Setting up business in the UK
By Eunice Barbara C. Novio
Looking back, Narciso “Dino” Lim-Carnay, a 42-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW), wishes he started his own business sooner.
Looking back, Narciso “Dino” Lim-Carnay, a 42-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW), wishes he started his own business sooner.
While many graduating college students aspire to earn master’s and doctorate degrees, the cost of additional years of schooling makes them abandon their dream or put it on hold and brace themselves for job hunting and interviews.
Love is the universal language. Filipinos in various parts of the world prove this again and again when they fall in love with foreigners despite language and cultural barriers.
A man dials 999. Hazel Margarita Parado takes the call. Geoffrey Panganiban, part of a three-man ambulance team, prepares for dispatch. It is an emergency hotline in Dubai.
As early as September, Kairos Luther Cordova, 7, started listening to Christmas carols on Internet radio. He wonders why he does not hear Christmas songs blaring all over this city like they do in the Philippines.
In war-torn Afghanistan, Filipino humanitarian worker Martin Hilario “Larry” Mapolon is finding his own personal peace.
This is turning out to be a good year for choir conductor Novem Cabios and the Prime Note Ensemble. But 2013 may be even better for the all-boys Filipino Chorale group now based in West Covina, California. For one, they are set to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium on March 24, 2013, with the distinguished composer and conductor Eric Whitacre.
The Spratly Islands and Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal disputes seem not to affect Filipino workers in China. At least for now.
While other girls her age were partying and swimming leisurely on the beach, 12-year-old Angela Villamil was honing her backstrokes, preparing for another competition.
A Filipina who went missing in Thailand has been found, the Philippine Embassy in Thailand reported. Kristine Enriquez Salvador, 25, is now safely reunited with her family, Vice-Consul Edgar Badajos said in a statement released Wednesday.
A 25-year-old Filipino tourist has been missing in Thailand since April 30, her relatives reported. Kristine Enriquez Salvador was with a relative when she travelled to Thailand from the Philippines on April 27 for a pleasure visit.
It is not surprising to hear some older Thais speak a Tagalog word or two because there was a time quite a number of Thais went to the Philippines to study in universities. A popular band here, “Kalabaw,” has members who studied at Gregorio Araneta University in the 80’s.
