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Three Philippine Cities Among Asia's Best

Quezon City
Quezon City, Cebu City and Davao City have been picked as three of the top 10 "Asian Cities of the Future" by London-based FDI magazine.

The Philippine cities of Quezon City was the highest ranked at No. 7, followed by Cebu City at No 8, and Davao City was listed No. 10

Cebu
The other Asian cities in the top 10 list are: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei (Taiwan), Melbourne (Australia), Dalian (China), Shijiazhuang (China), and Guangzhou (China).

In the magazine's listing of top five Asian Cities with the "best human resources," Davao City was No. 5, together with four other cities - Singapore (1), Melbourne (2), Hong Kong (3), and Taipei (4).

Davao
The finance magazine used the following judging criteria: economic potential, cost effectiveness, human resources, quality of life, infrastructure, business friendliness and promotion strategy.

Member of its judging panel were David Kinnear, president of DDC HRO, a provider of process outsourcing solutions (New York); James Ku, manager of consultancy firm Tractus-Asia, Ltd. (Shanghai); Anupam Prakasi, Asia-Pacific leader in global sourcing and business transformation at HR consultancy firm Hewitt Associates (India); and Lawrence Yeo, CEO of international consultancy firm AsiaBIZ (Singapore).