Viral Video: Anti—Philippine Campaign

Embassy of the Philippines based in Kuala Lumpur on Monday “DEMANDED” a concrete explanation from a Malaysian based BPO (business process outsourcing) company in its recently released video depicting “Philippines as undesirable for business”.

The said video has a three—minute in length produced by the Aegis Malaysia and then uploaded on YouTube presented as Malaysia's so—called “advantage over Philippines”, which claims that Philippine country has poor infrastructure and security, and prone to threats of from natural calamities and has lack government support.

Malaysia depicted to have effective governance, with better security and a friendlier climate in a perceptible effort to attract investments away from Philippines, seeing it as the rival in BPO industry.

The video that has been uploaded angered Filipinos who cried a foul over the said comparison of the Malaysia's business climate with Philippines and called it as racist and unethical move.

The Philippine embassy conveyed a "deep concern" of the video.

In previous reports India, as the former BPO leader losing 70 percent of domestic BPO businesses, particularly call centers, to Philippines estimated worth USD30 billion in the foreign exchange earnings.

India chamber officials noted the Filipino BPO workers as "neutral accent" and fluent in English as an edge over other call center abroad.

2 comments:

  1. Malaysia compare to Philippines few people can speak fluent English Malaysia is more poor in english compare to India as a whole in the Philippines middle class people can speak fluent English with good accent as a native Americans compare to other countries in whole Asia and those poor people in the philippines speak taglish half English half Tagalog that can improve more whereas in Malaysia only rich people can speak English well and sometimes their accent is hardly or cannot be understood at all so please don`t compare Philippines to Malaysia way way out ha,ha,ha lol. # Philippines almost declared the 52nd state of USA AFTER THE WORLD WAR 2 so please really way way out lol..........

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