Features

Cyber businesses in the Philippines: Arroyo’s $7-B legacy

Feb 5th, 2010 | By staff | Category: Features

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.

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Madame Getsy Tiglao is the incoming President Emeritus of Athens Women’s International Club

Feb 4th, 2010 | By staff | Category: Features

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

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Ambassador reminds Filipinos of voting days for the 2010 National Elections

Jan 17th, 2010 | By staff | Category: Features

Ambassador Rigoberto D. Tiglao reminded Filipinos in Greece and Athens that the overseas absentee voting will be held at the Athens Embassy from 10 April 2010 to 10 May 2010, from 9AM to 5 PM at the premises of the Philippine Embassy at 26 Antheon St., Paleo Psychico, Athens. ” I appeal to our kababayans registered as overseas voters at the Athens embassy to exercise this democratic right, and duty, and make sure that they will be in Athens during the month-long voting period,” the Ambassador said.

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Why We Are Where We Are / RP Has Turned the Corner

Jan 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Features, From the Ambassador, Philippine News

The ambassador’s analytical articles on the Philippine situation, originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 August 2009.

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Ambassador Tiglao meets with Alternate Foreign Minister Droutsas

Dec 17th, 2009 | By staff | Category: Features

Ambassador Rigoberto D. Tiglao met with Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris P. Droutsas to discuss Philippine-Greece bilateral relations.

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Photos from the Paskong Pinoy Event

Dec 14th, 2009 | By staff | Category: Features

Photos by Philippine Embassy staff member  Mr. Bryon Villanueva ©

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PGMA’S NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE

Dec 10th, 2009 | By staff | Category: Features

Video and text of the President’s New Year’s message.

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Cory Triggered the Global Wave of Democratizations

Dec 8th, 2009 | By staff | Category: Features, From the Ambassador

The ambassador’s article which was the lead story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s special 21 August 2009 issue.

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PSG-Kaphilca Surges Ahead for 2009-10

Dec 8th, 2009 | By pam | Category: Features

The Philippine School in Greece, formerly the Katipunan Philippines Cultural Academy (KAPHILCA), was off to a good start during the current school year 2009-2010 with an enrollment of  214 children in all three levels of its curricular offerings.  This is more than double its initial enrollment of 106 when it started in 2006.
Enrollment officially started [...]

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“Tita Chari’s” Story in Athens

Dec 7th, 2009 | By staff | Category: Features

The story of Charita ‘Tita Chari’ Bataan: Another of our series on Filipino lives in Greece

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