Ambitech US firm set to compete with AIDEA Philippines to open gate for the Green Pastures to Pinoy Engineers

An American Engineering and construction Firm is expanding its office in the Philippines to serve the Asian region.

Name as Ambitech Asia is a Subsidiary of Ambitech Engineering Corporation an American base Engineering, Design and Construction firm with its headquarters in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA and  is a top 100 Design firm around the world base on revenue for the "ENR's Top 500 Design Firms

Ambitech is set to compete with Local Engineering and design firms with AIDEA Philippines; a top ranked 86 in the BD World Architecture (WA) Top 100 this year, the only Philippine architectural company to make it to the list for the BD World Architecture Top 100 is a list of the world's largest architectural firms. Aidea jumped from the No. 103 spot in 2008 to No. 86 by the end of 2009, as listed in the January 2010 edition of Building Design (BD), a London-based communications company exclusively devoted to architecture.

Ambitech Asia opens job opportunities for Filipino engineers

Ambitech Asia aims to offers Filipino engineers world-class job opportunities in the comforts of their country. Eunice Blanco

As they work abroad, the executives of these foreign companies had seen how good Filipinos are in their work, and even admire their work ethics.

Ambitech executive director Allan Koenig even enumerated the qualities he admire inFilipino employees, who he said are "loyal, hardworking, and committed to their work."

This is the reason why Ambitech decided to expand their company here in the Philippines, which they named Ambitech Asia.

According to Ambitech's Vice President of Business Development Troy Kemp, Ambitech Asia is a "free-standing company" and "not a branch but partnership with local engineers."

The idea to put up an office here in the Philippines to reach other Asian countries started when local brand Mama Sita approached Ambitech for their new food plant.

Combined with the country's increasing need for engineering service outsourcing, this is a good time for them to enter the Philippines.

According to Ambitech Asia General Manager Mark Sandoval, aside from aiming to be a "one-stop shop" that provides advance engineering technologies and skilled engineers, they would also like for "Filipino engineers now have the opportunity to be trained, to have world class exposure and the Filipino engineer doesn't have to go out of Philippines to have such job."

Sandoval added that their company doesn't focus on targeting big clients, but is "concerned about creating long-term relationships and serving our clients."

Ambitech Asia provides engineering services and engineers that focus on consumer products, food and beverages, plant design, chemicals and petrochemicals, energy, gas processing, petroleum refining and industrial facilities.

Through Ambitech Asia's opening here in the Philippines, they made sure that they're not only after expanding their company but also helping and training Filipino engineers to become world-class and be known worldwide, without leaving their country. (philstar)

 

For more information about Ambitech Asia:

 Ambitech Asia (Philippines Office)

35 F. Manalo, Suite 201

San Juan City, Metro Manila

1500 Philippines

Tel: +63 2 664-0096 

Fax: +63 2 643-8774

 

For more information about AIDEA Philippines

AIDEA Philippines Inc.

30th Floor Ayala Life FGU Center

Ayala Avenue Makati City, Philippines

Tel: +632 7588888

Fax: +632 7582888

Email: enquiries@aidea.com.ph

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HongKong wants to Ban all Philippine Products, Air flights, No-Visa Access except Maids –could paralyze them

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee. Photo: South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

Legco set to back call to withdraw visa-free access to Filipino visitors

Hong Kong Lawmakers ready to put pressure on Manila despite fresh hope of compensation deal

Hong Kong Lawmakers are rallying behind a call to withdraw visa-free access for Philippine visitors to Hong Kong despite reports of progress towards a compensation deal for victims of the 2010 Manila hostage siege.

A non-binding Legislative Council motion urging the suspension of the visa-free scheme looks set to be passed on Wednesday (November 7, 2013) after parties from across the political spectrum (Pro Communist and pro Democrats)  indicated they would support it.

Hong Kong Lawmakers want the government to put pressure on the Philippine leadership and Manila city government to compensate families of eight Hongkongers killed by sacked policeman Rolando Mendoza, as well as the injured.

The call comes despite a joint statement on Thursday by Manila City Council representative Bernardito Ang and Democratic Party lawmaker James To Kun-sun, who is working with the victims and families, indicating that a deal was getting closer.

Former security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, will move the call to stop visa-free access as an amendment to radical pan-democrat Albert Chan Wai-yip's motion seeking sanctions on the Philippines. She has won the support of two leading Beijing-loyalist parties, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong and the Federation of Trade Unions. Pan-democrats are also expected to support her amendment.

Chan's motion is expected to pass. But DAB chairman Tam Yiu-chung says his party may not support an amendment by Democratic Party lawmaker Sin Chung-kai as it "might infringe the existing trade agreements".

Sin wants the government to stop buying Philippine products, halt negotiations on air routes and trade and urge the public to boycott Philippine goods but the Hong Kong  Employer's association opposed of banning the maids as it could paralyze them

But FTU lawmaker Wong Kwok-kin will support both amendments.

"Though the motion has no binding effect, it will exert pressure not only on the Hong Kong government but also the Philippines - as pan-democrats and the pro-establishment camp join forces on this issue," he said.

Security minister Lai Tung-kwok would not comment on the amendments until the meeting. - SCMP

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Sorry, But There Is No Way The Philippines Is The Fifth Best Country For Women

REUTERS/Erik De Castro

The World Economic Forum recently released its annual gender gap index showing the best places in the world to be a woman.

A lot of the recent buzz has been about the unusually high ranking of The Philippines, which at number five is the highest ranking Asian country. For comparison, the United States and the United Kingdom ranked at 23 and 18 respectively.

The report ranks 136 countries based on economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and survival.

While the Philippines has for the last several years been consistently ranked in the top ten, Rina Jimenez-David, a columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, found it "puzzling" that the island nation should be ranked so high, given a number of troubling statistics.

In the column, Jimenez-David spoke to Dr. Junice Demetrio Melgar, the executive director of Filipino reproductive health NGO Likhaan. who was equally confused. 

"Frankly, I don't understand the standards they used," said Melgar. "To think that Filipino women continue to suffer the consequences of different forms of discrimination. Filipino women's enjoyment of their human and sexual and reproductive rights continues to be obstructed …"

From the column:

Melgar cites disturbing statistics: the Philippines has one of the highest incidences of unintended pregnancies (54 percent), teenage pregnancies, unsafe abortion (610,000 a year), stagnant contraceptive prevalence rate, and maternal mortality rate. "We're one of the few countries that cannot meet [Millennium Development Goal] 5 by 2015. In fact, with 221 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, we're way, way behind our target of 52."

She likewise mentions the fact that "we have one of the most restrictive abortion laws (in the world). Even women seeking treatment for incomplete spontaneous abortions (miscarriage) are treated badly in public hospitals ... Incidence of violence against women remains high."

The issue isn't limited to reproductive health:

[Filipino women's] poor health situation "is very much interrelated to women's economic situation and education," Melgar adds. "Filipino women comprise almost 70 percent of our informal economy where workers do not enjoy the benefits their counterparts in the formal economy enjoy.

Underemployment and unemployment among women are also high. A high number of our women are in jobs that are low-paying, under poor working conditions both here and abroad.

Comments Melgar: "We may have more women in government. Unfortunately, this has yet to be translated into more pro-women policies and programs. Many of these women are/were more anti-women than their male counterparts."

The status of women in the Philippines is bipolar. On the one hand, the Philippines has one of the highest percentages of women on corporate boards and the number of progressive women's rights laws aimed at closing the gender gap is impressive. The everyday life of many women in the Philippines, however, is not good.

Patricia Tan Openshaw, a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, drove home the conflict for the women of the Philippines:

Notwithstanding the high percentage of Filipino women representation in corporate boards, together with the increasing number of women entering public service and the fact that the Philippines has had two female presidents, there is a greater number of Filipino women who have no access to employment opportunities due to more fundamental issues pervading Philippine society. Deep poverty remains widespread in the Philippines. Trafficking in women continues to thrive and poverty aggravates such situation. Violence against women is prevalent.

If one of the highest nations in the rankings has such serious issues, it calls into question the validity of the Gender Gap findings.

Here's the full map of the Gender Gap Index's rankings – Business Insider

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