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This holiday season, ShopeePay, Shopee’s integrated mobile wallet, makes giving easier and more convenient. With ShopeePay, enjoy meaningful holiday traditions by showing generosity and expressing gratitude through gifts, and donating to chosen charitable organizations. Here are ways to go cashless this holiday season with ShopeePay.

Sixty-five years, 65 communities, and one goal—to make healthcare available to all.

Join Ortigas Malls as they celebrate Christmas with a star-studded cast for a meaningful cause. Christmas with the Stars is an online fundraising concert on December 11, 2021 at 7 PM on ktx.ph for the benefit of the Independent Production Workers Group (IPWG).

Acer is staging a holiday extravaganza full of prizes, a new song of love and hope, and the chance to win an IKEA home makeover.

While Christmas is known as the season to be jolly, it can also be a stressful time for many of us. The pressure that comes with finding the perfect gifts, stretching our time between all the online get-togethers, and preparing for our celebrations can manifest in different ways – sometimes even on our faces in more ways than one.

“Complete.” That’s how actress-host Bettinna Carlos-Eduardo describes her new life in La Union. Last March, on a quest for a more sustainable lifestyle for her family amid the pandemic, she, her husband Mikki, and their 10-year-old daughter Gummy all moved four hours up north, leaving their Pasig City condo for the time being. There, away from the manic metro, Bettinna seemingly found a new home better-suited for the rewarding family life she now excitedly lives.

A dream home is not just made of its interiors and exteriors. What also makes it your dream home are the views outdoors that you can unite seamlessly with the inside. TOSTEM, global leader in housing technology, unveils ATIS, its newest collection that transforms these views into moving art, that brings that beautiful outside world, in.

Industry leader Petron Corporation introduces another innovation in the Home LPG category with the launch of the new Petron Gasul Elite Composite Cylinder, a new type of container that is superior to regular steel cylinders.

Jollibee, the well-loved fast-food chain brand is not only known for their wide array of comfort food; they are also known to spark joy in our hearts through their heartwarming short films. Your heart would’ve surely been touched one way or the other by their numerous “Kwentong Jollibee” series. Truly, these short films have made us all laugh, cry and fall in love over and over again.

Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, closes the year with its annual 12.12 Big Christmas Sale, the most joyful year-end celebration in the region. 12.12 is set to bring a smile to users as they shop from the widest variety of products to reward themselves and their loved ones during the happiest time of the year. Through the 12.12 Big Christmas Sale, shoppers can also spread the holiday cheer to their favorite local businesses, with 2 times more items sold by local businesses this year.

“Flexible learning will continue in school year 2021 and thereafter.” These were the words of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chair Prospero de Vera III, as the commission goes full throttle on adapting flexible learning policies to keep the education sector pandemic-proof.

Studies show people are less likely to visit an eye doctor during the pandemic despite the fact that an increasing number of adults are reported to have deteriorating eyesight, there has been no effort to educate the public about this emerging problem. The extended exposure to television, computers, and other electronic gadgets has contributed to the current scenario.

Medical and health experts are optimistic that the country may enjoy a healthier, safer Christmas this year with an opportunity to get the whole family vaccinated in the upcoming 3-day National Vaccination Day on November 29-30 and December 1.

Dell Technologies shared insights to help organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) navigate and lead their teams into the hybrid work future. Titled Leading the Next Hybrid Workforce, the paper offers expert insights to complement and build on the findings outlined in the Dell Technologies Remote Work Readiness (RWR) Index, which was launched early this year.

IKEA is finally opening the door of its first store in the Philippines in the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City on November 25. Touted as the biggest IKEA store in the world, the store has a total surface area of 68,000 square-meters (equal to 150 basketball courts) distributed across 5 floors, 2 of which houses its brick-and-mortar retail space. The other levels are dedicated to its warehouse as well as its call centerto handle the e-commerce side of the business.

The resourcefulness and creativity of young artists can be a powerful voice in moving the country forward, as the empowering messages in their pieces can reignite expression, the hope of the people, and the restrengthening of the economy. This was the timely and powerful idea that reverberated during the recent Virtual Art Interaction, now on its second year and held by the long-running Shell National Students Art Competition (NSAC). The event’s ‘restART’ theme also signified that the nation’s future can be rebuilt and revitalized through art.

On any given day, in any office building, condominium or shopping mall in the country, property managers are working hard behind the scenes to make sure that their properties are running smoothly. But managing properties remains overwhelmingly manual and labor intensive. As building administrators and engineers have realized the need to digitize their processes, 2021 has proven to be a banner year for homegrown PropTech company Inventi, which has seen record sales of its cloud-based property management solution.

As schools prepare to reopen in the new normal, PLDT, in partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), recently turned over new classrooms, built from the proceeds of a sustainable recycling program, to Pula Elementary School in Barangay Pula, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.