EUROPE-PH News

March 26, 2012
RP Invites SMEs From Germany

Germany's small and medium enterprises which are now positioning themselves in Southeast Asia in time for the region's full integration by 2015, are being lured to explore opportunities in the Philippines.

March 20, 2012
Asserting Mining Rights

Over the mounting debate in the mining industry, the government took caution on the issuance of new executive order detailing mining regulations and instead will formulate a policy statement covering the mining sector. According to reports, the impeding policy statement would include certain important provisions that were supposedly a part of the canceled executive order.

March 15, 2012
The Other Side Where The Grass Is Greener And The Music, Louder

Sinking in a boat loaded with rock stars wouldn't be a bad way to go. It would probably be the stuff of legend: a Puerto Galera-bound ferry carrying around 140 people, many of them musicians performing at the second Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival, disappeared beneath the waters of the Verde Island Passage this March.

March 15, 2012
Design Trends & Smart Solutions at Ambiente

Romance, attitude, innocence and modernity are back and under one roof. For 2012, these are the trends that style makers and trendsetters at Ambiente, the world's biggest consumer-goods show, are forecasting, plus a move toward sustainable design and manufacturing processes.

March 12, 2012
Puerto Galera Wants To Increase Local And Foreign Tourist Arrivals

Puerto Galera-With the start of the summer season the Department of Tourism is hopeful that more private companies will engage in government projects to improve tourism infrastructure such as roads leading to ports, repair of ferries, establishing eco-friendly hotels and resorts to increase tourist arrivals in the country.

March 09, 2012
Call Center Olympics Slated

More than 20 contact center firms are expected to participate in fourth Call Center Olympics that will run from April to July in various sports venues in Metro Manila.

March 04, 2012
Mission Integrity

The most sustainable manner of inculcating a culture of integrity in Philippine society is to get the private sector--academe, civil society, business and the churches--to be the main agent of change.

March 01, 2012
CIPC To Formulate Programs To Promote BPO, IT Growth

CEBU, Philippines - Responding to the recommendations released by Tholons for Cebu to maximize its potential in advancing growth in the Business Process Outsourcing and Information Technology (BPO-IT) sector, the Cebu Investments and Promotions Center (CIPC) will lead the implementation of programs in line with the experts’ advice.

February 29, 2012
Malasimbo Festival at Travel Tour Expo

European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines President Hubert d'Aboville recently announced the holding of the 2nd Malasimbo Music Arts Festival during the staging of the 19th Travel Tour Expo in Pasay City.

February 29, 2012
Mountain Music

South by Southwest, Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot -- a music fan, with his tent and glow sticks in tow, could tour the United States according to a year-long calendar of festivals. The same goes for Europe or Australia, where Miro Grgic has had extensive experience mounting concerts.

February 29, 2012
Festival Slated

European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines president and long time Philippine resident Hubert d'Aboville recently announced the holding of the 2nd Malasimbo Music Arts Festival during the staging of the 19th Travel Tour Expo in Pasay City.

February 29, 2012
3 Decades In The Philippines

The longest serving President of the European Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (ECCP), Hubert d'aaboville first came to Manila in 1977 as a backpacker, aged 17, slept at Luneta Park and befriended local thugs who invited him to their Tondo shack and showed him around.