There's no business like show business, so join the
founder of Regal Films/Mother Studio, owner of
Imperial Palace Suites Hotel in Timog Ave, QC and
part-owner of a steel mill near Shanghai---Mother
Lily---to an exciting, exhilirating, educational,
no-holds-barred, UNCENSORED Anvil Exchange Forum next
week!
June 3, 2005
Astoria Plaza
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Sunday, May 22, 2005
ABC calls on China Ambassador Wu Hongbo
Thanks to all the Anvil officers who joined the successful courtesy call
of Anvil Buiness Club (ABC) officers on His Excellency Wu Hongbo, the
eloquent and dynamic Ambassador of the People's Republic of China last
May 19, 2005.
The Economic Attache also joined our meeting and offered to meet us in the future for specific transactions or needs ABC officers or members may require.
The whole meeting in the China Embassy in Dasmariñas Village, Makati was conducted in Mandarin, with almost all the ABC officers conversing comfortably. Those who were not fluent in Mandarin also enjoyed the meeting, since the Ambassador is very fluent in English and was partly educated and was based in the West. Special thanks to Past Chairman Michael Tan for his exceptionally fluent Mandarin which he perfected in Beijing University, also Past Chairman Bernard Go and others who helped in the animated conversations.
Afterwards, ABC Chairman George Siy graciously invited all to cap the afternoon with early dinner of palabok, club sandwiches, gambas, calamares and other foods at the Manila Polo Club.
The eloquent and sharp Ambassador Wu Hongbo asked about each person's background and what we wanted to know, he even expressed concern for higher new taxes and whether these would negatively impact Anvil Business Club (ABC) members' businesses. Then Ambassador Wu made an interesting mini-speech about China's vast economic opportunities for overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, the growth potentials in the next 15 years in different industries/ectors, the historical trends of China struggle from the 1840s up to the present, market conditions, investment prospects/incentives for small-medium investors, the demographic/economic/market/per capita income conditions of various provinces/cities of China ABC officers cited in the conversation, China's gratitude to overseas Chinese support throughout history, the importance of us Filipino citizens of Chinese heritage to act as bridge to strengthen the 1,000-year-old friendship between China and the Philippines, ideas on the evolving yet complex Taiwan issue, the tourism situation with 40,000 China tourists coming to the Philippines and over 400,000 Philippine tourists going to China per year, and many other topics. It was a mini-seminar on the phenomenal China "economic miracles", the challenges, opportunities, as well as geopolitical, historical and other analyses.
Ambassador Wu cited ABC officers and members as "the future leaders of Philippine business", and asking that Anvil Business Club members help vigorously promote mutually beneficial economic and cultural exchanges between China and the Philippines. The Ambassador entertained various questions from the ABC visitors. It was an enlightening, light-hearted, enjoyable, cordial and frank exchange of ideas, informations, stories and advices.
It was an amazing one and a half hours meeting, with Anvil Business Club (ABC) sharing our plan to make an industrial tour of the 100-million-population Sichuan province in central/western China in August, focusing on Chongqing and Chengdu cities. China has a "Go West" investment priority policy, offering attractive incentives to foreign investors going to the West which includes Sichuan province. The Chairman of this special Sichuan Tour project is our ABC Vice-President Kenneth Hung.
This will be a special tour of major business/industrial firms, exciting economic opportunities for trade or investments, tourism, leisure, cultural/historical, etc. It will be unforgettable and not your usual tourism tour. Even for those who have no immediate plans to invest in China or to trade, this Sichuan tour of ABC will be an eye-opener, a true business education like no other.
Above all, in line with ABC's wholistic approach this year 2005, this Sichuan Tour will be Great Fun! ABC officers believe that exposure to the dynamic China "economic miracle" may inspire and educate members to be more daring, world-class and entrepreneurial. Past Chairman Michael Tan during the meeting with the Ambassador, he remarked that ABC members should visit fast-changing China at least once a year!
For details, questions, suggestions or reservations for this exciting Anvil Sichuan Tour this August 2005, please immediately contact VP Kenneth Hung at office tel. 7266154 or fax 7231626 or text 09178489889. Or you may confirm with ABC Secretariat (Mrs. Amy Uy) at tels. 7267029 or 7239957. You may also contact Wilson Lee Flores any day 24 hours at 09188077777 or 092283218888 or 09178135916. Due to special meetings/dinners with the Governor, Mayors, business leaders, etc., there shall be limited slots available for this Anvil Business Club trip according to Kenneth Hung, so please kindly confirm early. Sichuan is not only a vast, beautiful, exciting province with boundless economic energies and opportunities, it is also the home province of the late reformist leader Deng Xiaoping and the world-famous pandas.
The Economic Attache also joined our meeting and offered to meet us in the future for specific transactions or needs ABC officers or members may require.
The whole meeting in the China Embassy in Dasmariñas Village, Makati was conducted in Mandarin, with almost all the ABC officers conversing comfortably. Those who were not fluent in Mandarin also enjoyed the meeting, since the Ambassador is very fluent in English and was partly educated and was based in the West. Special thanks to Past Chairman Michael Tan for his exceptionally fluent Mandarin which he perfected in Beijing University, also Past Chairman Bernard Go and others who helped in the animated conversations.
Afterwards, ABC Chairman George Siy graciously invited all to cap the afternoon with early dinner of palabok, club sandwiches, gambas, calamares and other foods at the Manila Polo Club.
The eloquent and sharp Ambassador Wu Hongbo asked about each person's background and what we wanted to know, he even expressed concern for higher new taxes and whether these would negatively impact Anvil Business Club (ABC) members' businesses. Then Ambassador Wu made an interesting mini-speech about China's vast economic opportunities for overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, the growth potentials in the next 15 years in different industries/ectors, the historical trends of China struggle from the 1840s up to the present, market conditions, investment prospects/incentives for small-medium investors, the demographic/economic/market/per capita income conditions of various provinces/cities of China ABC officers cited in the conversation, China's gratitude to overseas Chinese support throughout history, the importance of us Filipino citizens of Chinese heritage to act as bridge to strengthen the 1,000-year-old friendship between China and the Philippines, ideas on the evolving yet complex Taiwan issue, the tourism situation with 40,000 China tourists coming to the Philippines and over 400,000 Philippine tourists going to China per year, and many other topics. It was a mini-seminar on the phenomenal China "economic miracles", the challenges, opportunities, as well as geopolitical, historical and other analyses.
Ambassador Wu cited ABC officers and members as "the future leaders of Philippine business", and asking that Anvil Business Club members help vigorously promote mutually beneficial economic and cultural exchanges between China and the Philippines. The Ambassador entertained various questions from the ABC visitors. It was an enlightening, light-hearted, enjoyable, cordial and frank exchange of ideas, informations, stories and advices.
It was an amazing one and a half hours meeting, with Anvil Business Club (ABC) sharing our plan to make an industrial tour of the 100-million-population Sichuan province in central/western China in August, focusing on Chongqing and Chengdu cities. China has a "Go West" investment priority policy, offering attractive incentives to foreign investors going to the West which includes Sichuan province. The Chairman of this special Sichuan Tour project is our ABC Vice-President Kenneth Hung.
This will be a special tour of major business/industrial firms, exciting economic opportunities for trade or investments, tourism, leisure, cultural/historical, etc. It will be unforgettable and not your usual tourism tour. Even for those who have no immediate plans to invest in China or to trade, this Sichuan tour of ABC will be an eye-opener, a true business education like no other.
Above all, in line with ABC's wholistic approach this year 2005, this Sichuan Tour will be Great Fun! ABC officers believe that exposure to the dynamic China "economic miracle" may inspire and educate members to be more daring, world-class and entrepreneurial. Past Chairman Michael Tan during the meeting with the Ambassador, he remarked that ABC members should visit fast-changing China at least once a year!
For details, questions, suggestions or reservations for this exciting Anvil Sichuan Tour this August 2005, please immediately contact VP Kenneth Hung at office tel. 7266154 or fax 7231626 or text 09178489889. Or you may confirm with ABC Secretariat (Mrs. Amy Uy) at tels. 7267029 or 7239957. You may also contact Wilson Lee Flores any day 24 hours at 09188077777 or 092283218888 or 09178135916. Due to special meetings/dinners with the Governor, Mayors, business leaders, etc., there shall be limited slots available for this Anvil Business Club trip according to Kenneth Hung, so please kindly confirm early. Sichuan is not only a vast, beautiful, exciting province with boundless economic energies and opportunities, it is also the home province of the late reformist leader Deng Xiaoping and the world-famous pandas.
Saturday, May 7, 2005
Mathematics Trainers Guild Luncheon Press Conference
The Mathematic Trainers' Guild Philippines (MTGP), Department of Scient
and Technology (DOST), Department of Education and the Anvil Business
Club is sponsoring the biggest international math Olympiad in the
Philippines.
The event will be held at Tagbilaran City, Bohol province from May 23 to 28, 2005 and will be attended by 52 teams representing 52 cities from 19 countries/territories worldwide.
The group has invited news and photo editors as well as writers to attend a luncheon press conference on May 10, 2005 12noon at the Emerald Garden Chinese Restaurant along Roxas Blvd., Manila.
The event will be held at Tagbilaran City, Bohol province from May 23 to 28, 2005 and will be attended by 52 teams representing 52 cities from 19 countries/territories worldwide.
The group has invited news and photo editors as well as writers to attend a luncheon press conference on May 10, 2005 12noon at the Emerald Garden Chinese Restaurant along Roxas Blvd., Manila.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Anvil hosts NingXia Governor and John Gokongwei Jr.
Last night, May 3, Anvil Business Club (ABC)
hosted a Filipino-style seafoods dinner for the Governor of Ningxia
Autonomous Region of China and his delegation at Zamboanga Restaurant in
Malate, Manila, with live entertainment of Filipino music and
traditional dances and with taipan John Gokongwei, Jr. as our special
guest for this memorable affair.
When the trip of the Ningxia Governor was earlier discussed, our Past Chairman Michael Tan got a piece of big paper and started drawing the map of China---detailing the location of each province and writing their exact Chinese name, to illustrate the location of Ningxia Autonomous Region in the central/western part of China...Anvil Business Club (ABC) was the only group which hosted this Ningxia delegation during their 2-day trip to the Philippines.
Among those who graced the ABC dinner included Chairman George Siy, VPs Bobby Sy and Kenneth Hung, Civics Committee Chairman Eddie Cobankiat, special guest - Manila Chinatown Charity Clinic founder Robert Go, members Peter Dee and his friend Mr. Ong, Aileen Siy, Giselle Solco, Johnson Cheng, and Warren So.
Over dinner, the Governor and his officials said that China-Phil economic cooperation has more opportunities than with other Asian countries, that he welcomes Anvil Business Club (in Mandarin---Fe-Hwa Ching-Nien Chi-yeh-chya Xie-hue) to visit Ningxia region and to invest there. He reminded us that China's national government is focusing its investments promotions and massive infrastructures development in the western provinces of China's interior, like Ninixia, Gansu, Sichuan, etc.
John Gokongwei, Jr. was very supportive of us at Anvil Business Club (ABC) and will be our Speaker this year, he said to me again over dinner. He said our projects to promote Confucian values, entrepreneurial courage and more contacts with booming China are admirable. Gokongwei wants to give us more suggestions to make ABC more dynamic, relevant and have a positive impact for our Chinese community and for our youth generation when he speaks to us. His exacts words to me: "Anvil has vast potential to do a lot, you should have a program, a platform to do things different from other social/business orgs, this Anvil is an excellent organization."
When the trip of the Ningxia Governor was earlier discussed, our Past Chairman Michael Tan got a piece of big paper and started drawing the map of China---detailing the location of each province and writing their exact Chinese name, to illustrate the location of Ningxia Autonomous Region in the central/western part of China...Anvil Business Club (ABC) was the only group which hosted this Ningxia delegation during their 2-day trip to the Philippines.
Among those who graced the ABC dinner included Chairman George Siy, VPs Bobby Sy and Kenneth Hung, Civics Committee Chairman Eddie Cobankiat, special guest - Manila Chinatown Charity Clinic founder Robert Go, members Peter Dee and his friend Mr. Ong, Aileen Siy, Giselle Solco, Johnson Cheng, and Warren So.
Over dinner, the Governor and his officials said that China-Phil economic cooperation has more opportunities than with other Asian countries, that he welcomes Anvil Business Club (in Mandarin---Fe-Hwa Ching-Nien Chi-yeh-chya Xie-hue) to visit Ningxia region and to invest there. He reminded us that China's national government is focusing its investments promotions and massive infrastructures development in the western provinces of China's interior, like Ninixia, Gansu, Sichuan, etc.
John Gokongwei, Jr. was very supportive of us at Anvil Business Club (ABC) and will be our Speaker this year, he said to me again over dinner. He said our projects to promote Confucian values, entrepreneurial courage and more contacts with booming China are admirable. Gokongwei wants to give us more suggestions to make ABC more dynamic, relevant and have a positive impact for our Chinese community and for our youth generation when he speaks to us. His exacts words to me: "Anvil has vast potential to do a lot, you should have a program, a platform to do things different from other social/business orgs, this Anvil is an excellent organization."
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