Eden Mae M. Castillo, college freshman, is the first awardee of the Philippine Ambassador’s scholarship under an agreement signed only two months ago by University of Indianapolis (Athens campus) Chancellor Vasilis Botopoulos and Ambassador Rigoberto Tiglao.
The Philippine Ambassador’s Scholarship provides for a 70% tuition assistance to a Filipino for an undergraduate college degree at the prestigious University of Indianapolis-Athens Campus.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she would be turning over to the next administration a call center industry that had become the second biggest global earner and one capable of elevating the nation to First World status.

The next leadership, she said, should intensify programs that would “educate the young on the use of computers and the Internet for the next generation of BPO workers.”

The business process outsourcing (BPO) sector would be a major key for the Philippines to finally join the ranks of developed countries in two decades, Ms Arroyo Thursday said during a visit to a call center in Davao City in Mindanao.

Madame Getsy S. Tiglao, the wife of Philippine Ambassador to Greece Rigoberto D. Tiglao, has been appointed as the new Honorary President of the Women’s International Club (WIC) of Athens for the incoming year 2010 by the organization’s officers

Nearly three months after it was hijacked, the Greek-owned cargo ship Filitsa, with 19 Filipino and three Greek seamen on board, was released by Somali pirates in the afternoon of 1 February.

Photos of Ambassador Rigoberto Tiglao at the Greek government’s New Year’s reception 21 January 2010 at the Presidential Palace.