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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Top Teleserye Queens in the Philippines


1. Angel Locsin - Angel Locsin rose to prominence after being cast as one of the lead stars in the fantasy-themed television series Mulawin in 2004. Soon after, she starred as the superheroine Darna in the TV adaptation of the Mars Ravelo comics. When her contract expired on March 2007, Angel did not renew her contract with GMA Network and signed an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN despite her booming career on the first.[1] Her first project under ABS-CBN was the television series Lobo.

2. Kim Chiu
- is a Chinese Filipino actress. Chiu was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China , but emigrated with her family to Cebu City, Philippines at the age of 3.Chiu was the first winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition and is currently part of Star Magic, under contract to ABS-CBN. Kim Chiu has been dubbed Philippine television's "Primetime Drama Princess".

3. Judy Ann Santos
- is an award-winning and multi-nominated film and television actress, product endorser, recording artist, and film producer in the Philippines. She is dubbed as the Philippines Young Superstar.

4. Marian Rivera - is a Filipina actress. Her first TV role came in 2005 via TAPE Inc.'s afternoon drama, Kung Mamahalin Mo Lang Ako in the lead that was aired in GMA Network. However, her breakout role did not come until 2007 when she was cast for the title role in the Philippine remake of MariMar.

5. Kristine Hermosa
- is a Filipina actress. She is a member of ABS-CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents known as Star Magic and is well known for her roles in hit soap operas on television like Pangako Sa 'Yo, Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas, Gulong ng Palad, Prinsesa ng Banyera and a Komiks series Nasaan Ka Maruja. She is considered as one of the ABS-CBN Teleserye Princesses.

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Top Teleserye Kings in the Philippines


1. Piolo Pascual - is a Filipino film and television actor, model, musician (Both solo and in a group such as The HUNKS and Hearthrobs), and film producer (Spring Films). Since the beginning, he has been a long-time contract actor with ABS-CBN.

2. John Lloyd Cruz - (b. June 24, 1983) is a highly acclaimed and multi-award winning Filipino actor, model and occasional TV host. He is known as Lloydy or Idan.

3. Sam Milby - is a Filipino-American, the son of a white American father and a Filipina mother, who joined Pinoy Big Brother as a housemate who later turned actor, commercial model, and recording artist. He is part of ABS-CBN talents ever since. He is also the first ever male endorser of the clothing company, Folded and Hung

4. Richard Gutierrez - popularly known as Richard Gutierrez (born January 21, 1984 in Beverly Hills, California), is a Filipino film and television actor, and commercial model.

5. Gerald Anderson
- is a Filipino American actor who was a former housemate on the first season of the Philippine reality television show Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. He rose to fame through the Filipino "teleseryes" (English: drama television series) Sana Maulit Muli, My Girl, and Tayong Dalawa. He is currently roled as "Robie" at Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo, working with Kim Chiu and Ms. Kris Aquino.

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Top Foreign Investors in the Philippines


1. United States of America - (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.

2. Japan - is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

3. China
- Ancient China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization. Chinese civilization was also one of the few to invent writing,[2] the others being Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley civilization, the Maya and other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Minoan civilization of ancient Greece, and Ancient Egypt

4. South Korea
- is a country in East Asia, located on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul, the second largest metropolitan city in the world and a major global city. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain.

5. United Kingdom
- is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.

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Top Social Networking Websites in the Philippines


1. Facebook - is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

2. Friendster - is a privately owned social networking website. Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users may share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.

3. Multiply - is a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media - such as photos, videos and blog entries - with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and is privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors. Multiply has over 11 million registered users. The company is headquarterd in Boca Raton, Florida.

4. Twitter - is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

5. Myspace - is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, US, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009; the company does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation.

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