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Scandal after scandal has rocked the immigration bureau since 2016, but the Justice secretary and BI commissioner believe long-term reforms to the 80-year-old Philippine immigration law may hold the key to genuine change.

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“We can remove people again and again, but the loopholes in the law remain. Quick wins may cure some symptoms in the anticorruption drive, but a responsive new Immigration law may yet cure systemic problems that breed corruption,” Morente said.

HE Department of Justice (DOJ) and its attached agency, the Bureau of Immigration (BI), have been pushing for the passage of priority bills in Congress that would amend and modernize the existing Philippine Immigration Act of 1940.

Both Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and BI Commissioner Jaime Morente have always believed that the current low salaries of immigration personnel is one of the factors making them vulnerable to bribery and to committing other illegal acts.

They expressed confidence that the proposed law, once passed

by Congress, will address the salary woes of BI personnel, and consequently eliminate the illegal practices in the bureau.

The two officials’ advocacy has recently gained urgency, after the suspension by the Ombudsman of more than three dozen personnel entangled in the so-called pastillas scheme that allowed the entry of Chinese nationals, mostly for online gaming operators, into the country despite lack of documentation.

The suspension, though lauded as a blow for the fight against corruption—and repeatedly welcomed by President Duterte who even invited last week the involved BI personnel to Malacañang where he made them take one pastillas each from a box, with a dare to either eat the faux sweet that had rolled-up cash inside, or donate them to beggars— has impacted the bureau’s staffing.

It created a manpower crunch at the airports where their work is vital for keeping out undesirable aliens or preventing malefactors from fleeing abroad.

On Friday, the BI said it plans to hire more personnel to be assigned at the premier airport in the wake of the pastillas scandal.

“Nobody resigned, but given that there were several who were relieved at the airport, we are cur-

rently studying how to beef up our manpower,” said Immigration Spokesperson Dana Sandoval.

“We’re looking into reorganizing airport management to maximize manpower, as well as deploying more personnel at the airports,” she added.

Scores of employees and officers of the BI were investigated on orders of Duterte following the exposé— with help from whistleblowers—by Sen. Risa Hontiveros of airport and immigration personnel who supposedly receive kickbacks in exchange for the seamless entry of Chinese workers for Philippine overseas gaming operators (POGOs).

An order signed by Ombudsman Samuel Martires on October 26 placed the 44 officials on preventive suspension for six months without pay.

Hontiveros estimated the scam could very well have reached a total of P10 billion—an estimate premised on allegations that each arriving Chinese worker shells out a P10,000 service fee, of which P2,000 will be divided among officials of the BI’s Travel Control and Enforcement Unit, duty Immigration supervisor, and terminal heads. To disguise the bribe, the cash is rolled up inside white paper, mimicking the look of the native sweet pastillas, hence, the name of the racket.

The rest of the amount is allegedly given to tour operators and syndicates who transport the Chinese from the airport to POGO facilities.

Sandoval said the BI is conducting an audit of personnel. “We’re currently auditing to see if there are va-

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IN this October 9, 2019, file photo, foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, are housed in a gymnasium following a raid at their company premises in Manila. Philippine police and immigration authorities said they have arrested more than 500 illegally working foreigners involved in telecommunications and investment scams, in one of the biggest such mass arrests this year. BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION VIA AP

cant positions to be opened. If there are, management will definitely expedite the hiring process.”

Organizational review

COMMISSIONER Jaime Morente has directed the Port Operations Division to conduct an organizational assessment to see projected manpower needs, Sandoval added.

The manpower crunch has, ironically, been mitigated by the pandemic. “While a significant number of personnel have been relieved, work remains manageable given the limited arrivals and departures due to the travel restrictions,” explained Sandoval.

Since the Covid-19 virus reached Philippine shores, airports have been on lockdown and tourism has dried up. The pandemic cut down the number of arrivals at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia)—from 500 to 600 a day to about 115 daily today, according to Public Affairs Office chief Connie Bungag.

Sandoval assured the public that immigration services have not been affected.

“We are on standby to add more personnel as the need arises,” she said.

According to Sandoval, those who were removed from the Naia were transferred to the main office in Intramuros, Manila, “assigned at the Administrative Division and are not entitled to augmentation pay.”

Guevarra, who was present

when Duterte called to the Palace on Monday the involved personnel for a “dressing down,” confirmed media reports that the President had told the men to take one pastillas each from a box, with each roll containing cash. The embarrassing episode was seen on TV. Meanwhile, Guevarra said the cases have been filed and that they simply had to face them. “No one among the BI personnel dared to utter a word. End of the meeting,” Guevarra recalled.

CORRUPTION scandals in the bureau under the Duterte administration would show the involvement of not only low-ranking, lowsalary-grade BI personnel.

In 2016, with the influx of Chinese workers in the country, the BI was rocked by the alleged P50-million shakedown of Chinese casino mogul Jack Lam involving then BI deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and several other officials.

The issue even dragged the name of then Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, who denied all wrongdoing but eventually resigned from his post in 2018 amid several controversies involving the DOJ and the BI.

The extortion scandal happened just less than a year into Duterte’s presidency and in spite of his repeat-

ed warnings that his administration will not treat crooked government officials with kid gloves.

Aside from Argosino and Robles, other officials involved in the controversy were former BI intelligence division chief Charles Calima Jr. and technical assistant for intelligence Edward Chan.

All the BI officials involved in the extortion case have been removed from their respective posts and face various criminal charges.

Lam was the operator of the Fontana Leisure Park and Casino in Clark Field, Pampanga, where 1,316 Chinese illegal workers were arrested four years ago.

Argosino and Robles eventually surrendered P30 million out of the P50-million bribe, claiming that it was supposed to be used as evidence in their covert operation to catch corrupt officials in the bureau connected with Lam. They said that of the total P50 million, Calima received P18 million, along with technical assistant for intelligence Edward Chan. Supposedly, P2 million went to retired police general Wally Sombero, who allegedly acted as Lam’s middleman.

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Long-term reform

AS the corruption details unfold in all their sordid details, Guevarra and Morente are looking long term—to finally pass the proposed Bureau of Immigration modernization law, the first objective of which, Guevarra said, “is to improve the compensation package because the salary grade is too low under the existing law. This is why they are tempted to look for extra income through some rackets.”

For his part, Morente said the proposed new immigration act is expected to address salary woes, remove systemic issues, plug loopholes in policies, update fines and penalties, ensure division of power, and confer to the Commissioner the proper disciplinary powers.

It will also likely lead to the increase in fines to be imposed on airlines caught bringing in improperly documented aliens.

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Biden is set to ‘undo the Trump years’ with civil-rights pivot

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dent said, “I condemn all white supremacists.” He added, “If I say it 100 times it won’t be enough because it’s fake news.”

According to Tom Perez, the head of the division from 2009 to 2013 and now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Biden will need to reaffirm the importance of civil-rights enforcement as part of a broader effort to renew confidence in the Justice Department.

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HE Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department is headed for a dramatic makeover under President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to make racial equality a centerpiece of his agenda.

Biden will seek to return the division to its original purpose, focusing on anti-discrimination laws that protect millions of people in minority groups that were mostly ignored in the Trump years, said Vanita Gupta, who led the division under Obama from 2014 to early 2017.

That means more enforcement of protections in housing, education and the workplace, as well as pushing for better local policing following a tumultuous year of racial unrest, she said.

“This will be an even bigger pivot because of what the Trump administration represents,” said Gupta, who now runs the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “It’s been a kind of systematic erosion of civil-rights enforcement that is unlike anything we’ve seen in recent times or recent administrations.”

The division was created in 1957 by the Civil Rights Act to enforce laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion and national origin. Under Trump, it has sued to protect college admissions for White students, abandoned efforts

to protect voting rights and offered support to the president’s political agenda by pushing to ask about citizenship in the census and scrutinizing Democratic governors’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Undo Trump’

CIVIL-RIGHTS enforcement will look a lot different under Biden, who is certain to “undo the Trump years” the same way Trump tried to undo the Obama years—“but with a vengeance,” said Linda Chavez, who served as the White House Director of Public Liaison for former President Ronald Reagan.

“Anything having to do with race, immigration, voting—I think you’re going to see a really dramatic shift in the people appointed” and their priorities, said Chavez, now a conservative commentator and author.

Under Trump, one of the highest-profile actions taken by the Civil Rights Division was a lawsuit accusing Yale University of discriminating against White and Asian applicants by taking race into consideration to admit more Black and Hispanic students.

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All applicants “should expect and know that they will be judged by their character, talents and achievements and not the color of their skin,” Eric Dreiband, the division’s current chief, said when he announced the case in October.

Samuel Bagenstos, who served in the division under Obama, said the Yale suit illustrates the Trump administration’s approach to civil rights. Affirmative-action policies at schools are intended to level the playing field after centuries of institutionalized racism, so the Civil Rights Division shouldn’t be used to challenge them, said Bagenstos, now a law professor at the University of Michigan.

Racial bias

OBAMA gave a shout out to the Civil Rights Division at a campaign speech October 31 in Flint, Michigan, as he urged voters to consider what’s at stake in the election.

“A president by himself can’t

eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system,” Obama said. “But if we elect district attorneys and state attorneys and sheriffs focused on equality and justice, and we once again have a Justice Department and a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department that cares about these issues, we can make things better.”

Gupta said Trump’s actions over the past four years suggest an embrace of “white supremacy”—the antithesis of the goals of the Civil Rights Division. She pointed to the president’s failure to unequivocally denounce white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, his ban on visitors from predominantly Muslim countries, his disparaging remarks about African nations and cruel immigration policies that included separating family members.

Trump has rejected such characterizations. In an interview last month with Fox News, the presi-

“THE Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster,” Perez said.

Governors in New York, Michigan and New Jersey accused the Civil Rights Division of playing politics when it considered opening an investigation into whether four Democratic-led states that regularly criticized by Trump had caused the virus to spread in nursing homes. Attorney General Bill Barr also directed the division to take legal action against state and local officials if their pandemic restrictions went too far in limiting gatherings by religious groups.

The Civil Rights Division under Trump even got caught up in the president’s failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

The American Civil Liberties Union and a group of states led

by New York Attorney General Letitia James accused administration officials, including John Gore, the head of the division before Dreiband, of providing false testimony about the genesis of the census plan, which US Commerce

Secretary Wilbur Ross claimed was intended to help enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The true motive of the plan was to increase power for Republicans in Congress, and the civil-rights angle was a pretext, the states alleged. The Supreme Court called it “contrived.”

Police practices

CRUCIALLY, the Civil Rights Division under Biden will likely resume so-called pattern and practice investigations into local police departments to root out discriminatory practices, Gupta said. That’s more crucial than ever after a year of high-profile killings of Black people by police, massive nationwide protests and civil unrest, she said. Such probes were carried out successfully under both parties but fizzled under Trump, who offered unwavering support to the police.

While Biden won’t go as far as defunding local law enforcement, as some Democrats demanded, he is likely to champion a shift back to making sure police departments are addressing systemic racism and discrimination, Bagenstos said.

Deval Patrick, who ran the division under Bill Clinton before serving as governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015, said previous administrations from both parties had more respect for the Civil Rights Division.

“My predecessor in the George H.W. Bush administration may not have been as vigorous in certain areas as I would have wanted, but he wasn’t openly hostile to the assignment,” Patrick said. “He wasn’t going about finding ways to read civil rights out of the civil rights law.”

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The P50 million was allegedly negotiated by the two deputy commissioners to process the release of the arrested Chinese workers.

Calima has filed plunder charges against Argosino and Robles before the Office of the Ombudsman.

On the other hand, Argosino and Robles filed criminal charges of corruption of public officials and violation of the anti-wiretapping law before the Parañaque Prosecutor’s Office against Calima, Sombero and Lam.

Corruption continues

FOUR years after, corruption activities in the BI have remained unabated.

In February, the “pastillas scheme” was exposed during a Senate inquiry into the offshore gaming operations of Chinese nationals in the country.

The scheme has so far implicated almost 100 BI employees.

BI’s Sandoval said 19 BI personnel were initially implicated in the pastillas scheme and have been recommended for administrative sanctions.

Following the Senate inquiry this year, the BI conducted another fact-finding investigation that resulted in more BI personnel being charged and suspended.

“We also requested the National Bureau of Investigation for assistance in expanding the probe to find out other possible cohorts, both in and outside the bureau, to put a stop to this scheme once and for all,” Sandoval said.

Sandoval noted that the NBI initially recommended the filing of cases for 44 personnel, but later expanded this to 86 employees.

However, the most shocking development in the pastillas controversy was the involvement of a high-ranking NBI official tasked supposedly to review the evidence and initiate the filing of charges against those involved.

In September, NBI Legal Assistance Chief Joshua Paul Capiral was arrested along with his brother, Christopher, an immigration officer, in an entrapment operation for allegedly accepting bribes to exonerate certain immigration officers being

linked to the pastillas scheme.

The NBI lawyer was accused of extorting at least P100,000 from accused BI personnel through the help of his brother.

Criminal charges have been filed against the brothers.

Since 2016, Morente has either suspended, dismissed and dropped from the rolls 176 personnel for their involvement in various irregularities, Sandoval said.

The number includes the 86 immigration officers who were relieved over the pastillas scheme.

She admitted that removing 86 from the agency’s frontlines has an effect on the agency’s daily operations.

“Well admittedly, relieving 86 personnel is a big blow to our manpower complement. Remember, we only have around 2,000 organic personnel nationwide. What I always say is that we have 7,107 or so islands, our manpower complement is not even enough to assign one person per island,” Sandoval said.

“So definitely, removing 86 from our frontlines has an effect.

However, it happened during the pandemic, when there are significantly fewer flights due to ongoing travel restrictions. Work remains manageable, but we’re on standby to add more personnel to the airports as the need arises,” she added.

Recently, Morente implemented a one-strike policy against BI personnel who will be involved in illegal activities.

New law, fresh start

THE BI is hoping to have a fresh start once the proposed amendment of the Philippine Immigration Act (PIA) of 1940 is passed by Congress.

Sandoval said a lot of “vague and outdated” policies should be removed from the current law in order for the BI to efficiently fight corruption within the agency and embrace inclusiveness.

She noted that many provisions in the PIA of 1940 are vague, given that it was created at a time when international travel was not yet common.

“We have been pushing for this for a very long time to professionalize the bureau. With such low salaries, the best and the brightest will not be enticed to join the work-

force,” she explained.

The new law is also expected to remove “systemic issues” in the bureau.

“The roles and powers of each division in the bureau are not properly specified or distributed,” Sandoval pointed out.

“It will plug loopholes in policies. Again, policies remain outdated because this is an 80-yearold law, not applicable to modern times,” she added.

Idiots, epileptics may be excluded

SANDOVAL cited as example Section 29(a) of the PIA of 1940 on the excluded classes.

She said the provision mandates the BI to disallow the entry to the country of idiots, insane persons and persons afflicted with epilepsy.

“Today’s culture of inclusiveness, where we embrace each other’s difference, does not apply to this,” she explained.

The new law, she noted, will also update fines and penalties, which are so low at present.

“The fine for airlines bringing in illegal aliens is a mere P500.

That is a security risk. Because that P500 fine is not a deterrent for anyone to bring in and harbor an illegal alien,” she stressed.

The BI is also asking Congress to delegate to the commissioner the power to impose proper disciplinary action over its employees.

Currently, Sandoval said the commissioner has very limited administrative powers over employees of the bureau.

“The power to ‘hire and fire’ remains with the Secretary of Justice. This proves to be a challenge in implementing administrative sanctions against erring personnel. Since the power to suspend rests with the DOJ, if we uncover an anomalous activity, the management has to go through the motions of conducting a full investigation, get a statement from all sides, etc., before we are able to forward it to the DOJ for appropriate action,” she explained.

“It would take time. Unlike if the power to impose administrative sanctions rests with the Commissioner, if we see an anomalous activity in the morning, we can immediately implement a preventive suspension in the afternoon,” she added.

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s deliberations heat up in the Senate on the final shape of the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises, also known as CREATE bill, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has been drawn into a word war with the advocacy group Action for Economic Reform (AER) over his “grandfather rule amendment,’’ even as the joint foreign chambers on Friday threw their support behind the senator.

It began last week when the AER tagged Recto as the “Donald Trump of the Philippines,” lambasting the lawmaker for “disrupting” the deliberations on the CREATE bill in proposing the so-called grandfather rule provision in the bill that will allow ecozone locators to keep their incentives for several years.

“They [AER] got it wrong,’” the senator said in a text message to the B usiness M irror, stressing that “we are creating, not disrupting [to] make the Philippines great again. Frankly speaking, it is all about disrupting. Our job is to create wealth.

Please explain to all idiots.”

And finally, the Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) also issued a statement supporting Recto’s grandfather rule amendments.

“As we go into the final days of the deliberation of CREATE by the Senate, we express our strong support for the measures and deliberate process that the Senate is under taking to craft the best possible version of the/bill, taking into consideration the well-studied proposals and recommendations of key senators,” the JFC said.

The JFC recalled that past versions of the CREATE bill under the names TRAIN 2, TRABAHO and CITIRA “would have resulted in the unacceptable loss of jobs and investments to regional competitors of the Philippines.”

“We are thus grateful for the diligent hard work that Senators Pia Cayetano and Ralph Recto and the rest of their colleagues continue to put in to address the many complex issues raised by CREATE,” the JFC said, noting that “in particular, we strongly support the amendments of Senator Recto and the points he raised during his interpellation, which

successfully underscored the fierce competition exporters based in the Philippines face in the global export market.”

Moreover, the JFC cited the “difficult conditions faced by exporters, especially during a once-ina-century pandemic, made it imperative that the Senate, as it has been doing, carefully ensures that a reform measure as significant and consequential as CREATE will boost rather than harm Philippine competitiveness.”

“We believe Senator Recto’s proposal for grandfathering incentives will ensure that existing investors will continue to invest in the country in the long-term and signals to prospective investors that there is stability and consistency in the implementation of policy in the country,” the JFC said, noting that “while it has been a long and exhausting process to get the CREATE bill close to the finish line, we trust that in the following weeks the immense effort that the Senate has expended on the measure will pay off in a law that will not only benefit foreign and Filipino companies but, more importantly, continue to allow global export firms to provide jobs to millions of Filipinos and help to power up the restart of the Philippine economy.”

In hitting the Senate President Pro Tempore, the AER said, “Senator Recto’s actions show us that he is the Donald Trump of the Philippines; someone who imposes his will on the Senate and will do anything to get his way.”

It recalled that in last Monday’s session, the Senate resumed its plenary session finalizing the amendments to the CREATE bill prioritized on the legislative agenda, noting that the amendments currently being ironed out were the major amendments proposed by Recto.

Th e A E R s l a m m e d R e c t o’s p ro p o s e d amendments, lamenting that this “derailed and paralyzed the process of reform, specifically for the country’s fiscal incentive regime.”

Filomeno Sta. Ana III, AER spokesman, noted that the current incentive regime results in the loss of billions of pesos worth of government revenues yearly due to its vulnerability to abuses. “We have been too generous in granting incentives, many of these which are unnecessary and redundant.

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hick mud and debris coated many villages around the Philippine capital on Friday after Typhoon Ulysses caused extensive flooding that sent people fleeing to their roofs and killed at least 39 people.

Thousands of people have been rescued, though waters have mostly receded. The military was rescuing people in places where waters remained high.

Amphibious assault vehicles usually used in counter-insurgency operations were deployed for the rescue work , Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Gilbert Gapay said in an emergency meeting with disaster-response officials.

“We’ll continue to look for the missing, help in damage assessment,” Gapay said. He reported 39 deaths and 32 other people missing.

Typhoon Ulysses (international code name Vamco) passed north of Manila between Bulacan and Pampanga provinces overnight Wednesday and early Thursday, toppling power poles and trees, destroying crops and damaging homes.

M o re t h a n 3 5 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e h a d b e e n evacuated to safety, mainly residents fleeing vulnerable coastal and low-lying areas before the typhoon hit. The Philippine National Police said more than 100,000 people had been rescued, including 41,000 in the capital region.

At least 3.8 million households lost power in metropolitan Manila and outlying provinces, but crews have restored electricity in many areas and power was expected to be fully restored in about three days. Government offices were closed and classes suspended for public schools Friday.

The typhoon hit the Philippines on the heels of Typhoon Rolly (international code name Goni), one of the strongest typhoons in the world this year, which left more than 30 people dead or missing and damaged or destroyed 270,000 houses. Tens of thousands of people remain displaced.

The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms each year and also had active seismic faults and volcanoes, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

Covid, leptospirosis warning

T he D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h ( D O H ) h a s p re p o s i t i o n e d o ve r P 2 6 m i l l i o n wo r t h o f medical supplies and health kits in areas hit hard by recent typhoons.

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III also reminded the public to strictly observe minimum public health standards.

“As we experience typhoons during this time, we should wear face mask at all times to prevent Covid-19 and other respirator y infections,” Duque said in Filipino.

Meanwhile, the Depar tment of Health (DOH)-Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) strongly warned residents not

to go paddling in flood waters to avoid getting leptospirosis.

“The recent spate of typhoons has brought massive flooding in low-lying communities of the region and everyone should be cautious i n t h re a d i n g t h e s e w a t e r s a s i t m a y b e contaminated with Leptospira bacteria from the urine of infected rats,” Regional Director Eduardo C. Janairo stated.

Leptospirosis is endemic during the rainy season. Among its symptoms include high fever, muscle pain, eye redness, chills, severe headache, and yellowish skin discoloration.

MMDA team for Marikina rehab

T he M e t r o p o l i t a n M a n i l a D e v e l o p m e n t Authority (MMDA) on Friday deployed another composite team to assist in the rehabilitation of affected areas in Marikina City following devastation following the destruction left by Typhoon Ulysses.

“We have dispatched our men in severely damaged areas in Marikina City to remove debris, clear obstructions, and collect household waste in coordination with the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office,” MMDA Chairman Danilo Lim said after dispatching personnel from Metro Parkways Clearing Group, Road Emergency Group, and Public Safety Division to assist the local government of Marikina City in its ongoing clearing and rehabilitation efforts.

Aside from manpower, dump trucks, selfloaders, backhoes, and other heavy equipment needed in removing road obstructions were deployed in the hardest-hit city in the National Capital Region (NCR).

“Our men are equipped with clearing tools to haul garbage and thick mud from the affected areas,” said Lim. Lim, concurrent chairman of the Metro Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MMDRRMC), also directed concerned agency personnel to ensure that all major roads in Metro Manila are passable.

Based on the MMDA Metro Manila Crisis Monitoring and Management Center’s monitoring of the flood situation in Metro Manila, all major thoroughfares inundated on Thursday are now passable.

Earlier, Lim asked several Metro local government units to ex tend assistance to M a r i k i n a a n d o t h e r c i t i e s w h i c h h ave been severely devastated by the t yphoon.

At the height of the Typhoon Ulysses, MMDA personnel assisted in the rescue and evacuation of affected individuals, assisted in crowd control, and managed traffic flow in affected cities in the metropolis.

Ambulances, rubber boats, truck-mounted c r a n e s , b a c k h o e s , w a t e r p u m p s , re s c u e equipment were also dispatched.

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Thus, there is a need to restructure our system,” Sta. Ana added.

Sta. Ana said Recto’s proposed amendments, which AER strongly opposed include: the grandfather rule which seeks to retain the tax perks of existing registered companies, the exclusion of certain investment promotion agencies from the incentive package requirements in CREATE, and the creation of a distinction between domestic and expor t enterprises in granting fiscal incentives.

“By insisting on these proposals, Recto has demonstrated that he is adamant on serving the interests of the businesses, who continuously benefit from the arbitrar y dispensation of incentives,” the AER spokesman said.

Sta. Ana added that AER also rebuked Recto’s argument that retaining the current incentive system through his proposed grandfather rule will relieve businesses of the economic burden brought about by the pandemic.

He recalled that during the period of interpellations for CREATE, Recto had argued that restructuring the incentives for all enterprises under CREATE would “make the Philippines less competitive in terms of foreign investment.”

St a . A n a s t re s s e d t h at “ t h e o b j e c t i ve of CREATE is to make incentives targeted, performance-based, time-bound, and transparent, which will keep firms aler t and competitive,” noting that the fiscal incentive rationalization under CREATE will “reduce the uncer taint y that prevents many businesses from investing and locating in our countr y.”

At the same time, the AER pleaded for the senators to reject Recto’s proposed amendments.

“We appeal to the Senate to pass the CREATE bill at the earliest possible time for us to finally modernize our fiscal incentive regime, improve the governance and institutions in granting tax incentives, and for it to serve as a stimulus during this economic downturn,” Sta. Ana said.

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HE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) reported on Friday it has assisted and returned to their hometowns some 300,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were repatriated by the Department of Foreign Affairs, or flew back to the country on their own since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that displaced migrants in dozens of countries.

In an interview with PTV on Friday, Overseas Wo r ke r s We l f a re Ad m i n i s t rat i o n (OW WA) Administrator Hans Cacdac said these were the OFWs they were able to assist since May and are now in their home town.

Ca cd a c a l s o s a i d t h at t h e y e x p e c t to repatriate another 70,000 to 80,000 OFWs before the end of the year.

He noted the figures could still increase during the Christmas season when more OFWs are inclined to spend the holidays at home.

OWWA noted there has been a slowdown in their operations of transporting OFWs back to their provinces because of Typhoon Ulysses (international code name Vamco).

It is targeting to resume the “usual flow” of their efforts to bring OFWs back to their homes in the coming days.

OFW aid

As ide from transpor tation ser vices, Cacdac reported they will also soon start releasing cash aid to beneficiaries of the government’s “Tabang OFW” program.

Tabang OFW is a one-time P30,000 financial assistance given by the government to student dependents of displaced, or deceased OFWs. Cacdac said they already completed the screening process for 2,000 applicants of the program and will start releasing their “Tabang OFW” benefits this weekend.

He said they also rolled out last week their Tulong Puso Program, which provides organized OFWs a loan ranging from P150,000 to P1 million, to put up a business.

OWWA and the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Abot Kamay ang Pagtulong (AKAP) program is also ongoing and had already benefited 325,000 OFWs. AKAP is a one-time cash aid given by DOLE to workers, whose employment were affected by the pandemic.

Cacdac said they will be implementing the fourth tranche of the program using funding from the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act until the end of December.

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Top CEOs in US are largely silent on Trump election denial, for now F

Central bankers: Economy needs help despite Covid vaccine news

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ASHINGTON—Only a few of America’s CEOs have made public statements about President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept his election loss, but in private, many are alarmed and talking about what collective action would be necessary if they see an imminent threat to democracy.

On November 6, more than two dozen CEOs of major US corporations took part in a video conference to discuss what to do if Trump refuses to leave office, or takes other steps to stay in power beyond the scheduled Jan. 20 inauguration of former Vice President Joe Biden. On Saturday Biden was declared the election winner by The Associated Press and other news organizations.

During the conference, which lasted more than an hour, the CEOs agreed Trump had the right to pursue legal challenges alleging voter fraud.

But if Trump tries to undo the legal process or disrupts a peaceful transition to Biden, the CEOs discussed making public statements and pressuring GOP legislators in their states who may try to redirect Electoral College votes from Biden to Trump, said Yale Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who convened the meeting.

“They’re all fine with him taking an appeal to the court, to a judicial process. They didn’t want to deny him that. But that doesn’t stop the transition,” said Sonnenfeld. “They said if that makes people feel better, it doesn’t hurt anything to let that grind through.”

On Saturday, the day after the video meeting, the Business

Roundtable, a group that represents the most powerful companies in A mer ica, including Walmart, Apple, Starbucks and General Electric, put out a statement congratulating Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris.

It largely reflected the conversation from Friday’s video meeting, saying the group respects Trump’s right to seek recounts and call for investigations where evidence exists.

“There is no indication that any of these would change the outcome,” the group’s statement said.

The executives who participated in the video conference are from Fortune 500 finance, retail, media and manufacturing companies, Sonnenfeld said. But he wouldn’t identify them because they attended the meeting with the condition that their names be kept confidential. Sonnenfeld frequently speaks with CEOs and sets up meetings for them to discuss pressing issues.

Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University who spoke at the video meeting, confirmed Sonnenfeld’s account, as did an executive who attended but didn’t want to be identified because he didn’t want to violate the meeting’s ground rules.

The CEOs agreed that they had

seen no evidence of widespread election fraud as Trump has contended. Sonnenfeld invited Yale University historian Timothy Snyder, author of “On Tyranny,” to address the group. After hearing Snyder discuss the history of democracies dying after elections and the possibility of GOP legislators changing the Electoral College outcome, many expressed alarm about the president’s conduct, Sonnenfeld said.

There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

In fact, election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.

The issues Trump’s campaign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election: problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on mail-in ballots, as well as the potential for a small number of ballots miscast or lost. With Biden leading Trump by wide margins in key battleground states, none of those issues would affect the outcome of the election.

Trump’s campaign has also launched legal challenges complaining that poll watchers were unable to scrutinize the voting process. Many of those challenges have been tossed out by judges.

Trump has portrayed as illegitimate mailed votes received and counted after Election Day—even though that is explicitly allowed in about 20 states. He has falsely charged that campaign observers were blocked from watching the vote count as Biden overtook him in Pennsylvania.

The CEOs decided to wait for the November 20 certification of votes in Georgia before meeting to decide their next moves. Action could include threats to stop donations to political action committees or even corporate relocations, Sonnenfeld said.

Islamic State group claims attack at Saudi WWI event

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EIRUT—The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility on Thursday for the explosion the previous day at a cemetery in Saudi Arabia, saying it primarily targeted French diplomats attending the ceremony in remembrance of the end of World War I. Other Europeans and Americans were attending the ceremony at the Non-Muslims Cemetery in the kingdom’s coastal city of Jiddah. The blast wounded three people, leaving them with light to minor injuries.

IS said in a posting on its news agency, Aamaq, that it primarily targeted the French consul attending the ceremony because of his country’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The claim was also carried on one of the militant Telegram channels used by IS, which said its fighters were able to plant the explosive device at the ceremony. The militant group offered no proof for its claim.

Aamaq said other European countries at the ceremony were also considered targets because they are part of the international coalition fighting IS militants. The US-led coalition against IS declared victory against the group in early 2019 after it drove its militants out of territories they controlled in Syria and Iraq.

But remnants of the militant group have dispersed into the desert in both Syria and Iraq, while others

also fled to their home countries. Thousands of others languish in Syrian and Iraqi jails.

While the group never had a major presence in Saudi Arabia, the last major attack its militants carried out in the kingdom was in 2015.

In remarks carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Thursday night, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged to “strike with an iron fist against anyone who would like to undermine our security and stability.”

France has been the target of three attacks in recent weeks that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists.

The prophet caricatures, which returned to the public domain earlier this year, are deemed offensive by many Muslims and have sparked protests in Asia and the Middle East, with calls for boycott of French products. They were also seen as the trigger for several attacks against French nationals and interests in recent weeks.

The attacks included the beheading of a French teacher outside Paris who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class. Three people were later killed in a church in the southern city of Nice.

Wednesday’s explosion in the port city of Jiddah wounded one UK national, a Greek policeman and a Saudi security officer. It followed a stabbing attack last month that lightly wounded a security guard at the French Consulate, also in Jiddah. The attacker, a

Saudi man said to be in his 40s, was arrested but his motives for the assault remain unclear.

An Islamic State sympathizer also carried out a deadly attack in Austria earlier this month.

The Saudi Embassy in The Hague was sprayed with gunfire early on Thursday, leaving bullet holes across the facade and in several windows. Nobody was hurt, according to the Dutch police.

It is not clear if all these attacks are related.

Some 20 people of different nationalities were attending the ceremony in Jiddah. Wednesday marked the 102nd anniversary of the armistice ending World War I, a day that was also commemorated in several European countries.

The Non-Muslim Cemetery sits near Jiddah’s docks, hidden behind trees alongside a major thoroughfare in the city. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission—which maintains places of commemoration for military service members from British Commonwealth nations—shows just one soldier buried at the cemetery, Pvt. John Arthur Hogan, who died in June 1944.

In 2015, an IS suicide bomber attacked a mosque inside a police compound in Abha, 350 miles south of Mecca, killing 15 people in the deadliest attack on the kingdom’s security forces in years. Eleven of the dead belonged to an elite counterterrorism unit whose tasks include protecting the hajj pilgrimage. AP

Europe, Gates Foundation pledge funds to bring virus shots for poor countries

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ARIS—European governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged Thursday to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for a global effort aimed at ensuring eventual vaccines against the coronavirus are quickly available to poor countries—though it remains unclear how that

might actually happen.

The money will go to vaccine development and distribution efforts coordinated by a World Health Organization (WHO) program called ACT-Accelerator. That includes Covax, an ambitious but troubled global project to buy and deliver virus vaccines for the world’s poorest people.

None of the experimental Covid-19 vaccines being tested has finished the advanced testing needed to prove their safety and efficacy, but several might have data to present in the coming weeks.

“If people in low- and middle-income countries miss out on vaccines...the virus will continue to spread, and the economic recovery will continue to be delayed,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom

Ghebreyesus said Thursday at the Paris Peace Forum, where the pledges were announced.

France and the European Union’s executive commission each promised 100 million euros (about $118 million) for the WHO vaccine efforts. Spain promised 50 million euros (about $59 million), and the Gates Foundation promised $70 million (about 59.3 million euros).

Germany and other European governments have already pledged similar funds. The new financing is in addition to the funds that countries previously contributed to Covax.

Criticizing rich countries that he said are ordering many more vaccines than they have people, Tedros said, “This is a moment for saying ‘no’ to vaccine nationalism and ‘yes’ to all our shared humanity.”

He spoke with six or seven CEOs on Wednesday who said that if there were “seditious riots” at Trump rallies or more mass firings like Trump’s ouster of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other Pentagon officials, they want to reconvene to talk about acting faster as individuals, Sonnenfeld said.

“They thought it could have a very devastating effect upon on markets, on public trust in the process,” and they would act “to make sure that the Republican elected officials do their jobs and and then be patriots and respect the process,” Sonnenfeld said.

The CEOs weren’t worried about reprisals against their businesses but emphasized acting together.

They referred to a Benjamin Franklin quote at the signing of the Declaration of Independence: “Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately,” according to Sonnenfeld.

But individual CEOs have been mostly silent on Trump’s conduct.

Juleanna Glover, CEO of media strategy firm RidgelyWalsh, said no CEO speaking out at this point could stop Trump’s legal challenges.

“They’re trying to be moral and effective leaders,” Glover said. “It’s a calculation of whether saying anything now can be an effective tool to making a situation better.”

The time may come for CEOs to speak out, but most are assuming that Trump’s legal challenges and threats are just theater and the change in power will take place uneventfully, Glover said.

Still, several CEOs have urged Trump to acknowledge that he’s lost, concede to Biden and end any political uncertainty.

“The votes have been counted, and the president needs to honor the result,” said Ryan Gellert, CEO of the outdoor clothing company Patagonia, which has been outspoken on behalf of progressive causes such as protecting the environment. AP

R A NK FURT, Ger m a ny— T hree of the globe’s top central bankers said their economies continue to need help despite progress toward a Covid-19 vaccine, with US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell saying that the US Congress “may need to do more” to cushion the blow from the pandemic.

Speaking at an online conference held by the European Central Bank (ECB), Powell, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and ECB head Christine Lagarde emphasized the longerterm threat to the economy from the pandemic, while welcoming the preliminary results showing a vaccine by BioNTech and Pfizer was highly effective.

Powell said the main risk to the economy “is the further spread of disease here in the United States” and that people may lose confidence that it is safe to go out: “We have said from the beginning that the economy will not fully recover until people are confident it is safe to resume activities involving crowds of people.”

He said news about the vaccine was “certainly good for the medium term” but that it was “too soon to assess the implications for the path of the economy, especially in the near term. And I would say that with the virus spreading, the next few months could be challenging.”

Powell said that though stimulus efforts from Congress and the Fed in the US had been “quite strong” thus far, “my sense is that we will need to do more, and Congress may need to do more as well in fiscal policy.”

T he t h re e s poke a s v i r u s numbers climb and raise pressure for governments and central banks to do more to help.

Germany, France, the UK and others have added new measures such as closing bars and restaurants while states and cities around the US are imposing new restrictions. A ll three central

banks have deployed large-scale stimulus such as interest rate cuts and bond pu rc hases t hat a im to keep bor row ing costs a f ford able for businesses.

A multitrillion-dollar stimulus, enacted in the spring, had helped sustain jobless Americans and ailing businesses but has since expired. The failure of lawmakers to agree on any new aid has clouded the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the economy as a whole. There is some hope, though, that a logjam can be broken and more economic relief can be enacted during a post-election “lame-duck ” session of Congress between now and early January.

Bailey said that the vaccine news “is encouraging and we need encouraging signs” at the moment but pointed out that the vaccine “is not here yet.”

Lagarde said central banks and governments would need to continue to provide support to “help bridge over to the other side of the river” to avoid long-lasting damage to the economy. “I don’t want to be exuberant about this vaccination,” she said.

Powell said that technological change accelerated by the pandemic would leave some workers struggling to adapt. “We’re recovering to a different economy,” he said, and there will be a substantial number of workers who will need support as the economy is changed by the pandemic.

Lagarde has said there is “little doubt” the central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro would add more stimulus at its December 10 meeting, while Powell has said that policy-makers discussed last week whether and how their bond buying program might be altered to provide more economic support. The Fed is buying $120 billion a month in bonds—$80 billion in Treasurys and $40 bi l lion in mor tgage bonds—to try to keep long-term borrowing costs low. AP

ONLINE SHOPPING SURGE COULD LEAD TO HOLIDAY SEASON DELIVERY DELAYS

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EW YORK—Retailers and carriers are preparing for an online holiday shopping surge that could tax shipping networks and lead to delivery delays.

FedEx and UPS are ramping up their holiday hiring while expanding their weekend operations and asking retailers to use their shipping network when there is more slack. And stores are pushing shoppers to buy early and are expanding services like curbside pickup to minimize the need for delivery.

For the last few years, many retailers had been using their own physical stores, in addition to their distribution centers, to fulfill online orders. But now they are designating some of those stores to handle even higher volumes. Best Buy, for example, converted space in 250 of its 1,000 stores this fall to manage online orders.

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, announced Thursday it was taking space in 42 regional distribution centers to create “pop-up”’ e-commerce distribution hubs to meet the surging demand for online orders this holiday season.

The moves come as most of the carriers have been at full shipping capacity for months as shoppers shifted their buying online during the pandemic.

“We are warmed up for what we’re calling the ship-a-thon,” said Brie Carere, chief marketing and communications officer at FedEx. “Like everything else in 2020, this is going to be an unprecedented peak season. We’ve actually seen three years of growth in e-commerce pulled forward. So we are expecting a ton of volume.”

Carole B. Tome, chief executive officer (CEO) of UPS, told analysts last month she expects a “pretty peaky peak.”

Amazon, which has been growing its own delivery network so it doesn’t have to rely as much on UPS and the US Postal Service, is nonetheless warning shoppers not to wait until the last minute to buy gifts. While the world’s largest online retailer delivers more than half

of its packages itself, it still relies on other carriers to get orders to shoppers.

“It’s going to be tight for everyone and we will all be stretched,” said Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s chief financial officer. “And it’s advantageous to the customer, and probably the companies, for people to order early this year.”

Satish Jindel, the president of ShipMatrix, which analyzes shipping package data, predicts 7 million packages a day could face delays from Thanksgiving to Christmas. That’s because he’s expecting a total shipping capacity for the industry to be 79.1 million parcels a day during the 34-day period, with 86.3 million packages looking for space. Last year, total capacity was 65.3 million packages with demand at 67.9 million packages a day.

Right now, Jindel is predicting delivery delays of one or two days for parcels.

US online holiday sales are expected to shatter previous records. Adobe Analytics, which measures sales at 80 of the top 100 US online retailers, predicts a total of $189 billion in online holiday sales, a 33-percent increase compared to last year. That’s equal to two years worth of holiday e-commerce sales growth shoved into one season.

But even with the online surge, overall holiday sales are expected to see only modest gains compared to recent years. Consulting firm Deloitte expects total sales, including online, to rise between 1 percent and 1.5 percent during the November through January period. That’s compared with a 4.1 percent increase last year for the November and December period, according to an analysis by the National Retail Federation. The trade group says it won’t be coming out with a forecast until this month given so much uncertainty.

Retailers can’t afford to upset shoppers with delayed deliveries or gifts that come after Christmas so they’re stepping up their game.

Kohl’s says it has tens of thousands of items on

its web site available for curbside pickup. The retailer doubled the number of drive-up parking spaces at its store locations to support increased demand. Likewise, Target has also doubled the number of parking spaces for its drive up services, to 8,000.

Meanwhile, carriers have added holiday surcharges to certain packages, a blow to retailers already struggling with higher costs during Covid.

Jindel says the US Postal Service might be a good alternative for retailers now that it has gotten through the deluge of mail-in ballots during the elections.

He estimates that the Postal Service’s temporary surcharges mostly range from 25 cents to 40 cents per package, considerably lower than $1 to $5 per package at major carriers.

“Our network is designed to handle temporary and seasonal increases in volume and we have the ability to deliver those additional holiday packages in a timely manner,” said Kimberly Frum, a spokeswoman at the US Postal Service.

For the holidays, FedEx is hiring 70,000 workers, while UPS is in the throes of hiring more than 100,000 temporary employees.

Lee Spratt is the Americas CEO for DHL eCommerce Solutions, a division that specializes in processing small packages for mid- to large-size shippers. He predicts online shopping to be up to 50 percent higher this holiday season compared to the yearago period. The division has already been grappling with a 40-percent surge in online orders since the pandemic began.

It’s hiring 900 more permanent workers to its current labor force of 3,000. It also will hire 1,400 temporary workers, about the same as last year because the company is investing in more permanent workers instead.

In September and October, it also upgraded and some cases added new sorting machines in six key cities including Baltimore and Atlanta, in order to process more parcels. AP

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Turmoil hits US cyber agency engaged in poll as staff leave

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ey officials at the US Cybersecur it y and Inf rastructure Security Agency (CISA) are stepping down, or expecting to get fired from their roles as President Donald Trump continues to question the results of the November 3 election, saying he was the victim of a fraudulent voting process.

Christopher Krebs, the head of CISA who has enjoyed bipartisan support for his role in helping run secure US elections in 2018 and 2020, has told associates he expects to be dismissed, according to three people familiar with internal discussions.

Krebs’ departure would follow the resignation of Bryan Ware, assistant director for cyber security at CISA, who resigned on Thursday morning after about two years at the agency. In addition, Valerie Boyd, the assistant secretary for international affairs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees CISA, has also left, according to two other people.

CISA’s profile has been raised over the past week because of its role in trying to stomp out election rumors, including unsubstantiated allegations that votes have been cast on behalf of dead people and that “secret” watermarks on ballots are helping the federal government audit illegal votes.

That’s put the normally underthe-radar agency in conflict with the President’s unsubstantiated claims of “massive fraud” in voting that he says is costing him a second term.

Officials at CISA declined to comment on Ware’s departure and didn’t respond to requests for comment about Krebs’ expectation that he would be fired. Agency officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about Boyd.

“There are rumors the president may be cleaning house at CISA, with one high-level official reportedly asked to resign already.

This is dangerous,” Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a news statement on Thursday night.

The latest upheaval follows the departures of a number of cybersecurity officials critical to the US effort to defend against foreign influence in elections.

Last year, Jeanette Manfra, who served as CISA’s assistant director, announced she would step down, as did Amy Hess, who served as the executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch of the FBI. In August, the State Department’s top cyber policy official, Rob Strayer, left his government post as well.

It also comes amid a shakeup at the top of the Pentagon, where the secretary of Defense and two key undersecretaries have been

replaced this week.

Under Krebs’ direction, CISA has earned praise from officials and lawmakers in both parties.

“I completely support and endorse everything Chris Krebs is saying and doing” on election security, said Tom Bossert, who previously served as Trump’s homeland security adviser and currently serves as president of the firm Trinity Cyber. “He has personally brought a lot of credibility to that office.” He added that Krebs and CISA have offered a “significantly expanded set of tools and capabilities.”

Michael Chertoff, former DHS Secretary under President George W. Bush, said “the personnel at CISA and the director, Chris Krebs, they have been scrupulous.”

As part of this work protecting the 2020 election in the US, Krebs sought to address the rampant disinformation creating distrust in the election process. CISA stood up a new web site, called “Rumor Control” which provided detailed analyzes of false claims before and after Election Day, debunking widespread rumors in order to help voters sort fact from fiction.

Nathaniel Gleicher, who serves as Facebook’s head of security policy and works on countering inf luence operations, thanked Krebs and the CISA on Thursday.

I’ve said it before, and now seems like a good time to say it again: thank you to the @CISAgov leadership, including @CISAKrebs and many others, who have worked so tirelessly to keep our election safe and to ground our ongoing public debate in accurate information.

—Na t h a n ie l Gle ic he r (@ ngleicher) November 12, 2020 Ware didn’t clarify in his resignation letter why he was leaving during what has turned out to be a tumultuous transition to the Biden administration.

“I came on board in October of 2018 with the commitment to then Secretary Nielsen to serve, certainly, through the election and I didn’t anticipate serving in the second term,” he said in an interview, referring to ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

“You see that in elections, I think we did really well, partnering with local governments and the broader ecosystem to protect this election,” Ware said.

Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine who also serves as co-chair of the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission called Krebs’ work with states on election security “amazing” in a recent press briefing with reporters.

“The state infrastructure, the registration rolls, the election rolls, voting machines, all of that, is much better, much stronger, much more resilient than it was four years ago,” he said.

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First Caribbean cruise ends as 5 passengers catch virus

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he first cruise to sail the Caribbean since the pandemic shuttered the industry has returned early to Barbados after passengers got preliminary positive test results for Covid-19.

In a news statement issued on Thursday, SeaDream Yacht Club didn’t say how many passengers had received positive tests. But Sue Bryant, a journalist for the UK’s Times and Sunday Times newspapers who was on board, wrote on Twitter that five people had tested positive.

Of the group that had the Covid case, five are positive. But nobody outside the group and no crew so maybe isolation is working. Waiting for a second test from a shoreside team now @SeaDreamYC —Sue Bryant (@sjbryant) November 12, 2020 On Wednesday, a reporter for the Points Guy web site who was also on the SeaDream 1 ship, Gene Sloan, wrote that an initial person had tested positive, citing an intercom announcement from Captain Torbjorn Lund.

All guests and nonessential crew are

quarantining in staterooms as the ship awaits authorization to disembark in Barbados, according to the company. Crew tests all came back negative, SeaDream said.

According to the Points Guy report, there are 53 passengers and 66 crew on the vessel.

The episode comes as larger cruise companies, including Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., are seeking to prove the safety of the industry so they can sail again from the US. Since March, the capital-intensive industry has been essentially on hold, with companies hemorrhaging cash just to maintain vessels until they can take paying customers again.

Cruise companies’ shares fell in New York trading Thursday, with Carnival down 7.9 percent, Royal Caribbean off 3.9 percent and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. slipping 3.4 percent.

SeaDream 1 passengers were subjected to two Covid-19 tests before embarking, and they’re all being retested, according to the company.

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Trump order bans investments in firms owned by China military

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onald J. Trump signed an order prohibiting US investments in Chinese firms determined to be owned or controlled by the country’s military, the latest bid by the White House to pressure Beijing over what the president has described as abusive business practices.

China is “increasingly exploiting” US capital for “the development and modernization of its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses,” posing a threat to the US, according to the executive order, signed on Thursday.

Relations between the US and China have deteriorated following the signing of a trade deal early in the year. Trump also has repeatedly vowed to punish Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, its treatment of Muslim minorities and the crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong. Chinese officials have threatened to retaliate with their

own blacklist of US companies.

Shares of top Chinese firms— including China Mobile Ltd and China Telecom Corp Ltd.—tumbled Friday on reports of the impending decision. The executive order will prohibit US investment firms and pension funds from buying and selling shares of 20 Chinese companies designated by the Pentagon as having military ties in June, as well as an additional 11 companies added in late August.

China Mobile, whose controlling shareholder China Mobile Communications Group is on the list, dropped 5.8 percent in Hong Kong opening, the biggest intraday

loss in almost eight months. China Telecom slumped 4.8 percent.

The prohibition will go into effect on January 11, and allows US investment firms and pension funds to divest their holdings in companies linked to the Chinese military over the next year. If the US determines additional companies have military ties in the future, American investors will be given 60 days from that determination to divest.

US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said in a statement that many of the companies at issue are traded on exchanges around the world. American investors can unknowingly provide funds through passive investments such as mutual funds and retirement plans, he added.

The order “serves to protect A merican investors from unintentionally providing capital that goes to enhancing the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Republic of China intelligence services,” O’Brien said.

In a move earlier this year to restrict the flow of money, the administration sent a letter to Michael Kennedy, then chairman

of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, telling him to “halt all steps” associated with putting government employees’ savings in a fund that includes stakes in Chinese companies.

Separately, O’Brien on Wednesday said China’s latest clampdown in Hong Kong shows that the one country, two systems arrangement for the territory amounts to a “fig leaf ” for dictatorship, and warned of new sanctions.

The warning came after China’s top legislative body on Wednesday passed a resolution allowing for the disqualification of any Hong Kong lawmakers who were not deemed sufficiently loyal. Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s government immediately banished four legislators, prompting the remaining 15 in the 70-seat Legislative Council to resign en masse hours later at a joint press briefing.

While the US has imposed sanctions against Lam and some officials in Beijing, it has so far held off punishing the country’s senior hierarchy. Such a move would infuriate Beijing and accelerate a deterioration in relations between the two nations on a variety of issues.

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A third of the world’s air routes have been lost due to Covid-19

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efore the coronavirus, a decades-long aviation boom spawned a network of nearly 50,000 air routes that traversed the world. In less than a year, the pandemic has wiped almost a third of them off the map.

Border closures, nationwide lockdowns and the fear of catching Covid-19 from fellow passengers have crippled commercial travel. As thousands of domestic and international connections disappear completely from airline timetables, the world has suddenly stopped shrinking.

The crisis is unwinding a vast social and industrial overhaul that took place during half a century of air-travel proliferation. In years to come, overseas business trips and holidays will likely mean more airport stopovers, longer journey times, and perhaps an additional mode of transport. Even when an effective vaccine is found, the economic reality of the recovery may mean some non-stop flights are gone for good.

With borders effectively shut from Europe to New Zealand, the bulk of the world’s dropped routes are inevitably cross-border. But thousands of domestic legs have also been axed, reflecting the pressure airlines face at home as they cut jobs and retire aircraft to find a cost base that reflects their shrunken situation.

In late January, 47,756 operational routes crisscrossed the world, more than half of them in the US, Western Europe and Northeast Asia, according to OAG Aviation Worldwide. By November 2, there were just

33,416 routes on global schedules, the data show.

In Hervey Bay, a small tourist town on Australia’s east coast, residents are mourning their last direct air connection with Sydney, the nation’s main domestic and international gateway. The flight was one of eight regional routes scrapped by Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd. after it collapsed in April under A$6.8 billion ($5 billion) in debt.

“We’re living in hope that they come back,” said Darren Everard, the regional council’s deputy mayor who’s responsible for economic development in the area. Among those hardest hit is a local manufacturer of truck body parts who relied on the flight to reach buyers in Sydney, he said.

the end of 2019,”said Subhas Menon, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, which represents regional carriers including Singapore Air, China Airlines Ltd. and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. “Some of these routes may never be put back,” Menon said.

All this erodes aviation’s financial clout. But it’s the blow to airlines’ contribution to global mobility and social opportunity that’s harder to measure.

Before the coronavirus, the industry supported 65.5 million jobs—more than half of them indirectly through tourism—and had a global economic impact of $2.7 trillion, according to the 2019 Aviation Benefits Report, a study by industry groups including UN agency the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Global mobility

Fragile margins

Hervey Bay, more than three hours’ drive north from Queensland’s state capital Brisbane, is best known as a jumping-off point for whale-watching tours and trips to nearby Fraser Island. The town’s Sydney flight is one of more than 14,000 connections that have been abandoned globally since the pandemic broke out, according to OAG. Australia’s capital, Canberra, has been scrubbed from international maps too. The city has no more direct flights overseas after Singapore Airlines Ltd. ceased services from Singapore in September.

“It will take a good four or five years for connectivity to return to the same level we saw at

To be sure, many airlines are adding routes at home to tap pent-up demand in what’s effectively their only functioning market. Commercial airline traffic in the US was back to more than half of pre-virus levels at the end of last month, FlightAware data show; in China, it’s almost returned to regular levels.

And Singapore Air earlier this week restarted its non-stop service between Singapore and New York, the world’s longest flight, as the tiny island nation struggles to retain its relevance as a global aviation hub.

In Asia alone, 790 new routes are running this month that didn’t exist a year ago, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. The eastern Chinese city of Yiwu in

Zhejiang province, for instance, is scheduled to get 90 new direct flights from Beijing in November.

But far outnumbering these new connections are the 2,279 routes in Asia that aren’t operating any more at all. In November last year, there were more than 1,000 scheduled flights between Almaty and Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan, the data show. This month, there are none.

In the US, American Airlines Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker warned last month that parts of the country risk being cut off unless there’s more support from the government.

“There will absolutely be discontinuation of service to small communities, and there will be much less service to larger communities,” Parker said in an October 8 interview on CNBC. He said the airline has stopped flying to 13 US cities and extended those cuts through November.

Routes with the most fragile profit margins will be the first to go, while airlines will try to keep the connections that feed passengers into larger travel hubs, said Dirk-Maarten Molenaar, Amsterdam-based head of Boston Consulting Group Inc.’s travel and tourism practice for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

“For the next couple of years, there will be a number of super-thin routes you can’t justify flying,”Molenaar said.

In Australia’s Hervey Bay, Everard is putting on a brave face after the town of 52,000’s forced isolation from Sydney.

“There are a lot of families who are missing that connectivity,” he said. “It’s a shame we haven’t got it, but we’re a pretty resilient mob.” Bloomberg News

Military is wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature

By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press

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ASHINGTON—The words spoken by America’s top military officer carried a familiar ring, but in the midst of a chaotic week at the Pentagon, they were particularly poignant.

“We are unique among militaries,”said Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.”

Milley was speaking Wednesday at the dedication of an Army museum in a week that saw President Donald Trump fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper and install three staunch loyalists to senior Pentagon policy positions. The abrupt changes have raised fears about what Trump may try to do in his final two months of office—and whether the military’s long held apolitical nature could be upended.

Milley’s comments, made as he stood alongside Esper’s successor, acting defense chief Christopher Miller, reflected a view he has long been passionate about: the military’s unequivocal duty to protect and defend the Constitution—what he called the “moral north star” for everyone in uniform.

But his message in a time of turmoil—Trump has refused to concede his election loss—was unmistakable: The militar y exists to defend democracy and is not to be used as a political pawn.

“We take an oath to the Constitution,” Milley said, adding that every service member “will protect and defend that document regardless of personal price.”

Trump’s motives for the Pentagon shakeup are unclear, but it has created a great deal of unease within the building. Was he simply striking out at Esper and others he deemed not loyal enough? Is there a broader plan to enact policy changes that Trump could tout in his final days as commander in chief? Or, in the most extreme scenario, would Trump try to get the military to help him stay in office beyond Inauguration Day? Milley has pushed back against that last possibility, telling Congress that “In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law US courts and the US Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the US military.” He said service members must not get involved in the transfer of power after an election.

Trump had grown increasingly angry with Esper, who openly disagreed with his desire to use the active-duty military during the civil unrest in June. Esper also had worked with military leaders to talk Trump out of complete troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan.

If the motive is to hand Trump some quick policy changes, then filling top jobs with more amenable loyalists will help—particularly in any effort to impede the smooth transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden. Accelerating troop withdrawals may also be a goal—but there is a fairly limited pool of other options.

Swift and radical changes in Trump’s final 10 weeks are unlikely in a building that prides itself on exhaustive planning. The Pentagon is a massive bureaucracy and doesn’t turn on a dime. And while the department is rooted in the democratic bedrock of a civilian-controlled military, the members of

the Joint Chiefs of Staff are powerful presidential advisers with decades of experience, and armed with documents detailing the potential consequences of national security actions.

As yet, military commanders have gotten no new orders. And top military leaders—including Milley—are counseling patience and stability. They are projecting an America that remains a strong and reliable world power, where things remain steady.

Most are watching Afghanistan as a possible bellwether. Trump has long talked about getting troops home for the holidays, while military leaders have urged for a more methodical withdrawal that gives them time to get equipment out and to apply pressure on the Taliban during peace talks. Fulfilling the goal of pulling all troops out could be Trump’s final fist pump as commander in chief.

Over nearly four years, Milley and his predecessor, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, have been able to curb or shape White House impulses in matters of war. They successfully argued against pulling all US forces out of Syria, and they slowed troop withdrawals in Afghanistan to preserve America’s negotiating status with the Taliban and keep an eye on resurging Islamic State militants.

Milley joined Esper in persuading Trump not to use active-duty troops to quash civil unrest.

But on other policy matters, Pentagon leaders saluted and marched forward. They found ways to use Defense Department money to help build Trump’s promised wall on the southern border, created his much-wanted Space Force, sidestepped an explicit ban on the Confederate flag and backed away from changing bases named after Confederate generals.

Esper also carried Trump’s message on increasing

defense spending to Nato allies, with modest success. The move for more allied spending was a continuation of a push by the Obama administration.

The abrupt personnel changes this week, however, have amped up the anxiety of civilian and military staff in the five-sided building. In addition to replacing Esper with former National Counterterrorism Center director Miller, Trump installed loyalists Anthony Tata in the undersecretary for policy job and Ezra Cohen-Watnick as the acting intelligence undersecretary. James Anderson, who had been acting undersecretary for policy, and Joseph Kernan, who was undersecretary for intelligence, both resigned Tuesday.

Miller also brought in his own chief of staff, Kash Patel, who was among the small group of aides who traveled with Trump extensively during the final stretch of the campaign. And he has brought in Douglas MacGregor, a fervent voice for an Afghanistan withdrawal, as a senior adviser.

Miller has said little about his plans. During his first meetings with top defense leaders this week, he took time to lay out his biography—it includes his service as an Army Green Beret and a stint as the Pentagon’s assistant secretary for special operations.

He has joined video calls, including on the pandemic, and has spoken to combatant commanders.

Wednesday’s opening of the National Museum of the US Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, was his first public event, and he used it to talk about his enlistment and pride in military service. Flanking him were Milley, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville.

All spoke and Trump’s name and the election were never mentioned.

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Malagos’s chocolate victory in intl competition showcases PHL’s cacao excellence–DTI chief

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HE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said the recent victory of Malagos Chocolate at the World Drinking Chocolate Competition 2020 in Hannover, Germany, showcases the excellence of Philippine cacao.

The results were announced last October 25 during the virtual Schokoladen Gourmet Festival. Malagos Chocolate claimed four Gold awards, especially the top prize in the Plain/ Origin Drinking Chocolate Dark category that bested entries from all over the world.

They were also given three Golds in Special Awards categories: Grow-

ing Country, Chocolate Maker and Direct Traded.

Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez congratulated the Davao-based company, particularly the Puentespina family, and thanked them for their support of the Philippine cacao.

“This is a validation of our nation’s never-ending quest for excellence in the field of cacao farming and choc-

olate-making,” Lopez said.

Meanwhile, their victory in the Special Awards Category affirmed the Filipino company’s championing of the Philippine cacao. Malagos won Gold in categories that emphasized the integrity of their products.

For example, the Gold Growing Country award is given to chocolate completely produced and packaged in a recognized cacao-growing country.

This chocolate should have also qualified in the Grand Jury round.

Moreover, there should at least be 10 products from the country entered into this category.

Meanwhile, the Gold Chocolate Maker award is given to a product fully made from cacao beans into finished chocolate in the entering company’s own factory. The Gold Directly Traded is given to chocolate made from cacao with no middle-

men involved, with as few steps as possible in chain, and where the chocolate maker has direct contact with the grower.

Rex Puentespina, managing director of Malagos Chocolate, said, “It goes to show that our chocolate is world-class and makes you proud to be a cacao grower.”

DTI has been working with Malagos Chocolates in their journey toward global recognition with the help of the trade agency’s Foreign Trade Service Corps (FTSC).

“We highlight our Philippine cacao in foreign countries as a high value product that matches the taste of chocolate lovers across the globe,” said FTSC Executive Director Anthony B. Rivera.

Lopez praised Malagos for their victory and reiterated DTI’s commitment to promote Philippine culinary heritage across the globe.

Exporters told to use TradeNet platform to ease e-CO issuance

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HE Bureau of Customs (BOC) is encouraging all transacting stakeholders to stay informed about and utilize the electronic certificate of origin (e-CO) using the TradeNet platform, the Philippines’s new national single window (NSW) for facilitating trade transactions.

According to Vanessa R. Hosana, of the BOC’s Export Coordination Division (ECD), the TradeNet platform was created by the Department of Finance (DOF) to ease and simplify the application, submission and processing of e-COs. The e-CO refers to the Asean Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) Form D, an international trade document attesting that goods in a particular export shipment were wholly obtained, produced, manufactured, or processed in a particular country. As stated in Customs Memorandum Order 152019, TradeNet’s main objective is to

facilitate the transmission of e-COs for export products and the receipt of e-CO for imported products within the Asean region. To apply for the issuance of the e-CO, the applicant should first log in to the BOC web site www.client.customs.gov.ph using the registered stakeholder’s account.

The applicant should then open a ticket and submit the complete documentary requirements for the pre-evaluation of the export products to the ECD, or to the Export Division (ED) of the port where the stakeholder regularly processes his export declaration.

The exporter should submit the application for pre-evaluation of export products “20 working days prior to his or her intended exportation of products,” reminded Hosana, who spoke at a BOC-organized webinar on the Philippines’s national single window held on November 5.

The ECD will review the documents and act on the application within 10 working days from the date of receipt of complete documents. The evaluation may be extended for another 10 working days if plant visits are needed.

If the application is approved, the ECD/ED will send a copy of the Product Evaluation Report (PER) to the applicant containing the list of qualified and approved products.

However, if the application is disapproved due to non-qualification with the Rules of Origin (ROO) and OCP (Operational Certification Procedure) ATIGA, ECD will write to the applicant stating the reason for non-qualification.

Hosana explained that a product evaluation is required when applying for a CO. This is to determine if the goods subject for export will qualify for the issuance of CO based on the

Rules of Origin to be used. It is also required “to be able to identify if the goods are deemed to be originating and qualify for preferential tariff treatment, and if it conforms to the origin requirements as stipulated on the rules of origin of each Philippine free trade area partner.”

To apply for a pre-export evaluation of the export products, the exporter should submit all documents at either the nearest port or directly to the ECD for evaluation.

If the application is approved, the ECD, or the port personnel will generate and issue a PER containing the list of qualified products, with a copy furnished the exporter.

The PER and the list of pre-evaluated goods of each newly approved application will be uploaded to TradeNet and the exporter can already apply for the issuance of the outbound e-CO.

Rimat ti Amianan trade expo ’20 goes virtual in the new normal

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AN FERNANDO CITY, LA UNION—Amid the challenges brought about by the pandemic Covid-19, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of the Ilocos region continue to rise against the odds and joined the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Region 1’s Rimat ti Amianan Virtual Trade Expo 2020.

Local products from 42 homegrown MSMEs were showcased and are being sold in the online trade fair that will run from November 9 to 18, 2020.

The Rimat ti Amianan (Treasures of the North) Trade Fair is an annual major activity of DTI that aims to promote the products of entrepreneurs from the region by giving them access to market opportunities.

Now in its 19th year, DTI pushed through with the conduct of the trade fair and give it a new twist to cope with the new normal. DTI Regional Operations Group Heads, Undersecretary Blesila A. Lantayona and Assistant Secretary Demphna Du-Naga were in attendance during the virtual opening program.

The virtual trade fair highlighted the products that have undergone product development through the One Town One Product Next Gen (ONG) program of DTI. The ONG is a priority stimulus program for MSMEs as the government’s customized intervention to drive inclusive local economic growth.

In her message, Regional Director Grace Falgui-Baluyan admired the resiliency and determination of the MSMEs. “The hardworking nature of Ilocano and Pangasinense MSMEs cannot be easily ripped-off

by Covid-19. Madadapa man, pero babangon pa rin—mas malakas, mas matatag!” she added.

The 10-day trade expo is featuring products such as food and novelty items, wearables, plants, woodcrafts, furniture, and other genuine local products of MSMEs from the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union and Pangasinan. Gifts and holiday decors are also available in time for the Holiday Season. Shoppers may log in as guest through this link: http:// www.virtualtradeexpoph.com.

Philippines records first exports growth in 6 mos

By Kris Crismundo Philippine News Agency

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HE country recorded its first exports growth since the onset of Covid-19 in March.

Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that export revenues in September increased by 2.2 percent to $6.22 billion this year from $6.1 billion in September 2019.

“We are glad to see positive results in our merchandise exports despite the challenges brought by the pandemic to the international trade market. This gives a positive outlook on our economic recovery efforts even as we ensure the market accessibility of our exports to our global trading partners,” Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said Wednesday.

September export revenues were also higher than August 2020’s

$5.5-billion revenue.

“As the country continues to open up its economy again, easing up travel restrictions but still observing health protocols for workers, merchandise exports could be on its sustained uptrend for the rest of the year,” Lopez added.

PSA data showed that electronic goods remained the country’s top export product in September, with revenues amounting to $3.63 billion, or accounting for 58.3 percent of the total exports.

Top export destinations for the country in September were China, which Filipino exporters sold $1.22 billion; Japan, with $974.78 million; United States of America, with $903.46 million; Hong Kong, with $809.14 million; and Singapore, with $347.68 million.

Meanwhile, exports from January to September this year declined by 13.8 percent to $45.87 billion.

Thailand asks central bank to manage currency to aid exports

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HAILAND’S government wants the central bank to temper a rally in the nation’s currency, which is threatening efforts to boost exports to balance a slump in tourism revenue, according to Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.

Bank of Thailand is “taking care” of the baht, Arkhom told reporters in Bangkok on Wednesday, after the currency rallied to a 10-month high against the US dollar. The baht has surged 4.7 percent this quarter as foreign inflows into the nation’s stocks and bonds resumed and emerging market currencies rallied on optimism over the global economic outlook.

With the international borders closed to most visitors, Thailand is betting on a revival in trade to minimize the hit to the economy from the coronavirus pandemic. As exports have shown signs of revival, the government will focus on supporting its only source of external revenue, Arkhom said.

“We are doing whatever we can to help exports,” said Arkhom, who took over as the finance minister last month. “We have asked the central bank to manage the baht to be supportive for exports.”

Baht rose as much as 0.9 percent to 30.172 to a dollar on Wednesday, its highest intraday level since January 14, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The currency has rebounded almost 9 percent from this year’s low in April and is close to wiping out its entire losses for the year.

Measured moves

“THE central bank is likely to lean against currency strength, but as the baht’s recent rally has broadly been in line with the rest of the region’s currencies, any moves to rein in gains are likely to be fairly measured,” Krystal Tan, an economist for Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, said in an e-mail. The bank sees baht at 30.90 to a dollar by year-end, she said. Bloomberg News

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UnionBank, VA Biz Solutions tie-up helps lure Japanese retirees to PHL

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By Rizal Raoul S. Reyes

BOITIZ-LED Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) and VA Biz Solutions Inc. recently entered into a partnership to deploy the latter’s “Simple Retirement Philippines” program to help Japanese nationals applying for Philippine Special Resident Retirees’ Visa (SRRV) get their financial documentation processed faster, or from 30 days to just one week.

“By enabling VA Biz Solutions’ program through streamlined know your customer [KYC] and account opening processes, retirement visa application is made more efficient for Japanese nationals,” said UnionBank Senior Vice President and Fintech Group Head Arvie de Vera.

“This allows VA Biz Solutions Inc. to meet the needs of its customers and give them a more seamless and convenient customer experience as they move to the Philippines for re-

tirement,” de Vera added.

As a consulting agency, VA Biz Solutions provides technology-centric solutions to tap new markets globally.

One of the key services they provide is giving assistance to Japanese citizens applying for SRRV with the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA).

Foreign nationals usually spend 30 days to complete their SRRV requirements, which are submitted to the PRA. This includes a bank certification showing a minimum of P1

million in time deposit as proof of their capacity to retire in the country.

The collaboration between UnionBank and VA Biz Solutions helps hasten the issuance of a Certificate of Time Deposit (CTD) by speeding up preparatory work, including preliminary know-your-customer procedures, which must be completed before the scheduled arrival of Japanese nationals in the country. With VA Biz Solutions’ system, the processing period was reduced to around one week and only requires the applicant to physically appear at the bank to claim his or her CTD and submit it to the PRA as part of the SRRV requirements.

“We believe that UnionBank, with its strong focus on service and its commitment to a better customer experience using technology, is the ideal banking partner to introduce to our future retiree residents in the Philippines,” said Franco Varona, managing director of VA Biz Solutions. “We are excited to offer UnionBank Time Deposit Accounts to our wide market of SRRV applicants in Japan and all over the world.”

By reducing the load in the processing of required financial documentation, foreign nationals can use the rest of their stay in the country to focus

on processing other SRRV application requirements and have more time to get settled in the Philippines.

Japanese consultants of VA Biz Solutions also shared their messages of support. “We are excited to use the services of UnionBank. This is a very famous Philippine bank, and we know we can trust their services,” said Takahiro Inoue, Simple Retirement’s Japan Marketing Consultant.

Katsumi Matsubayashi, another Simple Retirement’s Japanese marketing consultant, added: “Knowing that UnionBank will help our retiree visa applicants open their accounts in the Philippines is very reassuring to the Japanese.”

A recently held digital signing event marked the partnership and was attended by VA Biz Solutions Managing Director Franco Varona, UnionBank Executive Vice President and Retail Banking Center Head Joyce Gonzalez, UnionBank Senior Vice President and Fintech Group Head Arvie de Vera, UnionBank First Vice President and Sales Director Jose Maria Roxas, UnionBank Vice President, UnionBank AVP and Business Manager Ortigas Center Region Maria Paz Galang, Fintech Group Sales and Business Development Head Erika Dizon, and Senior Manager Angelica Enriquez.

FDA panel recommends rejection of experimental Alzheimer’s drug

By Marilynn Marchione & Matthew Perrone The Associated Press

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ASHINGTON—Government health advisers sharply criticized a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, concluding there wasn’t enough evidence that the experimental drug slowed the brain-destroying disease.

The panel of outside experts for the Food and Drug Administration agreed that a pivotal study in patients failed to show “strong evidence” that the drug worked. The experts warned of multiple “red flags” with the data, which did not initially show any benefit until another analysis with later results.

The meeting on November 6 follows months of skepticism about the drug, developed by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and Japan’s Eisai Co. “Alzheimer’s treatment is a huge, urgent, unmet need,” said panelist Dr. Joel Perlmutter, of Washington University School of Medicine. “But if we approve something with data that is not strong we have the risk of delaying good, effective treatments.”

He was one of eight panelists who voted against the drug’s evidence; one voted that the drug showed “strong evidence” and two members said they were undecided. The panel also rejected the merits of a second study of the drug.

The FDA is not required to follow the group’s guidance but their negative opinion could weigh heavily on the agency’s decision on whether to greenlight the drug. The FDA is expected to make a decision by March.

The Biogen drug, known as aducanumab, does not cure or reverse Alzheimer’s; the claim is that it modestly slows the rate of decline.

Current drugs only temporarily ease symptoms and no new options have emerged since 2003.

Much of panel’s commentary was a rejection of the FDA’s viewpoint. Earlier in the day, the FDA’s chief staff reviewer gave a glowing review of the drug, calling study data submitted by Biogen “exceptionally persuasive,” “strongly positive” and “robust.” But an FDA statistician noted flaws and inconsistencies in the results and potential safety issues.

IN this December 12, 2019, photo provided by Biogen, a scientist works on Alzheimer’s disease research in a laboratory at the drugmaker’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. A panel of outside experts said the drug, called aducanumab from Biogen Inc. and Japan’s Eisai Co., does not cure or reverse Alzheimer’s; the claim is that it modestly slows the rate of decline.

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“It feels like the audio and video on TV are out of sync,” said panel member Dr. Caleb Alexander of Johns Hopkins University.

The drugmakers halted two studies of their drug last year after disappointing results. But several months later the companies reversed course, announcing that a new analysis showed the drug was effective at a higher dose and that the FDA advised that it might warrant approval.

More than 5 million people in the United States and many more worldwide have Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.

The drug is expected to be very expensive and “could bankrupt our health-care system” while giving patients false hope, the consumer group Public Citizen warned in comments ahead of the meeting.

The FDA evaluation focuses on safety and effectiveness. But advocates for approval, including the Alzheimer’s Association, are pushing to make need part of the decision.

About the drug

ADUCANUMAB (pronounced “addyoo-CAN-yoo-mab”) aims to help clear harmful clumps of a protein called beta-amyloid from the brain.

Other experimental drugs have done that but it made no difference in patients’ ability to think, care for themselves or live independently.

It’s a biotech medicine made from living cells, and such drugs are very

expensive. No price estimate has been announced for the drug, which is given through an IV once a month.

If aducanumab is approved, it’s expected to be covered by Medicare, the government plan for seniors. The FDA and Medicare are barred from considering cost when reviewing a new drug or treatment.

Even qualifying for the drug could be expensive. It’s only been tested in people with mild dementia from Alzheimer’s or a less severe condition called mild cognitive impairment.

To verify a diagnosis has required brain scans that cost $5,000 or more. Insurers including Medicare don’t cover the scans because their benefits are unclear, but that could change if a scan becomes a gateway to treatment.

The evidence

HISTORICALLY, the FDA often required two studies showing safety and effectiveness, but in recent years has relaxed that standard.

Each of the two aducanumab studies enrolled about 1,650 people and were stopped roughly halfway through when it seemed the drug wasn’t working. Biogen says that later results show one study was positive at the highest dose; the second study was clearly negative. The company says an analysis from both studies on people who got the highest dose for the longest time shows benefit.

But there are many questions

about the validity of such analyses.

Another complication: the studies were changed after they were under way to let some people get a higher dose. And the placebo group in the positive study worsened more than the one in the negative study did, which could help explain why aducanumab appeared better by comparison in that one.

The FDA review largely dismissed safety concerns, including swelling in the brain that occurred in as many as one-third of patients, often leading to discontinuation of the drug.

The FDA should require a third study to test the drug in ideal conditions and get a clear answer, said the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. David Knopman, in an interview ahead of the meeting.

He’s on the FDA advisory panel but didn’t participate in Friday’s meeting because he helped lead one study. He and other doctors published a journal report earlier this week arguing against approval.

What it would mean for patients

NEARLY a dozen Alzheimer’s patients, family members and doctors urged approval of the drug during a public comment period of the online meeting, saying the move would provide hope to patients and spur development of additional therapies.

But any benefit from the drug “is relatively small,” said Dr. Eliezer Masliah, neuroscience chief at the US National Institute on Aging, commenting before the meeting.

In the positive study, the drug modestly slowed the rate of mental decline —a difference of only 0.39 on an 18-point score of thinking skills.

How much that means in terms of being able to live independently, recognize family members or remember things is unclear.

Drugs that remove amyloid may have to be combined with medicines that do other things in the brain, and used early enough before damage occurs, to do much good, Masliah said.

If the drug is approved, the American Academy of Neurology urged the FDA to not make it a broad authorization, which could expose many patients to a medicine that might harm rather than help, and could “overwhelm the health-care system.” AP

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Who really owns your life?

By Nick Tayag

MY SIXTY-ZEN’S WORTH

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RANTED you have a title that says you are the owner of this impressive looking house or that SUV. But is the title to your own life authentic or fake?

A few months ago, I saw a riveting documentary about Walter Mercado, a famous Latino icon and pop psychic and astrologer idolized by millions of Hispanics and Latinos in his heyday. He made millions through his mastery of television as a performer through his flamboyant showmanship and charisma, and unique flair.

But at the peak of his fame, while he was raking in millions, his trusted business manager was able to deceive Walter to sign a document ceding all rights to him, including use of his face and name, earnings, and branding!

It made the business manager virtually the owner of Walter’s person and his life! Poor Walter could not even use his name and his face or even appear in a TV show without the approval of the manager.

Billed as the prophet of the new age, for decades, Walter “owned” millions of admirers who held on to his every word and pronouncement. The irony was that while Walter was spouting a message of self-empowerment, his devious business manager was busy scheming to own the rights to his persona. Eventually, Walter became aware of this utterly unjust deal and won his rights back after a six-year court battle.

Consider another case. Benjamin Keough, grandson of Elvis Presley, committed suicide by shooting himself at age 27. All his life, the son of Lisa Marie Presley struggled with the pressure of living up to the Presley name.

Friends suggested this burden may have contributed to his demise. His whole life was defined by attempts to live up to his status as Elvis’ grandson.

Clearly, here’s a person whose life was owned completely by a famous name. He wasn’t able to stake his claim to life, a space where he could create his own unique person. He could not shed off being a Presley.

In the same way that we have been making all kinds of claims like SSS pension claims, Pag-IBIG contribution claims, and insurance maturity claims, there’s something we need to claim back: ownership of our life.

When we look at our life, we have to admit that we’ve been owned by people and our own obsessions, vices, food, possessions, money, the desire for love, our fears, insecurities and anxieties.

Think for a moment. Or take a few days to mull over it. Is this the life you want? You could be successful in a career forced on you. Maybe it has even made you materially blessed. You own a house; you own a fancy car.

But do you own your self? By self I just don’t mean attributes and personality traits that differentiate us from other individuals but more importantly, the person that you choose to be and gives you a sense of authentic fulfillment.

Self-ownership does not mean egotism, being self-absorbed, or self-cherishing. It’s more about removing the layers of the false self so your true self can shine. It means learning how to step more fully into ourselves.

We have reached that point where we need to get back the self

we have set aside, overlooked or neglected. We have deferred pursuing what psychologist Abraham Maslow calls “self actualization.”

This time of the pandemic is as good as any time to start the process of knowing your real self.

Tackle your personal weaknesses, allow your strengths to shine. Make that decision to not allow things of the past to have any power over you anymore, be it a failed relationship or bad decision or a lingering grudge against someone.

Reflect on where you are now and the things you have achieved and be grateful for them. Think of every morning as a clean slate, a fresh start to go after your own dreams and improve from your yesterday. Focus your energy on things that make you productive and feel fulfilled.

By doing so, no one can stop you from being the person that you want to be or living the life you desire to live.

People who arrive at this point sometimes make a turn in their lives. They reinvent themselves.

They reboot themselves. They tune-out and emerge as different persons.

I know of a successful salesman who quit his job and decided to devote himself to evangelistic work, depending on donations entirely.

People profess to admire him but snigger behind his back, regarding him as a fool (may topak). But when I last saw him, he seemed to be a very balanced person who is so sure and happy about where he is now. Indeed, as the cliché goes: follow your bliss.

To achieve that bliss, you need to stake your own territory, mark it as something that belongs to you and build on it like nobody else can. Through good works, through your writing, the record of your advocacies. At least they tell everyone that you did not only exist but you lived at a certain point in time. That will be your legacy, your case for fame, and your footprint in mankind’s history.

Going back to Walter Mercado, what is ultimately most admirable about him was the fact that he created his own niche in people’s minds. Remember Oscar Wilde’s famous advice to be yourself because everyone else has already been taken? That’s the idea: to be brave enough to say what you think or to show who you are.

Walter expressed his authentic inner self in every way through his show. He was unabashedly himself and in a way that no one else had ever done.

While his greedy business manager schemed to own the rights to his material persona, he was never able to own Walter’s message, which was love (“love freely and receive it freely”) as well as social inclusion, which he expressed with unwavering consistency and positivity.

It was what mattered to him above all, not so much the glitz of fame, the money, or possessions.

And his message would probably outlive him. That’s why in the documentary that showed the last days of his life, he appeared so fulfilled and happy. He truly owned himself. He was able to live, as he put it, mi vida, mi manera (my life, my way.)

After all is said and done, deep in our hearts, can we truly say the same thing about ourselves?

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Dual education and training: Strategy for talent development

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HE German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) recently launched a dual education and training (DET) best-practice brochure on its social-media channels containing testimonials from member-companies and their experiences supporting work-based learning.

GPCCI’s advocacy for DET is part of the German government-funded K-12 Plus project, which concluded in October. One of the main goals of the project launched in September 2013 was to provide private-sector support for the skills development among young Filipinas and Filipinos to smoothly transition from school into the world of work and find gainful employment.

“We are grateful to share our member-companies’ experiences in DET online to inspire more companies to engage in work-based learning modalities such as K-12 work immersion, on-the-job training, or other forms of in-house [learning],” GPCCI Project Director Jana Everett said.

Localized elements

AN initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development or BMZ, the K-12 Plus project supports the implementation of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 in the Philippines. GPCCI, along with other German and Philippine cooperation partners, piloted ideas to localize elements of the German DET approach in the newly established Technical Vocational Livelihood track of senior high schools.

K-12 Plus partners also introduced quality-assuring elements such as enhanced curricula to include industrydemanded skills, trained in-company trainers to ensure students’ proper learning in the company, as well as an impartial assessment and certification of acquired skills.

“The engagement of the industry in curriculum development, training and assessment of skills is crucial [in overcoming] the skills mismatch often observed once graduates enter the work

force,” explained GPCCI’s Vocational Training Committee Chairman Daniela Gasper, who is also managing director at Rhenus Logistics. “[Our committee,] for example, is one of the platforms where companies and relevant training institutions can exchange ideas and best practices on training content development and delivery.”

Toolbox web site

TO sustainably anchor the DET approach in the Philippines post-project, GPCCI spearheaded the development of the DET Toolbox Web Site. This freely accessible online repository of knowledge products is designed for DET stakeholders such as local chambers, industry associations, companies and schools to expand vocational-training partnerships in the Philippines.

The web site is hosted by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Human Resource Development Foundation and the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry—GPCCI’s valuable partners in K-12 Plus.

GPCCI committed to continue its advocacy for dual-training activities and its support of, as well as that for policy recommendations that help companies engage in dual training in the Philippines.

The chamber belongs to the international network of German Chambers of Commerce Abroad or AHKs represented by 140 offices in 92 countries. It is the official representation of German businesses in the Philippines—a bilateral-membership organization with around 300 members; and a service provider to companies in their market entry and expansion.

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DOST-SEI fetes math champs with YES award

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By Roderick L. Abad

IGHT students from Valenzuela City were recently conferred with the 2020 Youth Excellence in Science (YES) award by the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) for winning different mathematics competitions abroad last year.

Headlining the roster of honorees was Vincent U. dela Cruz from Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science (ValMaSci). He was the city’s lone representative to the Philippine team, which competed and won gold in the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad Online in September 2020.

Dela Cruz also received the YES Award for being a silver medalist in the 8th International Mathematics Assessment for Schools, bronze medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, and received an honorable mention in the Asia Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, to name a few.

Joining him in the honor roll from ValMaSci were Ralph Daniel Valdres, who earned a high distinction in the 2019 Australian Mathematics Competition; Gabriel Adrian E. Cruz and Eugene U. dela Cruz—silver medalists of the 15th International Mathematics Contest in Singapore; Marin Catherine de Leon—silver medalist, 2019 Asia International Mathematical Olympiad Open Contest and a bronze medalist in the 2019 World Mathematical Games Open in Taipei, Taiwan; as well as Mary June Aubrey C. San Jose and Evitha Jovel E. Viola—silver and bronze medalists, respectively, in the 2019 International Mathematics Wizard Challenge in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Meanwhile, Julius Gabriel de Guzman from Dalandanan National High School (DNHS) captured bronze in the

2019 Thailand International Mathematical Olympiad.

Each awardee will also receive the highly coveted Secretary’s Medal from the DOST. Honorees from ValMaSci and DNHS joined 785 other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) achievers from the National Capital Region, who will complete the roster of 1,631 YES Awardees for 2020.

DOST-SEI Director Dr. Josette Biyo lauded this batch for setting a new national record in the global arena. She said: “In 2018, we had 1,454 [awardees]...this goes to show that our momentum as an academically competitive nation, as well as our continuing quest for excellence in the field of science and mathematics, is not slowing down.”

The director added, “The trend is more than just an upsurge in numbers: We are more interested in the quality we draw from our students, as well as the values we teach them during training, actual competitions, and after reaching the goal.”

Likewise, she pointed out the role of science during a pandemic, saying, “Our goal is to create a culture of science in the Philippines—one where people use science to create decisions and benefit from it.”

Given such achievements of the city’s young citizens, the local government of Valenzuela has been seeing a growing increased interest in STEM, as Mayor Rexlon Gatchalian hopes this “will continually stir the interest of the Valenzuelano youth in math and science.”

Dr. Biyo affirmed their support for youth excellence in the areas of STEM: “We hope that eventually, we can expand this brand of excellence across more young individuals who will serve as a foundation of this country in the future.”

Or. Mindoro pupils to enjoy ‘prepaid’ online learning

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‘In the pandemic era, are we ready to change the way we do economics?’

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OR most students, studying economics as a social science is not a walk in the park, as they are required to have sharp analytical and mathematical abilities.

Nevertheless, it will be tougher to study the subject this time around, because of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) brought about by the ongoing health crisis.

“Given the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, expect that it will be dominated

by VUCA both in microeconomic and macroeconomic planning,” Paul John M. Peña, professional lecturer of De La Salle University’s School of Economics, told the BusinessMirror in an e-mail interview.

In pre-pandemic days, economists adhered to a system or method based on the identified underlying purpose of the economy. Given the current state, Peña said economists are facing the challenge of finding a methodology that will fit the changing goals of the local economy. The educator pointed out that, traditionally speaking, economics has always set efficiency as the ultimate goal.

Notwithstanding, the pandemic is showing people that efficiency does not seem to provide a deeper understanding of the phenomena, nor is it able to develop policies that require more than efficiency.

“If we follow our conventional goal of efficiency as-is, then regardless of health risks, we would allow the market to decide for itself the level of care [coronavirus disease 2019] Covid-19 patients get, or that we would require workers to report back without due

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considerations of their need for safety—all in the name of regaining lost productivity and economic efficiencies,” he explained.

For Peña, the country is in a situation where it has to have an honest assessment of the goals of the economy. Learning from the Covid-19 scenario so far, Peña pointed out that students and practitioners must remember the importance of economic and social resilience.

Covid, climate change

COVID-19, however, is not the only problem.

The country also needs to deal with climatechange that sends an equally strong message to economists and policy-makers alike if there is a need to shift from efficiency to sustainability.

“The challenge for economists amid VUCA is the reckoning with methodological preferences, which have a direct way of changing how economists do economics.

Considering the simultaneous assessment of VUCA in itself requires a methodological shift,” Peña pointed out.

If goals of the economy have to be changed, so must its methods. John Maynard Keynes, the economist who inspired former United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program, introduced a sea of change in methodology in response to the Great Depression. Same went with Adam Smith, in view of mercantilism. Accordingly, central banks around the world have explored quantitative easing as a policy intervention to keep the system running.

Peña opined too that social protections have been instituted in response to the pandemic. At the same time, issues of inequality of opportunity in all dimensions arise.

If we are to solve these issues, Peña thinks that economists must first overcome the challenge of methodology, which must be anchored on the people’s collective understanding of what the goal of the economy should to be today and in the future. If such was the case, he said challenges faced by economists run deeper, then asked: Are we ready to change the way we do economics?

Not a silver bullet

ECONOMICS is definitely not the silver bullet against VUCA. Peña pointed out that the extent of VUCA requires as many disciplines as possible. Each field holds only a piece of the puzzle.

“The magnitude of the challenge VUCA poses cannot be solved by any discipline alone, as our problems touch on almost

every dimension of human life. Economics has a lot to offer in that conversation,” the professor stated. “Still, even economics can benefit from even more discussions with disciplines that deal with culture, education, the arts, technology and civil society, among others.”

He cited De La Salle University as an example of a higher-education institution that encourages multidisciplinary approaches, with the collaboration of economics, engineering and computer science analyzing industry-level effects of lockdown measures on industry sectors.

To address VUCA, Peña said there will be more avenues for disagreements than agreements which, if done right, will be beneficial in terms of insightful analyses and policy advice, compared to only a single discipline that pursues the colossal challenges of beating this pandemic.

“A multidisciplinary approach also advances the idea that ecosystems play a central role in the workings of the economy. Same could be said of an ecosystem of a diverse set of experts unified by one goal,” he elaborated. “Ultimately, diversity breeds innovation. A closer partnership among disciplines is a step toward the right direction.”

“Furthermore, beyond studying the impact of VUCA, is [the matter of dealing with it], as a society which requires even more extensive cooperation among the academe, the private sector, and the government,” the economics professor concluded.

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OFFICIALS from the provincial government of Oriental Mindoro and Globe Telecom at the turnover ceremony.

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ROVIDING an extra push so that no student in Oriental Mindoro will be left behind, Globe recently donated some 10,230 SIM cards worth P6 million to Grade 12 students of the province.

The Globe SIM cards, preloaded with free 5 gigabytes of data allocation for one month, will be distributed to public-school students along with tablets procured by the provincial government, as the entire province adapts to blended learning due to the pandemic.

In a simple turnover ceremony at the provincial capitol in Calapan City, Governor Humerlito A. Dolor accepted the donation from Globe’s Head of Regional Site Acquisition Management Team Jeanette Alquizor.

“We are happy with our partnership with Globe. These SIM cards will greatly help our students...with their studies and in cases of emergency too,” Dolor said. “Equally important is that these will also help ease the pressure on our parents to provide their children with SIM cards and load allocations.”

The SIM cards will be given to learners of 16 public schools in the province, which include Baco National High School (NHS), Basa NHS, Vicente B. Ylagan NHS, Bulalacao NHS, President Diosdado Macapagal Memorial NHS, Fe del Mundo NHS, Porfirio G. Comia Memorial NHS, Evangelista NHS, Nabuslot NHS, Domingo Yu Chua NHS, Puerto Galera NHS, San Mariano NHS, San Teodoro NHS, Leuteboro NHS, Aurelio Arago Memorial NHS, and Oriental Mindoro NHS. “We know how important it is for students, especially those in remote areas of the province, to have the necessary tools as they adjust to the demands of online learning,” Alquizor affirmed. “By providing...connectivity, students of Oriental Mindoro will have a valuable start in their continuing pursuit of knowledge and education.”

Globe continues to support local education through connectivity in areas covered by the Department of Education, championing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal of providing quality education for all.

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A beautiful city of a bygone epoch

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Story & photos by Joshua Berida

aint Petersburg is an ancient city with many remnants of its glorious past on display in its historic center. While I soaked in all of its beauty, I imagined the members of the imperial court, artists, and ordinary citizens that walk around the own city for inspiration, for respite from their worries, and to remind themselves the world is still beautiful despite its crumbling state.

The Winter Palace is now a museum but used to be the residence of Russia’s emperors.

Museum of memories

A museum is an imperfect microcosm of a vibrant past, a display of the best and the beautiful or in some cases, the tragic and the worst. Saint Petersburg’s palaces are now museums and are vessels for priceless paintings of tsars, tsarinas, princesses, princes, and European masters of a bygone era. In these you’ll find pieces of furniture made of the sturdiest wood, beds with colorful beddings, marble posts, elaborate tapestries, chandeliers, and portraits of the royal family occupying almost every room and passageway.

Whether it’s the Winter Palace, or Peterhof Palace, people queued to see the royalty’s opulent lifestyle. For a moment, they live the life they can’t have; the framed memories offer temporary escape from daily routines.

After Saint Petersburg’s nostalgic perspective, I set my sights on the city’s daily hustle and bustle.

As I wove in and out of the city’s serpentine roads and canals, I saw some of life’s many constants; traffic, obnoxious drivers, never ending road constructions, graffiti, and wayward pedestrians that walked home or to nowhere in particular. These don’t exactly fit the definition of beauty. However, I still observed them with a watchful eye.

As the sea of faceless people passed me, I remembered my friend Ekaterina or Katia (a common Russian name) and her mother, whom both resides in Saint Petersburg, but I met them in Kazan. Katia sees the things I saw daily; the mishmash of organized chaos merged at the confluence of roads and metro stations.

I caught a stranger or two glanc-

The Peterhof Palace’s exterior immediately grabs your attention.

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of Saint Petersburg’s most stunning landmarks.

A priceless painting inside the Winter Palace.

ing at the Winter Palace or at the detailed statues carved into buildings, and the electric wires and ugly posts didn’t seem to bother them. Maybe the city’s ordinary and beautiful things inspire them or maybe those moments are just brief distractions?

The profane, profound and holy

Like many countries and cities in Europe, Christianity is in full display in Saint Petersburg. The colorful spires of the Russian Orthodox Church and the baroque-inspired architecture dot the cityscape. Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived in this city, the deeply religious and conflicted man whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov focused on the redemption of the soul. However, the rise of the Soviets led to the rapid spread of secularism, leaving some Russians to believe but hardly practice the religious teachings regularly.

Churches here also serve as elaborate museums. Inside its walls

CATHERINE Palace, the summer residence of the Russian tsars.

Saint Petersburg is a bustling city and a World Heritage site as well.

are stunning mosaics depicting biblical stories of life, death, and resurrection.

For some it is easy to call something by its name: beauty, truth, love, hope. For the rest, some things are difficult to say for the idea is simply too beautiful, or reality isn’t as lovely with scars, blemishes, unwanted histories and disappointments under its skin. It disagrees. And yet, it knows your name and calls you by it, even when you don’t want it to.

I remembered the dark-hairedbrown-eyed woman who asked me to take her picture with the Stroganov Palace in the background, a tourist in her own country. The conversation was brief: it was all small talk, and it didn't go any

deeper, no meaning of life questions. I took her photo and we parted ways. I asked my friend Katia if we could meet before I left for Yaroslavl, and she said yes. Maybe this time the city wouldn’t feel so anonymous.

The city’s in-betweens

I missed my train bound for Yaroslavl after running as fast as I could to catch it. I was right there, but the ticket lady decided to close the door. I returned to the counter, managed to get a refund, and waited for the metro train so I could return to my accommodation. As I boarded, four guys crammed into the entrance squishing me between them, then alighted before the train left. I then realized my

The royal family knows the definition of opulence.

wallet was missing; pickpockets, another of life’s constants.

After filing a police report at the station, I got my wallet back minus some cards and all of my cash. Luckily, they didn’t take my debit card. The policeman told me to make another report but I couldn’t find the other station after wandering around, so I gave up, returned to the metro station

and took my things.

What made a city beautiful? I let this question linger as I planned my next move. I wanted an answer, something I could touch, feel or experience. However, I was too tired and stressed. These thoughts slipped away as I called a few friends. None of them answered. I called again until someone finally answered.

Del Carmen named Region 13’s best coastal town T

he Municipality of Del Carmen in Siargao Island was recently named Caraga region’s grand winner in the Malinis and Masaganang Karagatan (MMK) program of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) which recognizes the most outstanding coastal communities across the archipelago.

Situated off the mainland of Surigao del Norte province, the town was awarded for its exemplary efforts in protecting and conserving their marine environment set by the BFAR. A perennial recipient of local government awards, which include the 2018 Galing Pook Public Service Innovation, the municipality will qualify for the national selection of the top winners of the MMK this November.

According to Del Carmen Vice Mayor Alfredo Coro II, the town’s healthy environment was key in their economic sustainability during the imposition of the lockdown in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The investments in the protection of the marine protected areas and mangrove forest gave us enough fish to feed the many despite a sudden increase in fisher folk and resulting in lowering of the cost of fisheries

Del Carmen’s mangrove forest by Erwin Mascariñas

for the consuming public,” he said.

He noted that due to the displacement of workers from other sectors, its marginal fishermen increased by 1,500, which its ecosystem was able to absorb.

“Protection of our mountains and watershed also allowed good source of water for irrigation which when several people started to grow their food, was enough to support the farms. The non-disturbance of the forest trees also attracted good rain that was enough to toil our farms,” he added.

Coro said that as a result of the pandemic, they are now focused on the role of fisherfolk as frontliners for food security and the importance of farming in sustaining community livelihood.

He expressed hope that locals will continue farming and fishing, even if tourism activities resume in Siargao, which has been perennially adjudged by Condé Nast as among the world’s best islands.

Del Carmen takes pride in its 4,000-hectare contiguous mangrove forest which is the biggest in the archipelago, which has helped it achieve an outstanding coastal ecosystem.

The habitat of a rare saltwater crocodile

specie crocodylus porosus, this ecosystem helps maintain the island’s ecological balance by providing rich breeding grounds to aquatic life.

The town is also sought-after for Sugba Lagoon, a saltwater body of water tucked inside limestone cliffs.

The municipal government is a partner of Shore It Up, the multi-awarded corporate social responsibility program of the Metro Pacific Investment Corp., which seeks to establish a nationwide network of local governments for the conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems.

Under a local version called Siargao It Up, it has undertaken underwater cleanup

by Metro Pacific volunteer scuba divers, Run for the Mangroves International Marathon, strengthening of the Bantay Dagat units, Junior Environmental Scouts for elementary students, and ecotourism tours around the mangrove forest and Sugba Lagoon, among others.

The town also hosts the Mangrove Propagation and Information Center, the first of its kind in southern Philippines, which promotes an integrated community approach on education, mangrove reforestation, sustainable tourism and livelihood.

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High performance, advanced technologies for creators THE Acer ConceptD 300

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CER recently announced a new release plus upgrades on its line for content creators, the ConceptD series. The tech firm was bullish about the demand for desktops and laptops despite the pandemic, with more people needing to be connected as they work and study from home.

One of Acer’s new releases is the ConceptD 300 mid-tower creator desktop. They have also made upgrades on the ConceptD 7 and ConceptD 7 Pro creator notebooks. The ConceptD PCs are designed for professional and enthusiast content creators, including graphic designers, filmmakers, engineers and architects. Both the ConceptD 7 and ConceptD 7 Pro feature Nvidia GPUs—the RTX high-end consumer series for the 7, and the 16GiB Quadro RTX 5000 for the 7 Pro. The high-end graphics processors are paired with a 15.6-inch, Pantone-validated 4K display with 100-percent Adobe RGB gamut and Delta E<2 color accuracy.

The ConceptD 7 series also includes a new upgraded cooling system with three fans and large vents around three of the laptops’ four sides.

The new “Vortex Flow” system keeps the fan noise at under 40dBA even under full system load. This is at 45W TDP for the H-series processor and 80W-150W for the GPU. The ConceptD 300 is a mid-sized 18L tower with a striking design that includes a beautiful white finish, elegant wood panel top and black front panel. It would look great in any modern office or home workspace.

The ConceptD 300 includes up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics and 64 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz memory, to help the user power through video editing, CAD and 3D modeling projects and workflows.

Combined with up to a 4TB HDD and up to 1TB of fast PCIe M.2 SSD storage, the ConceptD 300 is ideal

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for architects, 3D artists and video editors.

ConceptD 7 notebooks have the powerful performance and portability required by professional and enthusiast creators who need to work away from their offices or home studios, and have to create and edit work on the go.

The notebooks boast of powerful processors and graphics, high-quality displays and superior cooling technology. They also have a pure white thin-andlight chassis that always looks clean and new, thanks to a special solid ceramic protective layer on their metal surfaces that provide resistance against dirt and yellowing.

Both of the updated ConceptD 7 notebooks deliver desktop level performance with 10th Gen Intel Core processors with built-in AI for intelligent performance, Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+), Thunderbolt 3 technology and a 4K IPS display. The fast and reliable wireless connection is up to 3X faster than standard 802.11ac 2x2 80 MHz (867 Mbps), providing

less lagging, a critical factor for streaming or video conferencing.

The ConceptD 7 Pro features up to a powerful NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, which is equipped with 3072 CUDA Cores, 48 RT Cores, 384 Tensor Cores and 16GB of ultra-fast GPU memory, delivering everything needed to work across multiple content creation apps simultaneously.

The ConceptD 7 includes NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, which are ideal for designing digital assets, creating videos for YouTube or a feature-length film, building real-time 3D content or livestreaming games to Twitch.

A notable feature of ConceptD 7 notebooks is the 15.6-inch UHD (3840 x 2160) 4K IPS, PANTONE Validated display that features a wide color range covering 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color space and a color accuracy of Delta E<2 for remarkable color precision.

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Fujitsu kicks off initiative for company-wide transformation

BY RODERICK L. ABAD Contributor TO beef up its competitiveness in today’s digital era, Fujitsu has launched its company-wide DX project, dubbed “Fujitra” (Fujitsu Transformation), which aims at a complete reevaluation and transition in business processes, organizations and corporate culture, on top of its products, services and business models.

Introduced at the recent “Fujitsu ActivateNow” online global event, this new endeavor will hasten the transformation within the Fujitsu Group across different units and regions.

The goals of this ambitious project represent

significant challenges in management and at the operational-level, ranging from the creation of new business, the growth of strategic business, and the improvement of profitability of existing businesses, to the standardization and streamlining of different internal processes, talent management and working environment.

The company will apply design thinking, agile methodology and other frameworks to address these continuous problems while listening to the voices of customers and employees.

Industry frameworks and business models have been changing at an unprecedented speed in recent years, as shown by the rise of disruptive innovators using digital technology to overturn existing

paradigms in all industries.

True to its commitment to its purpose “to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation,” Fujitsu will invest over 100 billion yen in this initiative to promote its own transformation.

Likewise, it will leverage the results and knowhow gained through this project in its solutions and services, contributing to the resolution of social concerns by using digital technology as a partner for its customers.

The leading Japanese information and communication technology has about 130,000 people supporting customers in over 100 countries worldwide.

FOR Filipinos, Christmas is all about giving. Buying gifts for family members and loved ones is a tradition, and no matter how different this year’s celebrations may be from what we are used to, the spirit of giving will always be alive in all of us.

Yearly, Globe myBusiness supports SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) with the #GiftLocal campaign that aims to encourage Filipino consumers to purchase their gifts to family and friends from local small businesses.

“We have always rallied the Filipino consumers to patronize local establishments and help Filipino SMEs, especially during the holiday season,” said Globe myBusiness Strategy and Marketing Head Maridol Ylanan. “This year’s #GiftLocal campaign will serve an even greater purpose, as we feature the products of our SME partners that will delight Filipino customers for their gift-giving celebration, while supporting our local SMEs bounce back in these challenging times.”

As a part of the annual #GiftLocal campaign that promotes buying and gifting local during the holiday season, Globe myBusiness is holding a three-day e-bazaar with Lazada, happening from November 27 to 29. This will feature Globe myBusiness clients and partner SMEs, such as Bayongciaga, Punta Riviera Resort, Old World Food Enterprise, and Robi & Peach RTW clothing with live selling to be streamed through Laz Live and Globe myBusiness’ Facebook page.

An even grander part of the campaign will happen as more activities and promos featuring SMEs will be rolled out by Globe myBusiness in collaboration with partner malls such as Ayala Malls and SM Premier Malls in the coming weeks.

The collaborations with these partner malls are made more exciting through a social-media promo that will encourage the public to upload their picture showing how they are keeping themselves safe while shopping and dining.

Globe’s #GiftLocal likewise joins the government’s advocacy “Ingat Angat Tayong Lahat,” which aims to restart the Philippine economy by building consumer confidence and guiding private corporations and SMEs regarding the best safety practices they can adopt in their operations, notably digital solutions, such as GCash for cashless transactions, and KonsultaMD for employees’ telehealth service.

Globe myBusiness is also partnering with Ayala Foundation for its Brigada ng Ayala project, which provides education packs, health and hygiene kits, and connectivity support for teachers and learners in the new normal of education. The partnership with Ayala Foundation also extends to disaster relief initiatives.

Globe is also supportive of the 10 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as UNSDG 8 on decent work and economic growth.

Apple unveils first Macs built to run more like iPhones

BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press SAN RAMON, California—Apple is rolling out new Mac computers powered by the same kind of chips that run iPhones and iPads, a move aimed at making it easier for its most popular products to work together.

For instance, Macs using the new chips will be able to run the same apps designed for the iPhone’s mobile operating system, although it appears some developers aren’t immediately keen on making those apps available for Macs. Apple didn’t demonstrate any other

interoperability features based on the new chips, although analysts expect more cross-pollination.

The new Mac lineup unveiled on Tuesday will be in stores five months after Apple announced it would abandon its longtime partner Intel in favor of using its own processors for Mac computers.

Apple said its new Mac chips make possible faster processing speeds, sleeker designs and longer running times on a single battery charge.

For instance, some Macs have eliminated a cooling fan inside the machines, helping slim down their design.

The transition to the new in-house chips could also create stumbling blocks for Apple and other software makers aiming to adapt existing Mac software so it will also run smoothly on the

new models.

Initially, Apple will only be putting its chips in smaller computers—the 13-inch MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, as well as the Mac Mini desktop. The company expects it will take another two years before all its Macs are running on the in-house chips.

All three new computers are supposed to be available in stores next week, with prices starting at almost $700 for the Mac Mini to $1,200 for the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The new Macs are debuting amid high demand for laptop computers as consumers, companies, schools and government agencies adjust to a work-at-home shift triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even if a vaccine eases the

threat posed by the novel coronavirus, people still are expected to be working more frequently from home than they previously did.

Apple’s Mac sales surged 17 percent during the first nine months of this year compared to 2019.

The company’s iPhone revenue fell 9 percent over the same span as people continued to hold on to their older models for longer periods or bought devices powered by Google’s Android software instead.

Apple still get four times more revenue from iPhones than it does from Macs Sales of Macs also lag far behind those of PCs made by Lenovo, HP and Dell that run Microsoft’s Windows software and primarily use chips made by Intel and AMD.

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F there’s one thing I learned from using the Huawei Watch Fit from the last few weeks, it’s that regular exercise is no match for extra rice.

It’s not the watch’s fault, because it did everything it can to motivate me to exercise—and I did move quite a bit and piled up those steps, but I just couldn’t stay away from the rice cooker.

For its price of P4,999, the Huawei Watch Fit offers a lot of the functionality of those pricier smartwatches. It provides reliable fitness tracking, tremendous battery life, good performance and lots of features—especially when used with a Huawei smartphone.

In terms of design, the Huawei Watch Fit is what you’d probably get if the Apple Watch and the Huawei Band got married and had a child. Some would say it’s a skinnier version of the Apple Watch or a bulkier fitness band; regardless of the comparisons, it’s definitely a fashion-forward wearable that distinguishes itself from the circular Huawei Watch line and the basic Huawei Band family.

The Watch Fit is super light, at just 21 grams without the strap, and is made of a polymer material with a matte look. The protruding sensor bump at the bottom does dig into your skin if you strap the watch on tightly, and it could get sticky when working out, but other than that, the Watch Fit is one of the most comfortable fitness watches I’ve used. I had no problems wearing it all day or even taking it to bed to monitor my sleep. The Watch Fit is also 5 ATM waterresistant meaning it can survive a trip to the pool up to 50m.

Now if the shape doesn’t get you at first, the colors of the Watch Fit will definitely make you take a second look. The one I have has a silver body and Mint Green strap, but it also comes in a Graphite Black version, a rose gold with Sakura Pink strap, and one with a Cantaloupe Orange strap and rose gold chassis, which I think is the best combination.

I do have a bit of complaint about the strap though, because you can’t replace it with any standard strap.

Instead of the usual watch link, the Watch Fit has a tiny groove with a plug that locks the strap in place. So unless Huawei releases official straps, you’re going to be stuck with your original strap.

I always had a thing for big watches because of my poor eyesight, so I love that I could easily see the time with those big numbers from the Watch Fit’s always-on display. On the front, there’s a plush 1.64inch AMOLED screen with a crisp 280 x 456 pixel resolution (326ppi). The display quality is something you’d expect to find on pricier fitness watches. The slightly curved screen does a good job of fitting in all the information just like a circular smartwatch does, but I think it presents a much better layout.

Pressing the single button on the side wakes the screen and takes you back to the home screen when you’re in a menu or app. Pressing it while on the home screen brings up the app picker giving you access to sleep info, SpO2 monitoring, breathing exercises, timers, alarms, music shutter stopwatch and many others. Swipe down from the top of the home screen to bring up “quick settings” shortcuts, swipe up from the bottom edge to bring up your list of notifications, and swipe from the left-hand side to go back.

The display is responsive as you tap and swipe through the watch’s easy-to-use interface. It also helps that the display is plenty bright and easily readable even under direct sunlight.

The Watch Fit is compatible with both iOS and Android, but as expected, you get the full experience when pairing it with a Huawei smartphone (like using it as a remote shutter for the camera). The Huawei Watch Fit runs Lite OS, the same wearable operating system you’ll find on other devices in the Huawei Watch family.

Huawei promises 10 days of battery life from the 180mAh battery of the Watch Fit, and I’d say it’s a pretty accurate promise, though with the always-on display I managed a solid seven days before needing to charge it again. You don’t have to worry though as a five-minute charge can last you an entire day while a 30-minute charge will get you up to 70 percent.

Another feature the Huawei Watch Fit does well is its versatile fitness and health tracking. It can track up

can download lots of fun apps from its Kids Category, like Azoomee, ABC Spelling, Math Kids Learning, Baby Panda and many others. If you can’t find a title on the App Gallery, simply search for it using the Petal Search Widget and it will direct you to the download page of the app you are looking for.

I honestly wasn’t expecting a lot from the Huawei’s MatePad T10s, as they already have the MatePad Pro and MatePad, but it has proven to be quite impressive.

For P12,999, you get a sleek-looking tablet with a big screen, loud stereo speakers and reliable performance making the Huawei MatePad T10s a great option. ■

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to 96 different activities, from conventional forms of exercise like walking, running, cycling elliptical, and rowing to other activities such as spinning, stepper, yoga, HIIT, boxing, strength training, taekwondo— and get this, there’s even ballet, latin, jazz and belly dancing.

Comparing it with another fitness band, I’d say it does a pretty good job of recording your reps and steps accurately. The Huawei Watch Fit has improved GPS so you don’t have to take your phone along on a run or in my case, walk.

But the feature I liked the most has to be the animated fitness courses that guide you through some simple exercises. I tried most of them (keyword: TRIED) and this alone for me makes the Watch Fit worth buying. There’s reenergize, neck and shoulder relaxation, exercise at work, burn fat fast, full body stretch, ab toning, leg workout, and more, each one lasting from 3 minutes to around 18 minutes. Each exercise comes with a short explanation of what it is and the benefits you get. It’s simple and very easy to squeeze into your schedule. It will be interesting how Huawei decides to further build on this feature.

The Huawei Watch Fit is a great buy for beginners who are looking for a trendy smartwatch that can help them start an active lifestyle. It has all the basics covered and does a pretty good job of accurately tracking steps and recording activities. The SpO2 and stress-monitoring features are also a big extra and the animated workouts are fun to use—all at a price that will fit your budget.

E-LEARNING FOR KIDS

AS smartphones began to have bigger screens, tablets slowly began to lose its purpose and popularity— many even predicted the slow and eventual demise of the Android tablet a few years ago.

But when the pandemic broke out and kept everyone locked-in, the demand for extra devices with

bigger screens grew. From being an entirely businesscentric device, tablets have become an all-round device for the entire family.

The Huawei MatePad T10s is a budget-friendly alternative for families looking for a work and play tablet. It is equipped with a 10.1-inch Full HD display with a resolution of 1920x1200, powered by the Kirin 710A processor, which makes it capable of multitasking and a 5000mAh battery.

It’s a device that the entire family can share, and most importantly it’s something you can let the younger kids use instead of giving them access to your smartphone.

This is because the MatePad T10s has a Kids Corner feature that allows kids to safely explore child-friendly content, eye protection and secure parental control. Kids Corner is a dedicated area with preinstalled recorder, camera, multimedia and painting apps. Parents can easily manage time, apps and other content here allowing multiple designated time limit intervals throughout the day.

For example, you can set it so that your kid can use the tablet for a maximum of 20 minutes after school or dinner. You can also apply different settings for the weekday versus the weekend, so that that tablet brings the perfect balance between study and play to meet different needs.

Parents can choose which apps children can use through app management, and also select the videos and photos their kids see through content management—parents can be 100 percent assured of their child’s online safety.

To protect your kids eyesight, the tablet has been designed with six-layer intelligent eye protection features, including blue light filter, posture alerts, distance alerts, brightness alerts, bumpy road alerts, and eBook mode to add extra protection to children’s sensitive and developing eyes.

Huawei’s App Gallery continues to grow and you

THE popular video-sharing app TikTok, its future in limbo since President Donald Trump tried to shut it down earlier this fall, is asking a federal court to intervene.

TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, has until Thursday to sell off its US operations under an executive order that Trump signed in August.

Trump in September gave his tentative blessing to a ByteDance proposal meant to resolve US national security concerns by placing TikTok under the oversight of American companies Oracle and Walmart, each of which would also have a financial stake in the company. But TikTok said this week it’s received “no clarity” from the US government about whether its proposals have been accepted.

The deal has been under a national-security review by the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, which is led by the Treasury Department. The department “remains focused” on resolving the alleged national security risks posed by TikTok, a Treasury spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday evening.

“With the November 12 CFIUS deadline imminent and without an extension in hand, we have no choice but to file a petition in court to defend our rights and those of our more than 1,500 employees in the US,” TikTok said in a written statement Tuesday.

Trump has cited concerns that the Chinese government could spy on TikTok users if the app remains under Chinese ownership. TikTok has denied it’s a security threat but said it’s still trying to work with the administration to resolve its concerns.

The legal challenge is “a protection to ensure these discussions can take place,” the company said.

The Trump administration had earlier sought to ban the app from smartphone app stores and deprive it of vital technical services, but federal judges have so far blocked those actions.

TikTok is now looking to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review Trump’s divestment order and the government’s national-security review. AP

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UGUSTA, Georgia—Already seven months behind schedule because of the pandemic, the most unusual Masters was 30 minutes old Thursday when the silence was interrupted by a rumble down by Amen Corner.

No roars this week. Just thunder. And then a weather delay of nearly three hours.

All that, and it was still worth the wait.

Paul Casey matched his lowest score at the Masters with a seven-under 65, giving him a twoshot lead among half the field fortunate to play in perfect scoring conditions. Tiger Woods matched his lowest start, a 68, and kept a bogey-free card in a major for the first time in 11 years.

The course was different than what they expected, a result of the rain and the calendar. The silence was exactly what they expected because majors haven’t had spectators in 16 months.

But it was still the Masters.

“So many people like myself are just excited to play this,” Casey said. “This is a treat. It always has been and always will be a real treat.”

No doubt, the absence of roars was as eerie as the sound of a drone that approached the first tee as Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player prepared to hit their ceremonial tee shots. The Masters is using two drones this year, a first.

“A lot of firsts today. That’s kind of the way this entire year has been,” Woods said. “The fact that we’re able to compete for a Masters this year, considering all that’s been going on, it’s a great opportunity for all of us.”

Casey found energy from the familiarity of the course, from the history, from the mystique.

And it was enough to carry him to a round he needed on a day—a partial day—of low scoring. Twelve of the 48 players who finished shot in the 60s.

Woods, a notorious slow starter despite his five green jackets, had one moment where he thought trouble might lurk. It was the fifth hole, which he bogeyed all four

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OKYO Olympics gold medal hopeful Eumir Felix Marcial sparred for the first time at the world renowned Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles on Thursday and impressed future Hall of Famer trainer Freddie Roach and his team.

Marcial put on an impressive display of power and speed in three-round sparring sessions with German Marco Deckmann (3-1 win-loss with three knockouts) and unbeaten Armenian Aram Amirkhanyan (13-0 with four knockouts) on Thursday at the Wildcard Gym. Earlier this week, Marcial also sparred with American Gabriel Rosado (25-12-1 with 14 knockouts).

And Marvin Somodio, Roach’s Filipino assistant, was impressed saying Marcial’s

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SO MUCH ACTION, SO LITTLE VOLUME rounds last year when he won the Masters. He hit a low fade off the tee that left him 227 yards to the hole.

“Hit a 4-iron to the back edge and it only rolled out a foot,” Woods said. “That doesn’t happen here.”

The biggest crowd—about 100 people in this case—was two groups ahead of Woods watching Bryson DeChambeau smash shots into trees and one shot into the azaleas bushes behind the 13th green. He was lucky to find it because his provisional shot went into the creek.

He still made double bogey, though he managed to scratch out a 70.

So much action, typical of the Masters, and so little volume.

And for so many players, they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

“I was vocal earlier in the year about not enjoying golf in a pandemic,” Casey said.

“I didn’t know how the fan-less experience would be and so far, I’ve not enjoyed it. I’ve had nothing, or very little, to draw on from being out playing tournament golf. The Masters, though, this week it still has a buzz to it. There’s an energy and a little bit of vibe.

“Yes, it’s clearly a lot less than what we’re used to. But there’s something about this place. I felt excited to be here.”

The excitement for Casey began on the fearsome 10th hole when he hit his approach to a front pin about 5 feet away for birdie. He had eagle chances on both par 5s on the back nine and settled for birdies. He took on a left pin at the par-5 second with a 6-iron and watched the ball plop 6 feet away for eagle.

“You can’t hit that shot in April,” he said. “It pitched and stopped instantly, and that shot in April would have one-hopped over into the patrons.”

Webb Simpson played a tidy round, making eagle on No. 2 after the turn and finishing with seven pars for a 67. He was joined by Xander Schauffele, a runner-up to Woods last year, who had seven birdies in his round of 67.

“You’re going at pins that you wouldn’t really feel that comfortable with,” Schauffele said. “There’s so many spots where your ball will stay. It was just really strange.”

Lee Westwood wasn’t sure he would ever make it back to the Masters, earning a ticket

back with his tie for fourth in the British Open last summer. The best player without a major showed he still has some life at age 47. He shot 31 on the front and limited the damage on the back for a 68, joining the group that included Woods, former Masters champion Patrick Reed, Hideki Matsuyama and Louis Oosthuizen.

Dustin Johnson, the world’s No. 1 player, was among those who played in the afternoon and had to return Friday morning to finish. He opened with an eagle on No. 2 and was 3 under at the turn. Justin Thomas started with three straight birdies and was at 5 under through 10 holes.

Rory McIlroy also played in the afternoon, made bogey on his first hole and was struggling to make birdies. He was even par at the turn, which felt worse on a day like this.

The delay was the last thing the Masters needed with limited daylight hours leading to the two-tee start. Every

minute counts, and it was doubtful 36 holes could be completed by Friday.

The loudest cheer—applause, certainly not a roar—came for Nicklaus and Player hitting tee shots so early that they couldn’t see where they landed. Five groups got through one hole before the siren sounded to stop play for 2 hours, 45 minutes. And then players began to light up the course as the clouds moved to the east and those famous shadows from Georgia pines stretched across the fairways.

It looked just the Masters, minus the spring blooms, even if it didn’t sound like one. AP

PAUL CASEY works on his grip while Patrick Reed’s caddie Kessler Karain lies on the fifth green to line up a putt during the first round of the Masters on Thursday. AP

Marcial impresses in 3 sparring sessions vs world-class boxers coaches at the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (Abap) taught him well.

“I think his punching power is already there— and his quick hands. He is also fast even though he is big, his movement and footwork are great.

ABAP had properly trained him,” said Somodio via overseas phone call on Friday. “I am confident in my behalf that he can win an Olympic gold as long as he will not be injured or be over trained.”

Among Marcial’s coaches at ABAP are Olympic bronze medalist Roel Velasco, Ronald Chaves and Australian consultant Don Abnett.

“He really needs to be smart in his offense

because his opponent can knock him out, too. So after combinations, he should keep his guards up, keep his head movements and find great angles where he can avoid the counter,” Somodio added.

The sparring partners, according to international matchmaker and Manny Pacquiao’s MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons, are world-class fighters who could help hone Marcial to the men’s middleweight gold medal in next year’s Olympics.

“They are good tough guys, they are world class and very rough,” Gibbons said.

Gibbons said they are already processing

Saso in trouble with 4-over 76

Marcial’s medical requirements with the California State Athletic Commission for his license for his upcoming professional debut next month.

Somodio said Marcial’s debut would be either a sixrounder or four-rounder to jive with the three-round Olympic rule.

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UKA SASO succumbed to the Great Island Club course’s punishing backside to limp with a four-over 76 on Friday and find herself 11 strokes off leader Kim Ha Neul of Korea at the start of the Itoen Ladies golf tournament in Chiba.

It was the worst start for Saso in 11 tournaments on the Ladies Professional Golf Association of Japan Tour to share 84th place in the 96-player field, putting at risk her grip of the top spot in the Player of the Year and money list race.

The 19-year-old Saso—whose previous worse start was a 75 at the Stanley Ladies last month—is in danger of missing the cut for the second time in her last three tournaments.

The International Container Terminal Services Inc.-backed Saso found the long layout (6,741 yards) not to her liking, bogeying Nos. 2 and 3 before closing out the frontside with a birdie-bogey-birdie run for a 37.

The backside proved tougher as majority of the field were forced to use their woods for second or third shots. Saso bogeyed No. 10, missed a couple of birdie chances in the next five holes then dropped strokes on Nos. 16 and 17 for a 39.

A noted long hitter, Saso failed to birdie any of the four par-5s.

Still, 48 players bucked the challenge and broke par in demanding conditions with Kim, only in her fourth tournament in the pandemic-shortened season, sustaining the Koreans’ surge with a fiery 65 to lead by two over local aces Aoi Onishi, Mizutsuki Oide and Mika Miyazato, who carded identical 67s.

Kim—who missed the cut at the Stanley Ladies, tied for 17th at Fujitsu Ladies and shared 39th in the Mitsubishi Electric two weeks ago—rattled off four birdies in an impressive backside start then added three more in the last nine holes for a bogey-free 33-32.

Toto Classic winner, Korean Shin Jie, also of struggled but still salvaged a 71 for joint 32nd with some of the fancied bets in the Y100-million event, including this year’s other leg winners Sakura Koiwai, Mone Inami, Saki Nagamine and Yuna Nishimura.

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HE National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bit into the Games and Amusement Board’s (GAB) offer for a special guest license (SGL) that will be issued to collegiate players wanting to play in professional basketball leagues.

NCAA Management Committee Chairman Fr. Victor Calvo Jr. of Letran said the league is amenable to the GAB offer that was stated in the agency’s Board Resolution 2020-002 which was created “to balance professional and collegiate sports for the good of those amateur players who have existing contracts with some professional leagues and teams.”

“We are open to this resolution because we are a living organization,” Calvo said, adding several NCAA athletes played in the Chooks Pilipinas 3x3 and the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.

Calvo, however, said the resolution still needs fine-tuning.

“There are still gray areas that need to be polished,” Calvo told Friday’s virtual press conference also attended by GAB Chairman Abraham Khalil Mitra and Legal Division head Atty. Elmer Benitez.

Mitra, however, stressed the SGL would only be issued during the collegiate league’s off -season adding he hopes that the Universities Athletics Association of the Philippines would follow suit.

Among the NCAA athletes who played in the MPBL were Michael Canete (Bacoor) and Kent Salado (Manila) of Letran, Exequiel Biteng (Imus) of Mapua, AJ Coronel (Cebu) of University of Perpetual Help and Jerome Garcia (Bicol) of Emilio Aguinaldo College.

Also present in the virtual press conference were NCAA board member Peter Cayco of Arellano University and GAB Commissioners Ed Trinidad and Mario Masanguid.

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IKE majority of the compact field, Pauline del Rosario is eager to get restarted in the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour (LPGT) resumption next week armed with a new swing she enhanced during the long layoff caused by the global health crisis.

“These tournaments are giving me the chance to see some of the changes I’ve been working on in my game,” said del Rosario, the first Filipina to win on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) of Taiwan in 2017.

That feat actually spiked a sterling rookie pro season for the former Philippine Ladies Open champion, who racked up four LPGT victories to claim the Order of Merit diadem.

If not for the pandemic, she would’ve played four to five tournaments in Taiwan as part of her buildup for a crack at the LPGA Qualifying School.

During the long break, del Rosario kept

herself in form through daily workouts and doing golf drills—and like everybody else, she looked forward to swinging back into action before the year ends.

With the organizing Pilipinas Golf Tournaments Inc. getting the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Games and Amusements Board nod to resume operations under strict health and safety guidelines, two tournaments for the men’s and ladies circuits put up by International Container Terminal Services Inc. were set for November 17 to 20 and December 8 to 11 at the Couples and Langer courses, respectively, of the Riviera golf complex in Silang, Cavite.

“I’ve been preparing for the resumption of the tournaments since the lifting of the lockdown.

During the break, I’ve been following a workout program and made sure I was physically and

mentally in shape,” said del Rosario.

So do the rest of the ladies cast, including fellow former Order of Merit (OOM) winners Princess Superal and Chihiro Ikeda and threetime OOM winner and former LPGA campaigner Cyna Rodriguez along with Sarah Ababa, Gretchen Villacencio, Marvi Monsalve and Daniella Uy and brand-new pros Abby Arevalo and Chanelle Avaricio.

But focus will be on the 22-year-old del Rosario, thrilled and excited over the LPGT restart and the chance to brandish her brandnew game in new normal times.

“If I’ll be able to apply what I have been doing during my practice into a tournamentsetting, I can play good golf,” she said.

Pauline del Rosario is armed with a new swing she enhanced during the long layoff caused by the global health crisis.

16-member Gilas pool training on, no PBA players

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By Josef Ramos HE Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) revealed the composition of the 16-member Gilas Pilipinas pool that will vie in the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) Asia Cup 2021 qualifiers. Bahrain

is hosting in a bubble environment in its capital of Manama later this month.

The pool, according to Gilas program director Tab Baldwin, is composed of Mike and Matt Nieto, Isaac Go, Kobe Paras, Justine Baltazar, Dave Ildefonso, Juan and Javi Gomez de Liaño, Calvin Oftana, Will Navarro, Dwight Ramos, Kenmark Carino, Jaydee Tungcab, Rey Suerte and Allyn Bulanadi.

Six-foot-10 Angelo Kouame is the

prospective naturalized player.

No one from the pool is from the Philippine Basketball Association.

SBP President Al Panlilio said the pool started training on Friday at the Inspire Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna, after the federation secured an approval from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to resume team training.

Panlilio said no PBA player was included

in the pool because Northport, NLEX and Terrafirma, which were eliminated in the Philippine Cup, are reeling from the Clark bubble.

“We know some of them are willing to play for our country and we appreciate that, but it is important that they give themselves time to recover physically and mentally,” Panlilio said. “They were separated from their respective families for a long period of time.”

“I’m happy to have the green light and grateful to our government agencies, MVP [Manuel V. Pangilinan] and the SBP for their work in making this happen and for their support

Aces playing inspired going into quarterfinals

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OACH Jeffrey Cariaso and his Alaska Aces are getting all the motivation they need from their families to play smart and tough in the Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup that is now in the quarterfinal phase inside the Clark Bubble.

After a disappointing 0-2 start and an injury (anterior cruciate ligament) to Kevin Racal, the Aces worked hard in the elimination round to reach the playoffs with an improved 7-4 win-loss record.

At sixth place, the Aces face a gargantuan task

of being paired against No. 3 and twice-to-beat holder TNT Tropang Giga at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Angeles University Foundation gym in Pampanga.

Another holder of a twice-to-beat advantage, Phoenix Super LPG, faces No. 7 Magnolia at 6:45 p.m.

“Our motivation are our families—playing for each other has been our battle cry,” Cariaso told BusinessMirror through a text message on Friday.

“I think we always have a chance to go deep. At

this point there’s still a slight chance we make top 4, but we will do our best no matter what the obstacles are in front of us,” added Cariaso, called “The Jet” during his stint as one of Alaska’s top players.

Despite losing to TNT (95-100) last October 11, Cariaso remained optimistic. After beating Northport (102-94) last November 6, Alaska kicked NLEX out of playoff contention with a 122-119 victory highlighted by Maverick Ahanmisi’s 25 points explosion with 12 rebounds.

in this very difficult time,” Baldwin said.

The Philippines will play Thailand on November 26, South Korea on November 28 and again Thailand on November 30. Bahrain is hosting all the games of Group A that includes South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand as well as Group D made up of Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon and India.

Last February 23 prior to the pandemic, the Philippines routed Indonesia at home, 100-70, last February 23, but the Covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the Thailand on March 20. Josef Ramos “Our focus was to just be better everyday and that mindset helped us stay ready,” Cariaso said. “I’m happy with our team because everyone is stepping up.”

Cariaso has been relying on veteran Vic Manuel, who is averaging 15.9 points and six rebounds in 11 games.

“We’re just taking it one game at a time. We’re locked in to play and win the game tomorrow, to force Game Two on Monday,” Alaska’s Jeron Teng said. “We’ve been preparing well in practice. We have to play together as a team. It’s ‘we’ not ‘me.’”

Teng is averaging 11 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 11 games. Josef Ramos

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CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

Deng, Wei Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

51.

Liu, Bingjie Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

Luo, Yuanping Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

52.

ADVANCE CONTACT TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS AND PROGRAMMING INC. 23rd Flr. Vector 3 Bldg., Northgate Cyberzone Filinvest Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila

53.

54.

55.

75.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

50.

Chen, Hui , Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Su, Yuwen , Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Chen, Zhijian Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

79.

83.

Chen, Weijie Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

84.

Nan, Fudong Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

85.

Zhou, Xing Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Wang, Guangjin Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

56.

Hu, Yuanlong , Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

86.

57.

Hew Siew Ian, Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

87.

Wang, Weikai Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Chen, Yamei Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

88.

Sun, Mengmeng Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

89.

Liang, Jinlong Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Su, Tuqian Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

58.

59.

Zhang, Shiyang Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

90.

60.

Qiao, Pengtong Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Zhang, Hui Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Ye, Qing Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Xie, Anqi Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

93.

Hong, Qingxue Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

94.

Yang, Zhaohua Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Feng, Yuancai Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

61.

Wang, Yukun Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

62.

33.

Tan, Jun Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

34.

Duan, Ailing Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

64.

Fu, Yong Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

65.

35.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

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63.

91.

Li, Bin Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

92.

Yao, Xiangfei Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Xu, Lizhi Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Liu, Peng Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Yang, Shunfei Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

95.

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

96.

Fang, Yao Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

97.

Wang, Meishan Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

98.

Zhang, Yufei Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

99.

Zhang, Bo Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ANOC99 CORPORATION 5/F Ayala Malls Manila Bay Building, D. Macapagal Blvd., Cor. Aseana Street, Tambo, Parañaque, Metro Manila 100.

Gao, Xuewen Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

101.

Tong Char Sheng, Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

102.

Sun, Yuxiu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

103.

Lin, Bangyuan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

104.

Wang, Xu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

105.

Ji, Weishuang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

106.

Xue, Hao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

107.

Phan Van Hoang, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

108.

Mok Yeau Yek, Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

109.

Chen, Jiejun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

110.

Zhao, Weiwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

111.

Zhou, Bin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

112.

Yang, Xi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

113.

Yang, Bin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

114.

Peng, Tiantian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

115.

Luo, Qiming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

116.

Luo, Meiwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

117.

Li, Shuqing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

118.

Chen, Yicai Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

119.

Sam The Vinh, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

120.

Yan, Mingyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

121.

Qin, Haojunjie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

122.

Chu Ngoc Lan Huong, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

123.

Fu, Jinlian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

124.

Guo, Xinxin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

125.

Guo, Zhen Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

126.

Hao, Chengmin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

127.

Hua Thi Thuy Linh, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

128.

Yang, Xue Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

129.

Yue, Cuiping Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

130.

Li, Zhibin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

131.

Ye, Zhiwen Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

BusinessMirror

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

132.

Qu, Pei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

133.

134.

135.

136.

137.

138.

139.

140.

141.

142.

143.

144.

145.

146.

147.

148.

149.

150.

151.

152.

153.

154.

155.

156.

157.

158.

159.

160.

161.

162.

163.

164.

165.

166.

167.

168.

169.

170.

171.

172.

173.

174.

175.

176.

177.

Huang, Yihui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Chin Tian Houh, Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Ji, Zhengyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Lan, Wangying Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Wang, Wenjie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Lin, Dasu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Zhang, Lubao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Wu, Yunjie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Zheng, Mingzhu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Li, Zhijin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

NO. 178.

179.

180.

181.

182.

183.

184.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY Xiong, Jie Chinese Zhou, Si Chinese Su, Guoxiong Chinese Tang, Chi Chinese Wang, Haojie Chinese Zhang, Rongshan Chinese Weng, Qingkuan Chinese

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

226.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

227.

Liu, Xingyu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ARCHEV INC. Units 1 & 3 14/F, SYCIPLAW Center, 105 Paseo De Roxas, San Lorenzo, Makati City, Metro Manila CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

Wang, Jiadong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

BIG EMPEROR TECHNOLOGY CORP. Eastfield Center, CBP1, Macapagal Blvd., Brgy. 076, Pasay , Metro Manila

Zheng, Zhihu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

188.

Wang, Jiabin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Vo Quang Huynh, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

190.

Liu, Chuanqi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

191.

Tang, Guolong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

192.

Lin, Zhiyong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

193.

194.

Lu, Ming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Li, Qiqi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

195.

Wang, Hui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

196.

Aung Naing, Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

197.

He, Jinlian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

198.

Wu, Shunnong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Yan, Hongda Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

200.

Xiao, Chaohua Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

201.

Zhou, Li Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

202.

Mo, Yunlong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

203.

Chen, Ze Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

199.

204.

Wei, Wenjie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

205.

Zhu, Guoming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

206.

Htet Naing Win, Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

207.

Wang, Qian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

208.

Nguyen Thien Hong Phong, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

209.

Nong Thi Ngoc Ha, Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

210.

Peng, Degui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

211.

Li, Cuicui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

212.

Li, Ting Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

213.

Li, Fan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Xu, Yao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

215.

Zhang, Bo Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

216.

Wang, Anyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

217.

Li, Muhui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

218.

Ma, Yigang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

219.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

220.

Nguyen Thi Nga, Vietnamese Wu, Jianxun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

214.

Cao, Jlangcheng Chinese Nguyen Thi Hong Thanh, Vietnamese Feng, Nana Chinese Xie, Shaocai Chinese Nguyen Thi Hoe, Vietnamese Liu, Menghua Chinese Li Kyar Sike, Myanmari Lu, Yuandong Chinese Zhu, Yilin Chinese Zhuang, Yuan Chinese Guo, Hubang Chinese Yang, Jinsong Chinese Zhang, Fei Chinese Gao, Sheng Chinese Wu, Yanhui Chinese Liu, Wenfan Chinese Chen, Peng Chinese Xu, Xiaoli Chinese Huang, Jian Chinese Tao, Rongmin Chinese Zhong, Xuan Chinese Xi, Peipei Chinese Zhao, Yonggang Colombian Shu, Deng Chinese Wen, Jie Chinese Wang, Jianlan Chinese Zhang, Fengtao Chinese Liang, Fusheng Chinese Wang, Yinghui Chinese Wang, Wenxian Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

228.

229.

230.

231.

232.

233.

234.

235.

236.

237.

238.

239.

240.

241.

242.

243.

244.

245.

246.

247.

248.

249.

250.

251.

252.

253.

254.

255.

256.

257.

258.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Li, Tong Chinese Li, Long Chinese Feng, Xin

Lin, Xiaoling Chinese Huang, Wangxiong Chinese Zhang, Jinming Chinese Yang, Dezheng Chinese Pan, Zufan Chinese Nong, Jingcheng Chinese Zhang, Jiayao Chinese Pang, Xizhou Chinese Wang, Lichao Chinese Mo, Kui Chinese Chen, Jiaqi Chinese Lan, Aiai Chinese Dong, Yinsheng Chinese He, Zilong Chinese Jiang, Yunpeng Chinese Cui, Zhigang Chinese Liu, Weixing Chinese Zhou, Zhushan Chinese Li, Runming Chinese Liu, Zhuangfei Chinese Li, Yimei Chinese Meng, Junwei Chinese Xu, Pengcheng Chinese Lye Yong Hong, Malaysian Lok Chin Xiang, Malaysian Wu, Chugeng Chinese Dou, Zhiyong Chinese Zhang, Shichang Chinese

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

259.

260.

261.

262.

263.

Meng, Ching-Jia Taiwanese

266.

Zhang, Lili Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

267.

Shen, Shin-Yi Taiwanese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

268.

Xiong, Yu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

269.

Deng, Jinrong Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

270.

Guo, Jianpeng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

271.

Wang, Qian Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

272.

Yan, Yuandian Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

273.

Cheng, Yu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

274.

Han, Mengqing Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

275.

Zhu, Xiaojia Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

276.

Zhai, Zhenbo Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

277.

Chen, Gan Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CANON BUSINESS SERVICE CENTRE PHILIPPINES, INC. 15/F Marajo Tower, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Metro Manila 278.

Kamnang Ngheunang, Sylvain Cameroonian

ANALYST - FRENCH BILINGUAL

280.

Shih, Tsung-Fu Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING IT SUPPORT

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

CAPSLOCK INC. 7th & 8th Flr., Y Tower Bldg. Coral Way Drive Cor. Macapagal, Brgy.

076 , Pasay City, Metro Manila

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

281.

Cheng, Junfei Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

282.

Dong, Aihua Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

283.

Xu, Chengjie Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

284.

Mu, Mengyun Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

285.

Shen, Mengyun Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

286.

Ouyang, Nan Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

287.

Zhou, Jun Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

288.

Liang, Ailian Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

289.

Liu, Zhigui Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

CENTURY PEAK CEMENT MANUFACTURING CORP. U-1403/140 14F, Equitable Bank Tower, 8751 Paseo De Roxas, BeIAir, Makati City, Metro Manila 290.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Lyu, Qianglong Chinese

PIPING SUPPORT SUPERVISOR

291.

Guo, Hongjie Chinese

CHINESE ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNICIAN

Liu, Xuefeng Chinese

QUALITY ASSUARANCE(QA)/ QUALITY CONTROL ADIVISER

293.

Ren, Zhanfeng Chinese

CHINESE EQUIPMENT SUPERVISOR

294.

Qiu, Wenliang Chinese

DEPUTY MANAGER

295.

Wu, Zhenyan Chinese

LOGISTIC SUPERVISOR

296.

Hu, Xiaotao Chinese

PRODUCTION PLANNER

297.

Li, Junqiang Chinese

LOGISTIC SUPERVISOR

298.

Zhang, Lichao Chinese

LOGISTIC SUPERVISOR

299.

Zhang, Lipu Chinese

REDI-MIX PLANT MANAGER

300.

Wang, Xiaoyuan Chinese

PIPING SUPPORT SUPERVISOR

301.

Wang, Dongsheng Chinese

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Lai Mu Keong, Wilson Singaporean

BOOMING CONSULTANCY INCORPORATED 807-808 Aseana One, Bradco Ave., Tambo, Parañaque, Metro Manila

MANDARIN SPEAKING FINANCE ANALYST

LIU, MEIRONG Chinese

Su, Po-Ming Taiwanese

VIP HOST

Eng Yee Shin, Malaysian

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Kyin Hway, Myanmari

Ting Lee Ying, Malaysian

279.

HU, XIN Chinese

Wang, Chao Chinese

265.

POSITION

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Zhu, Jun Chinese

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

CAPITAL POWER GLOBAL LIMITED 17B & 17D 17/F Philamlife IT Tower, 8767 Paseo De Roxas, BeI-Air, Makati, Metro Manila

LIU, LIMING Chinese

Wu, Wenzhi Chinese

NO.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

BLOOMBERRY RESORTS AND HOTELS INC. Solaire Resort & Casino, 1 Asean Ave., Entertainment City, Tambo, Parañaque, Metro Manila

264.

Tang, Zhiqun Chinese

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

186.

Xiao, Benzu Chinese

223.

225.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

189.

222.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Cui, Weiquan Chinese

Yang, Yezhen Chinese

221.

224.

185.

Chan, Wai Han Chinese

NO.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

APLUS ACCEL INC. U-17P, 17/F Burgundy Corporate Tower, 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Pio Del Pilar, Makati, Metro Manila

187.

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INTERNATIONAL TALENT POOL DIRECTOR, BD INTERNATIONAL-CHINA

292.

CLOUD TRAVEL CONSULTANCY CORP. Rm 312, 3/F BF Bldg. A Soriano Ave., Intramuros, 069, Brgy. 655, City of Manila, Metro Manila 302.

Cai, Jianhe, Chinese

MARKETING MANAGER

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PHILIPPINES, INC. Sth & 6th Floor 8/10 Upper McKinley Bldg., No. 10 Upper McKinley Road McKinley Hill, Fort BonifaciO, Taguig City, Metro Manila

303.

Tomas Rodriguez, Andres David Venezuelan

SENIOR PROCESS EXECUTIVE

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE PHILIPPINES INCORPORATED 11/F Two World & Three World Square, 22 Upper McKinley Road, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila 304.

Mandelbaum Pardo, Ari Mexican

MARKETING DIRECTOR

CXLOYALTY PHILIPPINES, INC. 10F W Fifth Building, 32nd St. Cor. Sth Avenue Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Metro Manila 305.

306.

Touri, Estelle, French

FRENCH CUSTOMER CARE SPECIALIST

Woseme, Izia Lydie, Congolaise

FRENCH CUSTOMER CARE SPECIALIST

INTERNATIONAL TALENT POOL

DA SUCCESS BUSINESS TRADING INCORPORATED Unit 25D 2/F Zeta II Bldg., 191 Salcedo St., San Lorenzo, Makati City, Metro Manila

INTERNATIONAL TALENT POOL

307.

Shirley Yong Jia Ming, Malaysian

INTERNATIONAL TALENT POOL

308.

Evelyn Lee Joe Xuen, Malaysian

INTERNATIONAL TALENT POOL

Lee, Wonsang Korean

Yu, Yang, Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

Shi, Mengdi, Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

DYNA BINARY HOLDINGS INC. 18/F Tower 2, The Enterprise Center, 6766 Ayala Ave., Cor. Paseo De Roxas, San Lorenzo, Makati City, Metro Manila 309.

Wang, Yiyun Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

BusinessMirror

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

310.

Gu, Junchao Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

359.

Li, Lan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

419.

Jiang, Jing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

311.

Wei (A.K.A. Wei, Yuan-Ting), SongHang Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

360.

Tan, Zurong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

420.

Zhang, Jin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

GATEWAYSOLUTIONS CORP. 8/F, Edsa Cor. Sultan, Brgy. Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila

361.

Ooi Wei Keong, Malyasian

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

421.

312.

Chen, Zili Chinese

Shi, Pengli Chinese

362.

Su, Bingguang Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

422.

313.

Tan, Yuchan Chinese

363.

314.

Wang, Hui Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

Fan, Ziyou Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

364.

Tang, Zhidong Chinese

365.

FALCONTEK CORP. 26/F, Export Bank Plaza Cor, Chino Roces & Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave., Pio Del Pilar, Makati, Metro Manila 315.

316.

317.

Hu, Jie Chinese Ding, Xiaoling Chinese Yu, Zhigang Chinese

CHINESE MARKETING ASSOCIATE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPPORT CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPPORT

FIRST GENPACT INFORMATION TECH INC. Unit G-16/M01, 019/M02, G25, Solemare Parksuites Units Bradco Avenue, Tambo, Parañaque City, Metro Manila

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

476.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Xie, Yongshu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

477.

Huang, Guangwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Cai, Zengyan Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

478.

423.

Yang, Botao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Yi Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

479.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

424.

Wang, Helin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Huang, Xiaofeng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Long, Mingxian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

425.

Guo, Wang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

366.

Shang, Ruiqing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

426.

Yu, Haiyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

367.

Wu, Junjie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

427.

Liu, Fan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

368.

Wang, Chengdi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

428.

Peng, Chuan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

369.

Ren, Mengyao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

429.

Chen, Keting Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

370.

Shu, Hao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

430.

Lu, Jiazheng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

371.

Liu, Qing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

431.

Ye, Xiaolong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

GLOBALLGA BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING 3rd & 6th Flr., Ortigas Technopoint 2, Ortigas Home Depot Complex #1 Doña Julia Vargas Ave. Ugong, Pasig City, Metro Manila 480.

Zhang, Huantang Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

481.

Chen, Junqi Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

482.

Lin, Qihu Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

483.

Ke, Lianfa Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

484.

Shi, Jlanyong Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

485.

Xiao, Sifang Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

486.

Chen, Qingqiang Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

487.

Lin, Weiwei Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

488.

Shangguan, Erguang Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

489.

Ha, Longjiang Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

318.

Ou, Mingsheng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

372.

Jacky Kueh Yong Lin, Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

432.

319.

Li, Lutai Chinese

Yu, Yang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

373.

Qin, Chang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

433.

Liu, Chuan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

320.

Yao, Dengkai Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

374.

Zhang, Jiazhu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

434.

Peng, Jie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

321.

Wu, Yonggu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

375.

Xu, Kaiqing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

435.

Wu, Xiao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

322.

Zhang, Pan Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

376.

Wei, Chao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

436.

Li, Xing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

GM YI XIN INC. 33/F, Alphaland Corporate Tower, Ayala Ave. Cor. Malugay St., Bel Air, Makati, Metro Manila

323.

Huang, Qingyuan Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

377.

Lei, Mingming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

437.

Liu, Youcai Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

490.

324.

Chow, Tse Ka Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

378.

Liu, Wenguo Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

438.

Kang, Qi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

325.

Lu, Jinlong Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

379.

Lu, Shitian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

439.

Zhang, Yan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

326.

Yang, Wenhui Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

380.

Zhang, Jinchao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

440.

Chen, Long Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

327.

Ou, Mingsheng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

381.

Ayiziha, Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

441.

Ren, Qifeng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

382.

Guo, Libo Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

442.

Kuang, Yunfeng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

383.

Sun, Lulu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

443.

Tang, Ningning Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

384.

Zhong, Hao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

444.

Zhi, Lei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

385.

Wu, Zhenwen Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

445.

Nong, Lanying Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

386.

Xing, Weijian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

446.

Tang, Jiankai Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

387.

Deng, Lin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

447.

Shu, Jian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

388.

Sun, Xingshuai Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

448.

Jiang, Hao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

389.

Yang, Xiaodan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

449.

Su, Lijun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

390.

Sun, Zhuxiang

450.

Wang, Xiazhu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

451.

Xing, Hongfei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

452.

Wang, Zhiwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

453.

Zhou, Cheng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

454.

Ma, Shuchao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

455.

Yang, Ying Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

456.

Zhong, Shaolan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

457.

Tao, Xiqing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

FIXST MOBILE PHONE SERVICE CORP. TFW02, 3/F Good Earth Plaza, Bustos St., Sta. Cruz, City of Manila, Metro Manila 328.

329.

330.

331.

332.

333.

334.

Wang, Suyuan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER CHINESE SPEAKING

Hong, Yanyan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER CHINESE SPEAKING

Chen, Yishun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER CHINESE SPEAKING

Cai, Jiacan Chinese

EXECUTIVE CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER - CHINESE SPEAKING

Xu, Lina Chinese

EXECUTIVE CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER - CHINESE SPEAKING

Qiu, Hongda Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER CHINESE SPEAKING

Lin, Yating Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER RELATION OFFICER CHINESE SPEAKING

391.

392.

393.

FLYING DRAGON NETWORK PHILIPPINES INC. 4th - 11th Floor Aseana 3 Bldg., Aseana Avenue, Cor. Diosdado Macapagal, Tambo, Parañaque, Metro Manila

394.

335.

493.

Ye, Peipei Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

494.

Wei, Yanling Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

495.

Tian, Changwei Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

496.

Liu, Zhongyu Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

497.

Wang, Fenglong Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

498.

He, Zhiwei Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

499.

Ren, Wei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT

500.

Chen, Liang Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

501.

Tian, Xun Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

502.

Ran, Xuesong Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

503.

Ye, Paing Myanmari

MYANMARI CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

504.

Wang, Yiqiang Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

505.

Zhou, Yushuo Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

506.

Zhang, Si Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

507.

Ye, Xinyi Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

508.

Zhu, Jia Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

509.

Ye, Hongda Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

510.

Zhang, Dechang Chinese

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Shilong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Chen, Jingjing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Liang, Shengpeng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Gao, Junchao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

458.

Yang, Zongqiang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Xie, Xiuquing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

459.

Zhang, Weiwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Zhongwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

460.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

511.

Liu, Jiaming Chinese

Tang, Long Chinese

461.

Xie, Na Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

HC CONSUMER FINANCE PHILIPPINES, INC. 15th Floor, Ore Central Bldg., 9th Ave., Cor. 31st St., Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Metro Manila

462.

Zhang, Hanfu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

512.

463.

Chen, Yu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

397.

Liang, Qiao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

398.

Liu, Jinlang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

399.

Huang, Shuihuo Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

400.

341.

Peng, Keyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

401.

Chen, Feng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

342.

Chen, Zhenghua Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

402.

Xing, Qiankun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

343.

Liu, Fei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

403.

Ye, Hailong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

344.

Xiao, Hainan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

404.

Zhang, Xiaodong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

FONDAQUIP (PHIL.) INC. No. 953 Aurora Blvd., Project 3, Quirino 3A 3, Quezon City, Metro Manila

Niu, Yongxing Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

405.

Wang, Guiqiang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

464.

346.

Zhou, Qiuhua Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

406.

Yao, Lixiao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

347.

Wu, Mingyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

407.

Feng, Hongguang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

348.

Zhao, Yulong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

408.

Wang, Dingding Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

349.

Xiao, Qun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

409.

Xie, Chongwei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

350.

Wu, Xiangyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

410.

Tsalko, Tatiana Russian

RUSSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

351.

Huang, Zijian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

411.

Yang, Xiaoge Chinese

352.

Yang, Yang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

412.

353.

Wang, Lulu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

354.

Chen, Jinquan Chinese

355.

356.

358.

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

Peng, Wenbing Chinese

Xu, Long Chinese

357.

Yan, Daqi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

396.

345.

492.

Yang, Xiaoyan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

340.

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Qiu, Dong Chinese

339.

Zhou, Mln Chinese

Zhou, Jianmin Chinese

395.

338.

491.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

337.

CHINESE CLIENT SERVICE AGENT

Chinese

Tan, Yunchuan Chinese

336.

LIN, HUAYANG Chinese

Pang, Stephen Seng Fong Singaporean

HAMPTON ENTERPRISES, INC. 12/F Robinsons Summit Center, 6783 Ayala Ave., Bel-Air, Makati, Metro Manila Sharma, Kiran Canadian

Hasara, Frantisek Slovakian

INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL PROJECTS CONSULTANT

DIGITAL PLATFORM LEADER

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES PHILS. INC. U-5302 53/F PBCom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.A. Rufino St., Bel-Air, Makati City, Metro Manila

513.

Zhang, Zongren Chinese

PRESIDENT AND CEO

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR FOR UNIONBANK AND BDO NETWORKING TRANSFORMATION PROJECT

FORTUNEGATE HOLDINGS PHILIPPINES, INC. Sth Floor AG New World Manila Bay, Hotel 1588 Pedro Gil Corner M.H Del Pilar Street, Malate, City of Manila, Metro Manila

INFOVINE INC. 9/F Y Tower, MOA Complex, Coral Way Drive Cor. Macapagal, Brgy 076, Pasay City, Metro Manila

465.

Nguyen Le Nhu Hue, Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

514.

466.

Wang, Boning Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

467.

Lai, Xuankun Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ING BANK N.V. 19/F World Plaza Bldg., Block 4 Lot 5, E-Square Technology Parkcrescent Park West, Fort BonifaCiO, Taguig City, Metro Manila

468.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Yan, Pei Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

469.

Sun, Qiuyue Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Zhang, Peipei Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

470.

413.

Zhang, Xiaokui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Yang, Jinping Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

516.

471.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

414.

Gao, Qian Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Dong, Baolong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Zhang, Jindan Chinese

517.

472.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

415.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

Ouyang, Fang Chinese

Soong, Teein Taiwanese

Xiao, Shier Chinese

Qiao, Qiwen Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Wang, Xiaofei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

416.

Pang, Dazhou Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Qin, Qishan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

417.

Xu, Yongxiang Chinese

Li, Zheng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

418.

Lui, Jianbo Chinese

515.

Jin, Lei Chinese

Bermudez De Castro Aguado, Maria De La Almudena Spanish

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

DIGITAL PRODUCT OWNER

INTERCOMP LINK SOLUTIONS INC. 12th Floor Filinvest Three Bldg., Northgate Cyberzone FCC Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila

518.

GAMAK RESTAURANT Unit 3C-3D 2nd Floor, Citywalk 2 Eastwood Ave., Bagumbayan 3, Quezon City, Metro Manila

Wei, Yejun Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

519.

Huang, Youshi Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

473.

STORE SUPERVISOR

520.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Hong, Zhaohan Chinese

Fan, Jiaxin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

474.

Dong, Qingmei Chinese

STORE SUPERVISOR

521.

Yan, Shuai Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

475.

Cai, Bingyu Chinese

STORE ASSISTANT MANAGER

Wu, Sicheng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

522.

BusinessMirror

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

523.

Han, Jiaqi Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

524.

Zhou, Zhongbao Chinese

525.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

576.

Wu, Houqiang Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

577.

Huang, Wei Chinese

Wang, Ping Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

578.

526.

Chen, Xia Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

527.

Wang, Jiabin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

528.

Zhang, Lingyu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

INTEVALUE SERVICES INC. 22/F RCBC Plaza, Tower 1 Ayala Ave.,BeI-Air, Makati City, Metro Manila 529.

Ly Vinh San, Vietnamese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS STAFF

INVECH TREASURE PROCESSING CORPORATION 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th/F Six West Campus, McKinley West, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila 530.

Hu, Wangtai , Chinese

531.

Lin, Nianchun Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

532.

Feng, Jiacheng Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

533.

Lin, Zhoujie Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

534.

Zhu, Xiangwei Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Han, Yangjun Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

536.

Chen, Lina Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

537.

Zhong, Lunan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

538.

Shu, Danian Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

539.

Ren, Liangliang Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

535.

540.

541.

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Zhou, Jinwei Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Dong, Binbin Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Feng, Yuanyuan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

543.

Zhong, Sheng Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

544.

Li, Liwei Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Li, Kuan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

542.

545.

Huang, Qifa Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

547.

Wang, Dandan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

548.

Li, Wulin Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

549.

Teng, Daquan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

550.

Dan, Junlin Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

551.

Xue, Qingyun Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

552.

Yang, Bokai Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

553.

Zhong, Xiaote Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

554.

Lin, Xiaobin Chinese

546.

POSITION

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

622.

Min, Jie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

677.

Eyoh, Jun Yong Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

623.

Wei, Jinliang Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Yao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

678.

Ho Tac Phung, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

624.

Liu, Caowang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

679.

Lan,Yu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

579.

Chen, Zhibin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

580.

Gan Chin Loo, Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

625.

Yan, Yuxin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

680.

Heda, Huang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

581.

Luo, Ansheng Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

626.

Bui Thi Thom, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

681.

Kay, Cho Thein Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

582.

Chen, Zhenhao Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

627.

Cheah Aik Khoon, Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

682.

Su, Lingling Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

583.

Yin, Binbin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

628.

Cu Nam Lien, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

683.

Soe, Myint Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

629.

Sun, Zhiping Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

684.

584.

Dewi, Indonesian

Thanthay, Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

630.

Zhou, Chao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

685.

585.

May Thazin, Myanmari

Ji, Lingling Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

631.

Zeng, Lei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

686.

Chung, Van Quang Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

687.

632.

Sai Thiha, Myanmari

Wu, Yuanhua Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

633.

He, Kai Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

688.

Zeng, Yan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

689.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

634.

Hou, Hanyun Chinese

Hou, Tiwen Chinese

690.

Nguyen, Van Manh Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

LEEVE TECHNOLOGIES INC. Unit 3D Seibu Tower, 24th St., Cor. 6th Ave., Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila 586.

Consenheim, Joey Dennis Dutch

PRODUCT OWNER & INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EXECUTIVE

LOGICALSOURCE 1 CALL CENTER INC. 8/F Sultan Cityland Central, Brgy. Highway Hills, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 587.

Gao, Yanwu Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

635.

Li, Weijun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

691.

Li, Jianghui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

588.

Wang, Zixin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

636.

Qiao, Xinwang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

692.

Deng, Yulan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

589.

Luo, Songlin Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

637.

Wei, Yinmei Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

693.

Hoang, Ngoc Van Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

638.

Vong Vinh Long, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

694.

Chan, Hui Wen Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

639.

Tian, Jinhong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

695.

Zhou, Yang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

640.

Nong, Kaimeng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

696.

Yu, Ziyao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

641.

Zheng, Haojie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

697.

Wu, Zhaoyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

698.

642.

Zhai, Mengjie Chinese

Zaw, Aung Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

699.

Hua, Mengyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

M5 TECH AND SOLUTIONS INC. 30/F Alphaland Tower, 6789 Ayala Ave., BeI-Air, Makati City, Metro Manila 590.

591.

Xu, Huadong Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Liu, Haoshuang Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTIVE

MALOG SOLUTIONS, INC. 32/F Burgundy Corporate Tower, 252 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave., Pio Del Pilar, Makati City, Metro Manila 592.

Bai, Ye Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

643.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

593.

Xie, Qiuhong Chinese

Bo Bo Aung, Myanmari

700.

594.

Sang, Peng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

644.

Sai Aung Kham, Myanmari

Yang, Ahao Chinese

701.

Guo, Xiaohui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

645.

595.

Yang, Liqin Chinese

Lei, Benyong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

702.

Zhan, Kejia Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

596.

Wang, Ying Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

646.

San San Htwe, Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

703.

Shang, Keyu Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

597.

Lin, Rongrui Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Myo Win Aung, Myanmari

Lin, Dehong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

598.

Quan, Zhijia Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

704.

647.

705.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

599.

Jia, Mengqi Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

648.

Htin Hway Yu, Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Jieping Chinese

706.

Meng, Meiyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

600.

Huang, Qiuyue Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

649.

Liu, Zhongbo Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

707.

Pham, The Anh Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

650.

Danh Hoang Hien, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

708.

Nhin, The Thang Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

651.

Wendy Chu Li Yan, Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

709.

Dao, Van Thong Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

652.

Wang, Feilong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

710.

Wang, Weipeng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

653.

Wang, Shanshan Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

654.

Yee Kuan Sheng, Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

655.

Yin, Jie Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MOWNECUM SERVICES, INC. 20/F Tower 2 The Enterprise Center, Ayala Ave. Cor Paseo de Roxas, San Lorenzo, Makati, Metro Manila

656.

Law Yu Hong, Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

712.

To Ngoc Linh, Vietnamese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR

657.

Wesley Tan Wei Qian, Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

713.

Tan, Yuelong Chinese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR

658.

Tang, Li Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

714.

Huang, Jlnghong Chinese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR

659.

Trieu Van Son, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

715.

Liu, Yuping Chinese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR

660.

Phung Tuyet Nhung, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

716.

Jiang, Bin Chinese

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR

661.

Dang Thi Thanh Thuy, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

662.

Keshvinderjit Singh Hardial Singh, Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

717.

Jiang, Jing Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Wang, Lei Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MEDIALYZE PROMOTION AND RESOURCE MARKETING, INC. 22/F Robinsons Summit Center, 6783 Ayala Avenue, BeI-Air, Makati, Metro Manila 601.

Hsu (A.K.A Lily Hsu), Li-Wen Taiwanese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SUPPORT

602.

Chen, Si-An Taiwanese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SUPPORT

555.

Liu, Haidong Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

556.

He, Hui Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

MEGA-WEB TECHNOLOGIES INC. 6-11/F, MET Live Bldg. Edsa Cor. Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076, Pasay City, Metro Manila

557.

Liu, Wei Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

603.

Che, Yanxin Chinese

558.

Meng, Jiao Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER RELATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

559.

Shan, Ying Chinese

604.

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

Hu, Shourong Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER RELATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER

560.

Yang, Shaomin Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

561.

Liu, Muchun Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

562.

Li, Wanjie Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

563.

Wang, Yuan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

564.

Wang, Liyu Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

565.

Chen, Jiliang Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

566.

Yue, Bin Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

567.

Xin, Zicheng Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

568.

Chen, Muquan Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

569.

Hu, Weiwei Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

570.

Li, Fuhai Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

571.

Dong, Fengrui Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

572.

Paul, Paul Jeya Singh Indian

MANAGER - IT

ITSUWA MANILA REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE Unit B-1A 10/F Marvin Plaza Bldg., 2153 Chino Roces Ave., Pio Del Pilar, Makati City, Metro Manila 573.

Vuong My Thu, Vietnamese

BRANCH MANAGER

JINDINGYUAN BUSINESS SUPPORT, INC. 3-9/F Filinvest Cyberzone Bldg. A, Bay City, Brgy. 076, Pasay City, Metro Manila 574.

575.

Liao, Xiaofang Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Christopher Chong Seong Jae, Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

IOPEX TECHNOLOGIES PHILIPPINES, INC. E-Square I.T Park, 12th Floor NET Lima Bldg., Sth Ave., Cor. 26th St., Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila

www.businessmirror.com.ph

MERCATOR MODEL MANAGEMENT, INC. U-202, The Renaissance Bldg., Salcedo St., San Lorenzo, Makati, Metro Manila 605.

Ide, Fabio Luis Brazilian

COMMERCIAL MODEL/ TALENT

MINDSCAPE CREATIVES INC. Unit 19-O, Burgundy Corporate Tower, 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Pio Del Pilar, Makati City, Metro Manila MANDARIN MARKETING SPECIALIST

MONACO1 INTERNATIONAL INC. 27/F Techzone Bldg., 213 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., San Antonio, Makati, Metro Manila 711.

War, War Aung Myanmari

ACCOUNT ASSISTANT II MANDARIN

N POWER MANAGEMENT CORPORATION 29/F, PBCom Tower, Ayala Avenue, BeI-Air, Makati City, Metro Manila

606.

Hu, Lanmei Chinese

607.

Oh, Terry Boon Siong Malaysian

MANDARIN ACCOUNT STAFF

608.

Law, Hui Xiang Malaysian

MANDARIN OPERATION SPECIALIST

663.

Sai Kyaw Tun Oo, Myanmari

MYANMARI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

718.

609.

Li, Long Chinese

MANDARIN OPERATION SPECIALIST

664.

Lu, Xiaoming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

610.

Zhang, Ting Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

665.

Yan, Heming Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

NEW ORIENTAL CLUB88 CORPORATION 1331 Pearl Plaza Bldg., Quirino Ave., Tambo, Parañaque, Metro Manila

611.

Li, Yansong Chinese

MANDARIN MARKETING SPECIALIST

666.

Qiu, Huangkai Chinese

612.

Jiang, Weiqing Chinese

MANDARIN OPERATION SPECIALIST

667.

613.

Xu, Hao Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

MOA CLOUDZONE CORP. 4th-11th Floor, Nexgen Tower, C4 Rd. EDSA Ext., Brgy. 076, Pasay , Metro Manila

719.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Li, Tao Chinese

720.

Lin, Yun Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Qiu, Baolin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

721.

Huang, Zihua Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

668.

Jiang, Dianlong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

669.

Cheng, Xingyang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

614.

Lieu Dinh Quay, Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

670.

Li, Yuzheng Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

615.

Cen, Lang Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

671.

Zhang, Fuyao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

616.

Shao, Guangtao Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

672.

Yong See Hong, Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

617.

Chen, Feilong Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

673.

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

618.

Zhang, Xiaonan Chinese

Yap Chuang Hwa, Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

674.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

619.

Zhang, Jianhai Chinese

Yan, Qiuju Chinese

620.

Xue, Jiali Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

675.

Li, Jianbin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

621.

Li, Xin Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

676.

Yue, Dianling Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

*Date Generated: May 14, 2020 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.

Please inform DOLE-NCR if you have any information on criminal offense committed by the foreign nationals.

ATTY. SARAH BUENA S. MIRASOL REGIONAL DIRECTOR