Philippine Links and Other Resources Page

Great Philippine Sites: The Philippines has not been left behind in Internet technology. Here's a few sites to get you started.

Manila Bulletin - Philippine's daily newspaper
Manila Times - Another Philippine newspaper
Business World - Newspaper aimed towards businessmen in Asia
ABS-CBN - Philippines' top TV broadcasting station
GMA - another TV station.
RX93.1 - Monster Radio - Great and creative pop station
Philmusic - Cool hits from Filipino artists. --- you need Realaudio to play music online
Yancy MCSE+I - A very informative Page for IT Professional who wants to take venture to Microsoft

Online Shopping: It's great to shop on the Net. So far, I've only tried to buy books, but there are a lot of other things you can buy. If you're concerned with security, just remember that using your credit card online is very much the same as using it in stores or faxing your credit card number. Think which of these 2 methods pose a greater risk.

1. Using your credit card to order goods through Internet--- risk that some people may hack your computer or your connection and thereby gaining access to your credit card information.
2. Using credit card to buying goods physically from stores --- risk that the one who took your order may copy your credit card number or someone else beside you will copy your credit card info and use it to purchase goods. (Remember in other countries, they only need to know the name of the cardholder, expiry date and  credit card info in order to purchase goods. No need for signatures like here in the Philippines.

Buy It Online - This should be a great start for your online shopping. Contains a lot of sites by category. Also allows searching by keywords.
Book Stacks - Great selection of books. My orders usually arrive within 2 months.(From US to Manila). Most of the books are discounted. Delivery charges are cheap too. It's only US$7.50 + 19% of books ordered for air delivery to local post office. Post office then delivers the books to you or you can get it there.
They have a new feature that allows you to compare prices with Amazon and Barnes&Noble. If Book Stacks' price is higher, it will automatically lower the price. Nice.
Mania store - great online comic book store. Operated by American Entertainment. They usually have ads in comics and have been in this business for over 5 years. They usually have special offers for most of their comics and online specials. They even offer more than 60% discount on some of their comics. Their delivery charges to Manila are a little expensive though but it's very fast. DHL delivery takes less than a WEEK to arrive. Door to door delivery. Be prepared to pay import tax also. It will not be indicated on your order but DHL will charge you for it. They also have excellent customer support. If ever you have complains or was not able to receive free items, then just tell it to them and they'll send it to you right away.
Amazon - This is the biggest online book store(arguably) right now but I haven't tried it before. High delivery charges.
Barnes&Noble - Biggest competitor of Amazon. Unlike Amazon, however, they have a physical stores located in different parts of the world.
PublicEye - a site which watches online stores. Also advises consumers in buying things online.

Spree - department store which offers some cool gift items and books. If ever you are going to buy there just remember that I referred you there. My Spree ID is rtiu

There are also some local sites which have started to offer good online. One site is Star Apple computer.

Here are some local search engines to help you find other great Philippines sites.
Yehey - a yahoo look alike search engine  but only for Philippines sites
EDSA - named after the "famous" road here in the Philippines, this search engine is one of the best tool for finding Philippine  web pages.

Pinoymail.com -- Here is Philippines answer to Hotmail.

Other Lists Here are other list of links to help your way around the Net.

Scott's Internet List - A very comprehensive list of links divided into categories.
Ultimate Industry Connection - links to a lot of Computer Hardware and Software companies around the world.