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Yahoo Southeast Asia has appointed a Filipino to a key position in its regional office in Hong Kong. Yahoo! Southeast Asia announced the appointment of Joselito Jojo Anonuevo as senior director for business development.

Anonuevo will be filling in a newly-created role for the regional team, whose mail goal is to oversee Yahoo!’s strategic partnerships across Southeast Asia.

A Filipino-Australian was recently named member of a state government council that aims to provide advice for firms doing business in the Asian region, according to the consulate general in Sydney.

Filipino overseas workers are being deployed in Iraq in violation of the continuing ban, the country’s special envoy to the Middle East Ambassador Roy Cimatu said Sept. 20. Cimatu told a Senate hearing that 6,647 Filipino migrant workers are still in Iraq amid offers from the Philippine government to repatriate them. Cimatu said Filipino workers are being brought to Iraq through Dubai and Kuwait with their consent accompanied by their employers using chartered planes.

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus says the country could ill-afford to lose the $400 million (P26.4 billion) Cyber Education Project (CEP) undertaken by his department as it will help improve the quality of education. He said CEP would address “completely” the fundamental problem of resource gap and will help in delivering good quality education for all.

BANAUE – Mrs. Linda Campbell, the mother of slain US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell, has pledged support for the put up of a tourism information center in Banaue, Ifugao. Banaue Mayor Lino Madchino said the family of the late Peace Corps volunteer vowed they would help the local government in putting up the information center, where a marker dedicated to the late Campbell would also be set.

Maj. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino took command of the Philippine Marine Corps in a formal ceremony Sept. 1, replacing Maj. Gen. Nelson Allaga, who was named Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command chief.

Fourteen foreign embassies that issue visas from offices inside Dasmarinas Village in Makati City have been ordered to relocate outside the exclusive subdivision for the rich following complaints lodged by applicants.

Filipino teachers are highly esteemed abroad and are paid up to 10 times their salaries here. To curb this trend, bills have been filed in Congress seeking to upgrade the salary rates of teachers. However, the proposed rates still pale in comparison with the salary offers overseas.

The US embassy is helping the National Museum restore the four murals of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco in the lobby of the Philippine General Hospital. “They were very weak, very deteriorated. If nobody noticed it, they will collapse sooner or later,” said Willie Estonato, a painting conservator from the National Museum. The priceless oil paintings by Botong, a popular muralist from Angono, Rizal, depicted the different periods in the history of Philippine Medicine — from the pre-colonial period, all throughout the Spanish and American invasions to the modern era.

The Metrobank Foundation has named the country’s outstanding teachers for 2007. Named as the outstanding elementary school teachers were Ateneo de Manila grade school teacher Fredo Laureles; public school teachers Jeneluj Cunanan of Lanao Central Elementary School in Kidapawan City; Madeline Rivera of San Pablo Central School in San Pablo City, Laguna; and Leticia Palle of Malaybalay City Central School in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.

The Junior Chamber International (JCI) Senate Philippines and the Department of Health (DOH) have mounted a search for The Outstanding Filipino Physicians (TOFP) who have opted to dedicate their lives, their expertise and their careers to keep the people healthy and to cure the sick in the country instead of going abroad.

President Arroyo has granted the request of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez to go on a one-month sick leave for medical check-up and designated Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera as officer-in-charge of the Department of Justice (DOJ) effective Sept. 1.

Filipinos rank second among the 125.8 million adult smokers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to a study.

Indonesians placed first at 46.16 percent, followed by Filipinos at 16.62 percent, and the Vietnamese at 14.11 percent, the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) said. Burmese are fourth (8.73 percent), followed by Thais (7.74 percent), Malaysians (2.90 percent), Cambodians (2.07 percent), Laotians (1.23 percent) and Singaporeans (0.04 percent).

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has earmarked P30 million for the International Media Office that will have the main task of refurbishing the country's image abroad and relaying government message to foreign press organizations. The President, who in at least two previous occasions lamented the lack of good news reporting on the part of the local media, said the IMO will help solve the country’s "perception problem" abroad.

More than 30 individuals with first name “Ramon” lead the launch of a nationwide project to plant 100,000 trees to mark the 100 birth anniversary of President Ramon Magsaysay on March 17, 2008. Leading the pack are Ramon Rodriguez. Ramon Santos. Ramon Gil Macapagal. Lucito Ramon Bertol. Ramon Dondi. Ramon Borromeo. Ramon Aldea. Ramoncito Campos. Ramon Cardenas. Ramon Diaz. Ramoncito Ramos. Ramon Sales. Ramon Tulfo and so on.