THE financial meltdown in the United States and
general slowdown in the world economy will impact negatively on the
Philippines call center industry, a former Budget secretary and IBON
Foundation said Friday.
Former Budget Secretary Ben
Diokno said the Arroyo government should start preparing for the
worst, should American companies that invested in call centers in
the Philippines pull out their investments in the industry. About
500,000 are employed in the domestic call center industry.
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago,
chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, expressed
confidence Friday that the newly ratified Japan-Philippine Economic
Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) would pass...
AS if strucked hard by the new
United Nations resolution urging the international community to send
naval ships and military aircraft to confront pirates off the coast
of Somalia,...
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