MANILA – The Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei is positioning the Philippines as the world’s leading adventure travel site for Taiwan’s about half a million leisure divers.
MECO is also focusing on other high-growth consumer segments such as honeymooners, corporate and incentive travelers, and mobile professionals.
MANILA – Presidential candidate Joseph Estrada said on Monday that, should he win in the May elections, he would turn over the reins of power to the vice president after four years.
Estrada said he would need only four years to put Malacañang in order, according to his development agenda for the country.
Ruffa Gutierrez definitely knows what showbiz life is all about. Growing up in a family of celebrities and starting in showbiz at an early age, gave her firsthand experience of what it’s like. The success, fame, trials, lessons and intrigues of show business made her who she is– a confident, strong-willed woman.
But despite the glitz and glamor of showbusiness, Ruffa, as a single mom, wishes differently for her two daughters, Lorin, 6 and Venice, 5. “Actually, ayaw ko talaga silang mag-artista. Gusto ko talaga makatapos sila ng pag-aaral. Ireally want them to study and to finish in an Ivy League University, makatapos ng Master’s Degree. You know, everything na hindi ko nagawa,” the actress said in an interview with PEP.
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MANILA – An economic adviser of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lamented that the rich got richer while the ranks of the poor swelled even further amid heady economic growth in the last nine years.
“My biggest frustration as a presidential adviser is that 34 quarters of uninterrupted expansion in the past nine years did little to reduce poverty and the number of poor people,’’ said Albay Governor Joey Salceda in an interview.
DAVAO CITY – Nacionalista Party standard bearer Manuel Villar appeared to have snatched the ‘Mr. Palengke’ title from Liberal Party vice presidential bet Mar Roxas, with the way he has been going around public markets lately.
Villar made sure that he got to visit public markets whenever he was in a province.
MANILA – Liberal Party standard bearer and Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III campaigned on Saturday in the working class bastion of Tondo, Manila—a known bailiwick of deposed President Joseph Estrada—as he downplayed the increase in the former president’s poll numbers.
According to Aquino, he will be campaigning in Mindanao next week and that he expects to get more votes in the South, where Estrada’s poll numbers jumped by 9 points in the latest survey of Pulse Asia.
MANILA – Property demand from the overseas Filipino market is bouncing in a big way in the aftermath of the Wall Street shakeout that depressed the investment portfolio of high net worth individuals, according to Ayala Land Inc.
This was the main reason why Ayala Land is altering the master plan for its maiden foray into leisure estate development—the P10-billion 320-hectare exclusive Anvaya Cove Beach and Nature Club in Morong, Bataan—to offer low-rise condominium and multi-dwelling units that are ideal for overseas buyers seeking readily built vacation houses, company senior vice president Rex Mendoza said.
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