All corporate, diplomatic and individual members of the Philippines Forum have full and unrestricted access to the website including the Resources Section. There is also an unrestricted area carrying general information about the Philippine Forum.

How Does the Website Benefit Me?

The website benefits you in a number of ways:

• Firstly you can access and review the full Forum program for the year as well as documents relating to individual meetings;
• Secondly you have online access to a full range of reference material.

The reference material available on the Forum website is vast and easily accessible - either by navigating the menu to the information area of your choice or by using the search engine to search for specific industry information.

The website is divided into a number of sections as follows:

In this section you can learn more about the people involved in the Forum including our advisory panel; you can print out a list or contact by e-mail other associates throughout Asia Pacific and you can discover the full range of business programs run by Economist Group in Asia Pacific.

In addition to reviewing the full meeting program for coming months you can also access:

• Meeting Notice: details of the next Forum meeting; click here for more
• Agenda: The meeting agenda; click here for more
• Biographies: Biodata on forthcoming speakers; click here for more
• Register Online: Register your attendance and any guests you intend to bring to the meeting; click here for more
• Sense of the Meeting: Read the meeting report from the last Forum event; click here for more
• Programme Archive: access information from previous forum meetings; click here for more
• Event Horizon: A handy means of keeping track of Economist Corporate Network meetings and events around the region, Economist Conferences programs as well as meetings of the various chambers of commerce and other business associations in Manila and elsewhere in the Philippines.click here for more

This is the "heart"of the website as far as members are concerned. You and your company have instant desktop access to an outsourced research facility staffed by professionals.

Business Leaders Brief Online

Read the online version of the latest Philippine Business Leaders Brief or download the pdf version for later reading and filing. Click for More.

Each article from the Brief is stored also electronically in our database so that you may retrieve more than 3 years worth of articles on specific topics through a keyword search.

Asia Brief Online

Read the latest online version of the Asia Business Leaders Brief or download the pdf version for later reading and filing. Click for More

Each article from the Brief is stored also electronically in our database so that you may retrieve more than 5 years[1] worth of articles on specific topics through a keyword search.

Report Archives

Both the Philippine Business Leaders Brief and the Asia Business Leaders Brief are stored online as pdf files so that you may retrieve any missing issues at a later date. Click for more.

Business Guide to the Philippines

Read the full text by chapter of the highly successful Business Guide to the Philippines. You can also download each chapter as a PDF file for offline viewing. Click for more.

Furthermore, each section of each chapter is also stored as a database article for permanent keyword retrieval. Click here for more about the keyword database search.

The 2004 edition of the Business Guide is at present in preparation and an extended version will be available online and on CD ROM to augment the print version.

Outlook Papers

Read our latest political and economic outlooks for the Philippines together with the scorecard. Click here for our Outlook section.

Executive Briefs

Our company regularly publishes Executive Briefs and briefing papers covering topics and issues of interest to the business community. In this section you can retrieve not only the latest reports from our Research Department but also past reports by topic coving more than 3 years. Click here for Executive Briefs.

Presentations

Download PowerPoint slide shows of presentations given during Forum meetings as well as other slide shows that augment a number of our Executive Briefs. Use these as part of your own briefing material. Click here for presentations.

Economic and Social Indicators

Our analysts regularly update more than 700 spreadsheets covering a vast array of statistical information - furthermore in many instances our data goes back more than 5 years giving you the most complete time series of economic and social trends available in the Philippines. Click here to review avaialble indicators.

Material is available for download both as charts and as Excel worksheets.

Corporate Database Search

Our corporate database can be searched by company name (for individual companies and/or organizations) or by industry category (more than 80 available); with more than 10,000 organizations in our database this is one of the most complete reference sources available in the Philippines at the present time. Click here to access our corporate database.

Use our proprietary database search engine to find the information you are seeking. Our information archive covers more than 1200 articles and reports for the Philippines compiled from January 2001 onwards. Click here to search by keyword.

This section is part of the public access area and provides information for prospective members of the Forum and those who wish to subscribe to our electronic briefing service. Click here to review the benefits of membership.

Each member is entitled to have their profile carried on the website as well as their corporate logo that will be linked to their corporate profile page.

One logo will be displayed by random selection in each page each time a page is loaded or refreshed.

In addition members will also have their corporate banner displayed on the virtual-asia.com website which is the public access website of the MCA group designed for business and high net worth travelers. The virtual-asia.com website currently receives more than 600,000 page visitors each month. 

Forum Material on CD ROM

In association with our sister company, MCA Digital Designs Inc., we have been able to combine the output from our research department with the best that multimedia has to offer. The result is an interactive Philippines Electronic Yearbook that carries all the available website material plus additional archive material all stored within one easily accessible CD ROM.

Whether or not you have web access, this CD will ensure that you have ready access to key baseline information on the Philippines as and when you need it.

Custom editions[2] can be provided on request for distribution to your clients as corporate gifts or promotional items.

Our world-class design department can also design custom presentations for your own corporate or training needs at very affordable prices.

[1] Taiwan and China - five years of articles are available; other countries vary. We currently monitor 12 countries throughout Asia.

[2] Custom editions contain the Philippine Business Guide and selected material but do not contain the full range of information available to members of the Philippines Forum.