The Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) hosts this year’s World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention. Over 3,000 business delegates from 22 countries and regions will attend this much anticipated event. As representatives of various business organizations and chamber of commerce, this year’s WCEC, is set to be one of the most notable events in the business community showcasing the best of Chinese entrepreneurship.

Since 1954, the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) has been tirelessly channeling its efforts to unite the Chinese-Filipino community, promote the growth of business, and implement social welfare projects to bring about continuous growth for the whole country. Thus, it has long been recognized as dependable partner in nation building.

It has a network of 170 member organizations all over the Philippines which all play vital roles in the sectors, industries and communities where they are involved. Now as the growth of the local economy continues to gain momentum, the FFCCCII continues on with its tradition of service to Filipino nation by encouraging investments in the Philippines in various fields such as agriculture, tourism, mining, energy, information and communications technology services and other competitive industries.

This is why FFCCCII makes a fitting host for the 10^th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC), which will be held in Manila on November 19 to 22, 2009.

Conceptualized by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the WCEC aims to provide a forum for overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and business communities all over the world. A political in nature, the WCEC’s mission is to focus on economic and cultural issues pertaining to Chinese entrepreneurship.

It is a highly-anticipated biennial event for Chinese entrepreneurs around the globe as the convention aims to establish an economic network linking Chinese entrepreneurs worldwide. The three founding members of the Convention are: the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (HK), and the Tai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

While all the past WCECs each had its distinguishing features, FFCCCII promises the participants of this year’s WCEC will have a lot to look forward to.

As the federation aims to enjoin Chinese entrepreneurs from all over the world to work together and combine their talents and capabilities to bring prosperity to the world and address the challenges of the global crisis FFCCCII came up with the theme World prosperity through Chinese Entrepreneurship for this year’s convention.

Aside from trying to find ways on how participating Chinese entrepreneurs can work together in fighting possible challenges in business and create better business opportunities, FFCCCII, which has been an advocate for corporate social responsibility for more than five decades, also shares its growth-oriented advocacies and social development programs and projects.

FFCCCII’s Operation: Barrio School is actually the longest running and biggest private sector-led development program focused on educational infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Federation ahs also spearheaded a slew of the major projects such as the establishment of volunteer fire brigades to augment government firefighting efforts, medical missions that provide free medical and dental services and free medicines to indigents, and relief operations in times of calamities.

More than just being successful entrepreneurs, the FFCCCII would like to imbibe the spirit of camaraderie and a deep sense of social responsibility among its members, which in turn would also be an integral part of this year’s WCEC.

Have you ever thought how millionaires managed to sustain their millions? How they spent it, and more importantly how they get it?

Millions is not just a simple amount of money. It’s a lot! Money is said to be powerful.  But money is paper, it can be destroyed in just a snap.

Young professionals, aspiring and still eager to learn businessmen are invited to attend the “Developing a Millionaire’s Mindset” seminar on November 7, 2009, 1:30-5:30 pm at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City.

Key speakers of the seminars are Francis Kong and Chinkee Tan- two of the most successful businessmen and authors of this generation.

New perspective principles of money making and life altering stories which will surely give attendees substantial knowledge from the key speakers.

Francis Kong is a great motivational speaker who have already done motivational speaking in different schools, corporate events and seminars.  He is a businessmen, author, broadcaster, columnist and a publisher.

On the other hand, Chinkee Tan found her millions in sales. She is a lifestyle trainer and a best selling autor of “Till Debt Do Us Part” and “For Richer and for Poorer”

The secret of success is not about having a great strategy alone, attitude, principles and a clear and focus mindset is also very important to attain the success that you wanted.

The seminar offers an early bird rate of only P2,000 for those who register on or before October 31, after which the regular rate will be P2,500 per head.

hure discounts will be given for those who will attend in groups.

For registration and other inquiries please call, 889-7763/856-0559/996-4610 or visit www.iluvlearning.com.

Chinese businessmen around the globe will gather in the Philippines as Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FFCCCI) will host the 10^th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) happening at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia on November 19-22, 2009.For its 10^th year of gathering Chinese businessmen from different countries, this year’s theme is “World Prosperity through Chinese Entrepreneurship”. From the theme itself, the convention aims to stabilize the Chinese business industry more and conquer the world market.

About 3,000 delegates from different countries are assumed to attend the 4-day program for business exchange and networking.

The schedules of activities are as follows:

The WCEC is a biennial event started in 1991 in Singapore has been successfully held in different countries worldwide. Past host countries are Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.

For more information on the 10th WCEC, please visit the WCEC website at http://www.wcec.org.ph.

Hapee Toothpaste, owned by the Lamoiyan Corporation takes risk and prove that “pinoy product” can compete internationally as it move steps forward by exporting the product in China.

The Filipino local brand will be competing to multi-national owned toothpaste brands in China using its low cost yet high quality advantage- the strategy that they also used to keep up the competition with foreign toothpaste brand in the country.

Cecilio Kwok Pedro, president and chef executive addressed that they have decided to be more aggressive and enter the Chinese market. Lamoiyan has been exporting their products is other Asian countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Brunei and the Middle East.

“In every crisis, there is an opportunity,” Pedro said.

He added that Lamoiyan is putting emphasis on participating in trade fairs as a strategy to expand market. In 208, the company participated in a trade fair in Dubai which lands them a distribution deal.

Lamoiyan continues to draw the company in the international scene as they join international trade fairs. The company joins, for the first time in the China-ASEAN Expo, 2009, China’s trade platform for exporters hoping to explore the Chinese market.

Led by the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), the export promotions agency of the Department of Trade and Industry, CAEXPO 2009 is a yearly celebration of more than a thousand years of trade and cultural exchanges between China and Southeast Asian nations.

CAEXPO began as an annual event in 2003. Over the past five years, it generated a total of 119,000 trade visitors, $6.52 billion in trade volume, and international investments cooperation projects worth $28.62 billion.

Together with Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, the Philippines will promote its trade, tourism and investment opportunities to over 10,000 trade buyers from China and all over South East Asia attending CAEXPO.

Lamoiyan’s Hapee toothpaste aims to reach China’s huge market and hope that they can give precious smiles to Chinese same as what they’ve done with Filipinos