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                    [ArticleID] => 1366492
                    [Title] => Western Union’s Phl operations remain strong
                    [Summary] => 

Higher remittances can only mean good business for global money transfer company Western Union.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 637883 [Title] => Most Pinoys prefer cash gifts this Christmas [Summary] =>

Most Filipinos prefer cash gifts over non-monetary gifts this Christmas, a Western Union-sponsored survey showed.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 637190 [Title] => Project increasing highly skilled IT workers number launched [Summary] =>

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Informatics Philippines and the Business Processing Association of the Philippines launched yesterday a project that aims to increase the number of highly skilled information technology (IT) workers in the country.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 628657 [Title] => TESDA recognition spurs school to maintain high quality of IT courses [Summary] =>

Leading information technology (IT) school chain Informatics welcomed the recognition given by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) over the high job acceptance rate of its graduates, particularly those who were awarded TESDA scholarship grants in 2009.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 452317 [Title] => Western Union names Filipina as top executive [Summary] =>

The Western Union Co., a global leader in money transfer services, announced the appointment of Filipina Patricia Zamora-Riingen as its senior vice president for Pacific and Indochina.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/936/bus10thumb.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 446073 [Title] => Western Union opens 150 new agent locations across RP [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - The Western Union Co. a worldwide leader in money transfer services, announced yesterday the opening of 150 new agent locations across the Philippines, including 50 flagship outlets in key urban areas.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 397079 [Title] => Promote IT to boost tech-voc skills, government asked [Summary] => An educator called on the national government to emphasize information technology (IT) education to boost their campaign to promote technical-vocational (tech-voc) skills learning as a good alternative to going to college for Filipino youths.
[DatePublished] => 2007-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347249 [Title] => Nurses biggest $ remitters — WU exec [Summary] => They’re nursing the Filipino economy.

Filipino nurses in the United States and Europe as well as entertainers in Japan send more dollars to their families compared with other overseas workers, a money transfer firm executive said yesterday.

A skilled laborer abroad would send back home an average of $300 a month while the amount is double for nurses and entertainers, said Patricia Riingen, vice president of Western Union Philippines, one of the biggest money transfer companies in the world.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267454 [Title] => A PDA in your phone [Summary] => Recently incorporated Xplore Phils. Inc. is a one-product company that had its beginnings in the shopping district of Bangkok.

"I was looking for a cellphone that I could give my wife as a present or pasalubong," said president and chief executive officer Leo Riingen. "I was immediately drawn to this cellphone that is also a PDA (personal digital assistant). I thought to myself what a cool idea. Instead of putting the cellphone in the PDA, which is too big to fit inside your pants’ pocket, here is a product that puts the PDA in the cellphone." [DatePublished] => 2004-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212707 [AuthorName] => Carla Paras-Sison [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 218500 [Title] => A school in the mall [Summary] => Informatics Holdings Phils. Inc. president and chief executive officer Leo Riingen. likes to watch things, particularly businesses, grow. "That is why I did not want to handle an already big business like San Miguel Corp. I wanted to build a business from scratch," he said.

And that’s what Riingen has done for the Philippine franchise of Informatics Computer Institute, the number one in IT education and training in Singapore.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1125263 [AuthorName] => Angelica A. Angel [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) ) )
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