HONG KONG – Environment-friendly coffee cups and food boxes made from corn cobs and rice stalks produced by small-scale farmers won for a team of young Philippine entrepreneurs the “Best of the Best Award” at the 2011 Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA) Regional Finals of the HSBC last Monday here.
This was the second time that the Philippines won the YEA award, the first being in 2009.
The winning Philippine team – Sing Terns – is composed of Czaesar Emil Callo of the University of the Philippines, and Mary Kathleen Chan and Eduard Edwynne Capacio, both of the Ateneo de Manila University.
The Philippine team’s project called “ECOntainer” bested the entries of six other teams from Bangladesh, Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Shanghai (China), and Thailand.
For bagging the Best of the Best Award, the team earned 100,000 Hong Kong dollars from the HSBC business development fund to help them implement their winning business plan.
Started in 2000 by HSBC, the YEA program “aims to inspire young people’s interest in entrepreneurship.”
The contest requires competing teams to develop an innovative idea that is creative and viable as a commercial venture. –MALOU E. ROSAL, Manila Bulletin
20 February –
WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
“Every day, give everyone their due.
Every day should be Social Justice Day!
The only way”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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#Report Corruption #SearchPosts #TakePicturesVideos
February Observances
1-7 Feb: World Interfaith Harmony Week
01 Feb: World Wetlands Day
02 Feb: International Day of Human Fraternity
04 Feb: International Day of Zero Tolerance
for Female Genital Mutilation
11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls
in Science
20 Feb: World Day of Social Justice
Monthly Observances:
National Health Insurance Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: National Awareness Week
for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
and Exploitation
Week 3: Public Administration Week
Daily Observances:
Feb 1 Constitution Day
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