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Two foreign embassies on Wednesday offered to help relief efforts for victims of the pH of monsoon floods.

The U.S. Embassy aims to provide U.S. $ 100,000 (P4.3 billion) this week to increase state funding for rescue and rehabilitation, has demonstrated a statement.

In a separate statement, the EU delegation in the Philippines, however, to look for help to flood affected areas.

“On behalf of the U.S. government and American people, to extend my sincere sympathies to the displaced and lost homes and livelihoods due to flooding.” Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr., said the statement.

He added the United States agency for International Development also will conduct an assessment of damage early in Metro Manila and other provinces to determine the extent of flood damage and determine the immediate needs of the community.

“[The] United States will work with the Philippine government to determine where our help is needed. We remain committed to helping the Filipino people overcome this difficult time,” Thomas said.

Meanwhile, Lubomir Frebort, in charge of business of the EU delegation in the Philippines, said the Western bloc “extends its deep sympathy over 800,000 people affected by heavy rain in the three regions.”

Meanwhile, the Department of Budget yesterday to P5.95 billion in state of calamity funds will remain available for response and disaster rehabilitation.

This amount is more than P2.989 million in Rapid Response Fund (QRF) released national government agencies earlier this year, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said in a statement.

Of the total, the Department of Agriculture received P550 million, the Department of Education, P550 million, the Ministry of Health, P170.2 million; Department of Defense, P882.5 million; Department of Public works, P662.5 million, and the Social Service Department, P662.5 million.

“The funds are available to allow the national government agencies to immediately respond to the needs of citizens and people affected by calamities,” says Abbot.

Philippines was the best country in the world with business  English skills ,  according to a recent survey by Global English Corporation. Global English was earlier this month the results of its annual Business English Index (BEI), the only index that measures business English skills in the workplace.

For 2012, results showed that from 76 countries represented in the world, only the Philippines a score of 7.0 achieved “a level of BEI in connection with a great skill involves the ability to play an active role in discussions of companies to participate and the relatively complex tasks. It is particularly interesting because the Philippines, a country one-tenth of the population in India, which was recently adopted by India as a hub for call centers. More than 400,000 Filipinos are now working in call centers, nearly 50,000 more than India,” the study said.

Philippines, which is 7.11 and a country in the intermediate level scored, is joined by Norway (6.54), Estonia (6.45), Serbia (6.38) and Slovenia (6.19) into the top five . Global English cases cited in a country that English ability is an indicator of economic growth and business success. It is not surprising that both the Philippines and Norway, the only two countries in the top five in both 2011 and 2012 are to improve their economy, based on the latest GDP data from World Bank,” it added.

Meanwhile, the hard economic powers (Japan, Italy and Mexico), and the rapid growth in emerging markets (Brazil, Colombia and Chile) scored below 4.0 in business English proficiency, placing them at a disadvantage in the competition in a global market , the study said. It also pointed out that shifts in the global talent in the English-speaking countries at risk. Surprisingly, BEI points for international workers in the U.S. fell from 6.9 to 5.09, because the original 2011 BEI benchmark, due to a majority of the tested persons are foreign-born engineers and scientists.Rest of world rank beginner and advanced level