Today's Issue
- Editor's Take
- SME TechZone: Visibility: Answer to Get Connected All-the-Time!
- Events: Cleaner Production (Tuesday December 2); Supervisory Effectiveness for Improved Quality and Productivity (Wednesday December 3 to Friday December 5); Process Optimization Through Design of Experiments (Thursday December 4 to Friday December 5); Pamaskong Handog sa Pamilyang OFWs-SMEs (Saturday December 6 to Sunday December 7); Exporting Made e-Z (Monday December 8); and 5S of Good Housekeeping (Monday December 8)
- Tax Calendar
Visibility: Answer to Get Connected All-the-Time!
Business people especially who travel a lot, do need connectivity and visibility all the time, that is what Globe Telecom can offer to its businessmen-subscribers of today.
With its Visibility USB Modem that's simply Plug and Play is as handy as a handy phone, which allows users to go online anytime, anywhere at an affordable service.
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Manufacturing output growth surges in September
FACTORY OUTPUT posted strong growth in September, rising by double digits in both volume and value terms, the National Statistics Office yesterday reported.
The volume (VoPI) and value (VaPI) of production indices grew by 12.5% and 19.7%, respectively..
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Tax Calendar
Friday 28 November - Registration Manual Books of Accounts & Other Accounting Records for Fiscal Year beginning Dec. 1, 2008
Source: Bureau of Internal Revenue
Editor's Take
In a few days, the nation pays homage to its plebeian son and hero. Enshrined in popular memory as the man with the bolo, Andres Bonifacio was more than that.
The Father of the Revolution was born on November 30, 1863 to working-class parents in Tondo, the poor district of Spanish-ruled Manila. When tuberculosis claimed his parents’ lives, Bonifacio quit studies to look after five younger siblings.
Bonifacio was only fourteen when he took up his father’s trade making rattan walking canes, paper fans and bamboo hats, which he sold in the streets. Thanks to his calligraphic skills, he was able to add to his income by designing advertising posters for business. Busy as he was, Bonifacio was undeterred from acting onstage and composing poetry in his spare time.
Bonifacio proved to be an enterprising hero.
Though he did not receive the formal education of his illustrious contemporary Dr. Jose Rizal, Bonifacio displayed determination on the job. He was in charge of the warehouse of a mosaic tile factory in Sampaloc before his employment as clerk and then sales agent of the British-owned J.M. Fleming and Company, a business dealing in rattan, tar and railroad ties. He later found similar work with the German company Carlos Fressel and Company.
Employment as a clerk or agent of a foreign trading company at the time was no ordinary feat in colonial Philippines. This was the ambition of native-born young men who, despite hard work and merit, were prevented from moving ahead by colonial regimentation and prejudice. We can also assume that Bonifacio was also conversant in English and Spanish, languages he required to move ahead in the business world.
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