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  • theBUSINESS Paper: Manila

    11 November 2009
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    1. NEWS you can use
    2. VIEWS you can use

  • 1. NEWS you can use

    Philippine chambers have been enjoined to join the world in the Global Entrepreneurship Week celebration from the United Kingdom, Nov 16-22.

    The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Quezon City (PCCI-QC) will participate by contributing an activity in Manila during the week that can be beamed to London and other participating capitals of the world via webTV.

    What are the chambers doing in support of genuine entrepreneurship in this Southeast Asia part?, is the general theme of the activity that will emanate from QC, former national capital of The Philippines before and after the City of Manila gave up and reclaimed the status.

    Coinciding with the celebration, the PCCI-QC had set an event at Trinoma complex in QC that will inaugurate the Health and Wellness OTOP or One Town-One Product program not just of QC which spearheaded it but the entire Metro Manila.

    Metro Manila is the national capital region (NCR) of The Philippines comprised by 15 cities and municipalities.

  • 2. VIEWS you can use

    Private citizens and young people of established economies are gaga over what genuine entrepreneurship can do to their people.

    American leaders are campaigning hard about "repowering America," putting their money where their mouths are by providing funding to stimulate their "war-cries, " after madding and maddening corporate greed gripped Wall Street and collapsed other world economies that co-depended with the US and the "G-ad infinitum" on financial services.

    A US foundation had reminded the American public that many US big business today were startups not too long ago, and founded during crises.

    The United Kingdom is wowing the world by inspiring upon other nations to take proactive part in the true entrepreneurship campaigns that Global Entrepreneurship Week celebration, Nov 16-22, is offering the next Big Idea moguls, not necessarily British or English.

    Entrepreneurial leaders from Israel and Germany are going-East to spread the gospel of entrepreneurship to young people. While neighboring Asia led by Japan, Korea, China, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and even Malaysia are following suit, Filipino leaders and their believers are busy with traditional politics of patronage and personalities and not of platforms and programs of governance.

    But some five million young Filipinos, those who will vote the first time and elect a new Philippine President by May 2010, seemed to be upbeat about entrepreneurship. Many of them who cannot find real jobs (but contractual jobs) are open to starting up and managing their own business, however small. Their elders have been educated to become jobbers. Not the young Filipinos.