Solar names new execs
Cable network Solar Entertainment Corp. recently appointed two officers to manage its broadcasting and cable businesses.
Cable network Solar Entertainment Corp. recently appointed two officers to manage its broadcasting and cable businesses.
It was not part of his tight schedule during his trip to Davos but (WEF) newbie P-Noy had a brief encounter with the iconic Bill Gates coming out of a meeting with WEF founder and executive chair Klaus Schwab. Emerging from the meeting with Schwab, it so happened that Gates was the next person in line so the two were able to exchange pleasantries and pose for photos. The chance encounter with Gates—a long-time WEF backer and regular Davos attendee—took about three minutes.
The crisis mood is gone, but that doesn’t mean you can slip back into your old ways—that’s the message from top international finance officials wrapping up the World Economic Forum here.
President Aquino on Friday wrapped up his World Economic Forum (WEF) debut performance with a new stream of prospective institutional investors, new projects with existing investors, and a deal for the Philippines to host the WEF’s East Asia summit next year.
President Benigno Aquino III has pitched to the international investor community the Philippine story of transformation from being a “sick man of Asia” into one dynamic country bucking a global economic downturn.
As the global banking system grapples with various shocks, top global bankers see the need for further regulation but disagree on whether global regulation is possible in today’s rapidly changing, multipolar world.
Joining the World Economic Forum (WEF) for the first time, President Aquino will invite more investors and tourists to come to the Philippines to create more jobs and sustain the country’s economic momentum beyond his term, Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang said.
By coming to the World Economic Forum for the first time, President Aquino is seeking more investors and tourists to come to the Philippines in order to create more jobs and sustain the country’s economic momentum beyond his term as chief of state.
Philippine government officials will be meeting not only with their foreign counterparts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, but also with prospective investors to further boost the Philippines’ image as an investment destination, Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo said.
President Aquino is scheduled to arrive here early Thursday morning on a three-day visit seen to herald the Philippine growth story to global business leaders, fellow heads of state, multilateral institutions, civil society and the Filipino-Swiss community.
The Philippines still leads Asian countries in reducing inequality between men and women, according to the 2012 Global Gender Gap rankings of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
On a scale of 1 to 7—with 1 being extremely underdeveloped and 7 extensive and efficient by global standards—roads in the Philippines scored a low 3.1 in the 2012 Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
