Crowdsource the BLISS of a #LiveFreePH

   How do you feel about the future? Is your family doing okay? Are the people around you hopeful or gloomy? With the Brighter Life Index: Social Sentiment or BLISS, Sun Life will show how optimism, prosperity, and the bayanihan spirit can produce a positive ripple from ourselves to our loved ones and to the community where we live.

 
  BLISS is a Facebook application that aims to get the pulse of Filipinos about their current financial situation as well as their outlook for the future.

“BLISS gives us the canvas to paint our #LiveFreePH campaign. Through crowdsourcing, we seek the brightest spots while also determining the areas that are in need of a bit more sunshine,” explained Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc. Chief Marketing Officer Mylene Lopa. “Together with the Sun Life Foundation, we will help turn dim prospects to bright opportunities.”

Dont Miss This Year's Work at Home Expo 2015 !

  ManilaWorkshops.com and the WAHMderful Life Community invites you to The Work at Home Expo 2015! The WAH Expo is an annual one-day expo of talks and mini- workshops geared towards the encouragement and empowerment of Filipinos who are working from home or would like to be work from home professionals. This event are for people who are currently working from home as entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, freelancers, and for those who are planning to work from home in the near future. This event will provide attendees knowledge and tips about working from home. It will also be a great event where people can network and meet other people that they can collaborate or work with or for in the future.


Our very first workshop in 2012 resulted in a sold-out event, with over forty work at home professionals and freelancers in attendance, all of whom benefited from a wealth of insights and knowledge from authentic and experienced work from home professionals. We have since held 12 subsequent workshops, and two annual expos, all in-line with “helping individuals find their bliss working from home while making a home.” The Work at Home Expo last year had around 290 participants with almost 50 booths from different players in the industry and from the small business owners, as well.

Food And Drinks ASIA 2015 A Platform To Boost Food Entrepreneurship

All road lead to the halls of Food and Drinks ASIA 2015 - The International Expo on Specialty Food, Delicatessen, Confectionery, Beverages, Beers, Wines and Spirits will be holding its 19th edition, back-to-back with FOOD FRANCHISING ASIA.

The year 2015 sets the stage for the 19th FOOD & DRINKS ASIA and FOOD FRANCHISING ASIA challenges entrepreneurs to make a step forward to conquer the chunk of their local and international market.

At the same time, the event's Activity/Stage area will be busy with scheduled cooking demos and product presentations from various exhibitors. Being host to its special events. the Ultimate Flare Challenge and the 4th Food & Drinks Asia Cooking Challenge (the 4th Chef Bert Francisco Culinary Cup) it does not only help the food and beverage industry and its entrepreneurs, but also hones potential culinary experts and talents who will hold high our quest for culinary excellence.

The 5th Asia Pacific Housing Forum To Tackle Poverty Housing Asia-Pacific Region

The Asia-Pacific Housing Forum is a biennial conference organized by Habitat for Humanity. In 2015, the Housing Forum’s fifth iteration. The forum will bring together all actors engaged in seeking solutions to low-income housing issues that make business and economic sense.

Hong Kong, 2 September 2015 – As the world’s booming population continues to migrate into overcrowded cities, more than 1,000 experts from across the Asia-Pacific region have gathered to address the issue of poverty housing. Meeting for the first time in multiple locations simultaneously, the 5th Asia-Pacific Housing Forum started today with the main event in Hong Kong and satellite events in Delhi, India, and Manila, Philippines.

“While urban migration has become an unstoppable trend in the Asia-Pacific, this forum, under the theme ‘Building Impact’, will showcase best practices from the region and present solutions to tackling poverty housing,” said Rick Hathaway, Habitat for Humanity’s Vice President, Asia-Pacific.

Global Travel Experts at 14th Philippine Travel Exchange - MICE Conference 2015

  Participants of the 14th Philippine Travel Exchange (PHITEX) are in for a very insightful season as travel experts and business leaders grace and share the latest studies and trends, as well as business, sales and marketing strategies in the travel and tourism industry. Organized by the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), PHITEX 2015 will be held on 01-03 September, 2015 at the Manila Marriott Hotel.

Opening the PHITEX is MICECON, the country’s largest assembly of local stakeholders in Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions, and Exhibitions/Events (MICE) industry. Meanwhile, the first of the conference’s plenary sessions to give a 360° view of today’s trends in travel and tourism is Chris Fair, President of Resonance Consultancy.

For an industry that’s as fast-moving and competitive as the global travel and tourism, it’s logical to look ahead; to seek opportunities to launch new products that appeal to new groups of consumers – the millenials. Peter Jordan, founder of Gen C Traveler and Senior Tourism Analyst with Toposophy will discuss recent consumer trends among the millennial generation that will affect the travel industry of tomorrow, and how all tourism players across the Philippines can start to orientate their products towards this exciting, powerful group of young consumers.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) June 2015 Report provides that an estimated visitor receipts of PhP 17.14 billion was recorded and visitor arrivals reached 390,486 visitors. This reflects an increase of 4.89 percent compared to last year’s arrivals on the same period.

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APEC Economies Strategize to Achieve 45% Reduction in Energy Intensity by 2035

The APEC Expert Group in Energy Efficiency & Conservation (EGEEC), in its 46th meeting held at Marco Polo, Cebu City last August 31- September 2, reaffirmed its commitment to intensify efforts to reduce the aggregate energy intensity by 45% based on the 2005 level by 2035. 

Energy intensity is a comparative measure to determine the energy efficiency of each economy calculated as units of energy per unit of gross domestic product (GDP). Highly productive economies with manageable weather patterns, and use high energy efficiency appliances and equipment; apply energy efficient technologies in its buildings and industries; utilize efficient mass transport system and fuel efficient vehicles; and adopt energy conservation measures, among others, would likely have low energy intensities. 

Cognizant of the number of factors and level of detail to make the aggregate energy intensity figure meaningful, the APEC EGEEC actively pursues its Energy Smart Communities Initiatives’ (ESCI) Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) as a tool to consolidate ideas and best practices, energy efficiency and low carbon projects to support its four main pillars – Smart Transport, Smart Buildings, Smart Grids, and Smart Jobs and Consumers. 

APEC economies are then encouraged to support the development of this valuable resource (ESCI-KSP) to determine appropriate project proposals that will address the remaining challenges in achieving the APEC Leader’s energy intensity reduction goal.

Philippine Law, Health Experts Gather for UN Global Project

Philippine health and law experts gathered in Makati City on August 10 for a roundtable discussion on uplifting health standards worldwide through Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

The discussion, hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and ADEC Innovations Foundation, was conducted to gather insights on how PPP can be used to provide universal access to healthcare.