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Pinoy nurse in Gaza

DESTROYED buildings stand in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, November 16, 2023. AP/LEO CORREA

By Malou Talosig-Bartolome

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EGIDOR ESGUERRA is not the typical OFW Filipino nurse. The General Santos native sports long hair, tied at the back, with a moustache and goatee. But his rugged looks humbly mask the heroic feat he pulled through from hell, the Gaza Strip.

Esguerra can be considered a “veteran” of the Gaza war. He has been assigned five times to the enclave by his international humanitarian medical group, Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders (MSF), since 2018.

“I was on my sixth mission to Gaza. I arrived in Gaza on October 2, and then October 7 happened,” he said, referring to the surprise Hamas infiltration inside southern Israel where 1,200 people were killed.

In the previous Gaza conflicts, exchange of rockets and gunfire between Hamas and Israel would last for only 48 hours. He explained that MSF has provided foreign workers like him with “safe rooms” where they can take shelter whenever there are siren calls, warning of missile strikes.

But the Israel bombings were relentless, and he realized that war would drag on when the Israelis bombarded a building next to theirs on the fourth day of the campaign.

“An airstrike hit a building less than 500 meters away from us. We could feel our houses shake,” the Filipino nurse recalled.

Evacuating MSF staff out of Gaza

IF there are conflicts, wars or disasters, there are surely volunteers from MSF. The group was initially founded in Paris—thus the French name—and is now based in Geneva. In 1999, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their pioneering humanitarian work to millions of people in more than 70 countries.

Filipinos are familiar with MSF as their volunteer doctors and nurses set up makeshift hospitals and treated survivors of Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013.

They were also one of the international aid agencies who came to help hundreds of thousands of

people displaced by the Philippine Armed Forces campaign against the ISIS-inspired Maute group in Marawi City.

It is no wonder, MSF is likewise present in Gaza as well as in other occupied Palestine territories like the West Bank. Since 1989, its foreign and Palestinian staff have provided surgery, occupational therapy, psychosocial support and health education to millions of people there who are victims of the 16-year conflict.

Aside from being an emergency nurse, Esguerra played a more critical role in the MSF as a medical coordinator. He recruited most of the MSF Palestinians. To avoid duplication of assistance, he also had to coordinate with partners such as Gaza’s Ministry of Health, so-called “interlocutors” or the network of international different organizations.

Esguerra said when the missile struck a building near the MSF headquarters, they had to evacuate and move to somewhere safer.

At first, they thought of the basement of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compound also in Gaza City, but then later, they were told to move to three different locations towards the southern tip of Gaza.

While MSF staff had moved from one place to another for safety, they needed to find ways to survive and continue helping injured Palestinians, especially children.

The MSF estimates there were 10,000 people wounded, 4,000 of them children. The hospital bed capacity in the enclave is only 3,500.

Doctors had to stitch the wounds, operate on or sometimes cut the limbs of injured children without anesthesia.

REGIDOR ESGUERRA (left) and Darwin dela Cruz at the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border. REGIDOR ESGUERRA /MSF

the MSF that they will be striking a Hamas target less than 100 meters away from their position.

“We were given a warning in advance that it will be hit. And there’s no opportunity already for us to move to another location. For an hour, it was an intense moment for us to wait for the Israeli air force to hit their target. And when it happens, it happens. It is difficult to describe the effect of bombardment kapag malapitan po [when it’s just nearby],” he said.

Family members of the MSF Palestinian staff and volunteers also become victims of violence, i.e., their houses getting razed or family members killed. Despite this, their Palestinian staff remained faithful to their service to them, the foreign workers—delivering their food and making sure they are safe.

The MSF headquarters in Geneva subsequently decided it was time to evacuate their foreign workers out of Gaza.

Esguerra was then given a new assignment—the team leader in charge of security for foreign workers of MSF. “It was a big responsibility that was given to me. I was given a responsibility to be the evacuation team leader for 22 international medical staff of Doctors Without Borders. Ako rin po ang [I was also] responsible for the security of our team. Every time there is a movement, bombings close to our areas,

I have to report to our task force based in Jerusalem,” Esguerra said.

One of the MSF foreign workers is a kababayan, Darwin dela Cruz. The MSF said dela Cruz is still recuperating from the trauma, and declined to allow BusinessMirror to interview him.

Aside from the 22 MSF foreign workers, Esguerra was also given the task to take care of the evacuation of 13 other foreign workers from other international organizations.

“It was quite an intense moment because I have to take care of my team not only physically but also mentally,” he said.

On November 1, under his leadership, Esguerra was able to extricate himself, dela Cruz and 33 other international workers out of Gaza. They were the first batch allowed by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to leave the enclave.

Relieved, President Marcos Jr. announced the escape from hell of the two MSF workers.

Esguerra is now in the Philippines, and was given six weeks to rest, and possibly recuperate from the mental trauma caused by the war. He still thought of the war, the Palestinian people they worked with and met, the cries for help and the gargantuan humanitarian crisis they left behind.

Asked if he would return to Gaza given another chance, he replied, “Yes.”

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Hamas chief who deceived Israel is target No. 1 deep underground

By Ethan Bronner & Henry Meyer

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IVE years ago, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, scrawled a note on a document that he knew Egyptian intermediaries would hand to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Take a “‘calculated risk’ on a ceasefire,” Sinwar wrote in Hebrew, according to former National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat.

Not long before, the Hamas chief had said something similar to an Italian journalist: “I don’t want war anymore. I want a ceasefire.”

His ambition for the impoverished Palestinian coastal strip? “We can be like Singapore, like Dubai.”

In the wake of Hamas’s longplanned and brutal October 7 as-

PALESTINIANS look for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, November 12, 2023. AP/FATIMA SHBAIR

sault on Israel, the Israeli security establishment is looking back on his words in a new light: as part of an effort to create the illusion that Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the US and European Union, was limiting its embrace of violence to focus on governance.

Israeli officials now acknowledge that a sense of complacency had set in around Hamas. In recent years, the military had greatly reduced its surveillance of the Gaza border fence, relying on electronic sensors and transferring troops out of the area to guard settlements in the West Bank.

As Israeli analyst Chen Artzi Sror wrote recently in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, ambitious military intelligence analysts preferred to focus on Iran and Syria because working on Palestinian issues was not considered of existential importance.

Deceived?

THE overarching sentiment was that Hamas had been deterred, and that the real challenges lay further afield.

“Sinwar read the Israeli consciousness very well,” said Michael Milshtein, former head of Palestinian research for the military’s intelligence department. “He wanted Israel to believe that Hamas was concentrating on stability in Gaza, promoting civil affairs. He planted this wrong idea in the minds of Israelis.”

Today, as the Israeli military reduces much of Gaza to rubble in its mission to destroy Hamas, killing more than 11,000 people in the process, according to the Hamasrun health ministry, Sinwar is emerging as the assault’s mastermind. He’s the top target for assassination, assumed to be hiding deep in a Gaza tunnel, “like a little Hitler in a bunker,” as Netanyahu put it recently.

As the October 7 attacks remake regional—even global—politics, raising a risk of broader war, it’s notable that the dynamic that gave rise to it is one of intimate enemies. Sinwar and the Israelis have been watching and analyzing one another for decades.

The transformation

BORN in a poor neighborhood of the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, Sinwar, 61, helped found Hamas’s military wing in the late 1980s as the first Palestinian uprising was underway. He later took on

the task of rooting out Palestinian collaborators with Israel, and was responsible for killing four of them.

Israeli military authorities, at the time still operating inside Gaza, sent him to life in prison in 1989.

Behind bars, Sinwar achieved deep fluency in Hebrew and Israeli society, regularly reading newspapers along with the biographies of key Israeli figures. He also became the uncontested leader of Hamas prisoners. According to Israeli officials and a former Hamas activist, while in prison he continued to have collaborators killed—including one he personally beheaded.

Officials describe him as a cold-blooded, magnetic leader; a compact, sinewy man whose closecropped hair and beard have by now mostly turned white.

In the early 2000s, while in prison, Sinwar began experiencing headaches and blurred vision. He was taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba where a surgeon removed a brain tumor, saving his life.

Betty Lahat, the prison system’s intelligence chief at the time, said in a TV documentary that she tried to use that event to recruit him as an agent.

“I said, the state of Israel saved your life,” she said. “I thought I could turn him into one of ours, but he wasn’t interested. He kept talking about the day he would be released. I told him you’re never getting out. He said there’s a date: God knows it.”

There was a date. It was October 18, 2011, when Israel exchanged more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held by Hamas, Gilad Shalit. Among those released—and the man who drew up the list — was Sinwar.

Because he’d killed fellow Palestinians and not Israelis, and was no longer young, some Israeli officials didn’t object to his being on the list. Others did.

“There was talk of how he was not a threat,” recalled Milshtein, the former intelligence officer. “He doesn’t want to return to dangerous activity, he’s forgotten how to plan a terror attack. I tried to tell them they were wrong. Hamas is a mission for your whole life. It took him only a week to return to his connections and activities. Today, Hamas in Gaza is Sinwar.”

‘Misled’

HE rejoined Hamas at a senior level and by 2017 had been elected the group’s leader for all of Gaza, replac-

ing Ismail Haniyeh, who was sent to Qatar.

“Hamas and Sinwar misled Israel and made it think war wasn’t an option for Hamas,” Akram Atallah, a Gaza-based columnist for the West Bank newspaper Al Ayyam, said by phone. “It was a sophisticated misinformation campaign deceiving Israel into believing they were seeking peace, workers, and economic life for Gaza residents.”

After the October attack, a senior Hamas official, Ali Baraka, told the Russian state channel RT something similar—that the group had prepared for October 7 for two years while fooling Israel into thinking it was “busy governing Gaza.” Planning encompassed not only the attack, but also how Hamas would rule in its aftermath.

That was the subject of a 2021 conference in Gaza entitled “The Promise of the End of Days,” where Sinwar delivered the keynote address. A summary document revealed it to have dealt with the topic of what to do with Israeli experts once the country was defeated: “Keep the Jewish scientists and experts in the fields of medicine, engineering, technology, civil and military industry for a while and do not let them leave with their knowledge and experience.”

While Hamas officials never spoke directly to Israeli authorities, Sinwar worked through intermediaries to persuade Israel of his group’s benign intentions. As part of these efforts, he collaborated with the Palestinian Authority to negotiate Israeli work permits for some 18,000 Gazans, allowing them to work as day laborers within Israel.

It was some of these workers who Israeli security officials say drew maps of the communities and made lists of local families to orient the Hamas militants before October 7.

Since the attacks, Sinwar has not issued any statements or spoken to the press.

Meanwhile, 75 miles away from where the attacks took place, a poster hangs on the wall of the defense ministry in Tel Aviv. It features dozens of Hamas commanders with lines drawn across the faces of those who’ve been killed. The plan is to fill the poster with marks.

Sinwar is at the top.

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MAP backs EDSA Busway restrictions, except for ‘most essential’ exemptions

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HE Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) on Friday said it is supporting the restrictions imposed by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) on the access and use of the EDSA Busway, but pointed out that only the “most essential” exemptions must be allowed.

“But we must state that the proposal of the MMDA [Metropolitan Manila Development Authority] to allow a ‘convoy of 5 vehicles of officials’ on the Busway runs counter to globally accepted Busway standards that account for its efficiency,” MAP said in a news statement.

The business group emphasized that this MMDA proposal must not become a policy, noting that the Busway is a “dedicated carriageway” for buses to transport commuters that was introduced as a solution to the previous “chaotic and inefficient” bus service extant for many decades to the detriment of commuters.

Now that a solution has been introduced with “demonstrated effectiveness,” MAP stressed that it must not be allowed to be compromised or degraded by lax or what it called “pusong mamon” enforcement.

According to the business group, accommodating convoys of officials demonstrates “inconsistency” of public policy that tend to favor the privileged few over the “overwhelming” majority of the commuters and motorists, who the group said, deserve an efficient EDSA Busway.

According to local news reports, MMDA announced that the Transportation department, in a letter

dated November 14, gave it nod to its recommendation to allow the convoys of the President, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker and Chief Justice to use the Edsa carousel bus lane starting November 20 “to provide assistance in the performance of their duties.”

MAP explained that the “restricted access and exclusivity” of the Busway, aside from its alignment on the innermost lane, are the two most important standards governing the operation of Busway and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems.

These standards, the business group pointed out, are the “very reasons the Busway and BRT system are the most cost-effective urban mass transit system in the world.”

Hence, it said that all efforts must be exerted to adhere to these Busway standards to protect it from being “degraded.” “ Violation of Busway standards w il l spel l the doom of this EDSA Busway and chaotic bus ser v ice w i l l reig n once aga in as before when over 3,0 0 0 buses c log ged the curbside yel low bus lanes and caused traffic tur moil,” M A P said in its statement.

According to the business group, the efficiency of the EDSA Busway enabled a mere 550 buses to carry as much as 450,000 passengers a day as of December 27, 2022.

In the 30-month period since the inception of the Busway on June 1, 2020 up to the end of 2022, MAP said 154 million passengers were transported. Andrea E. San Juan

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PHL and US sign landmark ‘123’ deal on nuke power cooperation

By Malou Talosig-Bartolome & Samuel P. Medenilla

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HE Philippines and the United States revived a 1968 nuclear cooperation agreement signed during the administration of the late strongman former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. allowing US to share its technology to the Philippines for peaceful purposes.

Fifty-five years later, under the administration of his son and namesake President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the Philippines and US brought back to life the “123 Agreement” and put back on the table the plan to build nuclear power

plants in the Philippines and solve its energy crisis. Philippine Energy Secretary Rafael “Popo” Lotilla and US State Secretary Anthony Blinken signed the agreement in San Francisco, at the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit Friday.

The President witnessed the signing of the new landmark agreement, which will pave the way for the country to import nuclear nuclear equipment and material from the US. The President hailed the finalized accord since it supports his administration’s push to include nuclear power generation plants in the country’s energy mix.

“We see nuclear energy becoming a part of the Philippine energy mix by 2032, and we would be more than happy to pursue this path with the United States as one of our partners,” Marcos said during the signing event.

The country’s “123” accord was the fastest to be negotiated and signed by the US government, according to the Chief Executive.

The Philippines and the US completed the negotiations of the agreement on September 19, 2023.

Marcos said the country will be “opening its doors” for US companies to invest and participate in domestic nuclear power projects.

Earthquake shakes Eastern Mindanao

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AVAO CITY—A shallow but strong earthquake shook a wide portion of eastern half of Mindanao at late afternoon on Friday. The temblor lasted more for than a minute.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the earthquake was measured at a very strong Magnitude 7.2 some 30 kilometers southwest to the sea from the southernmost Sarangani Island of Davao Occidental.

It has a depth of 10 kilometers but its shaking at 4:14 pm was felt

strongest at Intensity 8 in General Santos City, Glan Sarangani and many towns of Sarangani and South Cotabato.

It wa s fe lt at Intensit y 5 i n Matanao, Davao del Sur, Maasim and Malapatan towns of Sarangani, Lake Sebu, Tampakan, Polomolok and Banga of South Cotabato.

It wa s fe lt at Intensit y 4 i n Kidapawan City in North Cotabato, Davao City, Magsaysay and many towns of Davao del Sur, Don Marcelino and Jose Abad Santos of Davao Occidental, Kiamba and Maitum of

Sarangani, Norala and Tantangan of South Cotabato, President Quirino, Lebak, Isulan, Esperanza, Columbio and Kalamansig of Sultan Kudarat.

Davao City was fortunate though when the quake struck as the city government has called off classes on Friday to preempt any combined impact of heavy rain and thunderstorm to be brought about “by the shear line and trough of a low pressure area in the Pacific.”

The impact of the earthquake was yet to be assessed but initial feedback included the collapse of a

“I know our companies are eager to advance discussions on potential projects,” the President said.

Last Thursday, the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) signed a cooperation agreement with the US Ultra Safe Nuclear Cooperation (USNC) to undertake a Pre-Feasibility Study on Micro-Modular Reactors (MMR).

For his part, Blinken said the nuclear agreement would help the country achieve its goal of reducing its carbon emissions.

“Today, we take another step to do that. By deepening our cooperation to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the Philippines,” Blinken said. construction crane atop a 26-story condominium building along Sandawa Road in New Matina, which fell to a residential yard but there was no immediate report of casualty.

It also sent a government building along MacArthur highway to sound the alarm siren and the San Pedro Cathedral to ring its bells as the quake lasted more than one minute, the longest to shake the area by any earthquake.

Shoppers rushed outside shopping malls and residents trooped to the streets to avoid any incidence of roof or building collapse.

A hotel attendant was also seen banging her fist at a metal chair crying for a stop to the quake. Manuel T. Cayon

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PBBM to meet with Xi to ease SCS tensions

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RESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said he will have a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a second time this year to discuss ways to ease tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) that have escalated in recent months.

Marcos will seek Xi’s views “on what we can do to bring down the temperature, to not escalate the situation” in the disputed sea, according to a statement on Friday by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO). The meeting would be for “some time today,” the statement said, without providing details.

“After that, we will put together the ways forward because we are continuously trying

to maintain the peace,” Marcos said, adding that he’s looking to “strategize for the near future” and determine the country’s “proper” role in the SCS. Marcos and Xi are attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.

The talks between the two leaders would be the first since January when Marcos met Xi during a state visit to Beijing where they agreed that the maritime dispute is not the sum-total of their relations.

But ties were strained weeks later. Marcos in early February granted the US military access to four additional Philippine sites, including bases near Taiwan, in a move that angered Beijing.

The US, meanwhile, has repeatedly assured

the Philippines of its ironclad commitment to defend the nation in case of an armed attack in the disputed sea.

The Philippine leader in February summoned Beijing’s envoy in Manila after the Chinese coast guard directed militarygrade laser at a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea, which temporarily blinded the Filipino crew. Since then, tensions flared up as Manila accused Chinese vessels of harassing Philippine boats resupplying its lone outpost in the Second Thomas Shoal, part of Beijing’s expansive claims over SCS. During a resupply mission early this month, a Chinese ship fired water cannon at a Philippine boat, while last month, vessels from both

countries collided in two separate occasions.

Concerns about geopolitical tensions hurting economic ties emerged after Manila decided to drop Chinese loans for three railway projects and look for other funders.

The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday said Manila was not walking away from China’s Belt and Road Initiative when asked to comment on reports suggesting such move.

“The Philippines is still implementing infrastructure projects funded with Chinese official development assistance,” the department said, citing a memorandum of agreement signed on the Belt and Road Initiative in January this year. Bloomberg News

Sen. Poe prods Congress to frontload passage of bill creating dept of water

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ENATOR Grace Poe, conveying concerns to ensure clean water supplied to consumers, pressed Congress to frontload passage of an enabling law creating the proposed Department of Water, reminding that “the country’s water woes are too big to be met by fragmented responses.”

In a statement, Poe urged the private sector to work with the government in ensuring sustainable water management and access of the people to safe drinking water and sanitation.

“The irony is that although there is a horde of offices involved in water, there is no one agency that has overall responsibility,” Poe pointed out in a forum on Water Security Strategy organized by the Coca-Cola Company.

“Simply put: Our ‘tubig’ sector is too big. So before we all sink, we need nothing less than a Titanic reform to prevent a Titanic disaster,” the senator added.

The presiding chairperson of the Senate

public services committee lamented that while a number of water-related agencies exist, “there is evident lack of leadership and holistic planning for the sector.”

Poe’s Senate Bill No. 102, to be known as the National Water Resource Management Act as soon as it is enacted pitches for the creation of a Department of Water Resources. The bill is currently pending at the committee level.

This new agency will be the primary polic y planning, coordinating, and implementing entity responsible for the comprehensive and integrated development and management of water resources in the Philippines, said Poe. “Undoubtedly, the impact of having access to clean water is life-changing. But who decides which communities will receive this blessing? Consequently, one area that needs to be immediately addressed is our fragmented institutional, regulatory, and management framework,” the senator stressed.

She conveyed concerns that “the proposed department is urgent and needed as water has become a critical resource all over the world. This calls for investments in infrastructure, technology and capacity building to meet the increasingly growing needs of the population.”

“Lamentably,” Poe deplored that in the Philippines, “two out of every 10 families do not have access to an improved source of drinking water. Two out of 10 families also do not have access to any sanitation facility. And three out of 10 Filipino families do not have access to a hand-washing facility.”

Based on a study of the National Economic and Development Authority, the water availability per person in the country also amounted to 1,553 m3 (cubic meters) per year.

She described this as “worrisome because 1,553 m3/year falls below the international ‘water stress’ threshold of 1,700m3/year and approaches the ‘water scarcity’ threshold of

1,000 m3/year.”

“A regulatory authority is necessary to ensure efficient allocation of this scarce resource. In addition to this important task, a regulator is also needed to determine just rates for water services,” she said.

Poe said that the government alone couldn’t accomplish developing the water sector. Her bill seeks to enable the private sector, civil society and community-based organizations to be involved in the delivery of water supply, sanitation, and septage services to end-users. “Our proposed law could be a game-changer in the area of water stewardship,” she said.

“Water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity. Let us work together to lift the floodgates of bureaucracy, attain sustainable consumption and production, and ensure that clean water flows to every household like a mighty stream,” Poe added.

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FFW calls for restoration of SUCs’ CO budget to boost employment

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ABOR group Federation of Free Workers (FFW) has called on the restoration of the capital outlay (CO) budget of State

Universities and Colleges (SUC) to boost employment.

At the National Tripartite Conference

organized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), FFW noted that education should be a priority by reinstating the slashed budget “for the preparation of human resources.”

“The FFW highlights that reinstating these funds is critical for the preparation of human resources poised for the modernization of agriculture and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, encompassing digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics,” said FFW in a statement.

Earlier in September, Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno called for a review on education funds. He said the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTE) is “inefficient and wasteful.”

The UAQTE law was enacted by the Duterte administration, providing free tertiary education in state universities and colleges (SUCs).

The Finance chief is also proposing a

national examination to qualify students who are entitled to free education.

“The core of my proposal to revisit the present free college education is how to optimally allocate resources funded largely by taxpayers for education,” Diokno said.

Since then, the labor group has been against Diokno’s plan to slash SUCs’ budget.

“Education is not an expenditure but an investment in our nation’s future,” said Vilma Garcia, union president of FFW at the De La Salle University Health and Science Institute.

Investing in education would help the economy, and this would assure workers that their taxes are being spent well, said Garcia in a statement.

“Ensuring that SUCs get the budget they deserve also ensures that teachers, who mold the minds of our youth, are well-compensated and enjoy the benefits they deserve,” said FFW. Patrick V. Miguel

German-PHL companies say they’re in a ‘better’ biz situation, but cite need for skilled workers

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ALF of the businesses engaged in German-Philippine economic relations said they are in a “better business situation,” but underscored the need to employ more as they cited the “lack of skilled workers” among the top issues in the business landscape in the Philippines, according to a survey conducted by the German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI).

The Fall 2023 AHK World Business Outlook Survey, which was conducted by the GPCCI in October 2023 noted, however, that this is “slightly lower” by 12 percent compared to the 62 percent of the respondents who said six months ago that they are in a better situation.

Likewise, the survey showed that the percentage of firms, which forecast optimism in business development for the next 12 months also slightly declined to 68 percent in the fall survey from the 74 percent result in May 2023.

In contrast, the GPCCI survey listed the “biggest risks” to these firms’ economic development in the next 12 months.

Some 38 percent of the firms in the survey said they see prices of energy as the biggest risk; 37 percent cited demand and lack of skilled workers; and 32 percent said exchange rates and economic policy conditions are the biggest risks for their companies for next year.

GPCCI Director and Policy and Advocacy chairperson Marian Norber t Majer underscored, “While many of our respondents want to employ more, we see that the lack of skilled workers remains to be one of the identified top issues.”

As such, he urged the government to “look at strategies and policies that promote skills development in our country that can both benefit local and foreign employment opportunities for Filipinos.”

In relation to this, the survey noted that 54 percent of the firms said they would hire more in the next 12 months. This is slightly higher than the 50 percent figure in the survey conducted by GPCCI six months ago.

Meanwhile, when asked how they judge the local economic development in the next 12 months, 46 percent of the participating

firms in the survey said they “forecast the same development on local economy” within the one-year period.

With this, 41 percent of the participating firms are planning to invest the same amount in the country in the next 12 months.

Moving forward, these firms unveiled the top three areas to make significant investments in 45 percent of the companies are planning to invest in Sales and Marketing; 39 percent are eyeing the Services sector, and 27 percent plan to earmark money for Research and Development.

As to the top factors that these firms take into account when deciding to invest locally, 56 percent said they consider Market Size or Market Development; 33 percent said they look at the local economic policy framework and 29 percent of the firms said diversification is on top of their minds when making local investment decisions.

In anticipating the impact of the EUPhilippines Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on businesses involved in German-Philippine economic relations, the survey showed that 46 percent of the respondents view the trade deal as “very important” to the company’s operations success.

However, these companies cited specific challenges they encounter when exporting goods and services from the Philippines.

Based on the survey, 39 percent of the firms identified “cumbersome” customs procedures; 37 percent cited tariffs and quotas; and 36 percent said technical barriers to trade such as conformity testing and certification are the issues that they face when exporting goods and services.

On the other hand, the firms noted the potential benefits that they foresee for their businesses as a result of the EUPhilippines FTA. About 40 percent of the companies said with the trade deal, they will be able to “expand/maintain current investments;” 33 percent said the trade deal will help them “gain competitive market advantage”and 32 percent of the firms said this FTA would enable them to consider new investments. Andrea E. San Juan

BSK disqualifications hit 39 and rising–Comelec

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HE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified 18 more Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) candidates, reaching a total count of 39 as of writing.

At least 29 of the candidates were disqualified for premature campaigning, three for “misrepresentations” in their certificates of candidacy (COC), and two were declared nuisance candidates.

A candidate was disqualified due to a sentence of final judgment of an offense with a penalty of imprisonment for more than 18 months. Another one for a complaint involving removal from office as a result of an administrative case.

Lastly, a candidate was taken out in the

running due to a case with penalty of perpetual disqualification to hold public office by virtue of an Ombudsman decision.

Last Friday, Comelec reported they have disqualified 21 candidates in the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) for premature campaigning and vote buying.

Comelec has not specified how many of the disqualified candidates won in the polls.

However, candidates that have won may have their proclamation suspended by the poll body.

Comelec spokesman Atty. John Rex Laudiangco said more disqualifications are to be expected.

“More petitions are being resolved,”he said in a Viber message. Patrick V. Miguel

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Solon urges barangay leaders to help build elderly database

F Antique board member Mayella Mae Plameras-Ladislao sponsors the ordinance providing annual social pension to the elderly population 85 years old and above during their session on November 13, 2023. Ladislao said the new ordinance provides sustainable funding support for indigent and non-indigent senior citizens in Antique.

Editor: Angel R. Calso • Saturday, November 18, 2023

By Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz

ollowing the conclusion of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), a senior lawmaker urged the newly elected officials to actively contribute to completing the national database of elderly Filipinos and solo parents.

PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay

By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay

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AN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—Senior citizens 85 years old and above in Antique are entitled to an annual social pension as provided for in the amended version of the Elderly Welfare and Development Code of the province of Antique approved by the provincial board on Monday.

“In the new ordinance, there is now a provision for sustainable funding support for both the indigent and non-indigent senior citizens,” board member Mayella Mae Plameras-Ladislao, sponsor of the ordinance that amended Provincial Ordinance number 144 creating the code, said during the session.

Plameras-Ladislao said the older version of the ordinance provided only a onetime social pension of P2,000 for 85 to 89 years old, P3,000 for 90 to 94 years old, P5,000 for 95 to 99 years old and P30,000 for 100 years old and above.

With the amendment, all senior citizens in the province will receive a pension annually depending on their age bracket.

“The senior citizens should comply with the requirements to avail themselves

of the social pension, such as the certificate of eligibility signed by the claimant assessed/interviewed by the social workers of the local government unit [LGU] or the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office [PSWDO] and the certification of the Office of Senior Citizens Affair [OSCA] head on their residency,” she said.

The social pension will prioritize indigents or those in a crisis situation.

Upon complying with the requirements, the authorized representative can get the full stipend should the beneficiary dies any day within the year.

The requirements include the certificate of eligibility to claim signed by the OSCA and duly noted by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, death certificate and a photocopy of the OSCA identification card of the beneficiary, ID of the claimant and affidavit of adjudication.

The PSWDO record showed around 3,000 of the 72,028 total elderly population in the province are 85 years old and above and receiving a social pension from the provincial government.

The amended version will take effect in January 2024. PNA

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte emphasized the importance of assisting the National Commission on Senior Citizens (NCSC) as well as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in identifying and supporting senior citizens and solo parents in their respective communities.

Villafuerte made a statement as he commended the winners for their success and called on them to fulfill their electoral mandate by prioritizing the needs of vulnerable sectors.

Villafuerte said local officials need to assist in completing the database because the NCSC has reported only 3,381,049 elderly registered as of November 12, 2023, or just about a fourth of all senior citizens in the country.

The NCSC earlier called on senior citizens to sign up on its website to create a database that will be used for pro-elderly programs, including the grant of the monthly pension, which will be doubled

from the current P500 to P1,000.

According to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data, there were some 12.3 million Filipinos 60 years of age and older as of May 2020, or roughly 11 percent of the country’s estimated population of over 109 million.

Villafuerte also highlighted the need for collaboration to achieve a 100 percent increase in the monthly allowance for indigent senior citizens.

He appealed to the Senate to approve the proposed budget for the pension fund, emphasizing the responsibility of local officials to protect vulnerable sectors, as mandated by the Local Government Code.

The legislator also stressed the urgency for local officials to facilitate the registration of elderly and single parents, stressing its role in preventing poverty in these demographics.

With a transition period granted to the winners, Villafuerte encouraged them to swiftly engage in their responsibilities and con-

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte

tribute to the government’s social safety net system.

Approximately 1.4 million candidates participated in the BSKE, filling over 670,000 electoral seats across 42,001 barangays nationwide.

Moreover, Villafuerte also highlighted the significance of tracking solo parents to ensure they receive the financial assistance and benefits designated for them under national social protection programs.

He explained that solo parents earning P250,000 or below per year are entitled to a 10 percent discount and VAT exemption on essential purchases for their children.

The legislator emphasized the importance of sustained financial support for solo parents and urged

As parents live longer, the load goes heavier for the children

By Nick Tayag

my sixty-zen’S WORTH

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wake up. Another good day to live. Yes, thank heavens for this gift of a day despite the body aches, the failing eyesight, the dizzy spells. I breathe in unison with 10 million seniors in the Philippines and 1 billion around the world.

They say I can live up to age 80 or 90 with today’s better healthcare.

Who knows I might be counted as one of the 426 million octogenarians whose numbers are estimated to triple between 2020 and 2050.

The bonus years between age 60 and 80 are romantically called “the golden sunset years.” Ahh, it has a nice ring to it, especially among old

folks who resent being considered oldies or seniors.

Tell me, what is blissful and golden about spending those extra years in and out of hospitals, making regular visits to the doctor’s clinic, being poked here and there, getting pricked for blood chemistry tests, going through MRIs and various scans, and God forbid, having weekly dialysis because of failing kidneys or getting ambushed by a stroke that renders half of your body in a state of paralysis and degeneration?

All of which demand a lot of time and attention, not to mention money, from our children because

we, their aging parents, are dependent on them. The stark reality is that the burden grows heavier and gets more prolonged beyond their means. One exasperated family member was overheard saying: “Ano ba yan? Biglang kibot, ospital na naman agad.” Ouch!

Just recently my wife and I attended the burial of one of her last surviving aunts. She lived to age 92.

One thing we noticed was the absence of the usual loud sobbing and crying. The ritual of burying seemed so perfunctory. The family members looked more spent than sad.

The late aunt was already very sick, in early dementia, when she asked to be brought home from California more than a year ago. She had worked hard in that country to save up for exactly this eventuality.

But it took another year and a half and several false alarms and trips to the hospital before the sands of the hourglass finally ran out.

Needless to say, it took a toll on the family financially and psychologically. Confined in the ICU three days before expiring, she left behind a family that is still scrambling to cover the huge hospital bills. The savings she put aside had long been depleted. So I could understand why even after putting the late matriarch to eternal rest, the family can’t still breathe a big sigh of relief.

The Philippines is supposed to be a good place for sick elderly people where children and close relatives can be counted on to provide loving support until the very end.

Every Filipino family has a “designated martyr,” preferably a single female member, the “matandang dalaga” who will devote her life to caring for the parent till the end. The rest would be expected, of course, to

visit from time to time, providing moral and financial support.

Times have apparently changed.

The traditional “designated martyr” is a thing of the past. When a bedridden and barely conscious parent keeps on breathing unendurably too long, whose turn to be by her side becomes a constant source of irritation and contention.

So now the task is outsourced to an unemployed relative who is given a regular allowance. If budget allows it, the family hires a professional caregiver so they can all go on with their respective lives.

Which brings us also to the “hilian” (blame game) regarding money.

Sometimes the richer member who has been so obliging at the beginning is made to realize by a whispering in-law that he should also oblige the other members to chip in too: “Bakit ikaw lang? Asan ambag nila?”

Do children owe their parents this kind of burden, which some call “utang na loob”? Are parents automatically entitled to this debt of obligation?

Ruminate on all of these before you tumble out of bed saying it’s a good day to live.

My wife and I have aging bodies. We are now both walking drug stores. Our respective medicine organizers are filled with all kinds of prescribed drugs. Fully filled on Sunday, empty the following Sunday and refilled for another week.

“Money seems to slip through my fingers,” is one line from the movie “Amadeus” that comes to mind as the small fund we stashed away for our end journey gets less and less. With inflation, it will never be enough to underwrite the costly travails we face while waiting at the departure lounge.

Call it pride, but I wouldn’t want to pass the burden to our children who are also finding it difficult to make ends meet during these inflationary times. It’s more a case of empathy.

I look at married young adult and middle-aged Filipinos who are now carrying the load of supporting two families: their own families and their parents living with them under the same roof.

I see my own son, a widowed single father with two fast growing children, hesitating to marry again.

He would rather give his extra pay to us, his parents who have unending medical issues.

I feel rueful to note our two other adult children are foregoing marriage partly because they’re unwilling to leave us at this stage of our journey. I see my daughter devote her time to be at the side of my wife, her mother, waking up early even after only a brief sleep to accompany her to the doctor for every check-up as well as medical procedure she needs to undergo. She adamantly gives part of her income to my wife in spite of our objections.

This is why I resent seniors who feel entitled or demand to be pampered. Instead of being demanding, we need to show more consideration and more gratitude to our children.

When my son comes home at night, tired and hungry, my wife makes sure she has a hot good meal ready for him. At supper, I eat less, just to make sure there’s enough left for him later. We make sure his kids are well cared for, filling the absence of their late mom.

We show consideration when we are punctilious in maintaining our health. We eat right, sleep enough, exercise lightly, and take our medi-

local government executives to submit lists of beneficiaries under the new law.

In a 2017 study, the Department of Health (DOH) and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health (UPNIH) estimated that there are about 14 million to 15 million solo parents in the country.

Under RA 11861, solo parents who earn minimum wages or below will also get a higher monthly cash aid of P1,000 each from their respective local government units (LGUs).

Villafuerte likewise appealed to LGU executives to submit to the DSWD, on a quarterly basis, their respective lists of solo parents availing themselves of the benefits under the new law.

cines on schedule. We conscientiously monitor our vital signs and have regular check-ups. Why? To prevent the onset of sickness and having to be rushed to the hospital on an emergency. It’s the least we can do in return for the “sacrifices” our children are willing to do for us.

This is also partly the reason why I still accept consultancy work, to add to my measly monthly pension, and to replace the used-up “end journey” fund little by little, so our children wouldn’t have to cover for us.

It shouldn’t just be me. Able seniors should strive to be employable again and become financially independent so they can be better prepared for the ordeal of advanced stage of aging.

All it takes is a little re-motivation and re-training to be equipped with new know-how aligned with the times.

On the other hand, let’s motivate health insurance companies to re-think their policy of stopping medical insurance coverage at age 65. The irony is that age 65 and up is precisely the time when we need medical insurance the most!

If need be, let government provide incentives to make it worthwhile for these insurers so they don’t lose money on payouts for seniors’ consultation and hospitalization expenses.

Someone once said, youth is wasted on the young. Equally, long old age can also be a waste of our young. Let’s make sure the demands of our prolonged aging does not dissipate and squander the opportunity of being young that all our children should enjoy.

To aging retirees like me: let’s not pass on the heavy burden too soon to our children.

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Education

DEPED-DOH PARTNERSHIP Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Z. Duterte and Health Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa discussed on November 13 strategies that will address clustering of influenza-like illnesses or ILI in schools. They also tackled the reported HIV/AIDS incidences among school-aged children, teenage pregnancies, and mental wellness of students, among other health issues. OVP/PNA

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NATIONAL READING MONTH Students of Davao City Special National High School choose their reading materials donated by the Kangaroo Book Club from South Korea. The club, founded by a Korean missionary-couple, has donated thousands of books all over Mindanao.

PNA/ROBINSON NIÑAL JR.

SM Foundation revamps educational clinic; strengthens health, learning commitment

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M Foundation Inc. (SMFI) has consistently invested in critical areas such as health and education to support the country in attaining inclusive growth.

A testament to this pledge is the medical and dental clinic renovation at the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Quezon City Schools Division Office (QC-SDO).

The refurbished clinic, nestled behind the SM North Edsa Annex Building, features state-of-theart equipment and a welcoming environment for students, teachers, and staff. It will also serve as a platform for preventive health care, healthy lifestyles promotion, and encouragement for regular check-ups.

SM group representatives, SM Foundation’s Health and Medical Program executive director Connie Angeles, Mall Operations SAVP Jocelyn Clarino, as well as SM North Edsa Mall Manager Miguel Gaspi joined the turnover, as the foundation marked the beginning

of its entry into the transformation of existing clinics in public elementary and secondary schools within the DepEd jurisdiction.

Building a healthier future

WITH the refurbishment of the school-based clinic, SM Foundation and DepEd move closer to providing accessible health care to students, teachers, and staff.

During the turnover, Dr. Connie Gepanayao, who is the regional medical officer of DepEd-National Capital Region (NCR), and SDO superintendent Dr. Carleen Sedilla underscored the crucial role of health in enabling students to achieve their academic potential and aspirations.

With 158 schools and more than 436,000 students in public-learning institutions, along

Magna Prime opening school for architecture, eng’g grads to become competent contractors

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AGNA Prime Chemical Technologies Inc. is inaugurating a school in the first quarter of 2024 to elevate the norms of the local construction industry by preparing and upskilling new professionals, who will then share their acquired knowledge with colleagues.

Located in Sta. Maria, Bulacan, the Buildrite Academy is a halfway house where architecture and engineering graduates who may want to become contractors will be trained on proper ways of waterproofing, tiling, concrete repair and finishing.

“These are the things that they can learn and eventually pass on to their foremen and workers,” Magna Prime CEO and president Derrick A. Tan told the BusinessMirror on the sidelines of their product launch event during the opening of PhilConstruct 2023 on November 9.

According to Tan, most architects and engineers may be knowledgeable in structural designs, but they are at a loss when using construction chemicals. “[We want to be the training ground for them],” the Magna Prime official said. “Right now, our advocacy is to standardize the construction industry.

We’re trying to address the skills gap that is happening now.”

This, he said, is a boon for the booming construction sector as shown in the national government’s massive infrastructure projects, as well as the

various development undertakings in the private sector.

Based on a Statista report published last August 15, the industry is a major economic contributor, accounting for about 7 percent of the country’s gross domestic product in 2022. The number of employees in construction establishments nationwide then stood at 304,240.

Amid headwinds brought about by the Covid-19 health emergency, the construction sector is seen growing in the coming years, as the nation’s economy bounces back postpandemic.

In fact, Statista projects that the revenue of architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis in the Philippines is expected to reach approximately $1.4 billion by 2024.

To entice prospective enrollees, Buildrite Academy trainees will pay only the cost of materials that they will use for the training. Competent civil and technical engineers will be tapped to design the syllabus and conduct the training sessions.

“This is just for training now. We’ll try to see the acceptance first,” Tan explained. “If we think it’s effective, then we can apply for accreditation from Tesda [Technical Education and Skills Development Authority]. Hopefully, we can expand this school to reach out to those in need of proper training.”

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SM North Edsa mall manager Miguel Gaspi, SM Supermalls Operations SAVP Jocelyn Clarino, SM Foundation executive director for Health and Medical Programs Connie Angeles, Schools Division superintendent Dr. Carleen Sedilla, DepEd-NCR regional medical officer Dr. Connie Gepanayao, as well as School and Governance-Operations Division chief Dr. Maria Teresa Namoro at the turnover ceremony of the newly refurbished medical and dental clinic.

with 16,000 teachers, Dr. Sedilla shed light on the critical need for school-based health services. Its value is further highlighted as the country recorded increased cases of hand, foot, and mouth diseases among young students, along with the prevalence of other illnesses.

With this development, DepEdNCR is hopeful that they will become better equipped in providing extensive medical services to promote the positive impact of health on academic performance.

Meanwhile, Dr. Gepanayao said

that the close affinity of the SM group with the SDO facilitated by their offices’ proximity, has played a key role in the tie-up.

“A healthy student is a happy student,” remarked Dr. Gepanayao, optimistic that the clinic will also help make wellness an integral part of daily life and serve as a hub for community building while fostering connections among teachers, students, and their families and strengthening the entire educational community.

Orica, UP broker partnership for future mining leaders with scholarship grants

ENGR. Nathaniel Labuson (from left), Dr. Maria Antonia N. Tanchuling, Engr. Alfonso A. Aliga Jr., Engr.

Gordon Matthew Wallace, Engr. Joel Laqui, Arnel Tegelan and Dominic Afuang

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Through the signing of a memorandum of agreement together with UP’s Dr. Maria Antonia N. Tanchuling and Engr. Alfonso A. Aliga Jr., the partnership has led to the creation of a special scholarship program for select mining engineering students.

Under the program, underprivileged students are granted scholarships to complete their education. It is one of Orica’s numerous initiatives to help shape a new generation of mining engineering graduates who will develop

in-depth knowledge of sustainably mobilizing the planet’s resources, while attaining a positive and prosperous future through the efforts of Orica’s diverse global team of thought leaders.

Orica Phils.’ country director Gordon Wallace said: “We recognize the power of people when it comes to leading change. As we continue to develop our digital and automated technologies, our partnership with [UP] is a testament to our commitment to pioneering innovation.”

Wallace added that through their network and the opportunities Orica can offer to students under the program, “we aim to support the next generation to grow, spark, and shape a more sustainable future for our industry and the world.”

Editor: Mike Policarpio

ELECTRICAL LAB Davao City’s J.V. Ferriols National High School and Optaciano Hilay National High School received on November 6 electrical installation and maintenance laboratories from Davao Light and Power Co. Inc. and its social-development arm Aboitiz Foundation Inc. The “Project Electrical Lab” provides skills training and assessment facilities for high-school learners, where course finishers can receive a national certification from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or Tesda. PNA/ROBINSON NIÑAL JR.

UST-Science lecture features chemistry applications vs. cancer, mental disorders

UST’S Department of Chemistry chair Assoc. Prof. Alan Rodelle Salcedo Ph.D, speaker and alumna Assoc.

Prof. Meden Isaac-Lam Ph.D, Academician professor emeritus Fortunato Sevilla III Ph.D, and UST RCNAS Director Prof. Allan Patrick Macabeo Dr. rer. Nat UST OPA

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HE Universit y of Santo Tomas-College of Science hosted the “Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Chemistry” that highlighted the application of the particular branch of science in cancer and mental-health research.

Dr. Meden Isaac-Lam, who is currently an associate professor at Purdue University in Northwest Indiana, United States and a UST alumna (Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry, Class of 1980) delivered a captivating discourse which delved into the significance of chemistry in treating cancer and mental disorders.

Her talk: “Chemistry Applications in Cancer and in Mental Disorder,” presented pioneering research that promises advances in two key areas. The lecture highlighted the synthesis of photosensitizers for potential use in photodynamic therapy. The compounds, according to her, show potential versus triple-negative breast and prostate cancers.

In addition, she discussed the application of chemistry in un-

derstanding post-traumatic stress disorder—a mental health concern for American military personnel.

Her innovative use of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy revealed metabolic imbalances in specific brain regions of individuals with PTSD, as she shed light on potential correlations between neurometabolites and the disorder’s severity.

The lecture, co-sponsored by the UST Department of Chemistry, the Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences and the UST Graduate School, drew an audience composed of BS Chemistry students, the College of Science academic staff, RCNAS researchers, and UST Graduate School students.

The event served as a platform for highlighting the significant contribution of chemistry in addressing diverse health concerns.

Likewise, it demonstrated UST’s dedication in promoting academic and scientific excellence through joint initiatives and engaging notable alumni who have excelled in their chosen fields.

Japanese language training begins for 16th batch of JPEPA candidates

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N November 8, an online ceremony formally opened the preparatory Japanese language training for the 16th batch of Filipino candidates for nurses and certified care workers.

Under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the 247 candidates will undergo six months of training on Japanese language, culture, and society prior to their deployment to Japan. The upskilling will be implemented online and onsite by the Nihongo Center Foundation Inc. and the Japan Foundation-Manila (JFM). Daily living and tablet computers with Internet data allowances were provided to each candidate for the duration of the training.

An additional six months of language training will be con-

ducted for the candidates upon arrival in Japan, prior to their assignment in hospitals and care-giving facilities. Candidates who will pass the Japanese national examination for nurse or caregiver during the JPEPA program can further their employment in Japan as full-fledged nurses or certified care workers.

In his message, Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa thanked and wished the candidates and partners of the JPEPA program well. Department of Migrant Workers officer in charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac, JFM’s Ben Suzuki, and Nihongo Center Foundation Inc.’s Philip B. Sanvictores also attended the ceremony.

Interested applicants may visit the official Department of Migrant Workers website for announcements regarding the program: https://www.dmw.gov.ph/

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‘A COMPLETELY IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE’ World of Frozen ready to open in Hong Kong Disneyland

World of Frozen entrance

Kingdom of Arendelle at World of Frozen

Elsa and Olaf in the PlayHouse in the Woods at night can also marvel at this sculpture as it glows in perfect accompaniment to the music.

Specialized itineraries

Photos by Bernard Testa

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he Happiest Place on Earth is going to be even happier starting this Monday, November 20 as World of Frozen, the widely-anticipated themed land and newest attraction in Hong Kong Disneyland officially opens to the public.

Touted as the world’s first and largest “Frozen” themed land, World of Frozen is inspired by the hugely popular “Frozen” and “Frozen 2” 3D animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In addition to an upcoming second sequel (yes, “Frozen 3” is happening and a “Frozen 4” is also in the works), and two short animated films, the franchise has now spawned merchandise, video games, books, a Disney on Ice show, a Broadway stage musical and yes, theme park attractions.

Developed by Walt Disney Imagineering, World of Frozen is the first of the Frozen-themed lands, with Frozen Kingdom, opening in Tokyo DisneySea to open in 2024 and Kingdom of Arendelle, scheduled to be one of the new attractions in Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris, France this 2025.

Along with other members of the international media from all over the world, BusinessMirror was invited for an invitational preview of World of Frozen just days before it is scheduled to open. There we spoke with Michel den Dulk, Senior Concept Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering who gave us some insights as to what went into the process of developing World of Frozen.

“A project like this takes a long time to develop. We have worked over seven years on this project,” Michel shared in response to a question by BusinessMirror. “There were a lot of ideas that we have played with but we didn’t have any major differences from what we originally thought was cool to what we actually built. There were

Elsa and Anna interacting with audiences in PlayHouse in the Woods

some changes and tweaks from the margins, generally, the idea of what you can see here is actually the idea that we had in mind from the very beginning. There was great consistency in the project in that sense.”

As everyone who was there can personally attest to, myself included, the immersive experience is nothing short of mind-blowing.

From the minute guests enter its premises, they are instantly transported to Arendelle, the Norwegianinspired kingdom of sisters Anna and Elsa. Enchanting melodies from the Frozen films fill the air as guests are greeted with the sight of architecture inspired by traditional Nordic culture.

Also noticeable right away is the snowflake-shaped ice sculpture created by Elsa with her Ice Magic at Friendship Fountain. Guests visiting

For those who can’t decide where to go and what to do here first, Hong Kong Disneyland has prepared four specially created itineraries designed to explore the kingdom in different ways, catered to guests with various interests.

A Complete Cultural Experience of Arendelle. This is for travelers who have a deep appreciation for cultural exploration. This itinerary immerses guests into the rich cultural heritage of Arendelle—a journey specially designed to unveil the captivating aspects of the kingdom’s culture and architecture, allowing guests to delve into its traditions, history, and local customs.

An Ultimate Play, Shop, Dine Guide in Arendelle. For those traveling with their BFFs, this vibrant itinerary involves a lot of shopping, dining, and fun as guests will discover an array of culinary delights, shopping experiences, and recreational activities in Arendelle.

Explore Movie Magic inside Arendelle. For fans who are passionate about the “Frozen” film franchise, this itinerary guides guests to discover the iconic landmarks featured in their beloved “Frozen” films.

A Travel Guide for Family-oriented Fun Adventurers. Families with kids can embark on an itinerary catered to family-oriented adventurers. This itinerary promises an array of familyfriendly experiences, from delightful encounters with beloved “Frozen” characters to Easter egg hunts and captivating attractions. This journey fosters strong bonds and creates cherished memories for the whole family.

Incorporated in one or more of these itineraries are fun-filled activities that include traveling to King Agnarr Bridge, the center of the Kingdom

Guests at World of Frozen with snowflake ice sculpture at Friendship Fountain

The author looking at Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs

Hong Kong Disneyland Managing Director Michael Moriarty

Michel den Dulk, Senior Concept Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering

of Arendelle where guests can marvel at the stunning scenery of Arendelle Castle, Arendelle Village, Bay of Arendelle, as well as Arendelle Forest.

The North Mountain, where the Ice Palace is situated also serves as a breathtaking backdrop for capturing picture-perfect moments.

Guests will also have the opportunity to sample the cuisine inspired by Nordic food and ingredients at Golden Crocus Inn, such as seafood stew, classic meatballs, and the distinctive herb dill as well as desserts made by in-house confectioners at Northern Delights and the must-try Mango Flavored Shaved Ice at Forest Fare. Yes, they are delicious.

Specialty desserts and sweets, tableware, cookware, and related items can be purchased at Northern Delights while there are plenty

of take-home souvenirs and wooden toys at Tick Tock Toys & Collectibles.

Forest Friends Stein is also available at Forest Fare.

There are also face-painting and styling services at Traveling Traders. Guests can dress up in Arendelle style and fully delve into the culture of Arendelle. Postcards can be sent to loved ones around the globe (or even to their own selves) via the mailbox of Royal Post of Arendelle, just outside the collectibles shop.

Olaf souvenir items at Tick Tock Toys’ Collectibles

Highlighted attractions These irresistible rides and interactive entertainment are the piece de resistance of the World of Frozen experience.

Frozen Ever After. A delightful boat ride filled with music, laughter, and family-friendly excitement. Here,

guests journey through the North Mountain, where they will have the chance to see the magnificent Ice Palace and witness Elsa’s magical powers.

From heartwarming and chuckleinducing scenes to enchanting and awe-inspiring moments, this epic journey, accompanied by everyone’s beloved Frozen friends, will transport guests to a magical world punctuated by well-known songs from the “Frozen” movies.

Surprise thrills like a backward and forward plunge down short waterfalls may get some guests wet. As popular HK Disneyland rides go, this one is very much at par with Hyperspace Mountain, Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway and It’s A Small World.

Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs.

This high-speed, family coaster is exclusive to World of Frozen at Hong Kong Disneyland. This is a must-try amusement ride for guests who want to experience the thrilling sensation of highspeed excitement for the first time.

As guests slide into the sleigh, they will find themselves zooming across hills, through caves, and over fjord waters, taking them on an exciting adventure through Arendelle.

This ride, however, has a minimum height requirement of 95cm.

For safety reasons, guests should be in good health and free from high blood pressure, heart, back, or neck problems, motion sickness, or other conditions that could be aggravated by this adventure.

Like Frozen Ever After, this is not for the faint of heart and certainly not suitable for expectant mothers. Guests must also transfer from wheelchairs.

Playhouse in the Woods. A firstof-its-kind, unique, and interactive show featuring Anna, Elsa, and Olaf.

Guests will witness the magnificent Ice Magic of Elsa as the captivating interactive show seamlessly blends beautiful projection-mapped content, special effects, and sensory elements.

In a word: spectacular.

Yes, Olaf is pretty much everywhere. The lovable snowman is omnipresent in the rides, the souvenir shops, and even the dining options.

In summing up the World of Frozen experience, Hong Kong Disneyland Managing Director Michael Moriarty told BusinessMirror that it’s all about “the feeling you get” when you enter what he best describes as “a completely immersive experience.”

“It’s as if time has stood still and the sights, the sounds, the cuisine, and the citizens of Arendelle all make you feel like you are transported to this other world,” Moriarty concluded.

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Vivoactive 5 is a smartwatch that provides fitness coaching, health insights and sleep stats THE Garmin vivoactive 5 helps you be more physically active by providing insights and stats. PHOTO FROM GARMIN

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HIS isn’t the first time I am using a Garmin watch. Years ago, I had a Garmin watch with a heart rate monitor. Somehow, it got lost.

I suspect that my daughter used it and lost it in school. Fast forward to 2023, my daughter won a Garmin vívoactive 5 in a raffle and I immediately said, “Okay, that’s mine!”

So here’s my review after about a month of using the watch. The Garmin vívoactive 5 is a health and fitness smartwatch with a bright AMOLED touchscreen display. It is priced at P18,830, which is affordable.

For me, the main function of a health and wellness smartwatch is to help me live a more active lifestyle. I need a watch that tells me when to stand up and walk.

I need one that helps me count my 10,000 steps a day as I have been walking in the neighborhood carrying my Samsung S23 Ultra. This smartwatch has up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode so I don’t need to charge it every night.

“Made for your active lifestyle, vívoactive 5 packs premium features into a stylish, affordable smartwatch. From a busy day on the go to a relaxing

evening at home, on-wrist fitness coaching, personalized health insights, detailed sleep stats and more on vívoactive 5 make it an essential tool to help you gain a better understanding of how to meet your overall health and wellness goals,”said Scoppen Lin, assistant general manager of Garmin Asia, in a press release. Assuming you wear your smartwatch to bed (sorry, I don’t), the Garmin vívoactive 5 gives you a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep is recommended and keep track of different sleep stages, naps and other key metrics such as Pulse Ox1 and heart rate variability (HRV) status. It also provides an overview of last night’s sleep plus recovery, HRV status and weather data (when paired with a compatible smartphone).

The Garmin vívoactive 5 also tracks or logs naps to see how they may benefit the body and the target time and duration they should be. The Body Battery checks energy levels throughout the day to find the best times for activity and rest.

One of the modes is a Wheelchair mode that lets users track daily pushes and receive weight shift alerts plus wheelchair-specific sports apps and workouts. You can also follow guided meditation practices to help reduce stress and anxiety.

Would I have purchased the Garmin vivoactive 5 if my daughter hadn’t won it in a raffle? Yes, I would because it’s a moderately priced smartwatch that performs basic functions and more.

The Garmin vivoactive 5 is now available in Garmin Brand Stores, Lazada, Shopee, and Kinetic.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER FROM KFC

KFC Philippines has partnered with PUBG:

Battlegrounds and PUBG Mobile for the KFC Gamer Box 2023, which includes a free game code that can be entered on the special KFC X PUBG site. The site can be accessed via QR codes in-store or on vouchers.

Once on kfcxpubg.com, users will redeem their vouchers to receive PUBG: BBattlegrounds codes for in-game rewards on PC and console, or PUBG MOBILE codes to redeem via their mobile device.

This collaboration, which was launched on October 10 and runs until December 4, offers gamers an immersive experience. KFC offers an array of exclusive in-game rewards and items that will elevate the gaming experience. These include battle cosmetics and game codes that will give gamers a competitive edge and enhance their gameplay.

PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale game for Android and iOS devices. It was released in 2017 and has since become a global phenomenon, amassing over 1.3 billion downloads and establishing itself as the second most-played mobile game of all time.

For those seeking a taste of victory both in the game and in real life, the KFC Gamer Box 2023 is the perfect choice. With the purchase of this special meal, patrons will receive a code for free in-game items, including battle cosmetics and game codes. The KFC Gamer Box 2023 also includes a delicious meal to fuel your gaming sessions. The meal consists of a Jr. Original Recipe Snacker, Regular Shots, Regular Iced Tea, Brownie, and PUBG game codes.

“We are the experts when it comes to making the world’s best fried chicken. Now, PUBG: Battlegrounds and PUBG MOBILE fans can enjoy the iconic KFC taste like never before and then dive into a battle royale and score a big loot for a double taste of victory,” said KFC spokesman Charmaine Bautista Pamintuan. ■

AYALA FOUNDATION, SALESFORCE TO TRAIN SCHOLARS IN CRM

BY RIZAL RAOUL S. REYES THE social development arm of the Ayala group of companies, the Ayala Foundation, and Salesforce, the AI customer relationship management (CRM) platform and global technology company, recently signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to empower more Filipino women especially belonging to the marginalized sector with digital and customer relations management skills for the digital economy.

Under the partnership, Salesforce will facilitate online workshops and digital skills learning for 185 Filipino women between the ages of 18 to 24.

These women are recipients of the U-Go Scholar Grant, a joint initiative by the Ayala Foundation and education startup U-Go to help Filipino women from disadvantaged backgrounds pursue higher education in order to increase female representation in the workforce.

According to the World Bank, by 2050 there will be an increase in female labor supply by 0.5 percentage points per year in GDP per capita in the Philippines by almost 10 percent. Salesforce’s partnership with the Ayala Foundation aims to empower Filipino women with skills needed to participate in the digital economy. A study by Asian Development Bank and LinkedIn found that six of the last 10 candidates hired in the Philippines were required to possess basic digital literacy and skills, and two of the last 10 hires required advanced digital skills.

Salesforce will be conducting the training via bimonthly virtual workshops covering topics including data access and security best practices along with reporting and dashboards. Participants will also use Trailhead, Salesforce’s free online learning platform, to access curated learning modules, and develop critical skills for the future around AI, data and CRM at their own pace.

Through the training, the women can also tap on Salesforce solutions for various digital applications.

The target beneficiaries will learn how to manage and configure Salesforce tools in order to understand and qualify data; design dashboards and reports to present data effectively; and identify data security and user access best practices.

The graduates of the training will be awarded a Salesforce Admin Super Set credential, which will allow them to pursue jobs as a Salesforce Administrator, and open pathways to other Salesforce roles such as developer, architect, or business analyst in the future. Salesforce has commenced training for the first and second cohorts of Ayala Foundation’s U-Go Scholar Grant’s 185 recipients at the end of September, with plans to train more women in the future through subsequent cohorts.

ANGKAS LAUNCHES PROGRAMS TO EMPOWER YouTube creators will soon have to disclose RIDERS, STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY TIES use of gen AI in videos or risk suspension

BY RODERICK L. ABAD Contributor IN appreciation of their efforts to make Angkas a leading motorcycle ride-hailing app in the country, the two-wheel taxi and delivery service provider has launched two new programs meant to improve the livelihoods of partner-riders and support economic advancement through a strong sense of community.

The “Drive to Win” initiative has prizes worth ₱200,000 at stake every two weeks for those who not only meet but exceed the daily ride challenges.

They get a chance to bring home an array of valuable rewards, including household appliances, gadgets, grocery packages, gift certificates and gas vouchers via a raffle draw.

Angkas will continue giving its riders prizes, which are revealed on its digital activity via the Angkas Barkada MNL Facebook page during the ANGKAmuStahan FB Live Sessions. Such drives are significant to motivate riders and fuel not only their greater participation but stronger commitment to better serve the commuting public, according to Angkas chief executive officer George Royeca.

“We’ve always positioned Angkas as a company that riders can trust and a place where they feel supported. Our unwavering commitment is to ensure they feel fulfilled, valued, and integral to the success of the company,” he said.

To augment the daily take-home earnings of the riders, the “Angkas Weekend Market” will be opened in partnership with SariSuki on select weekends from November 19 to December 31 at the Angkas Cainta Office. This will offer a wide range of products at good prices and discounts from partner-riders and their families.

As added support, Angkas allows riders and their wives to use the stalls for free to sell their products.

It does not only empower them to enhance brand recognition for their products but also enables them to reach a supportive local customer base.

“With the holiday season [here], we encourage the community to support our riders and their families by exploring their unique offerings at this weekend market. By making a purchase, you’re not only acquiring unique items and tasting delicious food but also contributing to the local economy, supporting these small-scale entrepreneurs,” Royeca said.

YOUTUBE is rolling out new rules for AI content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.

In a blog post Tuesday outlining a number of AI-related policy updates, YouTube said creators that don’t disclose whether they’ve used AI tools to make “altered or synthetic” videos face penalties including having their content removed or suspension from the platform’s revenue sharing program.

“Generative AI has the potential to unlock creativity on YouTube and transform the experience for viewers and creators on our platform,” Jennifer Flannery O’Connor and Emily Moxley, vice presidents for product management, wrote in the blog post.

“But just as important, these opportunities must be balanced with our responsibility to protect the YouTube community.”

The restrictions expand on rules that YouTube’s parent company, Google, unveiled in September requiring that political ads on YouTube and other

Google platforms using artificial intelligence come with a prominent warning label.

Under the latest changes, which will take effect by next year, YouTubers will get new options to indicate whether they’re posting AI-generated video that, for example, realistically depict an event that never happened or show someone saying or doing something they didn’t actually do.

“This is especially important in cases where the content discusses sensitive topics, such as elections, ongoing conflicts and public health crises, or public officials,” O’Connor and Moxley said.

Viewers will be alerted to altered videos with labels, including prominent ones on the YouTube video player for sensitive topics.

The platform is also deploying AI to root out content that breaks its rules, and the company said the technology has helped detect “novel forms of abuse” more quickly.

YouTube’s privacy complaint process will be updated to allow requests for the removal of an AI-generated video that simulates an identifiable person, including their face or voice. AP

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realme 11 and realme Pad 2: Glorious purpose UK cybersecurity center says ‘deepfakes’ and other AI tools pose a threat to the next election LONDON—Britain’s cybersecurity agency said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the country’s next national election, and cyberattacks by hostile countries and their proxies are proliferating and getting harder to track.

The National Cyber Security Center said “this year has seen the emergence of state-aligned actors as a new cyber threat to critical national infrastructure” such as power, water and internet networks.

The center—part of Britain’s cyberespionage agency, GCHQ said in its annual review that the past year also has seen “the emergence of a new class of cyber adversary in the form of state-aligned actors, who are often sympathetic to Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine and are ideologically, rather than financially, motivated.”

It said states and state-aligned groups pose “an enduring and significant threat,” from Russianlanguage criminals targeting British firms with ransomware attacks, to “China state-affiliated cyber actors” using their skills to pursue “strategic objectives which threaten the security and stability of UK interests.”

Echoing warnings by Britain’s MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies, the center called the rise of China as a tech superpower “an epoch-defining challenge for UK security.”

“We risk China becoming the predominant power in cyberspace if our efforts to raise resilience and develop our capabilities do not keep pace,” it said.

The report also highlighted the threat posed by fast-evolving AI technology to elections, including a UK national election due to be held by January 2025. AP

PETPAL SERVES OVER 300 PETS IN FIRST VACCINATION DRIVE IN METRO MANILA

917VENTURES’ all-in-one digital pet care solutions provider PetPal, in partnership with Univet Nutrition and Animal Healthcare Company (UNAHCO INC), recently held its very first vaccination drive, Pawtection Party: Vaccinate and Celebrate!, to keep furry friends safe and healthy.

Held on October 22 at the UP Town Center in Quezon City, Pawtection Party provided free anti-rabies and 7-in-1 vaccines for 300+ dogs and cats, complimentary vet consultations from the best in the business, enlightening talks by esteemed veterinarians and influential figures, and thrilling games that delivered not just fun but fantastic prizes.

“At PetPal, we’re driven by a passion to see every pet thrive. This vaccination drive is our way of reaching out, of making a difference. We invite you to be part of this journey toward a healthier pet community,” said Miguel Guerrero, entrepreneur in residence at 917Ventures.

Pet owners with a registered PetPal account and whose pets are enrolled on the PetPal Pawrtal were invited to the event. “Every pet got their own VIP pass—the PetPal Pet ID. It served as their golden ticket to this special event. We wanted to make sure that our community feels exclusive and cherished,” said Carlo Flordeliza, senior venture builder at 917Ventures.

With current statistics revealing that a staggering 79 percent of the population have pets, the need for a reliable digital pet care platform has never been more evident. In response, PetPal offers a suite of solutions from licensed and accredited veterinarians to help pets across the Philippines lead healthy lives.

Fur parents can take part in other fun activities with their pet by registering to PetPal (www.petpal.asia).

usage, it easily lasted us two days of moderate use.

Moving on to the display, the realme 11 has a 6.4 FHD+ AMOLED screen that stands out for its

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N The Avengers, movie, Loki, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, delivers the memorable line: “I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose.”

Who would have thought that those two words, “glorious purpose,” would remarkably encapsulate Loki’s evolution from a villain to a central character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

There’s also a saying that goes: “The two most pivotal days in a person’s life are their birth and the day they discover their purpose.” Loki’s transformation from the “God of Mischief” to the “God of Stories” is a pivotal moment, not just for his character, but for the entire MCU. Witnessing Loki embrace his role as the guardian of the multiverse’s myriad timelines is an opportunity not to be missed, marking a significant chapter in his journey and the ever-expanding Marvel universe. If you haven’t seen Loki on Disney+, you’re missing out on arguably the best MCU narrative post-Endgame.

So, when realme launched the realme 11 in a black and gold themed event at The Manila Hotel and one of the color options was actually “Glory Gold,” I just couldn’t resist using that title for this week’s back-toback feature review.

REALME 11: BOUND FOR GLORY

LET’S start with the realme 11. The standard edition of realme’s flagship series comes with its own design language that makes it different from its “Pro” siblings. Unlike its predecessors that often share similar design elements with other phones, the realme 11 is quite unique. This Glory Halo Design, especially visible in the Glory Gold variant, has a circular camera island accented with an outer ring and is said to be inspired by the aesthetics of traditional luxury watches.

The back of the Glory Gold colorway has a glittery undercoat on top of a smooth, glossy surface that thankfully doesn’t pick up fingerprints easily and displays shimmery curves that move across the panel and change color as light hits them from different angles. For those who want a more subtle color option, it is also available in Dark Glory.

The size of the realme 11 also gives it a significant advantage. Measuring at a more manageable 159.9 mm x 73.3 mm x 7.95 mm and weighing a mere 178g, this compact and lightweight design ensures the phone fits comfortably in most hands, making it easier for one-handed operation. The integration of flat sides complements this ergonomic design, further enhancing the grip.

Continuing the brand’s promise to bring leap forward tech with every number series iteration, the realme 11 banners one of the fastest charging speeds in its price point. Staying true to its “Charge Beyond Limits” tagline, the realme 11 supports 67W SUPERVOOC Fast Charging, more than twice as fast as many of its peers in the same price bracket. For millennials and Gen Z users who demand not just performance but also the assurance that their devices can keep up with their dynamic schedules, its fast charging capabilities make it an ideal choice. Gone are the days of the overnight charge or the lunchtime power top-up. A mere 17 minutes at the socket breathes 50 percent life into its robust 5000mAh battery, with a full charge from 0 to 100 percent clocking in at around 50 minutes during our tests.

Beyond fast charging, realme has also focused on the overall health and safety of the battery. The device comes with 38 levels of protection to ensure safe charging, guarding against overcharging, overheating and short-circuiting.

Its 5000mAh battery, meanwhile, can last a total of up to 673 hours at standby, with up to 52 hours of phone calls, 21 hours of YouTube, 42 hours of Spotify music streaming, and 15 hours of TikTok. In our daily

brightness and punchy colors. With a refresh rate of 90Hz, the display offers smoother animations, web browsing and scrolling, enhanced by a 360Hz touch sampling rate. The brightness peaks at 1,000 nits, ensuring good visibility even under bright conditions.

Most important though is that the panel is protected

by Corning Gorilla Glass 5.

The centerpiece of the realme 11’s camera setup is the 108-megapixel main sensor, a feature that marks its return from the realme 9. Utilizing a Samsung ISOCELL HM6 sensor, this camera achieves impressive performance, especially when paired with the MediaTek Helio G99’s Image Signal Processor (ISP). This combination results in clearer, more detailed images that capture the essence of the moment with remarkable accuracy. The leap in quality can be largely attributed to this synergy between the high-resolution sensor and the advanced ISP. The realme 11’s main camera excels in capturing a wide range of scenes, from expansive landscapes to intricate close-ups, with a level of detail that is rarely seen in this segment.

My favorite camera feature has to be its 3x digital zoom, which works surprisingly well for a phone in the sub-P15,000 price range. Digital zoom is often a feature where mid-range phones fall short, but the realme 11 stands out as an exception. Comparing photos taken at 1x and 3x zoom, the realme 11 showcases its ability to maintain clarity and detail, outperforming many of its rivals—a testament to the advanced camera software and the effective utilization of the ISOCELL HM6 sensor.

Street Mode is where the realme maximizes the potential of its cameras allowing users to capture the vibrancy and dynamism of urban landscapes with ease. For video, the phone can shoot Full HD videos, which is enough for capturing life’s everyday moments. The video output is clear and stable, making it suitable for casual videography, vlogs and social-media content.

The realme 11 comes equipped with 8GB of RAM, which can be further increased via Virtual RAM Expansion technology, boosting the total available RAM up to 16GB. This means more apps can stay open in the background without slowing down the device, a feature particularly beneficial during those times when you need to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Storage is another area where the realme 11 excels. With 256GB of onboard storage, users will have enough space for their photos, videos, apps and more. This generous storage capacity means you’re less likely to run out of space when you need it most.

It even supports up to 1TB of expandable storage via a microSD card, providing even more flexibility for those who need extra space for their media or work files.

The realme 11 brings together glorious design with

premium features at a more affordable price tag of P13,999. Its standout 108MP ProLight Camera might just be the best among 4G phones (that ship with Google services); pair that with an efficient MediaTek Helio G99 processor and 67W SUPERVOOC charging technology and you have a contender for best smartphone option for the holiday season.

Just like the realme 11 whose purpose is to be the Gen Z’s smartphone of choice this holiday season, the realme pad 2 also has a more specific purpose than its other tablet counterparts. After using the device for the past few weeks, I’d say it’s a great option for younger users with its blend of design, performance and entertainment features and a device that’s best for casual gaming and content consumption rather than creation.

The display is a highlight of the realme Pad 2, featuring an 11.5-inch 2K IPS display, which boasts a 120Hz refresh rate for a smoother user interface experience. The screen’s brightness and vibrant colors, especially for an IPS panel, make it ideal for outdoor use. Additionally, the inclusion of Widevine L1 certification allows for full HD streaming of content on platforms like Netflix. Its quad-speaker system with Dolby Atmos support provides a rich and immersive audio experience, emphasizing mid and high tones with good bass.

Aesthetically, the realme Pad 2’s Inspiration Green colorway offers a refreshing alternative to the dreary black and grey tablets. I also liked that realme chose to go with a dual-texture design combining anodized aluminum and brushed plastic as it offers a distinct look while maintaining functionality, including LTE/4G connectivity.

It has a circular camera module that makes it look like a gigantic realme 11. The 8-megapixel rear camera is what you’d expect from a tablet, which means it’s usable only if you don’t have any other cameras at hand. Photos are just OK and the 5MP front camera is best used for video calls.

The realme Pad 2 is powered by a MediaTek Helio G99 processor, and is available in two configurations: a 6GB/128GB variant (P13,999) and a higher-end 8GB/256GB variant (P17,999), both with expandable storage up to 1TB via microSD. This dedicated gaming processor boasts of flagship-tier power efficiency with its 6nm architecture along with a power Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU paired with an octa-core setup.

This allows the device to handle light to medium level gaming in terms of graphics, aside from supporting its other features such as the high 120Hz. Lastly, the realme Pad 2 has an 8360mAh battery that supports 33W SUPERVOOC Charge. This battery is 17.7 percent larger than its predecessor, and has a standby time of up to 59 days, or even up to 17 hours of video playback, 190 hours of music streaming, and 24 hours of reading. The fast 33W SUPERVOOC Charger can charge up to 50 percent in 50 minutes, and up to 100 percent in less than two hours. The device also supports reverse charging.

The realme Pad 2 represents a significant step forward for realme in the tablet market. With its combination of updated hardware and optimized software, the Pad 2 stands out as one of the better budget tablets available that offer a well-rounded Android tablet experience. ■

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Court battle looms in IOC-boxing issue P THE Russian president of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, gives a press conference in Paris Thursday. AP

Mercado chalks up ‘double’ in juniors PCA Open netfest

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HLOE MERCADO showcased her promising prowess by securing the girls’ 16-andunder singles crown in the 40th Philippine Columbian Association (PCA) Open at PCA courts in Plaza Dilao recently.

Mercado, 15, demonstrated an outstanding all-around game in defeating Sandra Bautista, 6-2, 6-2, in to clinch the top honors in her age bracket in the annual championship that drew the participation of the country’s leading and rising junior players.

The Angat (Bulacan) pride, who refined her skills through regular appearances in the Palawan PawnshopPalawan Express Pera Padala (PPS-PEPP) national junior circuit, concluded her remarkable showing in the top-ranking event by teaming up with Juliana Carvajal to pocket the 18-and-under doubles championship.

They overpowered the Princess TanaCzarina Miraflor pair, 8-1.

Expressing gratitude for the Palawan Pawnshop tournaments, Mercado acknowledged the significant role they played in her development.

“We are truly thankful for the Palawan Pawnshop tournaments, they have been a big help in pushing me up,” Mercado said. “You will really have to work hard to win because there are so many good players participating from different places.”

On her way to the singles finals, Mercado downed Elysse Abellera, 6-1, 6-0, then repulsed Tana, 7-5, 6-2, while Bautista, also a regular PPS-PEPP junior campaigner, crushed Briele Muyot, 6-0, 6-0, and overpowered Jade Revoltar, 6-0, 6-1.

In doubles play, Mercado and Carvajal smothered Therese Morales and Mavis Tuazon, 8-0, while Tana and Miraflor likewise eased past Revoltar and Zaina Omar via the same scoreline.

CHLOE MERCADO is a future tennis star in the making.

ARIS—The long-standing rift and ongoing legal dispute between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the boxing governing body it ousted this year could continue at Switzerland’s supreme court.

The Russian president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), Umar Kremlev, said Thursday it intends to appeal further if the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholds the IOC’s ruling in June for expulsion from the Olympic family.

Kremlev spoke at a news conference in Paris—where next year’s Olympics will open in July and the IOC will run boxing tournaments for the second straight Summer Games—as the IBA’s appeal was being heard by sport’s highest court in Lausanne, Switzerland.

“We’re not very worried about that, we’re more concerned for our boxers,” Kremlev said through a translator. “We believe this decision was unfair but we have legal experts who are dealing with this. We will be defending our rights and if this doesn’t work with the CAS we have a court in Switzerland we can refer to.”

The IBA was finally derecognized in a years-long dispute fueled by defying advice and instructions from the IOC, which had long cited

concerns about boxing’s governance, reliance on money from Russian state energy firm Gazprom and the integrity of bouts.

“It’s not the Olympic family that took this decision but rather Olympic officials that have pushed this decision,” the 41-year-old Kremlev said. “The Olympic Games is a huge draw and it is the athletes who draw viewers, not the IOC.” Boxing kept its status as an Olympic sport for the 2024 Paris Games, but the IOC is overseeing the qualifying and medal tournaments without IBA involvement, as it did for the Tokyo Games in 2021.

A CAS verdict is not expected before early next year.

If the CAS judges uphold the IOC decision, Kremlev could appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, the country’s supreme court, but only on limited procedural grounds. Federal judges rarely overturn CAS rulings.

Kremlev said the IBA wants to have its world championships in France in 2026. In a contest for boxers’ loyalty, the IBA has promised prize money for medalists of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The IOC does not pay cash to Olympic medalists.

The IBA is hosting a congress and boxing competition on December 9 in Dubai, which Kremlev hopes about

AIMAG postponed to after Paris

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HE Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) reset for February next year were again postponed a second time because of its proximity to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The AIMAG were originally scheduled this month but host Thailand postponed the 50-sport competition rescheduled every four years for February 24 to March 6, 2024.

But a consensus among member national Olympic committees (NOCs) of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)

and Oceania sought for the games’ postponement citing their athletes have to prepare for the Paris Games qualifiers and the Olympics themselves.

Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino concurred with the postponement saying it would ease the burden off the country’s Olympic hopefuls.

“It’s good for us, too, so we can concentrate on other qualifying events,” Tolentino said.

The Philippines has so far

200 national federations will attend.

“We are an independent organization that defends athletes,” Kremlev said. “Obviously others can follow our example of how the sport should be developed.”

Kremlev and the IBA have consistently argued that Olympic boxing’s issues predate his leadership to when long-time IOC member CK Wu of Taiwan ran the sport.

After Wu was ousted in 2017, the sport’s problems with the IOC intensified.

There were allegations ahead of the 2012 London Olympics of cash deals planned to fix medals, and further doubt cast by fighters on the integrity of bouts at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

National federations defied IOC warnings in 2018 by electing Gafur Rakhimov as president. The businessman from Uzbekistan allegedly had ties to organized crime and heroin trafficking.

The IBA’s debts of nearly $20 million were cleared under Kremlev, who replaced Rakhimov in 2020.

Kremlev announced in May at the men’s world championships in Uzbekistan that the IBA was no longer sponsored by Gazprom, and his rhetoric against Olympic officials got more confrontational.

The IOC, meanwhile, is free to work with a new organization called World Boxing, which is scheduled to hold a news conference in Germany next week.

World Boxing has support from officials in the United States, Switzerland and Britain, countries whose national federations resisted Kremlev’s leadership of the IBA. AP qualified four athletes to Paris— world No. 3 pole vaulter Ernest John “EJ” Obiena, boxer Eumir Felix Marcial and gymnasts Carlos Yulo and Aleah Finnegan.

OCA acting president Raja Randhir Sing disseminated the information on the postponement in a letter sent to the 45 OCA member and 18 Oceania countries on Friday.

The OCA will announce the new dates of the AIMAG after the Paris Olympics that are set July 26 to August 11.

The AIMAG features 50 sports, including nine Olympic events.

They were last held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, in 2017.

San Beda, Air Force unbeaten in Challenge Cup

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AN BEDA University and Philippine Air Force beat their respective rivals in women’s action of Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) Challenge Cup on Friday at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila.

San Beda went 2-0 won-lost at the expense of Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas, 25-17, 25-13, 25-18, needing one hour and 27 minutes to tie University of the Philippines (UP) on top of Pool D. In women’s Pool B, Air Force defeated Jose Rizal University, 25-21, 25-21, 25-17, to remain unbeaten in two games in the weeklong tournament supported by the Philippine Sports Commission, PLDT, Rebisco, Akari, Foton and CBPI. San Beda defeated De La Salle University-Dasmariñas, 25-19, 25-17, 25-16, while Air Force subdued Davao City, 2523, 25-15, 24-26, 25-11, in

their opening assignments.

The competition organized by PNVF President Ramon “Tats” Suzara also saw Davao City beating Tacloban City, 25-13, 25-18, 33-31, in women’s Pool B. Davao City finally got its first victory after three outings while Tacloban remained winless in two matches.

In men’s action, National University defeated VNS Asereht, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, 27-29, 15-6, to also go 2-0 in Pool B, while in Pool C, Marikina blasted Plaridel Quezon, 25-20, 25-14, 25-21, for its first win in two games.

VNS and Plaridel Quezon dropped to 1-1 and 1-2, respectively.

Iloilo D’ Navigators downed Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC), 27-25, 25-22, 25-20, for its first win. EAC slid to 1-2.

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HIDILYN DIAZ-NARANJO in deep training in Manama.

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IDILYN DIAZ-NARANJO refuses to feel comfortable being at No. 7 in the world of her weight class as the qualifiers for the weightlifting competitions for the Paris 2024 Olympics winds down to three remaining tournaments.

“It’s hard to be complacent, you don’t know what

SAN BEDA University’s Jayde Margaret de la Cruz scores. ROY DOMINGO

Kerr: Green ‘took it too far,’ deserves 5-game suspension

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AN FRANCISCO— Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Draymond Green was “wrong” and “took it too far” when he put Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert in a headlock, agreeing that the five-game suspension handed down by the

National Basketball Asociation (NBA) was deserved.

“Draymond was wrong,” Kerr said Thursday before the Warriors’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. “He knows that. It’s a bad look. The five games is deserved.”

The NBA cited Green’s “ history of unsportsmanlike acts” in determining the length.

The altercation occurred before two minutes had elapsed in the first quarter on Tuesday, when Golden State’s Klay Thompson and

Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels got in a shoving match near midcourt following a Timberwolves possession. Gobert stepped in and grabbed hold of Thompson before Green rushed in and pulled Gobert away from behind with his arm around the center’s neck in what the league called “an unsportsmanlike and dangerous manner.”

Thompson’s jersey was ripped during the scuffle, and he, Green and McDaniels were all ejected.

Thompson and McDaniels were each assessed a technical foul, while Green was assessed a Flagrant Foul 2. It was Green’s second ejection in three games.

“He definitely took it too far,” Kerr said. “I didn’t have a problem with him getting Rudy off of Klay because the rule of thumb is you don’t put your hands on another player on the other team.... But he’s got to let go. He hung on for six, seven seconds, and it was a terrible visual for the league, for

might happen next,” Diaz-Naranjo told BusinessMirror during a break in her training camp at the Grand Tulip Hotel in Manama, Bahrain, on Friday.

Diaz-Naranjo’s ranked No. 7 in women’s 59 kgs, the weight class that clinched her silver at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics but is the next heavier division over the 55-kg category where she won the country’s first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020.

“There ara a lot of things that could happen in two remaining Olympic qualifiers,” said DiazNaranjo, 32, who decided along with husband and coach Julius Naranjo to train in Manama where there are little or no distrations at all.

The couple were stranded during the pandemic in Malaysia ahead of the Tokyo Games, but being holed up away from home with Narano and her then Chinese coach Gao Kaiwen eventually worked wonders in Tokyo.

Diaz-Naranjo is training for her fourth Olympic qualifier in Doha from December 4 to 15, hoping to stay consistent or get better to stay inside the top 12 in her weight class.

The Paris Olympics will feature only the world’s top 12 in each of the weight categories for weightlifting in both genders.

“We just have to train a little bit harder, be wiser and stronger so that we can grab an Olympic berth by May,” Diaz-Naranjo said.

Diaz-Naranjo is by far the only Filipino athlete who’s bound to compete in five consecutive Olympics.

She started as an innocent 18-yearold wild card in Beijing 2008 and had gone through the worse and the best in her Olympic career. She registered a “No Lift” at the London 2012 Games.

Diaz-Naranjo’s protégé, Rosegie Ramos, is also in Manama training for the Doha qualifier. She’s No. 9 in the women’s 49-kg class also after three Olympic qualifiers.

Also in contention for an Olympic berth are Vanessa Sarno (No. 9, women’s 71 kgs) and John Febuar Ceniza (men’s 61 kgs).

Tokyo Olympian Elreen Ann Ando is also in contention for Paris at No. 10 in the same women’s 59 kgs division. The Olympics, however, allows only one qualifier from each country.

Draymond, for everybody.”

Thompson, McDaniels and Gobert were also penalized for their involvement, each receiving a $25,000 fine from the league.

But Green will pay the biggest price, both in terms of games missed and money lost. The suspension will cost him $769,704 in forfeited salary.

The Golden State forward has a notably fiery style of play and does not shy away from picking up fouls, but he has also been known to escalate situations too far. Kerr said the team is working with Green to rein in his behavior. AP

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Xi courts Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of meetings at a summit in San Francisco

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AN FRANCISCO—Chinese President Xi Jinping, fresh off his meeting with President Joe Biden, courted Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of meetings Thursday at a time of intensifying competition with the United States.

Xi held individual talks with the leaders of Mexico, Peru, Fiji, Japan and Brunei, all on the sidelines of a summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies.

In a meeting with Peruvian

President Dina Boluarte, Xi said the two countries should strengthen economic and trade cooperation and pledged China’s support for Peru as host of next year’s summit of APEC leaders.

In particular, Xi said, China will be willing to import more “premium” agricultural products from the South American country and will encourage Chinese businesses to participate in major projects in Peru.

Earlier, Xi held talks with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, praising the Mexican president for his leadership and reform efforts and pledging to bring the China-Mexico relationship to a new level. It was believed to be the first face-toface meeting between the two men.

During the meeting, the two sides agreed to deepen cooperation on counternarcotics efforts.

China and the United States on Wednesday said the two would work together to stem the flow of

fentanyl precursors to countries such as Mexico before the drug is finished and gets smuggled into the US. Xi said the two countries should collaborate in industries such as infrastructure, finance and electric vehicles, while López Obrador said Mexico would smooth the way for Chinese businesses investing in Mexico. The Mexican leader also said his country would be willing to work with China on multilateral affairs and help promote relations between China and Latin America, according to China’s state media.

In recent years, many Chinese businesses—faced with tariffs and other restrictions from the US government—have moved some pro-

duction to Mexico. Xi expressed his sympathy for those affected

by Hurricane Otis and said China made emergency arrangements for Mexico to procure relief supplies.

The Mexican president posted on X shortly after his meeting with Xi that the two leaders “reiterated the commitment to continue maintaining good relations to the benefit of our people and our nations.”

Xi met Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. Xi said Beijing is treating Fiji as “a good friend and a good partner” in the Global South, roughly referring to developing countries.

The Chinese leader also met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the sultan of

Brunei.

In an opening statement, Kishida said China and Japan “share a mutual responsibility to contribute to the peace and prosperity of the world.”

China said Xi told Kishida that it is in the interest of the two peoples for the two countries to coexist peacefully, cooperate and grow together. Xi said the two sides should handle differences properly and focus on common interests.

Xi called Hassanal Bolkiah, Brunei’s sultan, an “old friend” and said China would work with Brunei to bring benefits to both people.

Xi spent four hours with Biden on Wednesday, their first face-toface meeting in a year. AP

Corporate and global leaders peer into a future expected to be reshaped by AI

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AN FRANCISCO—President Joe Biden and other global leaders have spent the past few days melding minds with Silicon Valley titans in San Francisco, their discussions frequently focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a technology expected to reshape the world, for better or worse.

For all the collec tive brainpower on hand for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, there were no concrete answers to a pivotal question: Will AI turn be the springboard that catapults humanity to new heights, or the dystopian nightmare that culminates in its demise?

“The world is at an inflection point— this is not a hyperbole,” Biden said Thursday at a CEO summit held in conjunction with APEC. “The decisions we make today are going to shape the direction of the world for decades to come.”

Not surprisingly, most of the technology CEOs who appeared at the summit were generally upbeat about AI’s potential to unleash breakthroughs that will make workers more productive and eventually improve standards of living.

None were more bullish than Microsoft CEO Sat ya Nadella, whose soft ware company has invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI, the start-up behind the AI chatbot ChatGPT. Like many of his peers, Nadella says he believes AI will turn out to be as transformative as the advent of personal computers were during the 1980s, the

internet’s rise during the 1990s and the introduction of smartphones during the 2000s.

“We finally have a way to interact with computing using natural language.

That is, we finally have a technology that understands us, not the other way around,” Nadella said at the CEO summit. “As our interactions with technology become more and more natural, computers will increasingly be able to see and interpret our intent and make sense of the world around us.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, whose internet company is increasingly infusing its influential search engine with AI, is similarly optimistic about humanity’s ability to control the technology in ways that will make the world a better place.

“I think we have to work hard to harness it,” Pichai said. “But that is true of every other technological advance we’ve had before. It was true for the industrial revolution. I think we can learn from those things.”

The enthusiasm exuded by Nadella and Pichai has been mirrored by investors who have been betting AI will pay off for Microsoft and Google. The accelerating advances in AI are the main reasons why the stock prices of both Microsoft and Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., have both soared by more than 50 percent so far this year.

Those gains have combined to produce an additional $1.6 trillion in shareholder wealth.

But the perspective from outside the tech industry is more circumspect.

“Everyone has learned to spell AI, they don’t really know what quite to do about it,” said former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is now director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. “They have enormous benefit written all over them. They also have a lot of cautionary tales about how technology can be misused.”

Robert Moritz, global chairman of the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there are legitimate concerns about the “Doomsday discussions” centered on the effects of AI, potentially about the likelihood of supplanting the need for people to perform a wide range of jobs.

Companies have found ways to train people who lose their jobs in past waves of technological upheaval, Moritz said, and that will have to happen again or “we will have a mismatch, which will bring more unrest, which we cannot afford to have.”

San Francisco, APEC’s host city, is counting on the multibillion- dollar investments in AI and the expansion of payrolls among start-ups, such as OpenAI and Anthropic to revive the fortunes of a city that’s still struggling to adjust to a pandemic-driven shift that has led to more people working from home.

“We are in the spring of yet another innovative boom,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said, while boasting that eight of the biggest AI-centric companies are based in the city.

Xi, Kishida agree to resolve Fukushima water dispute

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A PA N E S E Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to seek a resolution through dialogue to a dispute over the discharge of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Kishida told reporters.

“I urged that this be dealt with calmly on a scientific basis,” Kishida said after his first formal meeting with Xi in a year. “We will hold discussions based on science at an expert level,” he added. He described the summit as “very meaningful.”

The meeting in San Francisco on Thursday comes a day after Joe Biden hailed an improvement in US relations with China following his own talks with Xi. The warmer tone helped open the way for US ally Japan to pursue its efforts to shore up ties with its biggest trade partner.

Th e A s i a n n e i g h b o r s h ave b e e n wrangling over ever ything from semiconductors to nuclear waste and the fate of Japanese citizens detained in China.

A territorial dispute over uninhabited islands near Taiwan continues to simmer.

Kishida said he urged Xi to end a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, imposed by China in response to Japan’s ocean discharge of wastewater from the

wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said the discharge is safe.

The wastewater issue has hurt sales in China for Japanese companies including cosmetics-maker Shiseido Co., which slashed its profit forecast last week. It has also been a factor in turning the Japanese public their most negative on China since 2014, according to a poll published last month.

Xi told Kishida at the start of the meeting that the two countries should focus on common interests, properly handle differences and re-confirm their strategic reciprocal relationship, state broadcaster China Central Television reported.

“I want to work with you to create a brighter future for Japan-China ties for the sake of the next generation,” Kishida responded. Bloomberg News

The existential threat to humanity posed by AI is one of the reasons that led tech mogul Elon Musk to spend some of his estimated fortune of $240 billion to launch a start-up called xAI during the summer. Musk had been scheduled to discuss his hopes and fears surrounding

AI during the CEO summit with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, but canceled Thursday because of an undisclosed conflict.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted AI will prove to be “the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we’ve had so far.” But he also

acknowledged the need for guardrails to protect humanity from the existential threat posed by the quantum leaps being taking by computers.

“I really think the world is going to rise to the occasion and everybody wants to do the right thing,” Altman said. AP

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CEO says biggest Fallout from Musk’s endorsement OpenAI AI election threats are ones of antisemitic pro-Nazi post spreads society hasn’t seen yet ALLOUT from an Elon Musk O post that endorsed antisemitic

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views spread Thursday, prompting outrage from an investor in his electric-vehicle company Tesla Inc. Hours earlier, a major advertiser said it would pull ads from X over pro-Nazi content on the Musk-owned blogging site.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, also CEO of projectmanagement soft ware ma ker Asana Inc., called on the billionaire to resign. Kristin Hull, founder and CEO of Nia Impact Capital, a social-impact fund that owned about $282,200 of stock in Tesla as of midyear, said she was “appalled” after Musk endorsed a post on X that attacked members of the Jewish community

for pushing “dialectical hatred” against white people.

Musk, Tesla’s CEO and the world’s richest person with a net worth of around $218 billion, has repeatedly drawn fire for promoting hate speech and content attacking Jewish people at a time of rising antisemitism. He courted controversy again Wednesday when he responded to the post: “You have said the actual truth.”

Agreement seen to slow flow of fentanyl into US, but not solve overdose epidemic

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XPERTS say new steps China has agreed to will eventually reduce the f low of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the US, but that alone will not stem the overdose crisis killing Americans at a record rate.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at a meeting Wednesday in California that China is telling its chemical companies to curtail shipments to Latin America and elsewhere of the materials used to produce fentanyl, which is largely finished in Mexico and then smuggled into the US. China has also resumed sharing information about suspected trafficking with an international database.

“It’s a step in the right direction because not doing this would be negligent,” said Adam Wandt, an associate professor of public policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “If this is a diplomatic option that we did not take, every fentanyl death over the next decade would be on our heads.”

But he and others described the steps as necessary in addressing the overdose crisis in the US—but not sufficient.

Wandt said the steps should reduce the amount of fentanyl in the US, though when that happens depends on how much of the chemicals are already in possession of Mexican cartels. And even if fentanyl is eradicated, he said, “they will switch to another drug, which I predict will be even more lethal.”

Kevin Roy, the chief public policy officer at Shatterproof, a national group dedicated to combatting the addiction and overdose crisis, said that the steps announced were crucial, but they still have to be carried out.

“It’s only one part of a bigger

picture,” Roy said.

He was also concerned that the nations did not reach any agreements on how to deal with laundering drug money through China, an issue that Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, identified at a congressional hearing this year as another major problem.

China’s National Narcotics Control Commission issued a directive Friday citing existing laws on narcotics and customs controls as a reminder to logistics businesses in the country on preventing the shipment of narcotics and psychotropic drugs abroad.

The notice called on businesses and companies to be “cautious about orders from the United States and Mexico and be wary of the exported items being used to manufacture drugs.” It also warned businesses of the risk of getting caught up in law enforcement actions abroad.

The Biden administration confirmed Thursday that as part of the arrangement, it was lifting trade sanctions against the Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the continued listing of the institute, known as IFS, was a barrier to sealing Chinese cooperation on the issue.

“Ultimately we decided that given the steps China was willing to take to cut down on precursor trafficking, it was an appropriate step to take,” Miller said.

The US Commerce Department listed the institute in 2020, saying it was “complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups.” AP

“The impact of erratic, racist, and antisemitic speech from a CEO directly affects Tesla’s brand and bottom line in significant ways,” Hull said in an email Thursday.

“This behavior has the power to tarnish the brand long-term.”

Hull said the lack of “serious punitive action” from Tesla’s board is also concerning since Musk’s behavior violates the company’s code of business ethics. Nia Impact Capital suggests an appropriate response to Musk’s actions would include “censure by the Board, demotion, re-assignment, suspension, or removal.”

Media Matters released a report Thursday showing ads for IBM, Apple Inc., Oracle Corp., Comcast Corp.’s Xfinity brand and the Bravo television network, which is owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, running on X next to pro-Nazi posts. International Business Machines Corp. said it was suspending advertising on the social media platform formerly called Twitter.

“IBM has zero tolerance for hate

speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,” a company spokesperson said in an email, citing the Media Matters report.

Comcast is looking into the matter, a spokesperson said.

Apple and Oracle didn’t respond to requests for comment. IBM’s decision was reported earlier by the Financial Times.

Moskovitz said X CEO Linda Yaccarino should ask Musk, who serves as the company’s chief technolog y officer, to resign.

“Yaccarino faces her biggest test yet as she decides whether to terminate her antisemitic CTO or risk losing even more advertisers,” he wrote on Threads, another social media site. “How will she handle this tricky, yet morally unambiguous situation?”

A representative for X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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PENAI Inc. CUO Sam Altman thinks humanity is “on a path to self-destruction as a species right now,” but he said artificial intelligence (AI) could be a solution.

“We need technology if we want to flourish for tens or hundreds of millions, or thousands of millions of years,” the CEO said on a panel Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.

Altman joined Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Google Senior Vice President James Manyika in extolling the promise of AI on stage. But the executives also said that the technology has risks heading into a major election year in the US. When it comes to elections, “the dangerous thing is not really what we understand, the existing images and videos, but it’s all the new stuff,” Altman said.

The as-yet-unknown risks could include possible innovations in personalized persuasion. “We don’t fully understand how it will work,” he said.

Cox said that Meta was focusing “quite seriously on our role in elections,” and noted that while AI could exacerbate some misinformation problems, it would also be useful in detecting harmful content before it spreads.

Cox added t h at Met a h ad worked with a variety of people, including W hite House officials and other elected leaders, when developing its AI large language model, Llama 2. “I think a l l of those steps are necessar y,” Cox said. “You can’t just say, ‘ Trust us.’”

Altman, who has been vocal about the need for government oversight of AI, said that big regulatory changes weren’t needed for current versions of the technology, but would be soon.

“We don’t need heavy regulation here or probably for the next couple generations,” he said. “But at some point when a model can do the equivalent output of a whole company, or a whole country, or a whole world, maybe we do want some collective supervision around that.” Bloomberg News

Russian artist who protested Ukraine war gets 7 yrs in prison in latest crackdown on free speech

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ALLINN, Estonia—A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases involving the recent crackdown on free speech.

Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the military after replacing price tags with ones that decried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“The Russian army bombed an arts schools in Mariupol.

Some 400 people were hiding in it from the shelling,” one read. Another said, “Russian conscripts are being sent to Ukraine. Lives of our children are the price of this war.”

A customer at the supermarket who found the slogans reported them to authorities.

Skochilenko’s arrest came about a month after authorities adopted a law effectively criminalizing any public expression about the war that deviates from the official Kremlin line.

The legislation has been used in a widespread crackdown on opposition

SASHA SKOCHILENKO, a 33 year-old artist and musician cries standing behind bars in the court room in the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, November 16, 2023. Skochilenko has been convicted of spreading false information about the military and sentenced to 7 years in prison after replacing several supermarket price tags with slogans criticizing Russia’s military action in Ukraine. AP

politicians, human rights activists and ordinary citizens critical of the Kremlin, with many receiving lengthy prison terms.

Skochilenko, 33, has not denied replacing the price tags but rejected the accusation of spreading knowingly false information.

She did not intend to disparage the military, but rather wanted to stop the fighting, her lawyer Yana Nepovinnova told The Associated Press last week.

“She is a very empathetic,

peace-loving person. To her, in general, the word ‘war’ is the most terrible thing imaginable, as is the suffering of people,” Nepovinnova said.

Russian independent news site Mediazona quoted Skochilenko as saying in her final statement in court Thursday that the case against her was “weird and ridiculous”—so much so that officials in the facility where she is detained “open their eyes widely and exclaim: ‘Is this really what people are being imprisoned for now?’”

She also alleged that an investigator working on her case even quit his job, telling one of her lawyers that he “didn’t join the Investigative Committee to work on cases like (the one) against Sasha Skochilenko.”

Addressing the judge in a courtroom full of supporters, Skochilenko said: “Everyone sees and knows that it’s not a terrorist you’re trying. You’re not trying an extremist.

You’re not trying a political activist, either. You’re trying a pacifist.”

Her supporters applauded, Mediazona reported, adding that after the verdict was announced and Skochilenko was led away, they gathered in a hallway, chanting her name.

Skochilenko has been held for nearly 19 months before her trial, meaning that her overall term will be reduced by more than two years, since every day served in a pre-trial detention center counts as 1.5 days of time served in a regular penal colony.

But she has struggled while in custody due to health problems, including a congenital heart defect, bipolar disorder and celiac disease, requiring a glutenfree diet, her lawyers and her partner have said. AP

Xi’s corruption crackdown nets record number of top officials

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H I N E S E P re s i d e nt X i Jinping’s sweeping antigraft drive has ensnared a record number of senior cadres this year, with more than a month left to go.

Beijing on Thursday announced a probe into Yang Kening, a former

political adviser in the southwestern province of Sichuan, according to a notice issued by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The investigation brings the number of senior officials targeted

by Xi’s campaign since January to 42, breaking the record set in 2014 even without including two ousted ministers who are likely being investigated.

The record probes underscore the continued intensity of Xi’s signature anti-corruption push, which he has leveraged to discipline the ruling Communist Par-

ty and purge political rivals since taking office in 2012. China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong is now confronting a persistent economic slowdown a year after unprecedented spontaneous street protests prompted him to abandon the world’s strictest Covid lockdown measures.

Yang, 61, stepped down this January from the vice-ministerial position on Sichuan’s political consultative conference after overseeing a Tibetan prefecture in the province for much of his career.

Yang’s investigation adds to a record number of retired senior officials ensnared by China’s graft buster this year. At least 18 retired senior cadres were probed this year, a departure from the norm that ref lects the forcefulness of the anti-corruption push.

Until recently, retirement was generally believed to offer senior cadres a level of protection against prosecution. Yang last appeared in public on Monday, where he attended a governmenthosted celebration as an elder leader. Bloomberg News

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AB LEISURE EXPONENT, INC. 5/f Sm Megamall Bldg. D, J Vargas, Wack-wack Greenhills, City Of Mandaluyong

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YANG, YONGYAN Mandarin Graphic Designer Brief Job Description: Create visual concepts to communicate information.

HUANG, CAIJIN Mandarin Operations Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain accurate sales record.

CHEN, KAI Mandarin Operations Team Leader Brief Job Description: Develop a strategy.

GAN, LU Mandarin Operations Team Leader Brief Job Description: Develop a strategy.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

ZENG, BUZHI Key Accounts Specialist Consultant 12.

Salary Range: Php 150,000 - Php 499,999 Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

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Brief Job Description: Chinese Marketing Specialists develop and execute effective marketing strategies to promote products or services.

Basic Qualification: College graduate. Good knowledge level on multiple IT technologies. Excellent communication skills.

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

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Brief Job Description: Chinese Marketing Specialists develop and execute effective marketing strategies to promote products or services.

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Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

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Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

ZHANG, QIANWEI Safety Director Manager 23.

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

WANG, WENBO Mandarin Customer Service Specialist Brief Job Description: Creating and updating customer’s account information.

Basic Qualification: Excellent verbal and written communication in Mandarin language.

JEONG, JIHYE Host, Premium Services

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Brief Job Description: Provide excellent VIP services and gaming experience to our targeted customers.

SHIM, SOJUNG Host, Premium Services

ZENG, JUN Chinese Marketing Specialist 8.

Brief Job Description: Chinese Marketing Specialists develop and execute effective marketing strategies to promote products or services.

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Brief Job Description: Provide excellent VIP services and gaming experience to our targeted customers.

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LI, CAIYI Key Accounts Specialist Consultant 9.

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

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LI, JINGWEN Key Accounts Specialist Consultant 10.

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

LIN, LINA Key Accounts Specialist Consultant 11.

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

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

Basic Qualification: Can develop strong positive relationships with executive and management contacts.

Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

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Brief Job Description: Providing data analytics and data management for the company.

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CHINA CONSTRUCTION SECOND ENGINEERING BUREAU LTD. PHILIPPINE BRANCH OFFICE Unit 38 A & B Rufino Pacific Tower, 6784 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St., San Lorenzo, City Of Makati

WU, ANLING Procurement Manager 21.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for sourcing products and services for the company. They create a buying strategy that takes into account the company budget and necessary supplies and find matching vendors.

Basic Qualification: With 5 years of experience as a manager, degree holder or equivalent; with leadership skills, and bilingual (preferably English & Chinese languages). Can work independent in a fastpaced environment.

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

WU, DONGMEI Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate Brief Job Description: Collating and maintain client information.

Brief Job Description: Entering and updating information into relevant databases.

NGUYEN THI BAO YEN Chinese Speaking Program Designer

Basic Qualification: Has the extensive experience in data analytics and data management; and is proficient and able to communicate in Mandarin or any Chinese language.

Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

LIN, PENG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk

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HALIM Operations Analyst

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

LI, LIYUN Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

Basic Qualification: Completed degree from a reputable university in Business Administration, Technology, Marketing, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above

Brief Job Description: Assist external users of the client’s technical products or services, identify, investigate, research, and provide resolution to user questions and problems.

HE, HENGJIA Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

CASPO INCORPORATED 43/f, 45/f, 49/f Pbcom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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

Basic Qualification: Can develop strong positive relationships with executive and management contacts.

Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for top-line sales and underwriting performance of the entire business with full P&L responsibility on top line and bottom-line results.

Basic Qualification: Must be 18-50 years old. With at least 1-year experience in the related field.

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BOLTTECH DEVICE PROTECTION PHILIPPINES, INC. Unit 3 & 4 11/f Zuellig Bldg., Makati Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas, Urdaneta, City Of Makati

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Can develop strong positive relationships with executive and management contacts.

Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

Brief Job Description: Analysis in the maintenance planning & program area while optimizing systems and/or structures maintainability, availability and safety.

MONTE BARBOSA, ANDRE LUIZ Advisor I, Technical Support

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

Basic Qualification: Proven professional experience.

Basic Qualification: With 5 years of work experience, degree holder or equivalent, with leadership skills, and bilingual (preferably English & Chinese languages).

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Ability to work under pressure and motivation to succeed in a competitive environment. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to speak and communicate using Mandarin language is an advantage. Must be an aggressive salesperson.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for developing, implementing and managing health and safety policies and procedures in the workplace.

ZHANG, YUHAO Mandarin Field Service Coordinator

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

Basic Qualification: Proven professional experience.

Basic Qualification: With 5 years of work experience, degree holder or equivalent, with leadership skills, multilingual (preferably English & Chinese languages) and with experience in managing a team.

CHINA HARBOUR ENGINEERING COMPANY 5/f Section E Ramon Magsaysay Center, 1680 Roxas Blvd., 076, Barangay 699, Malate, City Of Manila

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Strong understanding of warehouse operations and procedures. Excellent organizational and timemanagement skills.

Brief Job Description: Plan and develop the project idea, create and lead the team, monitor project progress, set deadlines, manage money, evaluate project performance including performance of team members.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

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

Basic Qualification: Can develop strong positive relationships with executive and management contacts.

Can develop Annual revenue and sales plans for assigned location.

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

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

LI, RONGJIA Project Manager

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

BLOOMBERRY RESORTS AND HOTELS INC. Solaire Resort And Casino, 1 Asean Avenue, Entertainment City, Tambo, City Of Parañaque

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Basic Qualification: Ability to work under pressure and motivation to succeed in a competitive environment. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to speak and communicate using Mandarin language is an advantage. Must be an aggressive salesperson.

Brief Job Description: Are responsible for ensuring that the supply chain is efficient and effective throughout their organization.

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B2B ANALYTICS AND MARKETING SERVICES CORPORATION 28/f Tower, 6789 Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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

LI, ZHENYONG Chinese Marketing Specialist

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

CAI, XINKE Warehouse Logistics Manager

AM-PRO IMPORTS MARKETING CORP. 16e Residenza Suites, 429 Shaw Blvd., Addition Hills, City Of Mandaluyong

CHEN, SHIXUAN Chinese Marketing Specialist

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

ZHANG, JINJIN Key Accounts Specialist Consultant

ACCENTURE, INC. 7f, Robinsons Cybergate Tower 1, Pioneer St, City Of Mandaluyong TARRILLO MEGO, MARCO SW/App/Cloud Tech Support Analyst

Brief Job Description: A key accounts specialist consultant is an individual dedicated to marketing, selling, and supporting a specific type of customer.

ZENG, GUODING Key Accounts Specialist Consultant

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions.

YU, GANGJIAO Chinese Speaking Program Designer 31.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions.

Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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

CSCEC STRAIT CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD (PHILIPPINES BRANCH OFFICE) 19f Greenfield Tower, 1117 Soler St. Corner Alvarado St., Binondo, Barangay 294, Binondo, City Of Manila

CHEN, XIANGZHONG Resident Agent/General Manager 32.

Brief Job Description: Develops staffing plans and establishes work plans and schedules on projects. Responsible for personnel management including recruitment, supervision, disciplinary actions, performance appraisals and terminations.

Basic Qualification: Degree in Business Managements, MBA is referred. Excellent communication skills, and able to speak Chinese language fluently.

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

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

DYNAMIC STUDIO TECHNOLOGY INC. 5th To 8th/f & 10th/f Platinum Tower Building, Aseana Ave. Cor. Fuentes Street, Baclaran, City Of Parañaque

HOANG THI NGA Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 33.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for providing overall administrative support to the team he/ she will be assigned to.

ZHANG, YAOYAO Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 34.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

WONG CHIN CHEAN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 35.

Brief Job Description: Gathering invoices, statements, reports, personal details, documents and information from employees, other departments and clients.

XU, GUICHUAN Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 36.

Brief Job Description: Gathering invoices, statements, reports, personal details, documents and information from employees, other departments and clients.

MA, GUOTENG Chinese Speaking Graphic Designer 37.

Brief Job Description: Liaising with clients to determine their requirements, timescale and budget.

LI, GUOXIA Chinese Speaking HR Associate 38.

Brief Job Description: Managing HR records including, résumés, applicant logs, and employee forms.

LIAN, RUITIAN Chinese Speaking Program Designer 39.

Brief Job Description: Communicate overall design and approach to a team of programmers; and create flowcharts, diagrams, other models, and programming instructions to guide programming team.

SHAO, HU Chinese Speaking Program Designer

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Brief Job Description: Communicate overall design and approach to a team of programmers; and create flowcharts, diagrams, other models, and programming instructions to guide programming team.

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

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Brief Job Description: Responsible for establishing and maintaining profitable relationships with customer on behalf of the company.

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

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Brief Job Description: Oversee and manage day-to-day operations of multiple locations within the designated area.

MIAO, SHUAI Area Manager 43.

Brief Job Description: Oversee and manage day-to-day operations of multiple locations within the designated area.

SONG, ZHIGANG Area Manager 44.

Brief Job Description: Oversee and manage day-to-day operations of multiple locations within the designated area.

WANG, PINGHUA Assistant To Area Manager 45.

Brief Job Description: Provide administrative support to the area manager in daily tasks and activities.

CHEN, ZHENG Live Stream Host Trainer 46.

Brief Job Description: Design and implement comprehensive training programs for live stream hosts, covering various aspects of hosting, audience engagement, and content creation.

ZHANG, KEXIN Network Operations Deputy Director 47.

Brief Job Description: Develop and implement operational strategies aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives.

KHAN, MUHAMMAD TALHA Network QC Supervisor 48.

Brief Job Description: Develop and implement quality control processes and procedures for network installations and maintenance.

CHANG, ZHENG Project Coordinator 50.

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

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

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Brief Job Description: Create and manage product in conjunction with marketing strategies.

Brief Job Description: Handles service support calls, emails and chats related to clients inquiry.

VUONG BICH THANH Customer Service Representative (Mandarin Speaking)

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Brief Job Description: Handles service support calls, emails and chats related to clients inquiry.

HU, JIAHUI Chinese Speaking Business Financial Officer 59.

Brief Job Description: Ensure financial records are kept up to date with the latest transactions and changes.

HEIJNERT, KAREL VICTOR Senior Consultant, Water Management 60.

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

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Basic Qualification: Exceptional ability to provide technical support and resolve queries.

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

Brief Job Description: Plan, and manage quality control and close projects successfully by completing tasks and deliverables on time and within budget and to the satisfaction of the clients.

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With at least 5 years of work experience as subject matter expert in river and water resources management.

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

SHARMA, RAHUL Head Of Collections Technology, AI Stream & Change Delivery 61.

Brief Job Description: Complete oversight of Collections business process functionality from a systems perspective. Lead AI initiatives across organization and ensuring constant monitoring and support to Teams utilizing these services.

68.

Brief Job Description: Receive and organize payments, and post payments in computer system.

LU, MINH TU Vietnamese Cook 69.

Brief Job Description: Preparing meals which includes washing, peeling, cutting and slicing ingredients.

MCGRAW, ADAM JOHN Multi-brand Education Head 70.

Brief Job Description: Foster and drive efficiently the sell-out through ensuring the best technical mastery of brand products in Salon, implementing international programs.

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Brief Job Description: Responsible for coordinating with other marketing and sales professionals to implement innovative campaigns for branding or product launches.

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

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With previous management experience in a related field.

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

Basic Qualification: Must have experience in facilities maintenance or repair.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must have knowledge in payment system process and industry best practices.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must have knowledge in payment system process and industry best practices.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Must have knowledge in supporting and assisting in various task in kitchen.

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

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With at least 5 years of work experience in hairdressing and artistry industry.

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

LERIB SERVICES CORPORATION U-3d Rose Industries Bldg., Choice Market Ortigas, Kapitolyo, City Of Pasig

AN, BYEONGJUN Consultant 71.

Brief Job Description: Consultant must have strong leadership skills to manage their teams effectively.

Basic Qualification: College graduate with experience in the related position, and fluent in English and Korean Hangeul languages.

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

MARKETROLE ASIA PACIFIC SERVICES, INC. 27/f & 28/f The Enterprise Center Tower 1, 6766 Ayala Ave. Cor. Paseo De Roxas, San Lorenzo, City Of Makati

72.

LIU, JIAZHUO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Provide outstanding and exceptional customer service.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Chinese/ Mandarin language fluently.

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

MAYA PHILIPPINES, INC. 6/f Launchpad, Reliance Cor. Sheridan, Highway Hills, City Of Mandaluyong

TRAN CONG PHU KHANH Data Science Consultant 73.

Brief Job Description: Serve as a subject matter expert in the domains of optimization, machine learning, and deep learning methodologies.

HWA LUN CORPORATION Unit 1606 B, Sunjoy Bldg., Barangay 271, San Nicolas, City Of Manila

CHEN, GENGQUAN Chinese Marketing Specialist

Basic Qualification: Excellent communication, management and interpersonal skills.

L’OREAL PHILIPPINES, INC. 2nd, 2208-2209, 23/f Robinsons Equitable Tower Adb Ave., Ortigas Ctr,, San Antonio, City Of Pasig

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With at least basic knowledge in programming SQL databases. Proficient in communicating in English language.

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

Brief Job Description: Receive and organize payments, and post payments in computer system.

NGUYEN THANH TRUNG Payment Specialist

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

Brief Job Description: Preforming general maintenance tasks including landscaping paintings and carpentry.

LE, THI TRUC NGAN Payment Specialist

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

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

Brief Job Description: Recruiting, hiring and training all restaurant staff including servers and hosts. Scheduling employees to ensure shifts have proper coverage.

NGUYEN MINH DAI Maintenance Specialist

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

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

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

KNW TECHNOLOGY INC. 103 Equinox Plaza, Sierra Madre, Highway Hills, City Of Mandaluyong

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Exceptional ability to provide technical support and resolve queries.

Brief Job Description: Lead regular site meeting with professional, including quality surveyors, and building services engineers.

KIM, JONGYEONG General Manager

Salary Range: Php 60,000 - Php 89,999 Basic Qualification: Exceptional ability to provide technical support and resolve queries.

Basic Qualification: Undergraduate degree with an excellent academic record, graduate degree in industrial engineering, 6 plus years of experience of IT consulting and telecommunication companies.

KIM’S 96 CORPORATION (KIM’S 96 K-RESTAURANT, KIM’S 96 K-MART, KIM’S 96 K-BAR AND KIM’S 96 K-CAFE) 5041, P. Burgos St., Poblacion, City Of Makati

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking.

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

Brief Job Description: Responsible in managing end-to-end projects, working with all areas that have impact throughout the customer’s life cycle.

LI, HAO Senior Project Manager

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking.

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

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

JANGHO CURTAINWALL PHILIPPINES INC. Level 40 Pbcom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking.

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

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

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

Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above

BOLIN GARCIA, FERNANDO LUIS Consultant For Technology, Media, And Telecommunications (TMT) Strategy And Operations

HASKONING PHILIPPINES, INC. Unit 4 22/f Tower 6789, 6789 Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree holder in a related field. A Master’s degree may be preferred.

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Basic Qualification: Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel & Outlook.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

INDRA PHILIPPINES, INC. 11/f & 12/f, Tower 1, Rockwell Business Center, Ortigas Avenue, Ugong, City Of Pasig

GRAND EVEREST HOLDING INC. 17/f M1 Tower, 141 H.v. Dela Costa St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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

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

Brief Job Description: Maintaining hardware and software installations.

CHONG SIU TAI Customer Service Representative (Mandarin Speaking)

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

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Broadcasting, Media Studies, or a related field is preferred.

OKY WIJAYA Indonesian Quality Control

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

GLOBAL PACIFIC KNOWLEDGE CONSULTANCY INC. Unit905 9/f The Pearlbank Centre, 146 Valero St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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

Basic Qualification: University or higher professional education in a related field.

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

FARID RIZKI FAHMI Indonesian Retention Specialist

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree holder in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree holder in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Brief Job Description: Manage large amount of calls, and handle customer concerns.

JACKY ADIPUTRA Indonesian Financial System Consultant

Basic Qualification: Proven experience as Mandarin Project Manager.

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree holder in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Brief Job Description: Manage large amount of calls, and handle customer concerns.

QIU, GUANGZHONG Chinese Customer Service Representative

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

Brief Job Description: Manage large amount of calls, and handle customer concerns.

LIU, CHUANHAO Chinese Customer Service Representative

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

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

Brief Job Description: Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.

CHEN, CHANGXIAN Chinese Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

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

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

GIGA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INC. 2/f Lipam’s Building, 40 Presidents Avenue, B. F. Homes, City Of Parañaque

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of work experience. Good in verbal communication and written.

Brief Job Description: Supervise and lead a team of warehouse staff, including assigning tasks and monitoring performance.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

FOKUSI CONSTRUCTION INC. Unit 2105 & 2106, High Street South Corporate Tower 1, 26th Street Corner 11th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig

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

FLASH EXPRESS SOFTWARE (PH) CO., LTD. INC. 11/f Cybersigma, Lawton Ave., West Mckinley, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig LIU, JIANFENG Area Manager

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION GUO, CHAOZHE Warehouse Deputy Manager

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

ENOVELL-TECH Unit 506, The Boni Tower, Plainview, City Of Mandaluyong ZHANG, HENG Mandarin Project Manager

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Basic Qualification: Holds a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline. Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in data science, such as Python and R, is essential.

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

Basic Qualification: Ability to work under pressure and motivation to succeed in a competitive environment. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to speak and communicate using Mandarin language is an advantage. Must be an aggressive salesperson.

MIESCOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 27th Floor Ore Central Tower, 31st Street Cor. 9th Ave. Bgc, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig

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

MPOTECH DIGITAL SYSTEM INC. 2/f 331 Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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AFETSROM, ANTHONY Operations And Support Manager Brief Job Description: Directly reports to the heads of operations.

Basic Qualification: Graduate of any equivalent course.

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

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

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Brief Job Description: Provide product/services, information, answer questions and resolve emerging problem.

HENDY, MARTIN BUTAR BUTAR Indonesian Customer Service Representative 76.

Brief Job Description: Provide product/services, information, answer questions and resolve emerging problem.

ZEVIN Indonesian Customer Service Representative 77.

Brief Job Description: Provide product/services, information, answer questions and resolve emerging problem.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Graduate 4 years’ bachelor degree with critical thinking and problem solving skills.

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DOAN HUU THINH Chinese Speaking Program Designer 91.

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

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions.

Basic Qualification: Graduate 4 years’ bachelor degree with critical thinking and problem solving skills.

LE THI LUONG Chinese Speaking Program Designer

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

92.

Basic Qualification: Graduate 4 years’ bachelor degree with critical thinking and problem solving skills.

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

78.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for many clerical tasks to ensure the staff can communicate.

VONG SAY MENH Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 79.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for many clerical tasks to ensure the staff can communicate.

VOON MIAW LIAN Chinese Speaking Admin Associate 80.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for many clerical tasks to ensure the staff can communicate.

CHUNG MAU HOI Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 81.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

HUANG, JINBING Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 82.

Brief Job Description: Assist with drafting business plans, sales, pitches, presentations, reference material and other documents as required.

Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

WANG, LIJIE Mandarin Site Supervisor

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

LIU VA KIN Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 84.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

NGUYEN THI PHUC Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 85.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

UNG CHI VAY Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 86.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

VONG THU SINH Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 87.

Brief Job Description: Identify and maintain new business opportunities and existing partners.

WANG, ZHIPENG Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate 88.

Brief Job Description: Assist with drafting business plans, sales, pitches, presentations, reference material and other documents as required.

LIAO, GUISHENG Chinese Speaking Data Entry Clerk 89.

Brief Job Description: Gather data and capture the information into databases.

CHU VAN THANG Chinese Speaking Program Designer 90.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians to deliver software solutions.

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

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Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services communication.

WANG, ZHAN Chinese Customer Service 103.

Basic Qualification: Ability to concentrate for lengthy periods. With good in verbal and written communication skills.

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

Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

WANG, JIAXIN Chinese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. With strong organization and project management skills.

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

KOU, FEILONG Chinese Customer Service

SUN, YONG Chinese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

Brief Job Description: The Mandarin site supervisor will be a strategist and a leader able to steer the company in the most profitable direction while also implementing its vision, mission, and long-term goals.

LYU, PENG Chinese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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

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Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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

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Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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

110.

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

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Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

ZHU, MOLIN Chinese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

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

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

ZHOU, JIANYUE Chinese Customer Service

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

Basic Qualification: Proven experience as a Mandarin site supervisor, excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

112.

Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services communication.

XIA, HUAN Chinese Customer Service 104.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

ZHAO, LIANGWEI Chinese Customer Service 105.

Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services communication.

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

NEW ORIENTAL CLUB88 CORPORATION 1331 Pearl Plaza Bldg., 133 Quirino Ave., Tambo, City Of Parañaque 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th/f Sapphire Seaview Park, Pacific Avenue, Don Galo, City Of Parañaque Sky Garage Bldg., Aseana Avenue, Entertainment City, Tambo, City Of Parañaque

Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

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

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians to deliver software solutions.

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

ALVES FERRAZ, MARCIA CAROLINE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

ALVES FERRAZ, MARIA CECILIA Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

EVANGELISTA SANTOS LAURIANO, RODRIGO LEONARDO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

FERREIRA DE ANDRADE, LUIZ HENRIQUE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

GUILHERME MENDONCA DA LUZ, SUNAMITA Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

NEPC POWER CONSTRUCTION CORP. 15/f Cyber One Bldg., Eastwood Cyberpark City, Bagumbayan, Quezon City

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LANG THI THUY HIEN Chinese Speaking Business Development Associate

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians to deliver software solutions.

TRAN, THI BICH Chinese Speaking Program Designer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. With strong organization and project management skills.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions.

TRAN, NHAT LE Chinese Speaking Program Designer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: With at least 6 months of experience and good in verbal communication and written.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions.

TANG THI VAN Chinese Speaking Program Designer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions

LY KIM ANH Chinese Speaking Program Designer

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to organize their work using tools.

Brief Job Description: Collaborate with other IT specialists, technicians, etc., to deliver software solutions

LIN, QINGDONG Chinese Speaking Program Designer

NEO INCORPORATED North Tower Centrum Bldg., Aseana Avenue, Entertainment City, Baclaran, City Of Parañaque

PHAN THI NGA Chinese Speaking Admin Associate

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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MARCELINO ARAUJO, WATSON Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

RODRIGUES DA SILVA, RIVALDO Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

SANTOS LOPES, LEWROY Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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SILVA DE LIMA, MATHEUS VITOR Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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SILVA RAMOS, THAYNA EMANUELLE Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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VITOR DE LIMA DO NASCIMENTO, GABRIEL Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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DEFMOND Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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HENDI Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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HERMAN Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

JIKKY Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

MARIANA Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

MICHAEL PANGESTU Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

NICHOLES KOH Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

RICKY HANDOKO Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

RISKI SUSANTO Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

RUDIYANTO Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

WAHYU ADI KURNIAWAN Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

WELLY SOEGIATO Indonesian Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

LEE MUN KIAT Malaysian Customer Service 131.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

AYE NANDAR HLAING Myanmar Customer Service 132.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

KYAW THEIN Myanmar Customer Service 133.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

LYO KYAR LINT Myanmar Customer Service 134.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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MYINT THEIN Myanmar Customer Service 137.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

MYINT MYINT AYE Myanmar Customer Service 136.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NANG KHAM LU Myanmari Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

BUI XUAN LOI Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

DANG, THI THU TRANG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents

DINH, THI HONG NHUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

DINH, VAN THIET Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

DO MINH TUAN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

DOAN THANH TU Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

GIENG NGOC LIEN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

HO VAN HUU Vietnamese Customer Service 150.

MAY ZIN OO Myanmar Customer Service

AYE MYAT THU Myanmari Customer Service

DINH THI LOAN Vietnamese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

BACH CONG MINH Vietnamese Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

NANG HOM MON Myanmar Customer Service

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

HOANG HUU TIEN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

HOANG THI MY LOAN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

HONG CONG LIN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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KA SA KIEU HANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

LE THE LINH Vietnamese Customer Service 155.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

LE THI NGOC ANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

LE VAN MINH THONG Vietnamese Customer Service 157.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

LE, CANH DAT Vietnamese Customer Service 158.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

LE, THI LINH Vietnamese Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

LE, THI THU TRANG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

LUONG THI THO Vietnamese Customer Service 161.

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

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

LUONG, THI NGAN Vietnamese Customer Service

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

Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

MAI VAN HOANG Vietnamese Customer Service

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

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Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

NGUYEN THI HOA Vietnamese Customer Service 164.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

NGUYEN THI THU THANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN THI THUAN Vietnamese Customer Service 166.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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NGUYEN TRUNG KIEN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer application with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

NGUYEN VAN LINH Vietnamese Customer Service 168.

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

NGUYEN VINH VINH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, DINH ANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, HUU THE Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

NGUYEN, THI MY NUONG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, THI THU PHUONG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, VAN BAN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, VAN QUYET Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NGUYEN, XUAN PHUOC Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and data base services.

NONG, THI LANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

NONG, VAN CUONG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

PHAM THI THU HA Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

PHAM VIET CHI Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

PHAM, VAN VIET Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

THONG HUNG PHAT Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

No.

TRAN ANH DUONG Vietnamese Customer Service 184.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

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Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handle complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts, and file documents.

Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

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

TRAN VAN TRUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

TRAN XUAN SON Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

TRAN, THI PHUONG NHI Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

TUONG, THUC MY Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

UNG MANH HUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

VI, THI DINH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

VO, DUY TRUNG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

VO, KHAC TUONG Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

VO, THI HANH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

VONG HY MINH Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

VONG THI TO QUYEN Vietnamese Customer Service Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

LAI, THI MAI Vietnamese Customer Service Representative Brief Job Description: Customer support and database services.

KIM, SUNGMIN Marketing Manager Brief Job Description: Oversee all marketing campaigns for the company or the department. Promote business, its products or services.

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

No.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION PARK, HYERI Human Resource Assistant

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

Brief Job Description: The human resource assistant will perform administrative tasks and services to support effective and efficient operations of the organization’s HR department.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE Basic Qualification: At least 1-year experience in the job, college graduate, and with good communication skills.

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

ONE BORDERLINE CREATIVES INC. Unit 11-ij3, 11/f Burgundy Corporate Tower, 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati

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LI, WEN Mandarin Operations Specialist Brief Job Description: Maintain accurate sales record.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

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

PHILIPPINE FULL DEGREE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. 18/f Yuchengco Tower 1, Rcbc Plaza, 6819 Ayala Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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CHEN, CHENG Mandarin Product Developer Brief Job Description: Grow company revenues by developing new products.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

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

PHILIPPINE HAOTAI CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 215 Juan Luna Street, Binondo, 027, Barangay 287, Binondo, City Of Manila

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

WU, PEINA Technical Assistant (for Chinese Clients)

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With previous work experience in a related position.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

PHILIPPINE TRAILBLAZERS TECHNOLOGY CORP. 2f Bachrach Bldg Ii 23rd St., Cor Railroad St., Barangay 653, Port Area, City Of Manila

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

205.

Brief Job Description: Expert in language translation from Mandarin to English language.

BU, WEI Maintenance Operation Manager 206.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for ensuring that the facilities, layout and machinery used to produce new and existing materials and goods run to their maximum efficiency and output.

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TAN, KAIXIAN Multilingual Business Manager Brief Job Description: Oversees the activities of other workers.

YIN, SHIQIANG Multilingual Marketing Manager

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Brief Job Description: Gathers and analyzes information to identify new markets and customers. Demand for products and services, and efficacy of existing marketing campaigns and strategies.

ZHAO, XIANG Multilingual Marketing Manager

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

209.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

PRIME ENERGY RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT B.V. 19/f Asian Star Bldg., Asean Drive, Alabang, City Of Muntinlupa

Brief Job Description: Gathers and analyzes information to identify new markets and customers demand for products and service and efficacy.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 JAMES, SIMON DAVID Subsurface Manager 210.

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

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With previous work experience in a related field. With strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and project management skills.

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

OKTION MONEY CHANGER CORP. Unit Ug-07 Cityland Herrera Tower, 98 V.a Rufino Cor. Valero Sts., Bel-air, City Of Makati

Basic Qualification: Can speak and write Mandarin and English languages fluently.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Can speak and write Mandarin and English languages fluently.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Can speak and write Mandarin and English languages fluently.

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

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management or related field. Experience in management, operations and leadership.

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

POWERCHINA PHILIPPINES CORPORATION Unit 2101 21/f Bdo Equitable Tower, 8751 Paseo De Roxas, Bel-air, City Of Makati

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

PHILIPPINES FIBER OPTIC CABLE NETWORK LTD., INC. Unit 2802-2803, 28th Floor, The Podium, Adb Avenue, Wack-wack Greenhills, City Of Mandaluyong

Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

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

Brief Job Description: Expert in language translation from Mandarin to English language.

WANG, YIXIN Translator

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

Brief Job Description: They ensure that the customer is satisfied and adequately taken care of while making a purchase.

WANG, CHANG Translator

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College Graduate.

Preferably 1-year of work experience in a similar field, and speaks and writes fluently in native language.

Brief Job Description: Answers phone calls and messages. Printing and filing of documents. Composing emails.

LIU, XUEDONG Sales Representative

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

OGROUP FIRSTONE ENTERTAINMENT CORP. Units 2108 2109 & 2110 Park Triangle Corporate Plaza Building, 32nd Street Corner 11th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig

198.

TO DONG THUC Vietnamese Customer Service

Brief Job Description: Manage incoming calls and inquiries, handling complaints, provide solutions, process customer accounts and file documents.

VO THI XUAN NHAN Vietnamese Customer Service

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: Knowledgeable in computer applications with good verbal and written communication skills.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Brief Job Description: Integrating the company’s urban plan including exploration, new hub development, near-infrastructure or near-field opportunities, reservoir management strategies and technology implementation.

Basic Qualification: With relative work experience.

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

Basic Qualification: With relative work experience.

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

Basic Qualification: With relative work experience.

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

Basic Qualification: College graduate. With broad upstream experience with an emphasis on Field Development Planning, Reservoir Management, opportunity identification and maturation, and Project Management.

Salary Range: Php 500,000 and above

RESULTS MANILA, INC. Silver City, Frontera Verde, Ugong, City Of Pasig

TATIA, MONICA Process Sr. Manager 211.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for identifying, delivering, and documenting opportunities for improvement, which will result in analyzing, creating, and implementing solutions to achieve business objectives.

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Business Analytics, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent education, training, and experience.

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

RIDGE OUTSOURCING SERVICES INC. 46/f Pbcom Tower, 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS No.

212.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

WU, XULAN Chinese Customer Service Representative

Basic Qualification: Foreign language speaking.

Brief Job Description: Manage large amount of incoming phone calls.

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

RIMES TECHNOLOGIES (MANILA) CORPORATION 9th Floor Three Neo Building, 30th Street 3rd Avenue Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio, City Of Taguig

YILDIRIM, SALIH Software Developer 213.

Brief Job Description: Design, implement and integrate new functionalities to data-centric applications built as micro services and data pipelines to build scalable and robust application in a distributed multi-tenant hybrid cloud architecture.

Basic Qualification: 3 plus years of experience, bachelor’s degree holder in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant field. Relevant experience in programming data centric applications and pipelines.

214.

Brief Job Description: Communicates the parent company directives and acts as its link to all shareholders.

224.

LEE, MINSUNG Customer Service Manager 225.

REGO, ADRIAN Senior Manager For Continuous Improvement 215.

Brief Job Description: Lead projects using process improvement methodologies that will ensure the achievement of financial goals, delivering, cost efficiency, bonus maximization, penalty reduction, or other performance/productivity metrics through cross-functional teams.

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

216.

Brief Job Description: Assist in the planning of the organization’s daily operation.

Basic Qualification: Fluently speak and write Malaysian language.

226.

217.

Brief Job Description: Travel Coordinator make travel arrangements for individuals, group including scheduling flights and ground transportation, booking accommodations and handling any other trip-related tasks.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling digital work to be processed by gathering, sorting and organizing documents through Mandarin to English language translation.

HUANG, MINGZHAO Mandarin Advanced Digital IT Specialist

227.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling digital work to be processed by gathering, sorting and organizing documents through Mandarin to English language translation.

LU KIM YEN Mandarin Finance Specialist

228.

Brief Job Description: Responsible for handling digital work to be processed by gathering, sorting and organizing documents through Mandarin to English language translation.

LI, PENGPENG Manager 229.

Brief Job Description: Manages Chinese seller account.

REY LOPEZ, VICTOR Sr. Associate - Quality (Spanish)

230.

Brief Job Description: Monitor interactions, facilities call calibrations and training sessions. Train and certify new iQAs/VQAs. Publishes quality reports and dashboards. Drive process improvement and ensures process compliance, contribute to the development of the short and long term goals of the process. Ensure quality / RCA alignment and CSAT targets are met at all times.

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

TAE ZAR LWIN Director - NPI Engineering 218.

Brief Job Description: The role will be responsible for the Rest Assure manufacture readiness and for the program’s overall technical sustainability across future generations of Rest Assure.

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

JEDIDIAH WAHANA Senior IT Consultant 219.

Brief Job Description: Procurement digitalization review and opportunities identification for Singaporean Telco, and drive and manage outplacement project for public sector upskilling program.

YI, ZHIGANG Chinese Marketing And Sales Consultant 231.

Brief Job Description: Identify effective marketing campaigns that will reach targeted audiences effectively and efficiently.

220.

Brief Job Description: Handles administrative request and queries from senior managers/officers.

ZHANG, WENYI Chinese Marketing And Sales Consultant 232.

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

Brief Job Description: Identify effective marketing campaigns that will reach targeted audiences effectively and efficiently.

221.

Brief Job Description: Supervise and participate in cooking, baking and the preparation of food.

LUO, JIAN Chinese Chef 222.

Brief Job Description: Supervise and participate in cooking, baking and the preparation of food.

Basic Qualification: At least 19 years old.

Ability to speak, write and communicate in Taiwanese language.

CHEN, BINGHUANG General Automotive Mechanic 233.

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

Brief Job Description: Automotive mechanics help diagnose and repair various issues for different automotive vehicles, including cars, trucks and vans.

223.

Brief Job Description: Supervise and participate in cooking, baking and the preparation of food.

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

238.

239.

Basic Qualification: Knowledge in computer, Chinese language speaking and experienced Chef.

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

Basic Qualification: Knowledge in computer, Chinese language speaking and experienced Chef.

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

WANG, FEIYAN General Automotive Mechanic 234.

Brief Job Description: Automotive mechanics help diagnose and repair various issues for different automotive vehicles, including cars, trucks and vans.

Basic Qualification: Knowledge in computer, Chinese language speaking and experienced Chef.

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

Brief Job Description: Handles service support calls, emails and chats related to clients inquiry.

Brief Job Description: Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: At least 19 years old.

Ability to speak, write, and communicate in Vietnamese language.

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

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

Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

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

NGUYEN, NGOC HAI Accounts Executive

241.

Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

Salary Range: Php 30,000 - Php 59,999 Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

NGUYEN, QUOC KHANH Accounts Executive

242.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

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

NGUYEN, THITHU PHUONG Accounts Executive

243.

Basic Qualification: Strong knowledge of sales and persuasion techniques coupled with excellent knowledge of the products.

Knowledge of data analysis and market research.

Intuition about customer desires and practical needs.

Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

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

NGUYEN, THU HUYEN Accounts Executive

244.

Basic Qualification: Strong knowledge of sales and persuasion techniques coupled with excellent knowledge of the products.

Knowledge of data analysis and market research.

Intuition about customer desires and practical needs.

Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

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

VUONG MINH DUC Accounts Executive

245.

Basic Qualification: College level/graduate with at least 1-year experience and proficiency in MS office and CRM software with aptitude to learn system, and fluent in both English & Vietnamese languages.

Brief Job Description: Responsible in understanding the needs of the clients and communicating IT with the whole team. Building and maintaining effective working relationship with the clients, setting, managing an coordinating realistic timeline between the entire team, preparing and presenting sales pitches and monitoring project.

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

XSPACE SERVICE OFFICE INC. U-a&b 20/f Rufino Pacific Tower, 6784 Ayala Ave., San Lorenzo, City Of Makati

SUN, LUJUN Operations Manager 246.

Brief Job Description: The Operations Manager will be a strategist and a leader able to steer the company to the most profitable direction while also implementing its vision, mission and long term goals.

Basic Qualification: Proven experience as Operations Manager, familiarity, knowledge and awareness on machinery and heavy equipment used by company. Demonstrable experience in developing strategic business plan.

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

*Date Generated: Nov 17, 2023 In the ad material of Notice of Filing of Application for Alien Employment Permits published on November 16, 2023, the position of CHAO, JINHUA under the company DYNAMIC STUDIO TECHNOLOGY INC., should have been read as CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE and not as published.

In the ad material of Notice of Filing of Application for Alien Employment Permits published on October 24, 2023, the name LI, CHANGJU under the company JDB MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY CORP., should have been read as LI, CHANGJIU and not as published.

VICCI BUSINESS CONSULTANCY CORP. 10/f Liberty Plaza, 102 H.v. Dela Costa St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

235.

Basic Qualification: At least 19 years old.

Ability to speak, write, and communicate in Vietnamese language.

Basic Qualification: Can speak Mandarin language.

HOANG, TRONG TUAN Accounts Executive

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

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

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

WOZOT NB OLIVE INC. Penthouse 1 One Corporate Center, Julia Vargas Ave., San Antonio, City Of Pasig

Basic Qualification: College graduate and with work experience.

Basic Qualification: Must develop skills in areas like problem-solving, communication, and attention to detail. Strong communication skills are a critical component of an auto mechanic’s abilities.

Time management also helps mechanics estimate how long each repair will take.

Brief Job Description: Maintain financial accounts by processing customer adjustments. Recommends potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.

CHEN, QIANG Mandarin Technical Support

240.

Basic Qualification: Must develop skills in areas like problem-solving, communication, and attention to detail. Strong communication skills are a critical component of an auto mechanic’s abilities.

Time management also helps mechanics estimate how long each repair will take.

Brief Job Description: Maintain financial accounts by processing customer adjustments. Recommends potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.

Basic Qualification: At least 19 years old.

Ability to speak, write, and communicate in Vietnamese language.

WIKITECH SERVICES INC. 10/f Alphaland Corporate Tower, 7232 Ayala Avenue Ext. Corner Malugay St., Bel-air, City Of Makati

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

Basic Qualification: Minimum of a 2-year associate degree but Bachelor’s degree complete or in progress is preferred, 2 or more years in a quality assurance role, and 3 or more years of relevant previous customer services experience (preferably in contact centers, include time in a quality assurance role). Strong analytical, problem solving and general troubleshooting skills. Ability to communicate technical issues in nontechnical terms, excellent written communication and interpersonal skills.

Brief Job Description: Maintain financial accounts by processing customer adjustments. Recommends potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.

TRAN THI THANH NGUYEN Vietnamese Customer Service Representative

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

WU, HAO-KUAN Customer Relation Representative (Mandarin Translation) SHI, MENGYUAN Chinese Chef

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

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

TIANJIN CUISINE GROUP INC. #250, Urban Ave., Pio Del Pilar, City Of Makati

LI, DESHENG Chinese Chef

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

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

TIAN XIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 6/f Filinvest Cyberzone Bldg. B, Superblock A Central Business Park 1 Bay City St., Barangay 76, Pasay City HUANG, CHIH-HSI a.k.a. HUANG, CHIH-YI Chinese Admin Support Specialist

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

VEHICLE MASTER SERVICE CORP. #27, T. Santiago St., Canumay West, City Of Valenzuela

THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP - PHILIPPINES BRANCH 24/f Philamlife Tower, 8767 Paseo De Roxas, Bel-air, City Of Makati Basic Qualification: Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Ability to develop leading edge business models, framework for analysis and long-term business strategies.

237.

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

Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

PHAM THI NGOC GIANG Vietnamese Customer Service Representative

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

SOMNOMED PHILIPPINES, INC. 3/f Allegro Center, 2284 Don Chino Roces Extn., Magallanes, City Of Makati Basic Qualification: Masters in Electronics, Mechatronics and or Validation Engineering.

15 yrs. of experience in electronics product & process development.

236.

VCUSTOMER PHILIPPINES, INC. 3/f E-commerce Plaza Garden Road, Eastwood Cyberpark City, Bagumbayan 3, Quezon City

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

Basic Qualification: College graduate/bachelor’s degree, at least 1-2 years working experience in the related position, flexible, trustworthy, and proficient in speaking and writing in English & Korean Hangul languages.

Basic Qualification: College graduate with a year experience in travel industry.

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION NGUYEN TUAN DUC Vietnamese Customer Service Representative

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

UNITOP GENERAL MERCHANDISE INC. 12th Floor, Ri Rance Bldg., Aseana City, Tambo, City Of Parañaque

SNOWVIT SERVICES CORPORATION Unit 5d Rose Industries, Bldg. No. 11, Pioneer Street, Kapitolyo, City Of Pasig

JO, EUNBYUL Travel Coordinator

Brief Job Description: Deal with customer enquiries and aim to meet their expectations.

HUANG, SENHUA Mandarin Advanced Digital Account Specialist

SMARTKOIN, OPC 9/f Iacademy Plaza, 324 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Bel-air, City Of Makati TU SOO YVON Malaysian Language - Support Supervisor

Basic Qualification: Knowledge in computer, Chinese language speaking and experienced Chef.

No.

TRENDSETTER MANAGEMENT INC. U-2a 2/f Eurovilla Ii Condo Bldg., Rufino St., San Lorenzo, City Of Makati

RMS COLLECT PHILS., INC. 6th & 7th Flr. Sm Fairview Tower 5, Regalado Ave. Cor. Quirino Highway 5, Greater Lagro, Quezon City Basic Qualification: 5-8 plus yrs. of Contact Center Operations experience. 3 plus yrs. working in/with a BPO leadership capacity.

Experience or knowledge of COPC or IOS 9001 preferred.

Advanced proficiency with Workforce Management Operations and platforms.

Brief Job Description: Supervise and participate in cooking, baking and the preparation of food.

QUALIFICATION AND SALARY RANGE

TOTOBOOKING & TOURS INC. Unit 209 Antel Seaview Tower A, 2626 Roxas Blvd., Barangay 76, Pasay City

Basic Qualification: College degree holder with 44 years of experience.

Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

NAME OF FOREIGN NATIONAL , POSITION AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION ZHOU, ZHENXI Chinese Chef

Salary Range: Php 90,000 - Php 149,999

RIOFIL CORPORATION U-1704-1706, 1708, 1709, Hanston Square, San Miguel Avenue, Ortigas Center, San Antonio, City Of Pasig NAKAGAWA, TSUYOSHI Technical Specialist

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Basic Qualification: Fluent in English, Mandarin and any language.

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

WANFANG TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, INC. 6-9/f Tower 2 Double Dragon Plaza, Edsa Cor. Macapagal Ave., Barangay 76, Pasay City

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