Where have all the female hairdressers and dressmakers gone?
Women hairdressers and dressmakers seem to have become a vanishing breed that the country is now having difficulty filling up the global demand for such skills.
Lito Soriano, former president of the Philippine Association of Service Exporters Inc. (PASEI), said numerous job orders for women cosmetologists and dressmakers have remained unfilled.
"Local recruitment agencies dread the job orders from foreign employers, particularly from Middle Eastern countries, for women cosmetologists and hairdressers bacause we do not have the supply right now," Soriano disclosed.
Soriano said Filipino women have apparently given up such job opportunities to the "third sex", thus the country is now experiencing a shortage of female dressmakers and hairdressers, whom employers in the Middle East, prefer to hire women," Soriano explained.
Filipino women will again consider taking up skills training to become dressmakers and cosmetologists because of the potential employment opportunities. Soriano said at least 10,000 overseas jobs will be available for Pinay hairdressers and dressmakers in the next two years, and are paid a minimum of $500 but they can earn as much as $1,000 a month, including overtime and tips from foreign customers.
We have so many women workers and I hope they will see these employment opportunities...
by mayen jaymalin of the phil. star
Wanted: Pinay hairdressers, dressmakers
Illegal Recruiter nabbed for luring Pinays to Malaysia sex den
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested a woman charged with illegal recruitment as she was about to leave the Philippine National Police (PNP) premises for allegedly trying to lure a 17-year-old girl to work in a prostitution den in Malaysia.
NBI Deputy Director for Special Investigation Service (DDSIS) Victor Bessat said they apprehended Evangeline Cruz Manapsal just before she was discharged from the PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) for allegedly planning to send off a minor to work in a prostitution den abroad.
This is the second time that the 37-year-old Manapsal has been arrested.
Virginia Jose, legal counsel of the Jesus is Lord Church (JIL) Worlwild, said eight Filipinas, two of whom were minors, escaped a prostitution den in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia last Dec. 5.
The took shelter at the JIL church in the area and, with the help of the evangelical group, were able to return home.
Manapsal was trying to lure the younger sister of one of the women she already recruited. However, the elder sister, who left last June, arrived and said she was made into a sex slave.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said Manapsal was not a lisenced recruiter for overseas employment.
article by Evelyn Macairan of The Philippine STAR
Pinay brings US cosmetic dentistry to RP
Hawaii and Los Angeles - trained Filipino dentist has brought the US cosmetic dental technology to the Philippines and is now spreading its health benefits and restoring the youth and self-confidence of her many patients, both local and foreign.
Dr. Cecile Infantado does it in her clinic at the 3rd floor of Dusit Hotel Nikko at the Ayala Center in Makati City, where people with various unsightly dental problems com for treatment.
Such problems, according to Dr. Cecile, include chipped tooth, cracked or discolored enamel, uneven length of incisors, edge-to-edge bite, ugly fillings, gaps or big spaces in between teeth, old and leaking crowns, and even teeth that have shortened due to wear and tear over the years.
According to Dr. Cecile, these dental disfigurement can have harmful effects on health, appearance, personality and self-esteem, especially in such inevitable cases as the shortening and darkening of the teeth as we age. The gradual shortening of the teeth eventually makes a person lose the vertical height of the lower third of her face, making her look a lot older than her age. The darkening of the teeth has the same unpleasant and undesirable effect.
Thanks to the so called Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), both in-office systems that enable esthetic and long-lasting restorations to be completed in a single appointment.
CAD and CAM ensure the natural and life-like appearance of the restored and improved teeth.
Cosmetic dentistry highlights the finer details and life-like appearance of tooth restorations. For example, our tooth by nature is poly-chromatic in color. Thus, cosmetic dentistry uses different shades of dental composite to simulate the natural color gradient of a tooth, including its hue, transparency and opaqueness.
Dr. CEcile acquired her expertise in Hawaii and later at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a member of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. Among its members, Dr. Cecile is the only one practicing in the Philippines.
article from Manila Bulletin by Pinky Concha-Colmenares
