The City of RotterdamThe City of Rotterdam: Gateway to European Commerce

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Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and a melting pot of culture and business. Sitting strategically in the banks of rivers Maas and Rhine, the city owns the biggest port in Europe and with two international airports, Schipol and Rotterdam Airport, in close proximity, Rotterdam has established its vital role in Europe’s trade and commerce. It is home to some of the biggest companies in Netherlands including Unilever and Mittal Steel Company N.V., subsidiary of the largest steel company in the world. Among these corporate giants, other businesses and multinationals especially from the banking sector like ABN AMRO and ING are holding offices in Rotterdam.

The key to its continuously booming business activities is the easily accessible modes transportation. Reliable railway systems and road services, in addition to its ports and airports, makes it convenient to transport consumer goods in and out of the country through Rotterdam. It is connected to 31 sister and partner ports around the world, including international business hubs like United States, Japan and China.

Beurs-WTC: The Ideal Business Hub

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Standing proudly at the heart of Rotterdam with its 23-story edifice, the Beurs-World Trade Center has been the hub and venue of choice for both local and international business events in Rotterdam.

Beurs-WTC Rotterdam was built in 1987 with a total floor space of 76,000 square meters devoted to office spaces, retail stores, congress and event spaces, distributed over high-rise and low-rise buildings. It also offers other services including catering, business center, a dentist, tailor and dry cleaner. A proof that it only offers the highest quality of service is the Certified Congress Company or Het Erkend Congressbedrijf, who gave it a 5 hammer award, the highest rating being given to a congress center.
“The Beurs-World Trade Center in Rotterdam can offer office spaces with a wide range of high quality services and accommodates 240 tenants. Because the building is a WTC, tenants have all sorts of advantages, like using the services of the 300 WTC is worldwide”, Jolande Huijers, managing director of Beurs-WTC.

Report to Motherhood - TV5 host Cheri Mercado

by Dheza Marie Aguilar
September 24, 2008

Just how life changing is motherhood? Like any first time mom, Cheri Mercado knows.

The former news anchor of ABS-CBN was used to working habits from sun up to sundown. She started her day by waking up at 3 in the morning to host Magandang Umaga Bayan which airs at 5:30. The she rushed to the field to gather news, from 9am to 4pm. At one point she also anchored the late night newscast the Global News and a lifestyle show called Coffee Talk in the ANC Channel. Young and full of vigor, Cheri was at the height of her career in the Kapamily network.

But things started changing for the woman who was so used to the rat race when she learned that there is a “life growing inside her”. She started changing her priorities.
“The life growing inside of me was all that mattered then. All of a sudden the rat race didn’t make much sense and I couldn’t take care of my health with the kind of demands and schedule I had,” recalled the (age ) mother.

Dream Figure in Six Hours

by Dheza Marie Aguilar

August 5, 2008

Everybody craves and dreams for a supermodel figure, voluptuous behind, firm and proud front, a six-pack abs for men and a flat stomach for us girls. This degree of vanity makes gyms and fitness centres flourish, enhancement products to sell and derma and surgery clinics to maintain a good business despite the economic decline. One colleague noted that even if people are dealing with hard financial times, businesses that cater to being beautiful will remain strong. Blame it to magazines, Hollywood, television shows, the huge billboards around the Metro, to Filipinos’ innate narcissism, even to articles like this one; we will always make a way to have the dream body and the look that qualifies for the standard of beauty and sexiness.

But reality bites and no matter how hard we try or how long we starve ourselves, it is very difficult to achieve a perfectly sculpted body. It demands time, patience and a lot of discipline and of course money. But while most people cannot pledge 100% to the first three requirements, but have big bucks to burn, a new clinical surgery promises to be the answer to your six-pack abs desires.

Dutch water knowledge can help prevent Philippine flooding

By Dheza Marie Aguilar, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau

Posted at 07/03/2010 12:24 AM | Updated as of 07/03/2010 12:24 AM

NETHERLANDS - While the Philippines has yet to fully recover from the devastation brought by Tropical Storm Ondoy and the successive typhoons in October last year, the country’s weather agency has recently announced the possibility of the occurrence of the La Niña phenomenon.

The rainy spells that come with it can trigger yet another “Ondoy” tragedy which the country cannot afford to have in just a year.

Rick Heikoop, water and sanitation specialists and professor of water management at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, understands this problem very well. For most part, Heikoop thinks that the flooding problem in the country, especially in the urban areas, has a major connection to urban planning.