by ace | Oct 3, 2011 | Announcements, National News, Weather Coverage
TAGBILARAN CITY, Oct. 03–Mokusog pa ug gipaabot nga mahimong tropical depression na ugma, adlaw nga Martes, ug hinganlan’g Bagyong Ramon ang nasigpatang Low Pressure Area (LPA) sa Visayas. Matud pa ni Department of Science an Technology (DOST) Undersecretary ug PAGASA Officer-in-Charge Graciano Yumul, nasulod ang LPA sa Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) nga naka-apekto sa Southern Luzon, Visayas ug Mindanao. Giingon nga kun walay pagbag-o sa lihok niini, posibleng maigo ni Ramon ang Batanes sa Biyernes o Sabado sa dili pa kini mosulod sa West Philippine Sea. Daku ang posibilidad nga maghatag ang Bagyong Ramon og mga pag-ulan sa Northern Luzon apil na ang Cagayan ug Isabela tungod sa dakong dayametro sa mga bagyong mosulod sa nasud sama nila Pedring ug Quiel. Tungod niini, nipasidaan ang Pagasa sa mga residenteng anaa sa kasadpang bahin sa Luzon ug Visayas batok sa storm surge o kusog nga paghapak sa balod sa mga kabaybayonan nga dala sa hanging habagat. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
by ace | Sep 21, 2011 | Business, Headlines, National News
A leading business process outsourcing company has chosen the Philippines as one of its “model centers” that will supply the growing demand for highly trained and skilled workers to cater to clients with “higher end” needs. Bill Bloom, executive vice president of EXL Services, a leading provider of outsourcing and transformation services to Global 1000 companies in multiple industries, called on President Benigno S. Aquino III Monday at the Guggenheim room of the Omni Berkshire hotel here to tell the Chief Executive of their company’s growth and expansion programs in Manila. He said that his company has a growing base of clients who need higher end services than traditional call center work.
Called “middle office,” this type of higher end services caters to work needed by professionals in health and business fields. “So that would include work that is typically provided to physicians, nurses or lawyers or accountants and we’re building models such that we can offer those services to our clients here in the US from our centers in the Philippines,” Bloom said. (PCOO)
by ace | Sep 21, 2011 | Headlines, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III was formally conferred an honorary degree by Fordham University during his visit on Monday. Fordham University officials led by its president Fr. Joseph McShane, S.J. presented the President with his Doctor of Laws degree honoris causa in ceremonies held at the institution’s Keating Hall, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York. In his remarks after the conferment, the President expressed awe at being conferred a degree saying that he was “struck by the symbolism” of the event. “I am struck by the symbolism of Fordham’s tradition of literally carving in stone, the names of leaders upon whom you have conferred honorary doctorates,” the President said.
President Aquino now joins over 30 others, including that of his mother, whose names are carved on the steps of what is known as the “Terrace of the Presidents” at Keating Hall. The President’s name was carved next to that of his mother, the late President Corazon Aquino, who also received an honorary degree from Fordham in September 1986. (PCOO)
