Category: Content

Teleperformance gets hall of fame award in the Philippines

Teleperformance Philippines

Teleperformance, a leading business process outsourcing company and one of the largest private sector employers in the Philippines, received the Hall of Fame for the Outstanding Community Project Award from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA).

How to pay SSS contributions through GCash

SSS-Globe GCash

The Social Security System (SSS), which manages the pension fund of private sector employees in the Philippines, has tapped Globe Telecom Inc. to allow companies and household employers to use GCash in paying contributions of their employees using the Payment Reference Number (PRN).

Globe Telecom invests in Wattpad

Wattpad

Globe Telecom Inc., the second largest mobile phone company in the Philippines, has invested in mobile content platform Wattpad which now counts the Philippines as its second largest market globally, just behind the US.

Surfing town in La Union goes cashless

PayMaya

PayMaya, the pioneer in digital financial services in the country, has turned the surfing town of San Juan in La Union into a cashless community with PayMaya QR.

 

Filipino ‘balangay’ wooden boats sail for China

Balangay boats

A team led by Arturo Valdez, a former undersecretary of the Department and Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC), set sail on board three wooden 'Balangay' boats in Manila Bay for China across the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) on April 28, 2018.

Why did the Philippines close the resort island of Boracay?

Boracay West Cove

The government of the Philippines closed Boracay to tourists for six months starting April 26, 2018 in a bid to fix the sewerage and water treatment facilities and discipline the commercial establishments on the 1,000-hectare resort island.

$14-billion Bulacan airport approved

Bulacan International Airport

The next major international airport in the Philippines will be built in the coastal town of Bulakan in Bulacan province, in place of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Parañaque City.