For President Benigno Aquino III, the best meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, last week was the CEO meeting hosted by the Zobel de Ayala brothers, Jaime Augusto and Fernando.
The Filipino expat community here gave President Aquino not just a warm welcome amid wintry weather. They pooled funds to help Filipinos victimized by typhoon Pablo (international name: Bopha) back home.
President Benigno Aquino III arrived in this wintry skiing resort hub Thursday morning (Swiss time), joining around 50 fellow heads of state for the annual meeting of World Economic Forum, seen as a platform for the Philippines to strengthen its ties with the rest of the world.
President Benigno Aquino III will showcase the successes of his daang matuwid (right path) campaign when he goes to Switzerland next week for the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he is to deliver the keynote address in the anticorruption forum on the sidelines of the Davos meeting.
Swiss experts will soon begin clearing unexploded bombs in the southern Philippines, after Muslim rebels and the government signed a peace pact, the European Union said yesterday.
A Filipino diplomat has been named to an important post in the legal advisory board of the 157-member World Trade Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Department of Foreign Affairs has announced.
President Aquino and Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf discussed intensifying trade relations between the Philippines and Switzerland during the two leaders’ bilateral talks held at the sidelines of 9th Asia-Europe Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.
A delegation led by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima left for Geneva, Switzerland, over the weekend for the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, which will assess the human rights record of the Philippines on May 29.
Philippine officials in Switzerland recently discussed with a leading global aircraft service company the possibility of hiring more Filipino employees as part of its expansion plans.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines deployed a naval force in Tawi-Tawi as part of security measures and effort to rescue two European bird watchers who were abducted by still unidentified “lawless elements” late Wednesday, a military spokesman said Thursday.
The Philippines, where women and men enjoy the same access to education, remains in the top 10 countries with the least gender gap, according to the 2011 Global Gender Gap rankings by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum.
The Philippine Embassy in Berne reported that Miss Earth-Switzerland 2010 Liza Andrea Kuster met with Ambassador Leslie J. Baja to strengthen ties between the Philippines and Swiss-Filipinos, mostly born to Filipino mothers and Swiss fathers. Andrea, as she prefers to be called, informed Ambassador Baja that since winning the title last year, she has pursued [...]
