Chinese Merchant Families: Flexible and Border-Crossing Practices as Adaptive Strategies in Spanish Philippines

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Changing names, transferring resources, adopting sons, intermarrying with local women--these are just some of the "flexible" and "border-crossing" practices that Chinese merchants and their families have adopted over centuries as a way to adapt to or circumvent colonial and national policies to control their bodies, resources, mobility, and identities.

Richard T. Chu is Five-College Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published various articles focusing on the history of the Chinese and Chinese mestizos in the Philippines and centering on issues of ethnicity, gender, and nationalism.

He is also the author of Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture 1860s–1930s (E.J. Brill, 2010; Anvil 2012) and Chinese Merchants of Binondo during the Late Nineteenth Century (University of Santo Tomas Press, 2010).

Lifebit: Capturing Life’s Moments Via Mobile

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 “We make documenting life addicting.” With this simple statement, Eric Clark Su sums up what new mobile application Lifebit is all about.

Eric, the co-founder and CEO of Twidle, Inc. which developed Lifebit, wants an exciting and extraordinary mobile diary that is a far cry from the usual tedious type which contributes to about 95 percent of online journals being abandoned in the first four months of use.

Lifebit makes journaling a delight through a game-like system of scoreboards, creative editors, and quests that levels up passion badges.

“We boiled down the essence of the best games, injected it into the old boring journal and came up with an experience – a sort of game layer on top of one’s life. We can capture life’s moments freely through photos, doodles, text, and later on, even through video and link them to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumbler wherever we may be,” said Davao-based Eric who leads a 13-man team. 

Globe GCASH Gives P100k to Winner of OMGCASH Promo

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“The OMGCASH! P100,000 Araw-araw Pa-Premyo promo is our way of expressing our gratitude to our growing base of GCASH users for patronizing GCASH through the years,” said Paolo Baltao, president of G-Xchange Inc and operator of GCASH.

With OMGCASH! P100,000 Araw-araw Pa-Premyo, Globe GCASH subscribers have the chance to win P100,000.00 worth of GCASH everyday up to July 25, 2013 by simply using GCASH to buy load, pay bills, send money, and donate.

Globe Telecom, through its mobile commerce arm Globe GCASH, recently awarded P100,000.00 worth of GCASH to Felgen Nino Andrada, one of the winners of the OMGCASH! P100,000 Araw-araw Pa-premyo Promo.