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International living

Africa
The Africa Guide: Where Africa comes to you.

Britons abroad
British Expats:  For British expatriates around the world, especially people needing advice on emigration.

Europe
EuroExpats:  A portal for expatriates in Europe, with information on most EU countries, such as international schools, embassies & consulates, clubs and communities.

Expatica:  News & information for expatriates in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and Spain.

International
Contact Expats: Directory and database for finding fellow expats around the world.

ExpatClic: Webmagazine and forums for expatriate women around the world, in English, French and Italian.

Easy Expat:  Practical information for expatriates about careers & jobs, moving, taxes, accommodation, healthcare, international schools, childcare, repatriation and social life, focusing on Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Montreal, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney.

Expat Meetup: Gateway for finding expatriate groups near you, part of the big Meetup network of groups of people living near each other , sharing similar interests and meeting regularly. 

Family Life Abroad: Articles, tips, news headlines and links for expatriate families around the world, including a "Links for Kids" section.

Living Abroad:  Linking expats around the world, sharing experiences and resources about international lifestyle, working, studying, volunteering and retiring overseas.

Small Planet:  Tales from a Small Planet share the experience of living abroad through literature, humor and the arts, about what it is really like to live in a foreign country and how to cope with the challenges.

Transitions Abroad:  Guide to working abroad, studying overseas, immersion travel and international living. 

International directories & guides
All The Websites 
Ezilon Search 
Top Listed Sites 
UGA internet guides: European publisher of internet guides, business portals, travel guides and reference cd-roms.
World Site Index 

International jobs
Expat Engineer: A portal for international engineers, with information on jobs in engineering, oil & gas, mining, IT, construction, transport & logistics and telecommunications.

North America/Canada
FilCanBizpages: Filipino Canadian business directory.

MyPhotos: Create your own high quality photobook and share it with others.

Philippines Properties: Real estate listings around the Philippines.

Philippine roses: Island Rose grows its own varieties of European roses in Cavite and delivers around the Philippines at competitive prices.

myPH recommendations
This myPH World guide to international shopping offers a broad selection of products and services which can be ordered online from the Philippines. The myPH staff spend a lot of time browsing and window-shopping around the internet and these seem to be particularly good, useful companies and products. We’ll keep adding more as we find more recommendations.

Auctions online
Buying & selling: eBay is where you can buy and sell virtually anything under the sun on the world's biggest online marketplace.

Business & e-commerce
Business teamwork: Central Desktop provides the collaboration tool voted “Best of the Web” by Business Week magazine, to organize projects, share files and meet online.

Careers: Vault.com is the internet's most trusted name for career information, judged the "best place on the web to prepare for a job search" by Fortune magazine and named one of Forbes' "Best of the Web."

Open your own web store: ProStores, an eBay company, enables small and medium-sized businesses to sell products and services online through a fully customized web store.

Money transfer: iKobo offers online money transfer to and from the Philippines and more than 145 other countries, using a re-loadable Visa Prepaid card to make sending money fast, simple and secure. The service can be used to send funds to any country with an existing ATM network.

Sending money: Xoom offers fast, reliable money transfers all over the world at a great price from the convenience of your computer.

Computers & software
 is the company behind some of the world's best-selling software: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Studio 8 and Dreamweaver 8.

Antivirus: Kaspersky Lab develops advanced antivirus technologies and firewalls for home users, businesses and servers.

Antivirus: Zone Labs promises complete computer and internet security, with firewalls, anti-spyware and virus protection, for homes and businesses.

Art & images: Jupiter Images is a very big stock imagery subscription portal, with sites for clipart, photos, animations and other graphics.

Business teamwork: Central Desktop delivers web-based collaboration solutions by enabling users to create online workspaces, to share files and documents, manage task lists and engage in group discussions.

Discounts: Eagle Computer is an online store with big savings on the best brands as well as hard-to-find software and hardware, including Dell, HP/Compaq, Averatec, Acer, IBM, Gateway, Sony, Toshiba, plus Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec and more.

Fonts & typefaces: Fonts.com has very comprehensive font libraries and collections.

Online storage: Diino offers secure storage with online access and sharing for files of any type and size – particularly useful for users with large digital photos and music files. The first 2GB of storage are free.

Website design: Coffee Cup is the #1 downloaded website design software in the world with 16 software programs to choose from.

Website hosting: Easy CGI has web hosting plans to it any budget, with $10.00 domain registration and state-of-the-art server hosting.

Website hosting: Lunarpages offers web hosting at US$6.95/month with a free domain for life, plus $700 of CoffeeCup software free, additional domain names at $2.99 each, hosting of 10 sites on one account, and award-winning customer support.

Community, family & personal
Family ancestry: Burke's Peerage & Gentry is the definitive historical guide to the UK and Ireland's titled and landed families.

Family ancestry: The Origins Network specializes in British and Irish genealogy research, with records and data collections dating back to the 13th century.

Gay dating: GAY.COM is the world's largest gay and lesbian online meeting place and dating website, with over three million active members.

Meet Singles in your city: Metrodate is a favorite international Singles meeting place featuring online personals with photos, voice, chat and more...

Personal guidance: The Sedona Method helps you move forward to more money, better relationships, more radiant health and wellbeing, better goal achievement – plus break bad habits and self-sabotaging behavior, lose weight, stop smoking and sleep better.

Send video greetings: Smilebox helps you send creative greetings with photos, videos and music on Valentine's Day, Mothers' Day ... or any special day for your special person. Email them free.

Money transfer: iKobo offers online money transfer to and from the Philippines and more than 145 other countries, using a re-loadable Visa Prepaid card to make sending money fast, simple and secure. The service can be used to send funds to any country with an existing ATM network.

Sending money home: Xoom offers fast, reliable money transfers all over the world at a great price from the convenience of your computer.

Employment & careers
Careers: Vault offers career and employment information, data, surveys, contact points and more for employers and employees.

Language learning: Online TEFL teaches people worldwide to teach English as a foreign language, for people traveling and working abroad.

Work at home: Freelance Work Exchange has thousands of well-paying freelance and work-at-home jobs around the world.

Entertainment
Movie downloads: CinemaNow is an excellent, legal online source for downloading Hollywood movies, TV shows and music concerts, where you can rent or buy movies, stream free videos, burn movies to DVD and watch them on TV – and there's a free trial offer.

Posters: Push Posters has the largest range of music posters in the world, featuring over 1500 artists and including rare concert posters.

Tickets: Tickets Now sells sports, concerts and theater tickets, accounting for over 89% of all premium event tickets on the internet.

Tickets: We Have Seats has tickets for US premium and sold-out sporting events, concerts, Broadway and Las Vegas shows – over 10,000 events.

Fashion & beauty
CoutureCandy has the sweetest fashions from the hottest designers – like Joe’s Jeans, Paper Denim & Cloth, J Brand, Raw 7, Susana Monaco, Da-Nang, Lotta Stensson, Stitch’s and Kasil Jeans.

LabelSpree.com merges the convenience of e-commerce with the knowledgeable, personal service found in upscale boutiques to create a unique hybrid of the online/offline shopping experience, with apparel from the hottest designers all in one place.

Games and gambling
Combat (aerial): Aces High is a high intensity interactive game based on vintage WW2 air combat, with hundreds of players battling it out.

Online gambling: Betfair promises the best odds on the internet, specializing in sports events, plus casino and poker betting.

Online gambling: Betfred Poker & Casino is licensed to use next generation technology giving both real money and play for fun tables with Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo and more. Betfred Casino offers users over 60 games.

Paintball: Xtremez is the internet's largest paintball store with 1000s of products (plus airsoft and skateboards), with shipping worldwide.

Home and garden
Fitness: Home Gym Warehouse has equipment, books, videos, etc., for people who want to reshape, get fit and live longer.

Italian shopping: Made in Firenze offers art, crafts and food ordered online and delivered from the specialist artisans of Florence in Italy.

Investment
Stocks: Capital Spreads offers spread betting, a tax-free, cost-effective alternative to traditional share trading (with a free trial).

Stocks: Forbes Special Situation Survey’s editor was ranked the #1 Stock Picker by the Money Show Digest.

Learning
Online Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the world's most authoritative and trusted knowledge resources. Britannica Shop customers get a diverse selection of knowledge and entertainment products including the encyclopedia itself, trusted software, and games for both kids and adults. There's a free trial available online.

Language learning: Transparent Language has award-winning language learning software for consumers, schools, businesses, government agencies and embassies.

Newspapers and magazines
Magazine City: The web's largest magazine subscription center, offering many thousands of magazines of every type.

Wall Street Journal Europe: Stay a step ahead in business, career investments. Subscribe to The Wall Journal Europe and save 50% off the cover price.

Recreation and Sports
Auto: 4Wheel Drive Hardware is the leader in parts and accessories for Jeep vehicles, with the latest specials and offers.

Auto: Street Beat has automotive accessories and parts for cars, trucks, SUVs and Vans, both everyday and hard-to-find products and brands.

Cars and trucks: AutoAnything will add power to your car, truck or SUV, with free shipping on most of its high quality parts and accessories.

Golf: Austad's Golf is the oldest and most respected name in golf retailing, carrying all the major brands.

Golf: Callaway Golf Pre-owned enables you to buy, sell, trade-in, or trade-up, with cash for your used Callaway golf clubs.

Watersports: Overton's is the world’s largest boating and watersports dealer – from boat covers to wakeboards and all your PWC extras.

Watersports: Sea Eagle sells rugged inflatable canoes, kayaks, dinghies, paddle-skis, other sports boats and all accessories.

Advice & travel tips: TripAdvisor gives you a wealth of tips, free advice and  reviews about places to visit, where to stay, how to get there, what to see, where to eat out and have fun – and where it's not much fun – as assessed by travelers who have been there.  TripAdvisor covers both popular and less-known places around the world. And when you decide where to stay, the website offers you great hotel deals.

Airline & hotel bookings: Travelocity.com is the world’s top website for online travel bookings and information. Travelocity offers good prices, comparative travel data, fast online bookings, customer service and an uncompromising quality guarantee for its flights, hotel bookings, cruises and other vacations.

Asian Cruises: As well as Asian voyages, Cruise Direct helps you choose between good deals on cruises operated by several lines around the Mediterranean, Alaska, South America, the South Pacific and the Atlantic.

Car rental: Fox Rent a Car offers discount car rentals around the world with online reservations.

Events: Tickets Now sells sports, concerts and theater tickets, accounting for over 89% of all premium event tickets on the internet.

Events: We Have Seats offers tickets for US premium and sold-out sporting events, concerts, Broadway and Las Vegas shows – over 10,000 events.

Everything: British Airways Holidays provides bookings for hotels, cars, sightseeing and transfer options in over 350 destinations around the globe.

Hotels: gtahotels offers discounted hotel bookings worldwide, for over 5.000 hotels in about 450 cities – and the list is growing.

 is one of the biggest online hotel directories, listing over 120,000 hotels worldwide.

Hotels: Hotelopia promises reduced rates at over 10,000 hotels and resorts in 500 destinations in Europe, North America and the Caribbean.

London: London Pass gives free entry to over 50 of London's premier attractions plus discounts and beat-the-queue features.

New York: New York Pass has a $49 one-day pass that includes admission to over 40 top attractions in New York City, plus other discounts.

Tours and sightseeing: myPH Viator Travel offers online bookings for the most popular sights, tours and activities in all the world's favorite destinations.

United States: Travel Worm specializes in deals at US resorts, hotels, casinos, golf and spa packages, airline tickets and rental cars.

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