Published on: Jan 10, 2012

Go to any Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) branch and you’ll notice one thing: instead of the usual counter filled with various bank forms, there are sleek touchscreen monitors for all your transactions. When your number is called, the ...

Published on: Jun 27, 2011

BPI Foundation recently tied up with Habitat for Humanity Philippines to build an initial 160 housing units for public school teachers, considered as the country’s unsung heroes. The corporate social responsibility arm of the Bank of the ...

Published on: Jan 28, 2011

A potentially groundbreaking study that could help the hearing impaired using a Filipino sign language avatar bagged the much-coveted “Best Project of the Year” title in the 2011 BPI-DOST Science Awards held yesterday (Jan. 28) in Makati ...

Published on: Mar 11, 2009

Nearly 100 winners – now medical doctors, accomplished professors, and topnotch professionals here and abroad – of the BPI-DOST Science Awards gathered Monday (March 16) to mark the 20th year of the country’s longest-running science

Published on: Jan 19, 2009

A physics student of the University of the Philippines in Diliman who once dreamed of becoming a garbage collector produced the "Best Project of the Year" in the 2009 BPI-DOST Science Awards held January 19, 2009 at the Bank of the Philippi

Published on: Sep 28, 2008

A potential source for alternative fuel. Early detection mechanisms for devastating illnesses such as cancer. These are just some of the research projects of budding Filipino scientists vying for this year’s  much-coveted BPI-DOST “B

Published on: Sep 28, 2008

What fate awaits computers at the end of their valuable life? Some end up in surplus shops selling second-hand units; others in junkshops where workers smash and pick apart electronic waste to scavenge for gold, copper, and other precious metals. Wor

Published on: Sep 28, 2008

Lino Dalay did not have a clear business plan when he started setting up shop almost a decade ago on a narrow street in Paete, Laguna, the country's wood carving capital. What he had, however, were the stuff and the skills to sell: tons of used ...

Published on: Sep 28, 2008

FROM young scientists to sari-sari storeowners, one of the country’s oldest philanthropic arms has touched the lives of Filipinos everywhere by focusing on three E’s: entrepreneurship, education, environment. In June 2008, BPI Foundat

Published on: Sep 28, 2008

BPI Foundation recently partnered with Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) Philippines to reach out to public secondary schools and provide students the ticket to a better cyber education. The corporate social responsibility arm of the Bank of the ...