Staff.

Private staff are members of the household of Foreign Service Personnel (FSP) and overseas representatives of government agencies who render full-time domestic work under a private employer-employee relationship.

T he sig n i ng of t he MOU,

which recognizes private staff as “a special class of overseas Fi lipino workers [OF W],” establishes new procedures and mechanisms for their deployment. Prev iously, a l l pr ivate staff endorsed by FSP and attachés to join them in their country of assignment went through the DFA only. With the signing of the MOU, they will have to go through the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration like other OFWs. Under the Joint Guidelines of the MOU, private staff must be paid the minimum wage of the countr y of destination, or in its

absence, $600.00 per month.

T his represents a 50 -percent i nc re a s e f ro m t he p re v iou s minimum wage requirement of $400.00 per month.

Aside from a higher monthly salar y with corresponding contr ibutions to Socia l Secur it y System, Phi lHea lth and PagIBIG, Pr ivate st a f f w i l l a lso have additional benefits such as Overseas Workers Welfare Ad m inist rat ion membership, insurance coverage, including a ny med ic a l / hos pit a l i z at ion costs not covered by the insurance, and 15 days of paid leave per year, among others.

T he Joint Gu idel ines a lso pro v ide s t a nd a rd s of t re at ment to ensu re t hat pr ivate st a f f work u nder hu ma ne conditions and are protected from any k ind of abuse and any for m of ma lt reat ment.

To ensure that private staff u nderst a nd t hei r r ights a nd pr iv i leges, t hey w i l l now be required to undergo a pre-depa r t u re or ient at ion sem i n a r (PDOS) tailor-made for them

by OW WA. The PDOS will cover modules on their work contract as well as the grievance mechanism and legal remedies in case of contract violations.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. and Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Deployment of Private Staff on Friday.

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SC to issue rules on cops’ use of body cams in serving of search and arrest warrants

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By Joel R. San Juan

UPREME Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo on Friday said the Court will be amending its Rules of Criminal Procedure to adopt a provision on the use of bodyworn cameras in the enforcement of court-issued search and arrest warrants.

During his first media interview coinciding with the SC’s 120th anniversary celebration, Gesmundo said the amended Rule would likely be finalized and implemented by July.

Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, who was assigned by the Court to study the matter, has submitted a working draft to the Court en banc on the proposed revisions.

“They are working on it and in relation to that we will be amending the Rules of Criminal Procedure with respect to those provisions and one of the things we are working on is the adoption of the rule on the use of body-worn cameras,” Gesmundo told mediamen.

He said the proposed revisions would be discussed by the Court en banc when it resumes session on

June 15 considering that the justices have already submitted their respective inputs on the matter.

“I’m very optimistic, maybe after two or three deliberations we will come up with the final version,” the chief magistrate said.

“So, we hope with the issuance of these tools on bodyworn cameras, these issues will be addressed. It’s in the works and by July perhaps we will have the final version and we will approve it for implementation immediately,” he added.

Pending this provision, Gesmundo reminded trial court judges to strictly adhere with the provisions of the Constitution and the Rules of Court on the issuance of search and arrest warrants.

The amendment of the Rules

was approved by the Court following calls from various law groups seeking Court’s action on the series of killings allegedly perpetrated by police officers during service of warrants.

The proposal to compel law enforcers to wear body cams in the service of search warrant was aired following the death of nine activists and the arrest of several others simultaneous police and military operations conducted in the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas and Rizal on May 7 as well as several other alleged extrajudicial killings (EJK) incidents allegedly perpetrated by law enforcers.

The wearing of body cameras, according to its proponents, would prevent speculations of summary killings or EJKs against law enforcers in case a shootout happens during service of warrants and results in deaths.

This would also prevent parties from issuing false accusations or accounts of what transpired during the implementation of the warrants, according to the lawyer.

Last April 22, CJ Gesmundo led the SC in a virtual meeting with the leadership of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to discuss the issue.

Meanwhile, the Chief Justice said he has directed the Office of the Court Attorneys to conduct a research and gather materials that could guide the Court on

the revisions of the Writ of Kalikasan, Writ of Habeas Data and Writ of Amparo.

“I understand the Writ of Kalikasan was adopted as early as 2010, and a number of changes have happened concerning protection of environment. We are awaiting the report of the Office of the Court of Attorneys for the materials that they’ ll be gathering,” CJ Gesmundo said.

“The same with the Writ of Amparo, we are doing our continuous efforts to revise these specific rules, it’s just that we have to gather more materials to guide us for the revisions. But it is one of the priorities of the Court for revisions,” he added.

The Writ of Amparo is a remedy available to any person whose right to life, liberty and security is violated or threatened with violation by an unlawful act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a private individual or entity.

The writ covers extralegal killings and enforced disappearances or threats thereof.

T he Wr it of Habeas Data is a remedy available to any person whose r ight to pr ivac y in l ife, l iber t y or sec u r it y is v iol ated or t hreatened by a n u n l aw f u l act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a pr ivate ind iv idu a l or ent it y engaged in t he gat her ing , col lect ing or stor ing of d ata or infor mat ion

rega rd ing t he person, fa m i ly, home a nd cor respondence of t he ag g r ieved pa r t y.

On the other hand, a Writ of

Kalikasan is a legal remedy law that provides protection of one’s constitutional right to a healthy environment.

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BARMM’s halal verification lab upgrade nears completion

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OTABATO CITY—Construction is ongoing for the P47-million renovation and equipment upgrading of the Halal Verification Laboratory (HVL) inside the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) compound here.

An update released Monday by the Bangsamoro Information Office (BIO)-BARMM said the project is 70 to 80 percent complete.

“The renovation started earlier this year and will be finished by July 2021,” BOI-BARMM senior officer Albashir Saiden said.

In a news statement, BARMM Minister Aida Silongan said the renovation intends to accommodate high-end equipment and state-ofthe-art technology for halal verification testing.

Once completed, the laboratory will consist of state-of-the-art equipment that will include the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-FID

(GC/MS/FID); gas chromatography triple quadruple mass spectrometry (GC/MS); liquid chromatography triple quadruple mass spectrometry (LC/MS); graphite furnace-atomic absorption spectroscopy (GF-AAS); and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction apparatus.

The new pieces of equipment are capable of ethanol analysis, gelatin analysis, pesticide residue analysis, minerals in food, heavy metals in food and water, meat authenticity, and porcine DNA detection in meatbased products.

Silongan said the undertaking is being initiated under the Bangsamoro Standards and Halal Testing

PART of the upgraded Halal Verification Laboratory situated at the premises of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)-BARMM at the BARMM compound in Cotabato City. MOST-BARMM Minister Aida Silongan (inset) said the P47-million project is being initiated under the Bangsamoro Standards and Halal Testing Laboratories Program. PHOTOS COURTESY OF BIO-BARMM

Laboratories Program.

“This project fulfills one of the MOST’s mandates to strengthen the development of halal industry through testing, analysis, and capacity building,” she said.

The BARMM’s HVL is one of the four halal laboratories in the Philippines.

The three other laboratories are located in Laguna’s Department of Science and Technology (DOST-Calabarzon); Koronadal City (DOST-12);

High copra prices to boost income of E. Visayas families

COPRA, the dried meat or kernel of the coconut processed in a farm in Burauen, Leyte. The Philippine Coconut Authority is upbeat that higher copra prices will prevail until the end of this year. PNA FILE PHOTO

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ALO, Leyte—The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is upbeat that higher copra prices will prevail until the end of this year, improving the income of nearly 400,000 families in the Eastern Visayas region.

Average farm-gate price of copra, a major by-product of coconut, rose to P30 per kilogram in May from P17.68 in the same period last year, according to PCA’s price watch data.

The current copra trading price

is way better than the P11.36 per kilogram recorded two years ago.

PCA regional manager Joel Pilapil said the high demand for coconut from a Sorsogon-based processor has helped in increasing the price of copra, a raw material for the production of premium oils overseas.

“In many parts of Leyte and Southern Leyte, the whole nut buying has been established especially in farms within the national road.

Many farmers don’t process coconut

into copra anymore, thus, reducing the volume of copra,” Pilapil said in an interview last week.

The region’s major buyer of whole nuts is the Peter Paul Philippine Corp. for its operation of their Sorsogon plant.

The firm has been processing whole nuts into desiccated coconut, virgin coconut oil, coconut water, coconut cream, and coconut milk for export to the United States.

Higher price is also attributed to the rising demand of coconut oil in the global market as more consumers realize the nutritional value of the coco-based oil.

Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut. Premium oil is extracted from copra. It also yields coconut cake after oil extraction, which is mainly used as feed for livestock.

The improving copra price has been benefiting about 400,000 coconut farmers and their families in the region.

PCA estimated that 1.83 million people or nearly half of the 4.4 million population of the region are dependent on coconuts.

The region is the fifth top coconut-producing region in the country with an average copra production of 320,000 metric tons every year. PNA

and Davao City (DOST-11).

All four laboratories are members of the DOST/MOST halal verification laboratories network.

Republic Act 10817, also known as the Philippine Halal Export Development and Promotion Act of 2016, mandates the inclusion of the halal program in the plans and programs of different government agencies that have jurisdiction and can contribute to the growth of export of halal products, processes, and services. PNA

G-7 eyes 1-B extra Covid shots to end pandemic

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HE Group of Seven leaders is set to vow to deliver at least 1 billion extra doses of vaccines over the next year to help cover 80 percent of the world’s adult population, according to a draft communique seen by Bloomberg News.

Ahead of the G-7 summit in the UK, officials are putting together a document that outlines a plan to end the pandemic by December 2022. The document has yet to be finalized but will form the basis of final-stage talks at the summit of leaders in Cornwall, southwestern England, starting Friday.

Here are the other highlights:

G-7 pledge to better tackle forced labor in global supply chains, including in the solar and garment sectors and involving state-sponsored forced labor of minorities. While that section does not mention China by name, it follows global criticism of its treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

Calls for a fresh, transparent, World Health Organization-convened study into the origins of the coronavirus.

There is a call for Russia to hold to account groups within its borders who conduct ransomware

attacks, use virtual currencies to launder ransoms, and carry out other cybercrimes.

The group welcomes the recent talks toward a full resumption of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, while condemning its use of proxy forces and non-state armed actors.

On fiscal policy, trade and travel:

A commitment to end unnecessary trade restrictions on vaccine exports

G-7 stress need to ensure long-term sustainability of public finances once the recovery is firmly established.

G-7 support common standards for international travel, including recognizing vaccine status certificates across countries.

On climate change, the draft agreement includes:

There is a commitment to accelerating the shift to zero-emission vehicles

Leaders haggling over climate funding but vow to step up and to try and meet a $100-billion target, without giving details of how to get there. They will pledge new funding to support green transitions in developing countries.

G-7 recognizes the potential of carbon markets and carbon pricing to drive emission reductions.

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Chinese exports jump 28%; gap with US grows as tensions persist

By Elaine Kurtenbach The Associated Press

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ANGKOK—China’s exports and imports surged in May and its politically sensitive surplus with the US grew as the pandemic was waning in important markets in the West.

Customs data released Monday showed China’s exports rose 28 percent from a year earlier and imports soared 51 percent, but growth was leveling off after the country’s stunning recovery from the slump early in 2020.

Three years into a tariff war with Washington, tensions over the trade gap persist even with business recovering from last year’s shocks as vaccinations rates rise.

The trade surplus with the United States rose 14 percent to $31.8 billion, while China’s trade surplus with the European Union was $12.7 billion.

Last week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order expanding the number of Chinese companies that will be off-limits to US investors in the latest indication he his admin-

istration has not softened Washington’s stance on alleged security risks from companies US officials say are linked to the Chinese “military and industrial complex.”

Over the weekend, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said at a virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that a “significant imbalance” remains in trade between the two largest economies that was “damaging in important ways to the American economy.”

Biden has embraced a return to multilateral forums like the Apec and the World Trade Organization, a rules-making body that Washington says requires significant reforms.

In the meantime, progress toward resolving the tariffs war that began under his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, has been fitful.

China has led the global recovery from the pandemic, which is still raging in many parts of the globe but receding in places where vaccinations have been widely deployed.

Chinese manufacturers have benefited from strong demand for protective gear and other prod-

ucts as other countries battled Covid-19, gaining market share from their competitors.

The Customs data released Monday showed exports rose 28 percent from a year earlier and imports soared 51 percent—at the fastest annual pace in over a decade.

Total exports climbed 40 percent in the first five months of the year from a year earlier. They were up 29 percent from the same period in 2019.

The base level boost from last year’s slump is fading, however, and the $263.9 billion in Chinese exports in May was about level with the previous month. China’s imports of $218.4 billion in May were 1.2 percent lower than in April.

China’s total trade surplus in May was $45.53 billion, down 26.5 percent from a year earlier.

While the increase in exports was robust in May, it was slower than some economists had forecast. Analysts said one reason might be delays at ports in southern China, the main shipping hub, due to increased precautions to fight an outbreak of coronavirus cases in that part of the country.

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Aguinaldo also wanted a monument for himself at Luneta

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By Severino Samonte

ANILA—Did you know that Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines after the end of the Spanish rule, also wanted a monument for himself like that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal at the old Luneta, now better known as Rizal Park, in Manila?

Such a wish was personally conveyed to President Diosdado P. Macapagal by the then 92-year-old revolutionary general during the first-ever celebration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1962, instead of July 4 as granted by the United States in 1946.

In his nationwide address on that occasion at the Luneta, Macapagal, as quoted by the monthly Philippine Geographic magazine of

November 1993 (Vol. 1, No. 2), explained why and how he changed the celebration of Independence Day from July 4 to June 12, the day in 1898 when the Filipino people first declared their freedom from foreign rule.

In the process, it was believed that “he not only corrected a historical error but also did justice to the known heroes and many faceless Filipinos who fought and

THE monument of Dr. Jose P. Rizal at the Rizal Park in Manila. Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo reportedly asked former President Diosdado Macapagal: “When will there be an Aguinaldo monument at the Luneta like that of Rizal?” PNA

died or suffered in the Revolution of 1896.”

As a result of Macapagal ’s proclamation, the Philippines celebrated the centennial of its

GEN. Emilio F. Aguinaldo

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Independence from Spain on June 12, 1998, or during the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos (June 30, 1992-June 30, 1998).

Macapagal, who was then barely five months in his Malacañang office following his election in the November 1961 polls, narrated: “In the discharge of my responsibility as President of the Republic, I moved the observance of our Independence Day because a nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people molded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and a sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life and honor.”

Macapagal noted that the change was justified by the first successful June 12, 1962 celebration.

He said Aguinaldo was the guest of honor and at least 1 million people attended, whereas in previous celebrations on July 4,

only about 200,000 to 300,000 people came.

Macapagal also said bespeaking the nobility of the American people, then President John F. Kennedy was among the first to extend the congratulations of the US to the Filipino people in celebrating their day of freedom on June 12.

“In a message to me, President Kennedy said it is with pleasure that I join the people of the United States in extending our best wishes and warmest congratulations to Your Excellency and the people of the Republic of the Philippines on the occasion of the Philippine Independence Day.” According to Macapagal, it was while he and Aguinaldo were seated at the Luneta grandstand during the ceremonies when the general thanked him again for the rectification of an erroneous historical practice and then asked: “When will there be an Aguinaldo monument at the Luneta, like that of Rizal?”

FDA approves much-debated Alzheimer’s drug panned by experts

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The new drug, which Biogen developed with Japan’s Eisai Co., did not reverse mental decline, only slowing it in one study. The medication, aducanumab, will be marketed as Aduhelm and is to be given as an infusion every four weeks.

Dr. Caleb Alexander, an FDA adviser who recommended against the drug’s approval, said he was “surprised and disappointed” by the decision.

“The FDA gets the respect that it does because it has regulatory standards that are based on firm evidence. In this case, I think they gave the product a pass,” said Alexander, a medical researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

The FDA’s top drug regulator acknowledged that “residual uncertainties” surround the drug, but said Aduhelm’s ability to reduce harmful clumps of plaque in the brain is expected to help slow dementia.

“The data supports patients and caregivers having the choice to use this drug,” Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni told reporters. She said the FDA carefully weighed the input of people living with the “devastating, debili-

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ASHINGTON—Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the braindestroying disease.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug from Biogen based on study results showing it seemed “reasonably likely” to benefit Alzheimer’s patients. It’s the only therapy that US regulators have said can likely treat the underlying disease, rather than manage symptoms like anxiety and insomnia.

The decision, which could impact millions of Americans and their families, is certain to spark disagreements among physicians, medical researchers and patient groups. It also has far-reaching implications for the standards used to evaluate experimental therapies, including those that show only incremental benefits.

Shintaro Katsu’s ‘Zatoichi’ revisited

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LD timers like me want to revisit old loves and past guilty pleasures. It so happened that during the long lockdown, as I was rummaging through my old DVDs, I was able to dig out my collection of Zatoichi movies and watched them again on my old DVD player. And then lately, I also discovered some Zatoichi movies are accessible on YouTube.

As a young man, I avidly watched Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi movies featuring the travails of a lone blind master swordsman during the Edo period. I also followed the Zatoichi series, which were then aired on Channel 13, if my memory serves me right. In a 2003 film, a Zatōichi reboot was made by Takeshi Kitano who also starred as Zatōichi in the film as some sort of a tribute to Shintaro Katsu, which was well

received internationally.

From 1962-1989, Shintaro Katsu played the original role of Zatoichi in a series of 26 films. From 1974 to 1979, the television series Zatoichi starred Katsu and produced by his own production outfit.

The Zatoichi films were Japan’s counterpart to Sergio Leone’s and Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti westerns. Ichi was the equivalent of Clint Eastwood’s wandering man with no name, decimating bad guys in each town he happens to come upon. In Ichi’s case, the baddies were usually corrupt government officials, local lords, as well Yakuza bosses and their underlings, usually conniving with each other against Zatoichi.

However, in the genre of violent action films, Zatoichi films are on a different aesthetic level.

tating and deadly disease.”

Under terms of the so-called accelerated approval, the FDA is requiring Biogen to conduct a followup study to confirm benefits for patients. If the study fails to show effectiveness, the FDA could pull the drug from the market, though the agency rarely does so.

Biogen said the drug would cost approximately $56,000 for a typical year’s worth of treatment, and said the price would not be raised for four years. Most patients won’t pay anywhere near that thanks to insurance coverage and other discounts. The company said it aims to complete the FDA-mandated follow-up trial by 2030.

Biogen shares jumped 38 percent in trading Monday on the news, with analysts forecasting billions in future sales. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company plans to begin shipping millions of doses within two weeks.

The nonprofit Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, which studies drug value, said Biogen’s drug would have to halt dementia entirely to justify its $56,000 per-year price tag.

Consider this: -Are you happy not being able to see?

-Why? Do you have problems seeing?

-Pretending not to see something, I guess.

-I cannot see but I have to live as if I could see.

This is the kind of dialogue you normally don’t expect in a typical violent, testosterone-pumping, action movie. It’s perfectly OK for Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry to spout smartass quips or machismo memes like “Go ahead make my day” but I can’t imagine him saying a line like “The falling leaf does not hate the wind.”

This is the zen quality dialogue that separates Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi movies from the rest of the anti-hero driven action movies of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The words linger in the mind long after the exciting climactic slashing action set-ups are over. Even the titles of Zatoichi TV series are something else. Rainbow In An Unseen Teardrop and The Flower That Bloomed With The Lullaby are just two examples that resonate with literary minds like me.

What I like most about the films is that in between action scenes, the viewer is offered reflections on human condition. For example, in the last Zatoichi movie of Shintaro Katsu, which he also directed, en-

Some 6 million people in the US and many more worldwide have Alzheimer’s, which gradually attacks areas of the brain needed for memory, reasoning, communication and basic daily tasks. In the final stages of the disease, those afflicted lose the ability to swallow. The global burden of the disease, the most common cause of dementia, is only expected to grow as millions more baby boomers progress further into their 60s and 70s.

A duc a nu m ab (pronou nced “add-yoo-CAN-yoo-mab”) helps clear a protein called beta-amyloid from the brain. Other experimental drugs have done that but they made no difference in patients’ ability to think, care for themselves or live independently.

The pharmaceutical industry’s drug pipeline has been littered for years with failed Alzheimer’s treatments. The FDA’s greenlight Monday is likely to revive investments in therapies previously shelved by drugmakers.

The new medicine is manufactured from living cells and will be given via infusion at a doctor’s office or hospital.

titled Darkness Is His Ally, the film touched on such subjects as moral injuries, the symbolisms of colors, human greed, betrayal and youthful purity and innocence and a son’s love for his mother. So much to ruminate on in a movie that is supposed to be an action thriller. But I did not feel bored. That’s because our hero has several split-second duels to keep the tone of action throughout, giving the viewer plenty of thrilling servings of samurai blades clashing and flashing and blood spurting, all awesomely choreographed.

Blind as he is, Ichi sees in his mind much more than a person who can see; he can see through the human heart. If Superman has x-ray vision, Zatoichi sees through the machinations of people as well as the goodness in people. He also has extraordinary auditory faculties.

He can hear not only the chatter of people from afar, he can even discern the subtext behind the words.

So sensitive and agile, Ichi is able to avoid stepping on crawling insects while on the road. In one of his road travels, his foot almost crushes a bird’s egg that happens to have fallen from its mother’s nest.

These scenes are designed to show that Ichi has a compassionate heart.

He is on the side of the disadvantaged and the exploited. Proof of his kindheartedness is that children love him and he plays with them. In the midst

Researchers don’t fully understand what causes Alzheimer’s but there’s broad agreement the brain plaque targeted by aducanumab is just one contributor. Evidence suggests family history, education and chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease may all play a role.

“This is a sign of hope but not the final answer,” said Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging, which wasn’t involved in the Biogen studies but funds research into how Alzheimer’s forms.

“Amyloid is important but not the only contributing factor.”

Patients taking aducanumab saw their thinking skills decline 22 percent more slowly than patients taking a placebo.

But that meant a difference of just 0.39 on an 18-point score of cognitive and functional ability. And it’s unclear how such metrics translate into practical benefits, like greater independence or ability to recall important details.

The FDA’s review of the drug has become a flashpoint in longstanding debates over standards used to evaluate therapies for hard-to-treat

of a fight, Ichi manages to pick up a toddler to bring him to his mother all the while fending off his attackers.

The irony is that while Ichi used to come from the gangster world, he acts more honorable and chivalric than actual samurais. In that late Edo period in Japan, the samurai is depicted as corrupted and no longer true to his code of honor and conduct. The poor peasants are resigned to their life as playthings of samurai and yakuza.

Ichi is an anma (masseuse), traveling from town to town and he is able to bring relief to the aches of people from all walks of life, even evil lords.

But what he cannot heal is the deepseated greed and evil in the souls of human beings. He is also a master gambler, using his super hearing sense to predict accurately the roll of the dice. He wins in game after game, and employing some sort of jujitsu, he lets others initially take advantage of his blindness and it’s a delight to watch him turn the tables on cheaters in the final round.

Ichi has a big appetite for the good things in life and as he admits it, “I have an eye for good food, sake and gambling.” It never fails to whet my appetite every time Ichi is shown sinking his teeth into an onigiri (rice ball stuffed with a variety of fillings and flavors that make an ideal quick snack) or slurping simmering hot oden broth, which I learned is a winter comfort dish

conditions. On one side, groups representing Alzheimer's patients and their families say any new therapy —even one of small benefit—warrants approval. But many experts warn that greenlighting the drug could set a dangerous precedent, opening the door to treatments of questionable benefit.

The approval came despite a scathing assessment in November by the FDA’s outside panel of neurological experts. The group voted “no” to a series of questions on whether reanalyzed data from a single study submitted by Biogen showed the drug was effective.

Biogen halted two studies in 2019 after disappointing results suggested aducanumab would not meet its goal of slowing mental and functional decline in Alzheimer’s patients.

Several months later, the company reversed course, announcing that a new analysis of one study showed the drug was effective at higher doses and the FDA had advised that it warranted review. Company scientists said the drug’s initial failure was due to some patients not receiving high enough doses to slow the disease.

of the Japanese even today.

Equally fascinating is the fact the movies provide a window into traditional Japanese culture. One learns so much about their various rural festivals, their customs and way of life, the various apparels of men and women from differing classes of old Japanese society.

Also entrancing to observe is the ritual of pouring and serving warmed sake (rice wine) to a drinking buddy. There is also one scene in which jakenpon (yes our jack n poy) is played which I pointed out to my grand kids. I got to know the significance of a durama doll (a kind of tumbling toy) during the first day of the new year and how the Japanese observe the first day of the new year by greeting the sun’s first light for blessings and so on. There’s more cultural tidbits to discover. And thanks to subtitles, you get to learn to speak basic Nippongo soon enough.

Above all, I like Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi movies because good eventually triumphs over evil. Zatoichi is sometimes the recipient of unexpected kindness from a stranger and admits: “The world is not full of demons, after all.”

At this late stage in my life, it’s still comforting to fantasize that there’s a fast-drawing avenger of justice like Zatoichi on our side to cut down the bad guys with just a few strokes of his sharp blade.

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ASPIRING FOR ‘FREEDOM’ FROM THE CONTAGION

Briones cites Pinoy heroism, bravery as inspiration in PHL’s Covid-19 battle

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ITH the education sector still facing challenges brought about by the pandemic, Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones waxed historical as she rallied stakeholders to contribute to the improvement of the public-health situation.

During the virtual symposium on the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines (QCP), Briones asserted that the victory of Filipinos during the Battle of Mactan should be the nation’s inspiration to rise above the health crisis.

“The bravery and victory of Baganis will be our inspiration toward victory against [the health emergency…the time will come when we will eventually defeat it],” the secretary stated.

“Let us sustain within us the spirit of heroism and humanity in fighting the challenges of our time,” she added.

Briones also urged teachers in araling panlipunan or social studies, and edukasyon sa pagpapakatao to enlighten learners on the victories of Filipinos during the pre-Spanish era.

“Since most of the accounts on the Battle of Mactan are Eurocentric, I grew up thinking...we were discovered by the Spaniards.

We used the Philippine Readers as elementary students from [the 1920s to the 1960s.] Now, how many million learners’...minds

were conditioned to this thinking?” Briones rhetorically queried. “We have a lot of work to do—especially...the Department of Education [DepEd]—to break this perception of ‘being discovered,’ and teach learners that even then, we had a vast culture of victories.”

She added: “I grew up reading comic books with Bagani as characters. When we think of Baganis and [our defenders, they lead where he needs to lead without expecting anything in return, not thinking he should do something to be] a hero.”

Bagani is a Manobo word for “warrior” and “leader.” It also happens to be the title of the theme song of the 2021 QCP. Meanwhile, Finance Undersecretary Annalyn M. Sevilla, who served as the department’s representative in the National Quincentennial Committee, elaborated the essence of celebrating the historic event that happened on April 27, 1521: “It ignited the Filipino spirit of bravery, humanity, unity and heroism,” Sevilla said. “Our founding

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fathers have offered and sacrificed everything to ensure and secure our independence as a nation.

Therefore, it is our obligation as successors to fill-in and safeguard our independence that our heroes earned.”

At the latter part of the virtual symposium, Education Undersecretary for External Partnerships Tonisito M.C. Umali Esq. discussed the legal bases of the commemoration and its present importance.

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manistic design solution for the community of Estero de la Reina in Manila, the problems of which include waste disposal and water pollution. The community-scale

In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the historical event, DepEd, alongside the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, hosted the virtual symposium to open the discourse on the role of the country in the first circumnavigation of the world, the victory in the Battle of Mactan, and other events related to such.

History professor Xiao Chua from De La Salle University also gave a lecture.

recycling center encourages a sustainable recycling system from the local garbage, which would then be a source of livelihood for the locals. Named “Estero Recycling

Hub,” the project utilizes community participation, innovation and architecture design to positively impact the locals.

In the AYDA 2020, the Gold Award in Architecture was won

by Paul John Jandoc of the University of Baguio, while the same recognition in Interior Design went to Maita S. Hagad of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. Lauren Ghenrich L. Khoo of the latter learning institution won silver for the Interior Design category.

Members of the panel of judges for the Architecture category include Ar. Maria Benita Regala of the National Housing Authority, National President Ar. Renato Heray of the United Architects of the Philippines, and Executive Director Ar. Richard Garcia of the Commission on Professional Practice.

Benilde SHS to roll out culinary, hospitality, tourism mgmt strands

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HE Benilde Senior High School (SHS) is ready to welcome students who wish to pursue professional careers in various fields of the hospitality industry through its Culinary, Hospitality and Tourism Management track for Academic Year 2021-2022.

Students will learn directly from licensed, experienced, practicing educators and business leaders as well as industry movers, with strands designed to prepare learners in their transition to college.

The Technical Vocational Livelihood (TVL)-Culinary Strand is designed to equip the students with operational and managerial

skills fundamental to becoming a chef and restaurateur: from basic culinary and kitchen management, to finance and entrepreneurship.

The TVL-Hospitality Management Strand incorporates theory and practice to provide the students with service orientation, as well as a global perspective of hotel and restaurant operations. They will likewise have a grasp of the ropes of the industry: from front office and housekeeping, to food and beverages.

The TVL-Tourism Management Strand focuses on the social, cultural and economic phenomenon of people’s movement from one place

PLM grads conferred with Order of Lapu-Lapu for acts of heroism

PRESIDENT Duterte and Nurse Kathrina Bianca Macababbad

UST ‘arki’ student bags silver award in AYDA PH for ‘estero’ recycling hub NIVERSITY of Santo Tomas-College of Architecture student Napoleon Marion Clarke F. Mui recently won the Silver Award under the Architecture category of the Asia Young Designer Awards (AYDA) 2020 for the Philippines.

The AYDA is an annual design competition organized for architecture and interior design students by Nippon Paint in 15 Asian countries. With the theme “Forward: Human-Centered Design,” the design competition called for a socially driven space to serve the community’s needs. Project proposals were required to have a clear and positive impact, more so for the booming population in Asian cities.

For his competition entry, Mui, who is in his fourth year and under the mentorship of Ar. Maria Lourdes Rigunay, proposed a hu-

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to another. Students will have a full understanding of travel and tourism, ecotourism in attractions and theme parks, as well as local guiding management.

In addition to actual work immersion, career orientation and exploration, career preparation and enrichment programs will be conducted to further assist students in their journey. Enrollees will have access to De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde’s (DLS-CSB) campuses, the wide array of online academic resources at the multimedia library, and the Br. Fidelis Leddy Learning Resource Center.

All Benilde SHS tracks are directly related to a particular degree

program in the college. Graduates who maintain a minimum-grade requirement will have a seamless entry in the institution.

To ensure the safety of the Benildean community amid the pandemic, classes will initially be delivered on full online modality through BigSky Benilde—the school’s official integrated learning platform.

Benilde SHS follows DLS-CSB’s trimestral schedule, with classes slated to begin in August or September 2021. For inquiries, send an e-mail to the Benilde Center for Admissions at admissions@benilde. edu.ph, or visit https://www.benilde. edu.ph/shs.html.

LUMNI of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) were recognized by President Duterte for their heroic act in responding to a fire that erupted inside the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) last month.

Dr. Rodney Dofitas and Nurse Kathrina Bianca Macababbad were conferred the Order of Lapu-Lapu, along with eight others, on June 2 for their quick actions which saved lives of patients in the governmentrun hospital in Manila. A storage unit on the third floor of the PGH building caught fire on May 15.

Macababbad, who studied at the PLM College of Nursing and her colleague Nurse Jomar Mallari hurried back and forth the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit to transfer 35 babies to safety while carrying emergency medicines and breathing equipment to sustain the newborns through the evacuation.

Meanwhile, Dr. Dofitas, chief of PGH’s Division of Surgical Oncology and a product of PLM’s Master in Business Administration-Top Executive Program, was at the hospital that night. He led coor-

dination efforts to respond to the fire and oversee the evacuation of patients and personnel.

“PLM welcomes the well-deserved recognition given to Dr. Dofitas, Nurse Macababbad and their colleagues for their brave and selfless [acts],” PLM President Emmanuel Leyco said. “May all other frontliners and Filipinos draw inspiration from their excellence and service.”

Apart from the two PLM graduates, other PGH “heroes” recognized were Safety Officer Joel Santiago, Security Officer Ramil Ranoa, Nurse Quintin Bagay Jr., Dr. Alexandra Lee, Dr. Earle Ceo Abrenica, Nurse Phoebe Rose Malabanan and Nurse Esmeralda Ninto.

T he Order of Lapu-Lapu is awarded to public servants and private individuals who have provided “invaluable or extraordinary service” to the Filipino people. As a gesture of the nation’s gratitude, the Chief Executive personally handed over the commendations and tokens to the 10 PGH workers during a ceremony held in Malacañang.

Young activists call for incorporation of labor education in SHS curriculum

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HE Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan (SPARK) has welcomed the recent passing of the Labor Education Act or Republic Act (RA) 11551 into law, but the group said that this is inadequate in assuring the rights of future workers—specifically senior-high-school (SHS) graduates—from labor-rights abuses.

RA 11551 integrates labor education in the general curriculum of public and private higher education institutions as an elective.

“This is a win for students, as they will finally be equipped with enough knowledge and know-how with regard to their rights in the workplace,” said John Lazaro, national coordinator of SPARK. “However, this isn’t enough as it only covers tertiary students, rather than both tertiary and SHS students.”

The youth organization cited that college graduates usually get employed in white-collared jobs, while SHS finishers most likely end up in rank-and-file work susceptible to abuse and exploitation.

Since the K-12 program allows students to enter the work force after finishing SHS, most of them do not pursue college education; hence, they won’t be able to benefit from the given labor education, according to SPARK. “Another thing is that, labor education is just included as an elective

in the general education curriculum…Students can get to choose whether to take it or not, rather than being mandatory,” he added.

The activists pointed out that making labor education mandatory will guarantee all students will graduate with full awareness of their rights as workers.

“If the government retains its mantra that SHS graduates are ‘job ready,’ then it needs to put its foot down on equipping students with knowledge about their labor rights in preparation for employment,” the group stressed.

Despite this, the organization urged college students to avail of this limited chance to learn about salaries and wages, employment policies, state-sanctioned benefits, grievances procedures and other political rights in the workplace.

SPARK members have long been pushing for a truly efficient Labor Education Act not only for tertiary students, but also for SHS learners.

They conducted numerous campaigns, and outlined a position paper to emphasize the importance of making labor education mandatory, as well as its inclusion in the SHS curriculum.

After their years of lobbying, President Duterte finally signed this legislation into law on May 27.

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What you need to know about our Independence Day and more

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Story & photos by Benjamin Locsin Layug

n June 12, we celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the declaration of Philippine independence and the focus of this celebration will be at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit (originally Cavite el Viejo), Cavite where the Philippine declaration of independence from Spain was declared and the Philippine flag officially unfurled by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo.

These are considered to be common knowledge, but there are other facts, including stories of irony and theft, that many regarding this day, the Philippine flag, the persons involved and the shrine itself that should be made known to deepen our appreciation of this day.

First, though Philippine independence is over a hundred years old, the celebration on June 12 is only less than half that. Originally, that day was celebrated on July 4 (incidentally also the Independence Day of the USA), the day we regained our independence from our American colonizers in 1946, right after World War II. It remained that way until August 4, 1964 when, upon the advice of historians and the urging of nationalists, President Diosdado Macapagal signed into law Republic Act 4166 designating June 12 as the country’s Independence Day. Today, July 4 is just celebrated as Fil-American Friendship Day. The original Philippine flag was designed by Emilio Aguinaldo himself, which was embroidered in gold and featured wide bands of blue (standing for unity and the noble aspirations of the Filipinos people) and red (symbolizing the willingness of Filipinos to shed their blood in defense of the nation), a white (signifying spiritual purity) equilateral triangle (representing the emblem of the Katipunan) with the eight-rayed sun (the first 8 provinces placed under martial law by Spain because of the insurrection—Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and Tarlac) and three stars (the principal islands of the archipelago—Luzon, Mindanao and Panay) in it.

Today, Panay has been replaced by the Visayas.

Though we would like to think so, the flag was not made in the country but in Hong Kong. Marcela Agoncillo, then in exile there with husband Felipe (who set up the propaganda office of Aguinal-

Aguinaldo Shrine—Birthplace of Philippine Independence

Statue of Marcela Agoncillo holding the Philippine Flag (Taal, Batangas)

do’s revolutionary government), welcomed the exiled Aguinaldo and members of the Hong Kong Junta Patriotica on May 4, 1890.

Upon the request of Aguinaldo, she painstakingly sewed the flag in five days, with the assistance of a seven-year-old Lorenza, her eldest daughter, and Delfina Herbosa de Natividad.

The Aguinaldo Shrine where the event took place, now a National Shrine (turned over to the government on June 12, 1963), was the ancestral home of Aguinaldo. He was born here on March 22, 1869 and is also buried in a marble tomb in the middle of the garden. Aside from being the first president of the first constitutional republic in Asia, Aguinaldo is also our youngest president (at age 29) and our longest living president (he died on February 6, 1964 at the age of 94 years).

Though the Philippine f lag was formally unfurled here, the flag was first unfurled two weeks earlier, on May 28, right after the Battle of Alapan in Imus where Filipino forces repulsed 270 Spanish marines, forcing them to surrender. In front of Teatro Caviteño, General Aguinaldo, in acknowledgement of the victory, brought out the Philippine flag and, in the presence of his men and the

The Independence Balcony—A Later Addition

The Equestrian Statue of Emilio Aguinaldo

Interior of the Aguinaldo Shrine

crowd, unfurled and hoisted it.

That’s why Philippine National Flag Day is now celebrated on May 28 instead of the original June 12 (date changed in 1964). Later on, by virtue of Executive Order 179 issued on May 23, 1994, the period of celebration was extended from May 28 to June 12.

The Philippine flag was unfurled by Aguinaldo from the bank of capiz windows of the house and not from the cannon-capped Independence Balcony (now used by top government officials) we see today. The balcony was only added by Aguinaldo during the 1919 renovation. The Philippine national anthem (originally titled as the Marcha Filipina Magdalo), composed by Julian Felipe in just six days, was also played on that day by the marching band of San Francisco de Malabon (now Gen-

Act of proclamation of independence

eral Trias town), but only as an instrumental music. The lyrics of the anthem that most of us know by heart today, now known as Lupang Hinirang, were only added in 1899, an adaptation of the Spanish poem Filipinas written by Jose Palma.

So where’s the original Philippine flag now? Many would think it’s in Cavite or even in Manila but they would have guessed wrong. It is now displayed at General Emilio Aguinaldo Museum in, of all places, Baguio City in Benguet together with two other historical flags— the Philippine flag of Aguinaldo when he was captured in Palanan (Isabela) and the personal flag of General Gregorio del Pilar which he captured from the Spaniards and taken from him when he was killed in the Battle of Tirad Pass in Northern Luzon.

Though our National Hero Jose

Rizal, who inspired the Philippine Revolution with his writings, died nearly two years earlier, his blood relatives figured prominently in the events leading to our Independence Day. Aside from older brother Paciano Rizal who was a general during the Revolution, sisters Josefa and Trinidad were also Katipuneros. The aforementioned Delfina Herbosa de Natividad also happened to be the daughter of his sister Lucia. Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, who authored and read the Declaration of Philippine independence to the crowd from that same window, is also a distant relative of Rizal.

Regarding that 21-page declaration, the document was only ratified by the Malolos Congress three months later (September 18).

Ironically, one of the 98 signers of the declaration was Mr. L.M.

Johnson, a Colonel of Artillery in the US Army who witnessed the proclamation. Though he signed it, the declaration was never recognized by either the United States or Spain who later ceded the Philippines to the US in the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War. After its return by the US, the Declaration was stolen from the National Library of the Philippines by researcher Rolando Bayhon sometime in the 1980s or 1990s.

After a subsequent public appeal for the return of the stolen documents and mediation by historian and UP professor Milagros Guerrero, 8,000 documents, including the Declaration, were returned to the National Library in 1994 where it remains to this day and, unlike the US Declaration of Independence, not on public display.

Quest Plus Clark wins TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice

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QUEST Plus Clark

or two years in a row, Quest Plus Conference Center Clark is recognized once again by TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel platform, as a travelers’ favorite in Clark, Pampanga for 2021.

This achievement celebrates businesses that consistently deliver fantastic experiences to travelers around the globe, having earned exceptional traveler reviews in TripAdvisor over the past year.

Even with a challenging year for the tourism and hospitality industry, this did not become

a barrier for Quest Plus Clark in providing the best quality service and its signature Filipino hospitality to guests and travelers. “ T he Tr av e l e r s ’ C hoi c e Awards highlight the places that are consistently excellent—delivering quality experiences time and time again even while navigating changing customer expectations and new ways of working. Based on a full year of reviews from customers, this award speaks to the great service and experience you provided guests in

the midst of a pandemic,” says TripAdvisor chief commercial officer Kanika Soni.

The hotel is managed by Chroma Hospita l it y Inc. a young, forward-thinking company crafting bold, innovative hospitality brands owned by Filinvest Hospitality Corp. It is the management company behind Crimson Hotel Filinvest City Manila, Crimson Resort and Spa Mactan, Quest Hotel and Conference Center in Cebu City, Quest Hotel Tagaytay, and Crimson Resort and Spa Boracay.

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CHOOSE THE SOUND THAT FITS YOU

It’s still not the much-coveted Edit Button but Bookmark Folders is a cool feature

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F you’re a Twitter user, the first thing on your wish list is probably for the app to have an edit feature. Well, now that’s a reality...sort of. At least, for users of Twitter Blue.

Already rolled out in Australia and Canada for iOS users, Twitter Blue is a subscription (meaning that it’s paid) that allows users certain liberties. The monthly fee is $3.49 CAD (around P137.54) or $4.49 AUD (around P165.87).

“We’ve heard from the people that use Twitter a lot—and we mean a lot—that we don’t always build power features that meet their needs,” said Twitter in a statement.

“We took this feedback to heart, and are developing and iterating upon a solution that will give the people who use Twitter the most what they are looking for: access to exclusive features and perks that will take their experience on Twitter to the next level.”

So what do you get exactly when you subscribe to Twitter Blue?

Reader Mode, according to Twitter, provides a more beautiful reading experience by “getting rid of the noise.”

“We are making it easier for you to keep up with long threads on Twitter by turning them into easyto-read text so you can read all the latest content seamlessly,” said Twitter.

Basically, Reader Mode makes threads read more like an article so that profile photos, usernames, timestamps and live/retweet counts are removed from the threaded tweets.

Bookmark Folders is another perk for Twitter Blue users. Bookmark Folders allows you to organize the tweets you’ve saved by letting you manage content.

This is so you can access them easily.

Now for that edit feature. What Twitter Blue has is not exactly an edit feature but something called Undo Tweet. With this feature, you can set a customizable timer of up to 30 seconds to click “Undo” before the tweet, reply or thread you’ve sent posts to your timeline. When this feature is activated, a countdown appears so you know the time left until your 30-second Tweet Undo period expires and your tweet appears on Twitter. Shorten the expiration window to 5, 10 or 20 seconds under the Twitter Blue feature settings menu, or you can easily skip it when you select “Send now.”

Subscriber perks include customizable app icons for their device’s home screen and fun color themes for their Twitter. They will also have access to dedicated subscription customer support.

We looked at tweets related to Twitter Blue and

most of them are happy about the Bookmark Folder feature. We’re still waiting for that Edit button and hope it will come soon even on Twitter Blue.

■■■ MEANWHILE, foodpanda celebrates its seventh anniversary with a month-long celebration that includes raffles and free meals for riders.

For the whole month of June, the #foodpandaBdayBlowout offers app users the chance to win prizes, such as Vespas, iPhone Pro Max, Apple watches and P1,000 foodpanda vouchers. Each order worth P299 and up from food delivery, pick-up, shops and pandamart is qualified for the raffle as long as you use the voucher code 7BDAYBLOWOUT. foodpanda is also taking this opportunity to celebrate and give back to the community. It is partnering with KFC to provide free meals to foodpanda riders, donating P7 for each 7BDAYBLOWOUT entry to the Philippine Red Cross and having community pantry activations in select cities nationwide. Customers can also join in the fun on the app with exclusive vouchers and discounts throughout the month and on social media with foodpanda’s Instagram Story filter and TikTok hashtag challenges.

“We want to thank all our customers, our partner establishments, and our riders for another successful year. As the 7th birthday is traditionally a very important occasion for Filipinos, we are making sure that our anniversary event is a memorable celebration with treats for everyone,” said foodpanda managing director Daniel Marogy. ■

AMPLIFY moments with JBL’s newest line of sports and lifestyle headphones, which feature true wireless and active noise cancellation technology suited for fitness, professional and everyday use.

Everyone has a unique sound. Each person is identified by their personal tastes, needs, wants and dreams that ultimately reflect the way they live— their lifestyle. Whatever you do, wherever you are, there’s always a track to ignite your soul and drive you to your destination—whether it’s to improve fitness, achieve goals, enrich knowledge, or excel at work. However, good quality sound heavily relies on high quality headphones designed to meet specific expectations.

Whether you’re into yoga, running, or barre, JBL Reflect Mini NC TWS in-ear sport headphones are the perfect all-around accessory for an athleisure lifestyle. With 21 hours of playtime, an IPX7 waterproof rating, and Active Noise Cancelling feature, the user can focus on your fitness goal with zero distractions. For outdoor or group workouts, the Smart Ambient technology keeps the user aware of their surroundings or lets them chat with a friend.

Serious workouts deserve serious gear. The JBL Endurance Peak II true wireless headphones deliver JBL Pure Bass sound to fuel those high intensity routines, while providing comfort and connectivity to keep the user going strong. Get next-level motivation with 30 hours of combined battery life, starting from the moment you wear them, thanks to the Powerhook.

Built with an ergonomic fit and sweatproof/ waterproof design, it lets you exercise harder and longer.

UA True Wireless Streak is a lightweight choice engineered to maximize performance while minimizing size and distractions. Designed with Sport Flex Fit ear tips, it provides comfort and secure fit tested by athletes. With 18 hours of total playtime, UA waterproof technology, TalkThru and Ambient Aware Technology, the user can power through workouts while enjoying superior bass, elementbattling protection, and seamless interaction with your surroundings or workout partners.

For content creators and digital creatives, JBL Live 460NC on-ear headphones and JBL Live 660NC overear headphones are equipped with massive 40mm drivers to deliver JBL Signature Sound, punctuated with enhanced bass so every track pops. Activate the Adaptive Noise Cancelling if focusing is what’s needed, or Smart Ambient if the user wants to keep in touch with their environment. It also has voice assistant technology and a total of 50 hours battery life with ANC off.

Students and hobbyists, meanwhile, can rely on JBL Tune 510BT on-ear headphones and JBL Tune 660NC Noise Cancelling on-ear headphones for superior bass sound minus the fuss. With up to 40 hours of streaming pleasure with ANC on, as well as convenient pairing technology to connect to Siri or Google devices, the user can easily get in the zone without having to worry about missing updates, notifications and important calls.

Beyond new products, JBL has tapped awardwinning music artist Nadine Lustre as its newest ambassador. Her unique style, professionalism, and unquestionable confidence embodies the brand’s values—to stand out and provide the best experience through high-quality products.

More information about JBL’s newest line of sports and lifestyle headphones and other audio products can be found at www.jbl.com.ph.

All-in-one online consultation app for Filipinos launched A ONE-OF-A-KIND online consultation mobile app, eConsult gives Filipinos access to more than seven types of services in just one app.

According to Elmo Nobleza, founder of eConsult, the inspiration behind the project was born at the height of the pandemic last year when Filipinos had limited access to services that mattered the most due to quarantine restrictions imposed nationwide. Nobleza said initially the goal of the app was to cater to health-care providers while minimizing the risks of acquiring the disease.

“Access to health care was one of the greatest challenges of Filipinos in 2020 because doctors were out of reach, patients cannot visit the hospitals for their check-ups and medications, even simple consultations for non-Covid diseases were difficult to conduct,” he explained.

“But as the months went by and we realized that it was not only health-care workers who were in need of this kind of platform, we decided to expand the scope of the application, making it a one-stop-shop for professionals who wants to continue working in the safety and comforts of their chosen workplace while providing quality advice to their clients,” he added.

Because of this, the founders of eConsult came together to build a mobile application solution that will cater to all

consultation-related services that can be done online.

Among the most popular categories are health and wellness, self-improvement, financial growth, business consultancy, digital marketing, music, and even divination.

“Customers can book a consultation with their chosen doctors and lawyers, as well have access to sessions with accountants, business consultants, fitness instructors, music teachers, crystal healers, feng shui masters, even tarot card readers,” Nobleza said.

Nobleza said the online consultation app aims to help both professionals, instructors, coaches and readers by providing a platform that will match the demand and the supply.

“Doctors can augment their income without the risk that comes with the face-to-face consultation as they can do a video call or a chat to conduct their business; the same thing with lawyers and wellness coaches,” Nobleza explained.

Customers can expect a safe, secured and easy-tonavigate online consultation app that will take care of the most important matters whether it be health care, legal, business, wellness, or extracurricular activities.

Currently, eConsult is growing its network of professionals in various specializations, service providers of varying expertise, and wellness coaches of different pieces of training and disciplines to cater to the needs of every Filipino.

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DIALYSIS patient Elena Camson virtually consults with Dr. Stanley Caminero.

Apple previews new software for iPhone, other gadgets

BY MAE ANDERSON The Associated Press NEW YORK—Apple kicked off its second annual all-virtual developer conference with a keynote that outlined new updates to its software for iPhones and other devices. The presentation highlighted more privacy options for paid iCloud accounts and a “Find My” service that helps find errant AirPods, but included no major product announcements.

The latest renovations in Apple’s $2 trillion empire come at a pivotal time for the Cupertino, California, company. Apple is facing legal and regulatory threats to its control over its App Store, a so-called “walled garden” that produces substantial profits for the company.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, and other executives outlined updates to software for Apple’s many devices including its MacBooks, iMacs, iPhone, iPad and Watch.

Apple’s new MacOS software, dubbed Monterey, supports what Apple calls “universal control,” which lets people use one mouse and keyboard to control an iMac desktop computer, MacBook laptop and iPad at the same time.

Forrester analyst Julie Ask said the improvements Apple showed off, like the “universal control,” play to Apple’s strengths in blending its products and services.

“The news today was nothing ‘new new,’ like holy cow how did they make that happen,” she said. “But each of us picks up our phone 100 or 200 times a day, and they’re making 100 little moments a day better, more seamless, and easier.”

She pointed out Apple’s plan to support digital IDs including drivers licenses and state IDs from “participating US states” in its digital wallet, as another example. Apple did not identify which states that will include.

“They have an army of people trying to get these deals signed,” she said. “Apple gets a lot of criticism for being so controlling. But they can do things other big brands struggle to do.”

A “Live Text” feature in iOS 15 will let you highlight text in photos and copy and paste it or look it up online. It will also integrate Air Pods into its “Find My” service, which helps people find lost or misplaced Apple products.

Apple is introducing more privacy features to its paid iCloud plans, including a way to hide your email address, encrypt video, and a “Private Relay” feature of Safari that encrypts data from the web browser similar to a VPN. Paid plan pricing isn’t changing. Users pay for any iCloud storage above the free 5GB storage users get for free. In the US, those plans start at $1 a month for 50GB of storage.

Apple didn’t announce when iOS 15 will be available, but the company traditionally releases the free updates to all compatible iPhones in September.

Practical applications emerge as 5G sites increase

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N our last column, we talked about how the release of the Xiaomi POCO M3 5G will usher in the era of affordable 5G smartphones. A couple of days later, the brand quickly followed it up with the Redmi Note 10 5G. If our sources are correct, we can expect similarprice offerings from other brands like realme in the coming weeks.

Besides its 5G capability, the Redmi Note 10 5G has a 6.5” AdaptiveSync DotDisplay with a 90Hz refresh rate capable of adjusting to content automatically; a solid triple camera system with 48 MP main camera, 2 MP macro camera and 2 MP depth sensor, a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor and a 5,000 mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging.

The Redmi Note 10 5G comes in two variants: a 4GB+128GB priced at P9,990, and an 8GB+128GB that will retail for P11,490. It’s just a bit higher than the POCO M3 5G but is still way below the P20K range of earlier 5G handsets.

As 5G devices become accessible to more people, we are also beginning to see more practical applications of the technology.

In health care, for example, the Covid-19 outbreak has made people cautious, or even afraid of going to the hospital for their doctor’s appointment. This is a problematic scenario for the elderly and those who

have medical conditions.

The pandemic has highlighted the advantages telemedicine has to offer, and has served as the push many health systems needed to implement widely across these institutions. Telemedicine is a subset of telehealth which refers to a direct interaction between a health-care provider and the patient, and includes a variety of tools and technology resources that effectively deliver care.

With the various benefits available to each participating party, more providers are now offering telehealth to monitor their patient’s conditions without putting them at risk by attending medical setting.

Telemedicine services are even more crucial for dialysis patients, like Elena Camson who live in faraway rural areas. Camson, who was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease three years ago, said she used to walk to a neighboring barangay just to catch a ride to the clinic and travel 23 kilometers from Linutod to reach Argao for her check-ups when there was still no signal in her town.

Dr. Stanley Caminero, Argao’s community doctor, said a strong network is a huge help especially for telemedicine. Instead of traveling to town, his patients like Camson, can consult virtually via Smart 5G. 5G enables the transmission of high-quality video, allowing doctors like him to immediately understand what their patients are trying to say so they can be assured of quality service and accurate diagnosis.

Mario G. Tamayo, head of technology at PLDT and Smart, said more Filipinos like Camson will benefit from services such as telemedicine as they continue the accelerated 5G rollout and expand their network. As of last month, Smart Communications has fired up more than 3,000 5G sites across the country, including sites deployed in far-flung and mountainous areas, such as Barangay Linut-od in Argao, Cebu.

Continuing its big push for 5G in the country, Smart also expanded its Unli 5G offer to cover all Smart 5G sites nationwide—an unprecedented move that enables more Filipinos to enjoy Smart’s most powerful offer on its fastest technology yet.

THE NEW EVENTS NORM

BRANDS hold events to raise awareness, increase sales and build loyalty, but with the lockdown restrictions, businesses had to rethink the type of campaigns they could run. While the lights have dimmed at on-ground events, a virtual platform created for events and brand activations has been making waves in the business community.

VEAP, which stands for Virtual Events and Activations Platform, is an online space for clients to pursue immersive and memorable brand engagement efforts that used to be done on-ground. It is a synergy of expertise in traditional below-the-line advertising, out-of-the-box thinking, and the power of digital and electronic systems to channel creative engineering for meaningful connections between people and brands.

The platform can be easily accessed via a smartphone, laptop, desktop and tablet, providing a way for brands to continuously engage their consumers via the safer means while simulating or even raising the standards of experiences that used to be present in an on-ground space.

The platform is created by the Tagline Group of Cos., part of which are Oncuemedia, Inc., Five Seconds Advertising, Hey! Communications and Binary Digital Advertising, which is the platform’s developer.

“It’s all about reengineering brand experiences for multi-dimensional engagements in the digital landscape—a calculated modification of our services toward the behavioral shifts taking place across all market segments due to the pandemic,” said Tagline president and owner Jovy Rabelas.

To experience VEAP, visit tagline.veap.ph. ■

Get discounts on new modems and WiFi kits with Globe’s ‘Swap and Save’ AS global warming and environmental destruction ensue around the world, Globe continues to weave environmental care into its operations, taking measurable steps to combat climate change.

To further encourage Filipinos to properly dispose of electronic waste (e-waste), Globe At Home rewards its customers who swap their existing devices in exchange for new, advanced WiFi units with its “Swap and Save” campaign which coincides with World Environment Day and the Philippine Environment Month. Customers will receive a P500 discount for Globe MyFi LTE-Advanced and Home Prepaid WiFi LTE-Advanced devices when they drop-off their existing prepaid Globe MyFi, WiFi stick or Home Prepaid WiFi at any of the 48 participating Globe Stores on or before August 21 this year.

Globe Stores teams will assist customers in completing an online monitoring form before devices are dropped off in the designated in-store e-waste bins. Collected e-waste is then delivered on a monthly basis to its DENR-accredited recycling partners, TESAMM Philippines in Pasig and Maritrans Recycler Inc. in Cebu, for proper e-waste processing.

Non-working and end-of-life modems and other electronic or battery-operated devices including mobile phones, chargers, laptops, desktops and other home appliances are considered e-waste.

According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report, these need to be disposed of properly as they contain toxic and hazardous materials that contaminate the soil and groundwater. These affect food and water sources, increasing risks to the

environment and to human health.

“Globe takes extra care of its customers and the environment. By offering to get back these current units, we not only give our customers a chance to own new and discounted devices for faster and better Internet experience, but also ensure that obsolete and broken ones do not end up in landfills and are recycled properly,” said Darius Delgado, Globe vice president and head of Broadband Business.

To participate in the Globe E-Waste Zero program, e-waste may be dropped off at over 120 locations such as Globe stores, malls, local government units as well as premises of partner companies and organizations.

Customers may also avail of the free door-to-door pickup of e-wastes weighing 10KG or more.

More information can be found at bit.ly/3wgEWJv.

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‘misogynistic

PERVERTS?’ S

INGER Cody Simpson was dominating attention ahead of Australia’s Olympic swimming trials until Maddie Groves withdrew from the sixday meet following a series of social-media posts condemning “misogynistic perverts” in the sport.

Groves didn’t detail her allegations, which apparently surfaced last year, and Swimming Australia President Kieren Perkins said he was trying to contact the two-time Olympic silver medalist.

“We have had an ongoing dialogue that has been generated

by Maddie through social-media.

We reached out with her in September 2020 to try to engage with her on these concerns she has,” Perkins told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday.

“We have done it again now, and unfortunately at this point we have not been able to have a direct conversation with Maddie to understand exactly what her

Maddie Groves withdraws from the six-day meet following a series of socialmedia posts condemning “misogynistic perverts” in the sport. AP concerns are, who the people involved are, so that we can investigate it and deal with it.”

Groves, who won silver medals in the 200-meter butterfly and a relay at the 2016 Olympics, said she planned to delete her Twitter app after posting: “You can no longer exploit young women and girls, body shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to

represent you so you can earn your annual bonus.

“Time’s UP.” Groves tweeted last year that she’d complained about a swimming worker and the way “they stare at me in my” swimsuit, and also expressed concerns about the antidoping process and the treatment of athletes will long-term illnesses.

Former swimmer Perkins, a two-

time Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist, told ABC television it was important to ensure athletes in all sports are supported and protected, “and unfortunately we have just not been able to do that, because Maddie hasn’t engaged with us directly yet.”

Veteran swimmer Mitch Larkin was a teammate on the Rio squad with Groves, and said the claims “broke my heart a little bit.”

“I certainly want to find out and get to the bottom of it if she does have some issues,” Larkin said in Adelaide, South Australia, where the Olympic trials start Saturday. “We have got an athlete integrity officer and a well-being officer and she can certainly talk to them as well as sports psychs and really try and dig to the bottom of those issues.

“And if there is a culture issue, we would absolutely love to change it.”

Swimming is Australia’s highestprofile Olympic sport, regularly delivering the most medals for the country. So the trials are a big deal.

Musician, actor and wannabe Olympian Simpson was helping build the hype. He was a successful junior swimmer before moving to the US in 2010 and making it on the music scene.

In a promotional video for a sponsor he joked about having a vastly different lifestyle now that he was focused on swimming again, saying he used to go to bed at 5 a.m. when he was a performer and now he wakes up at that hour to practice.

The 24-year-old Simpson has featured this month in the Amazon original series Head Above Water with Ian Thorpe, Australia’s most decorated swimmer and now his mentor. Simpson is seeded 13th on times in the 100-meter butterfly and 70th in the 100 freestyle, and concedes he probably is a better prospect for the 2024 Olympics.

Heats for the 100 free start Tuesday.

Kyle Chalmers, the reigning Olympic champion in the 100 free, and Bronte Campbell are also part of the Head Above Water series, and are more likely to star in the pool.

Chalmers has had to overcome a serious shoulder injury which required surgery last November, but said he’d give himself full marks for fitness by the time he starts racing at the trials.

“I have to believe that I am in the best shape of my life when I race,” he said, “Otherwise I am going to have doubts.”

Another difference between this preparation and his buildup to Rio is Chalmers’ profile.

“Leading into Rio...I was able to fly under the radar no matter what,” he said. “Whereas now, I have people taking photos of me all the time or asking for signatures, sponsorship commitments, the documentary—the list goes on of things I am doing different.”

With two Olympic spots up for grabs in the women’s 100 freestyle, Campbell knows her competition well. Just making the Australian team in this event is like making an Olympic final.

She’ll be competing against her sister, Cate, and Emma McKeon, who have recorded the fastest times this year.

“I have got to find a way to beat at least one of them,” she said.

The Australian team for Tokyo will be announced Thursday on the final night of the Adelaide trials.

Ernest John “EJ” Obiena will compete in the Jump & Fly International Athletics Meet in Mossingen.

Obiena returns to Germany to resume pre-Tokyo preps

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By Josef Ramos

OKYO Olympic-bound pole vaulter Ernest John “EJ” Obiena returns to Germany on Saturday to compete in the Jump & Fly International Athletics Meet in Mossingen.

It will be Obiena’s third competition in two weeks after the Gothenburg Athletics Grand Prix in Sweden where he won a gold medal and the FBK Games at the Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands, where he clinched silver behind world record-holder Armand Duplantis.

Obiena traveled to Germany without his pole but had British champion Harry Coppell and his manager Steffen Keil to thank.

“I am so thankful to Harry [Coppell] for bringing my poles over here from The Netherlands,” the 2019 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist told BusinessMirror.

It would have cost 25-year-old Obiena 300 euros if he traveled with his pole.

“ I f lew i nto Ger m a ny w it hout my poles. I t h i n k it wou ld cost me a rou nd 30 0 e x t ra eu ros i f I brought my poles w it h me,” he sa id.

The pole vault community in Europe, according to Obiena’s father Emerson, is very cooperative, helpful and honest with each other .

“They [pole vaulters] are a small group in Europe but are always ready to help one another,” the elder Obiena said.

Obiena said his son trained in Berlin before jumping on a train to Mossingen.

“That’s very natural in the pole vault community, they are very concerned with fellow pole vaulters, and they are not taking advantage of each other,” Emerson said.

Obiena won gold medals in Ostrava and Berlin in his preOlympic preparations. He cleared 5.70 meters in winning gold in Gothenburg and did 5.80 meters in finishing second behind Duplantis (6.10m) in Hengelo.

Harden fulfills promise to Filipino hoops fans

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By Erwin Ursua

ONSIDER James Harden’s promise to Filipino basketball fans kept.

W hen Harden was in Manila the last time in June 26, 2019, Harden, the current Brook ly n Nets star, promised fans a Philippine-themed basketball shoes from Adidas.

Almost two years later, Filipino National Basketball Association fans were surprised when he wore the “Manila Heritage” shoes during Game Three of their First Round Eastern Conference playoffs against the Boston Celtics.

Although fans may be concerned about Harden’s hamstring injury that kept him mostly out of Game One and all of Game Two (the Nets won both) against the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference semifinals, his Filipino supporters will be rejoicing when his shoe collaboration with Filipino toy designer Quiccs is released on Independence Day, Saturday, in all Adidas stores in Manila.

Quiccs is Juanito Maiquez, one of the world ’s best toy designers and the first Filipino to collaborate with Adidas and specifically for the Harden Vol. 5 “Manila Heritage” colorway shoes.

“James Harden single handedly blew up the hy pe for the shoes because of Game Three,” Quiccs said as he and Adidas were much worried about the marketing drive prior the release—they weren’t sure when Harden would wear the shoes.

Following the match with Boston, sneaker Facebook groups locally and abroad started talking about how awesome the shoes were designed and the eagerness to get a pair.

With the impending release of the Harden Vol.5 Manila Heritage series, Quiccs, a soft-spoken and grounded award-winning designer and toy artist, has expanded his canvas from toys, apparel, accessories, face masks, gaming chairs and now, to sneakers.

The sneakers’ colors are inspired by the Philippine f lag with various elements from Quiccs’s famous and best-selling TEQ63 toys part of the design.

The Quiccs x Harden vol.5 “Manila Heritage” basketball sneakers will have a very exclusive release to the Philippines in selected Adidas stores nationwide. “[Exclusive shoe store] Titan w ill be making the shoes available to their online purchasers, meaning people from around the globe can buy it for an additional shipping cost,” Quiccs said.

So, on Independence Day, Pinoy sneakerheads will have something to celebrate and look forward as James Harden and Quiccs give Filipino fans something to be proud of.

Editor’s note: Erwin Ursua is a life coach, a former pharmaceutical company salesman who is also into music and is partnering with friends putting out records. He is a student of BusinessMirror columnist Rick Olivares online writing class.

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WANG, QIULI Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

WANG, HUAN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

YUAN, MINGSI Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

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

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. Detail-oriented and has the ability to multitask.

Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

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DIAO, JIMIN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries FEI, HAIQIONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LIU, YAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SU, YANLAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries WEI, ZENGCHUAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YAN RAGATA Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

YANG, SHENGMIN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries BRIAN CHU JINN SHENG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

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

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

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

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

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

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

JIANG, LIANGHUI Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries JIN, MENG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LI, QING Chinese Customer Specialist

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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

HUA THI THUY LINH Chinese Customer Specialist

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

CHENG, LINGFEN Chinese Customer Specialist

HOANG THI YEN Chinese Customer Specialist

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

HOANG DINH TAN Chinese Customer Specialist

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

CHEN, JIAN Chinese Customer Specialist

DING, JINBAO Chinese Customer Specialist

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.

CHONE SHAN Chinese Customer Specialist

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

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

LUO, LONG Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts)

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

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

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

Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

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

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. Detail-oriented and has the ability to multitask.

BAI, MAN Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts)

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION CHEN, HONGLING Chinese Customer Specialist

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

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. Detail-oriented and has the ability to multitask.

Basic Qualification: *Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. *Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. *Detailoriented and has the ability to multi-task.

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

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

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

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

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. Detail-oriented and has the ability to multitask.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

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

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently. Preferably 6 months to 1 year customer service experience. Detail-oriented and has the ability to multitask.

ZHOU, XIN Chinese Customer Service Representative (Chinese Accounts) Brief Job Description: Assists clients will all their concerns.

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

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

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

LIU, JIANSHENG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LUO, XIAOWEI Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHANGGUAN, WENLIN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHANGGUAN, ZHIPENG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SHI, LE Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SU, BINGDI Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries SUN, XIUQIANG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

WANG, MIN Chinese Customer Specialist

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

WANG, PINGJIANG Chinese Customer Specialist

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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 60,000 - Php 89,999

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Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries XU, LINLIN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, read and write Chinese language 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 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 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language 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 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read and Write Chinese language 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 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language 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 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION YI, CHUNZHEN Chinese Customer Specialist

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

YIN, LE Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YU, XIA Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YUAN, CHANGJIAN Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHANG, SHUANG Chinese Customer Specialist Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHOU, NANLIN Chinese Customer Specialist 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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Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Able to Speak, Read, and Write Chinese Language

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

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Brief Job Description: Lead global seat cost management, deal pricing optimization and deployment pool for Philippines location SAEZ SAAVEDRA, JUAN CARLOS SEGUNDO Systems Engineer Brief Job Description: Handles Level 1 IT Helpdesk concerns VILELA CASTRO, JOSE MIGUEL Systems Engineer Brief Job Description: Handles Level 1 IT Helpdesk concerns

Basic Qualification: Project management, Six Sigma, Financial Analysis

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Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customers information about product or services

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Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customers information about products and services

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

NING, AIJUN Marketing And Sales Agent 76.

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

BAI, QINGYU Chinese Customer Support Representative 59.

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

LI, YINQING Chinese Customer Support Representative 60.

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

CHIN, CHANNTHORT Customer Support Representative 61.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

HEPY Customer Support Representative 62.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

LY, CHAY Customer Support Representative 63.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

STEVEN LIM Customer Support Representative 64.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

LAU DUC HOA Vietnamese Customer Support Representative 65.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

TANG TIN NGUYEN Vietnamese Customer Support Representative 66.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

TRINH THI CAM THU Vietnamese Customer Support Representative 67.

Brief Job Description: Experts at their product and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

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

DENG, BIN Mandarin Speaking - Business Development 77.

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Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation

LIANG, JIANQUAN It Technical Mandarin Brief Job Description: Fix technical problems in Computer System.

SONG, JIANGUO It Technical Mandarin Brief Job Description: Configure and maintain systems and networks.

LIU, YUDAN Mandarin Customer Service Brief Job Description: Provide customer service and train Filipino counterpart.

XU, ZHIMING Mandarin Customer Service

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Brief Job Description: To provide customer service and train Filipino counterpart.

XU, SHIYU Mandarin Customer Service

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

FLY ASIAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Eighty One Newport Blvd. Newport City Va, Brgy. 183 Pasay City

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

Brief Job Description: Studying company profile and operations to understand its marketing needs; Implementing a strategy according to objectives and budget.

NI, LIANG Marketing Consultant (Mandarin Speaking Clients) 84.

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

Brief Job Description: Provide Customer Service and train Filipino counterpart.

CHEN, YU-CHEN Marketing Consultant (Mandarin Speaking Clients)

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

Basic Qualification: Have skills in documentations

RUSLI Indonesian-speaking Customer Service 87.

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

Basic Qualification: Strong Analytical, Diagnostic and Problem-Solving Skills, Excellent in Mandarin verbal communication Skils

Brief Job Description: Studying company profile and operations to understand its marketing needs; Implementing a strategy according to objectives and budget.

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Brief Job Description: Responsible leading a business product stream with key strategic and impact for impact for Home Credit Phils.

Brief Job Description: Serves customer by providing product service information and resolving product service problem PICHAYAMONGKOL, TAWAN Thai-speaking Customer Service

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

Basic Qualification: With 5years experience at the same position Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999

Brief Job Description: Serves customer by providing product service information and resolving product service problem

Basic Qualification: Fluent for both native and english language, computer literate Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent for both native and english language, computer literate Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent for both native and english language, computer literate Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Strong Analytical, Diagnostic and Problem-Solving Skills, Excellent in Mandarin verbal communication Skils

INFOVINE INC. 9/f Y Tower, Moa Complex Coral Way Drive Cor. Macapagal Brgy. 076 Pasay City

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

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Basic Qualification: Strong Analytical, Diagnostic and Problem-Solving Skills, Excellent in Mandarin verbal communication Skils

XIE, XIN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: Strong Analytical, Diagnostic and Problem-Solving Skills, Excellent in Mandarin verbal communication Skils Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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.

Basic Qualification: Speaks and writes fluent English and Mandarin language. Excellent oral and written communication in Mandarin has a notable network of potential clients locally and intentionally.

Notable business development and marketing skills.

Basic Qualification: Must have knowledge in computer; Fluent in English.

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customers information about products and services

WU, XIAOJIE Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative 91.

Brief Job Description: Identify and assess customers’ needs to achieve satisfaction YANG, HANBIN Mandarin Speaking Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Identify and assess customers’ needs to achieve satisfaction

HE, SHENG Chinese Customer Support Representative 93.

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

JIANG, YUEQIANG Chinese Customer Support Representative 94.

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

WU, HUAN Chinese Customer Support Representative 95.

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

LI, PEI Chinese Customer Support Specialist 96.

Brief Job Description: Expert at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

ELBERT SIONG Customer Support Representative 97.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in English; Must be college graduate.

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

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Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months experience with the above position; Can multi-task and keen to details; Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently.

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Preferably 6 months experience with the above position; Can multi-task and keen to details; Any nationality who can speak and write Chinese fluently.

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Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999

Brief Job Description: Expert at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

MASZURA Customer Support Representative 100.

Brief Job Description: Expert at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

TRAN VAN CHIEN Vietnamese Customer Support Representative 101.

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

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

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

ITECHNO SPECIALIST INC. 9/f 100 West Building Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Pio Del Pilar Makati City ZHAO, LEI Chinese It Support Specialist 102.

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

Basic Qualification: Understand Digital / Online framework

Brief Job Description: Expert at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

KELVIN Customer Support Representative

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English; Must be a College Graduate.

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

Brief Job Description: Expert at their product, and their primary duty is to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently.

JENI WATI Customer Support Representative

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries.

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

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

INVECH TREASURE PROCESSING CORPORATION 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Floor Six West Campus Mckinley West Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledge in Computer applications; Fluent in English

Basic Qualification: With atleast 6 months customer service experience/Good in oral communication and written

INQUICK SERVICES INC. Unit 606 6/f Itc Bldg. 337 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Bel-air Makati City

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

HC CONSUMER FINANCE PHILIPPINES, INC. 15th Floor, Ore Central 9th Ave. Cor 31st. Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City MICIC, VLADIMIR Business Stream Leader

Brief Job Description: Serves customer by providing product service information and resolving product service problem PARK, DARAM Korean-speaking Customer Service

FIRST GREAT COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES INC. Lot 5 Sta. Agueda Cor. Queensway Pagcor Drive Sto. Niño Parañaque City

DEXIN INTERNATIONAL IMPORT AND EXPORT CORP. 534 Tomas Mapua St. 029 Bgy. 298 Santa Cruz Manila CHEN, DEKUN Chinese Cargo Office Agent

Brief Job Description: Identifying business development opportunities within the Mandarin Speaking Business communities.

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

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

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

Brief Job Description: Management of Late Collections Teams, activities & process of company.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

IDNPLAY CORPORATION 8/f Burgundy Corporate Tower 252 Sen. Gil J.puyat Ave. Pio Del Pilar Makati City

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

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

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

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

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION CHLAD, JAKUB KRZYSZTOF Head Of Late Collections

FIN FORK GLOBAL TECH INC. Unit 11-a 11/f Country Space 1 Bldg Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Bel-air Makati City

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

Basic Qualification: Have skills in documentations

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

CROWN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC. 5th-7th Floor Alhi Corporate Center Aseana Avenue Tambo Parañaque City Basic Qualification: Able to speak and write in Mandarin and at least college level with related BPO experience

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

EASTERN GOLD CORPORATION 503 Nueva St Binondo Manila

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months working experience/Good in oral communication and written Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

XU, XIAOQIANG Chinese Cargo Office Agent

HENDRY Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

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

CRONYX INC. No. 4th-10th Flr. Yinhope Bldg. Dela Rama Cor. Zoili Hilario St. Seascape Village, Ccp Complex Subd. Zone 10, Barangay 076, District 1 Pasay City XIAO, RUIQING Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

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Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Any Science / Technical Diploma or Bachelor Degree

Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation

CHEN, YEN-LIN a.k.a. MICHELLE CHEN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999 Basic Qualification: Any Science / Technical Diploma or Bachelor Degree

WU, WUQI Chinese Cargo Office Agent

HUANG, BAILIN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Prepare airline and custom documentation

WANG, PAN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate

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

HUANG, YONGFANG Chinese Cargo Office Agent

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

DYNA BINARY HOLDINGS INC. 18/f Tower 2 The Enterprise Center, 6766 Ayala Ave., Cor. Paseo De Roxas San Lorenzo 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: The Chinese IT Support Specialist (CITSS) is an integral member of the company Infrastructure, Application Support, and of the IT Division and is responsible for providing quality IT Support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

Basic Qualification: A Chinese and fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language 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 LU, MI Chinese Customer Service Representative 103.

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

Basic Qualification: Make recommendations through the analysis of Chinese digital channel across the web, social media, and mobile.

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

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION ARDIANSYAH Indonesian Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Track main industry trends in Indonesian through blogs, micro blogs and forums.

MUNFAROH Indonesian Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Track main industry trends in Indonesian through blogs, micro blogs and forums.

JIN, MYUNGHYUN Korean Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Korean Customer Service Representative JUNG, JAEBUM Korean Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Korean Customer Service Representative HUONG YU HIENG Malaysian Customer Service Representative

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Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies to Malaysian Customer Service Representative

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: At least college graduate, Indonesian Speaking Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999

No.

YANG, GUICAI Mandarin Technical Support 121.

Basic Qualification: At least college graduate, Indonesian Speaking Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: At least college graduate, speaks and write fluently (Korean & English).

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: At least college graduate, speaks and write fluently (Malay & English).

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

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PRITCHARD, HUW ARON Business Development Manager 109.

Brief Job Description: Present new business developments with potential new clients; work with technical staff and participate in internal and external client debriefs and acts as a consultant and develop business planning of the company.

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 MC CONNELL DOWELL PHILS., INC. Level 4 Nol Tower Commerce Ave. Mbp Muntinlupa City

WYKEHAM, VERNON WILLIAM Deputy Project Manager 110.

Brief Job Description: Ensure the project’s compliance with McConnell Dowell Management System is demonstrated through the outcomes of internal and external audits

Basic Qualification: Minimum 8 years’ experience in the construction industry with at least 2 years leadership position with demonstrated success in delivering to target timeframes, planning and logistics management.

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Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above MEGA-WEB TECHNOLOGIES INC. 6,7,8,9,10,11/f Met Live Bldg. Edsa Cor. Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

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CHEN, JIEYU Mandarin Speaking Customer Relations Service Provider Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls.

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LI, JING Mandarin Speaking Customer Relations Service Provider Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls

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XIONG, CHANG Mandarin Speaking Customer Relations Service Provider Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls.

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ZHANG, XUESHUANG Mandarin Speaking Customer Relations Service Provider Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin.

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Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls.

YE, MINGHAO Mandarin Marketing Specialist

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Brief Job Description: Conducting research and marketing strategies to develop areas of the business.

ZHANG, SHANSHAN Mandarin Marketing Specialist

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Brief Job Description: Conducting research and marketing strategies to develop areas of the business.

XIA, HAO Mandarin Operations Specialist

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Brief Job Description: Committed to improving customer experience and operational efficiency

HU, BIAO Mandarin Product Developer 119.

Brief Job Description: Measure the quality assurance process to increase revenue of the company.

LIANG, JINYI Mandarin Technical Support

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Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system

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CHEN, MINGQIN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries DAO VAN THONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries FU, YU Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries AUNG THEIN OO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CAI, LIWEI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CHEN, JINGQI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CHEN, KUNSHU Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries CHEN, JIAWEI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries EDDY RUSLI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries FAN, XIAOBIN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries FU, CECHUAN Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

Basic Qualification: proficient in speaking, reading and writing in mandarin

GAN, XIAOYANG Customer Service Representative

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

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

MINDSCAPE CREATIVES INC. Unit 19-o, Burgundy Corporate Tower 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Pio Del Pilar Makati City YUAN, YUNPENG Mandarin Customer Service Representative

Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system

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.

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

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

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

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in mandarin

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Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries GAO, LITAO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries GAO, NING Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries GUO, ZAIPEI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries GUO, JIN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HUANG, CHAOXING Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HUANG, XIAOSONG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries HUYNH GIA THANG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries JIANG, ZHE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LI, MING Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries LIT KAH YEE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

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

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 147.

MOA CLOUDZONE CORP. 4th-11th Flr. Nexgen Tower C4 Rd. Edsa Ext. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

KMC SAVILLS, INC. 11th Floor, Sunlife Center 5h Ave. Cor. Rizal Drive Fort Bonifacio Taguig City Basic Qualification: 5+ years’ experience in Corporate Real Estate; Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Real Estate or any Business-related course; Good Communication skills; Adaptability; Good organization and planning skills; Excellent analytical skills; Expert in forwarding thinking & market research; Team player; Excellent interpersonal skills including strong effective verbal and writer communications skills; Basic computer skills with the ability to use variety of software; including MS office

Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system ZHANG, PENG Mandarin Technical Support

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: At least college graduate, speaks and write fluently (Korean & English).

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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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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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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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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

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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

LYU, YUANBO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries PANG, QIURONG Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries QIN, YUELIAN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries YU, CUI Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHANG, BIN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHANG, MINGGUO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHANG, YUXIN Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHOU, YOU Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries ZHOU, JIAYAO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Managing incoming calls and customer service inquiries

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BAI, NAIRU Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

CHEN, WEILONG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

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

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LIANG, HEQIAN Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

SUN, QING Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

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

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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

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TAN, RENJIE Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

ZHANG, CHUNFENG Chinese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

WAN WIN YEE Malaysian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

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

AUNG SOE MOE Myanmari Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services

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: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good oral and written communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

NEWBAY INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INC. 2/f Mezzanine Tower 1 The Enterprise Center 6766 Ayala Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas Makati City

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HONG SIU BINH Mandarin Accounts Staff Brief Job Description: Good in Mandarin Speaking TRACY TING HUI KHI Mandarin Customer Service

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Brief Job Description: Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions

Basic Qualification: Develops and Implements accounting procedure Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking and writing in Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

NOCMAKATI, INC. 8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18 & 19 Floors Century Diamond Center Kalayaan Ave. Cor. Salamanca St. Poblacion Makati City

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LI, JING Chinese Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Managing calls and customer services

Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write chinese language

PHAN HUY MANH Chinese Customer Service Representative

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

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NEW ORIENTAL CLUB88 CORPORATION Sky Garage Bldg. Aseana Avenue, Entertainment City Tambo Parañaque City

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Able to speak, Read, and Write chinese language

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Brief Job Description: Managing calls and customer services

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin and English Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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PHDELI CORP. U-3f-1 3/f Paseo Tesoro Bldg. 822 A. Arnaiz Ave. San Lorenzo Makati City BENNETT, NORMAN DUNCAN Change & Transformation Manager 166.

Brief Job Description: Devise and implement strategies to transform operational culture and create lasting value in new operating climate.

Basic Qualification: 10+ years’ experience in leadership roles within major organization, college graduate

ZHOU, YUANBIN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 185.

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Brief Job Description: Develop administrative staff and resolve administrative problems.

DU, GUANGJUN Mandarin Support Staff

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Brief Job Description: Operate and turn in appropriate forms to office coordinator LU, FENG Mandarin Support Staff

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Brief Job Description: Operate and turn in appropriate forms to office coordinator

CHANG, CHIU-HSIANG Chinese Speaking Business Analyst

Basic Qualification: Ability to perform task and communicate in Mandarin speaking

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Communicate in Mandarin speaking

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Communicate in Mandarin speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls.

NONG VAN HIEU Foreign Language Customer Service Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls PATCHARAKULLDARINT, PARICHMAN Foreign Language Customer Service

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Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling service support calls.

ANG, TZU HUI STEPHANIE a.k.a. ANG, STEPHANIE Mandarin Accounts Staff

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Brief Job Description: Prepare general ledger entries by maintaining records and files CAM A KHAN Mandarin Operations Specialist

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Brief Job Description: Committed to improving customer experience and operation efficiency ZHONG, SI Mandarin Team Leader

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Brief Job Description: Leading the team with motivation and inspire to reach the goal JIANG, CONG Mandarin Technical Support

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Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system.

LI, YONG Mandarin Technical Support

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Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system TAN, YINGCAI Mandarin Technical Support

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Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 190.

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Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, Reading and Writing Chinese

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in chinese

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

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

LIU, WENCHANG Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 194.

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

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

LAW YI WEI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

JIANG, FUHUI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in mandarin.

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

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help Customers, Give customers information about product and services.

HUANG, ZHICHENG Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

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

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

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

GUO, YIJI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Planning, maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research

CHIN ZHENG RONG Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in mandarin.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Speaking, Reading and Writing Chinese

Brief Job Description: Planning maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research.

ZENG, GUORUI Chinese Speaking Business Analyst

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

Brief Job Description: Planning maintaining and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research.

LI, NA Chinese Speaking Business Analyst

RED DOT MARKETING AND BRANDING INC. Unit 1514 Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy. 727 Malate Manila HUYNH DAC LUAN Foreign Language Customer Service

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

PHILIPPINE FULL DEGREE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. 10/f Alphaland Makati Place 7323 Ayala Ave. Cor. Malugay St. Bel-air Makati City NONG, RUINING Mandarin Administrative Specialist

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

MAO, LEI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 195.

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

SA RIVENDELL GLOBAL SUPPORT, INC. 9-11 Flr., The Biopolis Bldg. Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

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EI EI NYEIN Myanmari Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services

Basic Qualification: Has knowledge in computer applications Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

PENG, YANG Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 196.

SKYEAST VISA CONSULTANCY INC. 3f Salcedo One Center 170 Salcedo St. San Lorenzo Makati City

DONG, JIAMEI Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 180.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

LIAO, JIANGXIN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 181.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

SHI, XIN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 182.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

YE, ZHENBEI Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 183.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

ZHANG, MINGYUE Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 184.

Brief Job Description: Prepare and maintain company documents and reports and coordinate for daily administrative reports

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

WANG, YE Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions 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

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WANG, WEIJIE Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 198.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

WEI, LIUSHAN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

YANG, JINGYANG Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 200.

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help Customers, Give customers information about product and services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

YE, DINGXIN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 201.

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

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ZHANG, SEN Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 202.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Brief Job Description: Assist/Help customers, give customer information about products and services

ZHAO, ZIYI Chinese Speaking Customer Service Representative 203.

Brief Job Description: Assist/help customers, give customer information about products and services

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

JIANG, JIAYU Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 204.

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent Mandarin communication skills

LI, MIN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 205.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills

LI, SHENGPENG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 206.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

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

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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

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SONG, ZIRONG Business Development Analyst

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

Brief Job Description: creating and implementation of a trade marketing strategy managing brand awareness across various categories and products, develop, implement and communicate metrics reporting processes and documentation across plants and companies in collaboration with operations, marketing and sales functions, fluency in English and Mandarin language is a must,

VONG ANH QUYEN Mandarin Customer Service 214.

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 Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills/ excellent mandarin communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills/ 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: Proficient in handling customer questions 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: must be flexible analytical and good communications in the next few sections we look at the academic requirements, professional certifications and soft skill requirements for BA roles, fluency in English and Mandarin language is a must Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: strong knowledge of consumer industry, ability to think critically and creativity, fluency in English and Mandarin language is a must Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Serve customers by providing product and service and resolving product and service problems.

Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading, and writing in Mandarin.

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

THE PENBROTHERS INTERNATIONAL INC. 6/f Opl Bldg. 100 C. Palanca St. San Lorenzo Makati City ZHU, FEIYU Hr Outsourcing Director - Mandarin Speaking 215.

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

TELFA OUTSOURCING SERVICES INC. Unit 3b Mrb 1160 J. Bocobo St., 072 Bgy. 670 Ermita Manila

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

Basic Qualification: Proficient in handling customer questions about services or products/ Excellent Mandarin communication skills

Brief Job Description: Develop, implement and communicate metrics reporting processes and documentation across plants and companies in collaboration with operations, marketing and sales functions, and fluency in English and Mandarin language is a must, leading and executing various special projects with senior leadership primarily related to the evaluation of possible growth strategies or driving operational improvement.

ZHANG, ZHIMING Trade Marketing Specialist

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

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills

TANZILA TRADING INC. U-29 3/f Bac. Bagong Milenyo F.b. Harrison St. Brgy. 076 Pasay City

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills

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

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

ZHANG, ZHIHONG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

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

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication skills

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information and confidential

YANG, YING Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

YANG, JIANGANG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or products excellent mandarin communication sills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

XU, QIAN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

LI, CHEN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Proficiency in handling customer question about services or product communication skills

Brief Job Description: Enters customer and account data and keeping and maintaining information confidential

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Brief Job Description: Plan, lead, direct, develop and coordinate policies, activities and staff of human resource mgt.

Basic Qualification: College graduate, 6 mos. to 1 year HR experience, fluent in English and Mandarin Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

TIANYU TECHNOLOGY INC. 16/f Socialdesk Tower H.v. Dela Costa St. Bel-air Makati City CHEN, QIANQIAN Chinese It Support Specialist 216.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the chinese clientele.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION CHEN, QISHU Chinese It Support Specialist

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Brief Job Description: The Chinese IT Support Specialist is an integral of the company infrastructure, application support and if the IT Division and is responsible for providing quality IT support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese Clientele.

DAI, ANNA Chinese It Support Specialist

218.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the chinese clientele.

FAN, LIUYAN Chinese It Support Specialist

219.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the chinese clientele.

LI, MEI Chinese It Support Specialist

220.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

LIN, LING Chinese It Support Specialist

221.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

LU, BEIBEI Chinese It Support Specialist

222.

Brief Job Description: The Chinese IT Support Specialist is an integral of the company infrastructure, application support and if the IT Division and is responsible for providing quality IT support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese Clientele.

PENG, XIA Chinese It Support Specialist

223.

Brief Job Description: The Chinese IT Support Specialist is an integral of the company infrastructure, application support and if the IT Division and is responsible for providing quality IT support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese Clientele.

QU, QUANZHEN Chinese It Support Specialist

224.

Brief Job Description: The Chinese IT Support Specialist is an integral of the company infrastructure, application support and if the IT Division and is responsible for providing quality IT support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese Clientele.

SU, TANG Chinese It Support Specialist

225.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

YANG, HUAN Chinese It Support Specialist

226.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

ZHANG, JIAHUAN Chinese It Support Specialist

227.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

ZHOU, JINGTING Chinese It Support Specialist

228.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing quality it support of enterprise systems throughout the Chinese clientele.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Fukien Language

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CHAI, ZHAOJIN Bilingual Finance Support Specialist 237.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Fukien Language.

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Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Fukien Language.

245.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

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249.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

250.

251.

VAN GOGH BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING INC. 5th To 8th Flr. Sm Southmall Tower 2 Alabang Zapote Rd. Almanza Uno Las Piñas City ZHANG, PING Chinese Customer Support Representative 229.

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

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

VASTLINE BUSINESS SUPPORT INC. U-504p Five E-com Ctr. Bldg. Pacific Drive Brgy. 076 Pasay City SUNG, YU-HUA Mandarin Field Marketing Officer 230.

Brief Job Description: Foster human relationship through communication and distribution of marketing activities.

CHAN PUI SZE Mandarin Site Technical Officer

231.

Brief Job Description: Keeping a maintenance record and filing documents, invoices and instruction manuals LY CANH PHUONG Mandarin Site Technical Support

232.

Brief Job Description: To troubleshoot, maintain and monitor the computer system.

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

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

VERTEX DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1439 Adriatico Cor. Sta. Monica St. 072 Bgy. 669 Ermita Manila

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234.

BAI, ANAN Chinese It Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operation of electronic gaming device

CAO, DAN Chinese It Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain the operation of electronic gaming device

254.

Basic Qualification: College Graduate; Preferably with experience in maintaining gaming devices and fluent in Mandarin and English speaking

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate; Preferably with experience in maintaining gaming devices and fluent in Mandarin and English speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

VPC CORPORATE SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED 11/f 100 West, Sen Gil Puyat Ave. Cor. Washington St. Pio Del Pilar Makati City KUECUEKBOGA, SUELEYMAN Bilingual Marketing Specialist 235.

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trend.

SU, XIAOYAN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

236.

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trend.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Build good customer relationships

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

LY LE HAO Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer 267.

NGUYEN THI THUY Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

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

HUANG, QUANSHUANG Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

JIANG, HAITAO Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

LI, YING Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

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

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

WANG, LONGJIE Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answer about consumer requirements, habits & trends.

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

XIAO, FUYANG Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

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: Foreign language speaking

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ZHAO, LIN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

ZHU, YUNYIN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

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

ZHU, ZE Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

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

ZHU, TINGTING Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

ZOU, GUODONG Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

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

MEI, YU Bilingual Technical Support Specialist

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Bilingual technical support specialist

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

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the vietnamcustomers through emails and chat.

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the vietnamcustomers through emails and chat.

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the vietnamcustomers through emails and chat.

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Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Vietnamese language speaking

Brief Job Description: Resolve queries of vietnamese customers through email and chats

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

NGUYEN THUY THUY LINH Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Vietnam-speaking customer service officer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamesecustomers through emails and chat.

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

WANFANG TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, INC. 6-9/f Double Dragon Plaza Edsa Cor. Macapagal Ave. Brgy. 076 Pasay City Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Chinese Mandarin, English and their respective native language

TSAI, CHIN-CHIH Chinese Mandarin Technical Support Representative 272.

Brief Job Description: Deliver service and support to end-users using and operating automated call distribution phone software, via remote connection or over the internet

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

WEFUND LENDING CORP. Unit 3001,3002,3005 Discovery Center 25 Adb Avenue, Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City

273.

Basic Qualification: with at least 2 year worth of collection management experienced , with native oral and written Chinese communications skills, knowledgeable in collections management in a fi tech industry

HUANG, WEI Chinese Collection Manager Brief Job Description: Manages Team (Collection)

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 WISHLAND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY INC. 28/f Techzone Condo Corp. 213 Buendia Ave. San Antonio Makati City Basic Qualification: Proficient in speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin

LI, WEI Chinese Language - Customer Service Staff 274.

275.

276.

Brief Job Description: providing details to client relative to service being offered

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

DONG, FEIHU Chinese Language-customer Service Staff Brief Job Description: deal with and help resolve customer complaints

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

LIU, WANQING Chinese Language-customer Service Staff Brief Job Description: deal with and help resolve customer complaints

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

XU, BIN Technical Support 277.

278.

Brief Job Description: Maintenance and monitoring of computer network and systems

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 Vietnamese

HO NHOC LAN Vietnamese Language-customer Service Staff Brief Job Description: deal with and help resolve customer complaints

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

YFT DOCUMENT FACILITATION SERVICES Room No. C-06 23/f Tower 6789 6789 Ayala Ave. Bel-air Makati City ZHONG, CHENGZHI Marketing Specialist 279.

Brief Job Description: Contribute to the marketing effectiveness by identifying short-term and long range issues that must be addressed. Provides information and recommends options and course of action

Basic Qualification: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, and CRM CMS Software.

Excellent written and verbal skills for foreign clients Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ZTE PHILIPPINES INC. Unit 1201 & 1202 12th Floor Fort Legend Towers 3rd Ave. Corner 31st St. Bgc, Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

PHUNG VAN VINH Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

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

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Malay-customers through emails and chat.

268.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamesecustomers through emails and chat.

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

NGUYEN QUANG HUY Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamcustomer through emails and chat

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

LAI THI LIEU Vietnam- Speaking Customer Service Officer 263.

LO VAY KIT Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

HU, XINYUE Bilingual Marketing Specialist

DU THUY TIEN Vietnam- Speaking Customer Service Officer 262.

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

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamcustomer through emails and chat

DINH THAI THAO Vietnam- Speaking Customer Service Officer 261.

266.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamcustomer through emails and chat

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

CHEW WEE LIAN Malay-speaking Customer Service Officer 260.

265.

Brief Job Description: Outbound or Inbound Marketing activities

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

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

HY TIEU BINH Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

Basic Qualification: Foreign Language Speaking

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Responsible to resolve queries of the Vietnamesecustomers through emails and chat.

GAI, JIALE Bilingual Marketing Specialist

YANG, JIAN Bilingual Marketing Specialist 253.

264.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

CAO NU LAN PHUONG Vietnam-speaking Customer Service Officer

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

YANG, JINGBO Bilingual Marketing Specialist 252.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

WEI, HANJIN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Chinese writing and speaking language Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

Brief Job Description: Conduct market research to find answers about consumer requirements, habits and trends.

No.

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

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

WANG, WEI Bilingual Marketing Specialist 248.

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

Brief Job Description: Outbound or inbound marketing activities

WANG, YUANYUAN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

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

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking

QU, XIUYU Bilingual Marketing Specialist 246.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

CHEN, MEIZHEN Bilingual Marketing Specialist

FAN, YAHUI Bilingual Marketing Specialist

244.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Fukien Language.

Brief Job Description: Process and prepare financial and business forms for the purpose of checking account balances, facilitating purchases, etc.

DING, SHUAI Bilingual Marketing 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

Saturday, June 12, 2021 A21

280.

LU, YANBO Network Design And Optimization Manager Brief Job Description: Responsible for Network Design

Basic Qualification: Must be familiar with Network Designing Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 *Date Generated: Jun 11, 2021

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: Foreign language speaking

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 Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999

ATTY. SARAH BUENA S. MIRASOL REGIONAL DIRECTOR