by Rodolfo Quevenco | May 17, 2022 | General
The Philippine-Austrian Cultural and Educational Society (PACES) celebrated it’s 6th year Anniversary on 16 May with a Thanksgiving Mass held at the St. Augustin Church in Vienna’s first district. This coincided with the Sunday Loretto High Mass at...
by Rodolfo Quevenco | May 16, 2022 | General
Congratulations to Koleen L. Bacud and Cathrine M. Madlangbayan for passing the Civil Engineering Licensure Exam (Board Exam) given in May 2022 by the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission. The two new Civil Engineers, who passed the board exam on their first...
by Rodolfo Quevenco | Mar 13, 2022 | General
The Philippines can really reap its demographic dividends if we train our youth properly now. This was the message of Philippine Consul General and Charge d’Áffaires Frank Olea during his introductory remarks at the virtual lecture of Dr. Baby Jane Punongbayan...
by Rodolfo Quevenco | Mar 13, 2022 | General
And the consensus answer? A resounding yes… but with many ifs. But let’s start at the beginning. Dr. Baby Jane Punongbayan’s lecture, A Song of Death and Hope: Can the Philippines progress amidst constant threats of earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and volcanos?, was...
by Rodolfo Quevenco | Nov 29, 2021 | General
(Lies, damned lies, and statistics) “Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” a phrase popularized by Mark Twain and variously ascribed to different public personalities, describes the persuasive power of statistics to convince, rightly or wrongly, and to prop...
by Rodolfo Quevenco | Nov 16, 2021 | General, News and Events
Since the current pandemic began more than one year ago, online video calls and virtual meetings have become practically the norm, displacing traditional face-to-face interactions, work and business meetings, scientific meetings and conventions, social gatherings,...
