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

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.

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

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

Photos by Philippine Embassy staff member  Mr. Bryon Villanueva ©
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Video and text of the President’s New Year’s message.

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

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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