Outgoing President Bhagu Sitaldas thanked the membership and extended his and his board congratulations to the incoming board of BMA foundation, an Filipino-Indian foundation that is involved in charity work. The election was held at the German Makati Club on June 25.

Incoming President NANKI “FERDINAND” HIRANAND , who was also formerly president of this foundation, expressed his thanks to the membership. His board consists of Mr. Sunder Mukhi, Mr. Rami Sehwani, Mr. Manu Chulani and Mr. Haresh D Mirchandani. Upon their imminent meeting, other officers will be announced.

Program set with ADB, PCCI and RP GOVT AGENCIES
WELCOME HON MINISTER DR. FAROOQ ABDULLAH.

Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Government of India since May, 2009. Thrice Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir between 1983 to 2002. Four terms in two Houses of Indian Parliament.

He is an ardent Golfer, fond of photography and classical music. He is widely travelled and arrived on Sunday June 19th via SQ from Singapore. He will depart on Wednesday June 22.

The Buxani family of Philippines has been staying for about half a century in the Philippines. Father Kay Sham migrated from India nearly 50 years ago to build a fledgling business that is now a highly-diversified conglomerate primarily involved in sports.

The Buxani's have acquired the Philippine rights to distribute Amy’s organic line of frozen ready-to-eat meals, pizzas, burritos, lasagnas, veggie burgers, pocket sandwiches, pot pies, breakfast cereals, biscuits, cookies, salad dressings, nuts, desserts, canned soups, beans, and chili.

Lunar eclipse will fall on Saturday June 26, 2010. It is not a complete eclipse.

In our Hindu custom, people are advised to pray to remove the malefic effects of lunar eclipse. Especially pregnant ladies are advised not to look at the moon during eclipse and observe prayer like chanting verses from Geeta or Ramayana.

PHILIPPINES [MANILA] SCHEDULE

By 6:15 pm partial eclipse will start. But moon rise in Manila on June 26 Saturday (full moon) is 6:28 pm. So moon rise is already afflicted and.

Start of Eclipse 6:15 pm.
Middle of Eclipse 7:38 pm
End of Eclipse 9:00 pm

Filipinos can now travel to Taiwan without Visa provided he is on the way to any of 7 country, as mentioned below, and hold valid visa for that country he is en route to.

Filipinos with visas to the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan or the European Union can now visit Taiwan without a visa.

Inspired by the majesty of the Jade Mountains and the magnificence of Taipei 101’s engineering and design, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau recently brought to the Philippines for the first time its annual travel expo simply billed “Taiwan Touch Your Heart.”

The Filipino Indian community is looking forward to the visit of a team from Julius Baer (HK) Ltd, a leading Swiss bank.

The three visiting members are Mr. Ashis Sengupta –Executive Director, Mr. Ivan Guidi -Managing Director, and Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran – Chief Investment Officer.

Julius Baer is the leading Swiss private banking group, with an exclusive focus on servicing and advising private clients. It has s total client assets amounted to CHF241 billion at the end of 2009.

MEET MR. NIRMAL MAHESHWARI, who is now the President of the Indo Phil Textile Plant. He replaces Mr. Subramanian.

He is a Textile Engineer with 32 years of experience in Textile Industry.
He has worked with reputed multinational group in India, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. He took charge of Indo Phil Group of companies (Aditya Birla group) effective April 01 2010. He will be looking after all activities of the company, and with the present success and growth up of the company, he is all set.

ILOILO here we come.

A high profile meeting took place recently between Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trenas said the Hinduja Global Solutions. Trenas met last Thursday with the company’s top executives, Antonio De la Cruz, senior vice president for finance and corporate services and Pushkar Misra, president and chief executive officer for Philippine operations of Hinduja Global Solutions, to discuss the investment plans.