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Computer donation to benefit 53 schools in Angeles City

Operating on the principle that access to computers is essential for students, iQor Philippines, a managed services provider of customer engagement and technology-enabled business process outsourcing solutions, has donated 413 refurbished computers to the Department of Education (DepEd), benefiting 53 schools in Angeles City, Pampanga.  The handover event, titled “Empowering Communities Through Education: iQor and...

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The Philippines is finally going after plastic producers, but some companies are not cooperating

(First of two parts) Environmental groups in the Philippines have long advocated for a single-use plastics ban, and hundreds of proposed laws and resolutions were filed in Congress in the past decade to support the call. Nothing prospered.  Instead, Congress required the country’s biggest plastic-producing companies to pay to collect and recycle their materials.  The...