Although art is a passion and a career choice many want to follow, many also do not have the opportunities or means to pursue it. For a lucky few, the Cebu International Documentary Film Festival (CIDFF) and the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) have boldly taken action. A Memorandum of Agreement was signed that partnered [...]
Read more...Get Tempered Glass Fast
The world has changed, with people today leading faster-paced and more demanding lives. Especially in business, time is money and there is a constant search for ways to do things better and faster. Recognizing the need to keep up with such a pace, AsiaTemp leads the way in fast glass tempering for Visayas and Mindanao. [...]
Read more...Bond With Family, Bond With Peace
Just south of the hustle-and-bustle of Cebu City is Carcar, the Heritage City of Cebu. Quaint and charming, Carcar is home to Spanish and American heritage structures that will surely amaze every family member. A great time during days off could be spent strolling down the streets with your family as you enjoy the intricate [...]
Read more...Know Your Glass: Heat-Strengthened Glass
The pros at AsiaTemp offer glass solutions tailored to meet your needs with another superb option from their line: heat-strengthened glass. Heat-strengthened glass has twice the strength of ordinary or annealed glass and can resist temperatures of up to 100 degrees Celsius. Upon great impact, an installed sheet of heat-strengthened glass breaks into pieces which [...]
Read more...Better Vision for a Brighter Community
Deterioration of visual acuity is a common problem among the elderly, especially with the development of cataracts and pterygium. In less urbanized places like Toledo City, Cebu, eye care is not readily accessible. The elderly are forced to suffer through poor vision in the later parts of their lives just because receiving eye care is [...]
Read more...Philips Brightens Lapu-Lapu City
The worldwide leader in healthcare and lighting technology, Philips, carries on its advocacy of spreading energy saving technology across the Philippines with its latest stop being Lapu-Lapu City. Led by Philips CEO Rico Gonzales, the Philips team turned over P50,000 worth of energy saving bulbs to the Lapu-Lapu City Hall. “Our obligation in the country [...]
Read more...Earth Hour Reaches Space!
Official Philippine Switch-offs Slated for Makati, Cebu and Davao Finally, Earth Hour breaches Earth! For the first time, the global 60-minute switch-off will extend to the International Space Station, where Earth Hour Astronaut-Ambassador Andre Kuipers shall stand vigil over our imperiled planet as the lights switch off on 31 March, sharing photos and live commentary. [...]
Read more...I will switch off my lights if you will join Earth Hour 2012!
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) again kick-started Earth Hour – the world’s largest environmental event – through its ‘I Will if You Will’ campaign which shows how each of us can make the world a better place. Earth Hour 2011 inspired more than a billion people worldwide and over 18 million Filipinos to [...]
Read more...Conservation, in the end, is about people.
I listened to this with a little surprise. Isn’t conservation about species—the whale, the panda, the highly-endangered but hardly-ever seen frog that lives in some rainforest? I quirked my head at Stuart Green, a British marine biologist living in the Philippines since the early 1990’s, and it’s obvious to him that I’m mentally scratching my [...]
Read more...Alorica Opens Call Center in Cebu offering New Jobs, Site represents the 6th Alorica facility in the Philippines
Cebu, Philippines — Alorica (www.alorica.com), a leading provider of customer management outsourcing solutions, announced today they are opening a new Cebu call center and are immediately hiring Inbound Customer Service positions. The Asiatown IT Park facility will represent Alorica’s 6th call center in the Philippines, making it one of the country’s fastest growing private employers. The [...]
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