Social Security System (SSS) pensioners will receive their Christmas cash gifts early next month. Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer, said the pension fund has coordinated with its partner banks to credit the pensions within the first week of December. The SSS wants to...
BACOOR, Cavite – Netizens admired the honesty of a 22-year-old working student who returned the cash she found at an automated teller machine (ATM) just as she was about to use it on Nov. 22. Straight from her graveyard shift at a call center, Jeanette Cortez Real went to an ATM station at a...
ROME, Italy -- With COVID-19 infections rising in Italy, the country tightened restrictions on Wednesday in the run-up to the Christmas and New Year holiday. The most important new measures are the extension of the mandatory green pass to a wider array of venues, and restrictions for unvaccinated...
Holiday favorites made even better! Special puto bumbong and bibingka (Art by Ariana Maralit) What is Pinoy Christmas without puto bumbong and bibingka? Not even a pandemic can separate us from our local Christmas traditions and that includes munching on these warm holiday delicacies. According to...
Sprinkle some fairy dust! Lush is set to brighten everyone's day, and holiday season, with its newest collection Snow Fairy. One whiff of this sweet scent transports us to a magical world of happiness, courage, and cheer. Despite not being together for months, and even if you'll be apart for the...
Anson Seabra Singer-songwriter Anson Seabra’s new holiday EP A Heartfelt Holiday (Virgin Records), along with his new single “Christmas Got Colder,” is out now. Listen/stream the EP HERE, and watch the lyric video for “Christmas Got Colder” HERE. Anson sets the scene with his new single...
The Festival of Lights is made bigger, grander this year in a virtual edition THE SHOW MUST GO ON In photo: Ayala Land's Festival of Lights Digital Edition part one. Cover design by Jules Vivas Christmas in the Philippines, as Jose Mari Chan would describe it in his ultimate holiday song...
This storied department store has since 1952 specialized in things that make you—and the recipients of your generosity—feel very special inde GOLDEN XMAS In photo: Beaded pearl ornament at Rustan's Christmas Village. Cover design by Jules Vivas We’re going to have Christmas at last, the first...
Remember that young girl with her Lola last year? She is all grown up now and has kids A master in presenting heartwarming holiday campaigns, Disney once again tugs everyone’s heartstring with the release of its latest advert titled “The Stepdad.” Still from 'The Stepdad' The new ad, released...
Excitement over the holiday season was made more evident for us with the welcome development of the improvement in the country’s COVID situation, making way for the promise of a more special holiday season coming upon us! There’s no sweeter way to celebrate this than spending it with family,...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) appealed Thursday, Nov. 18, to the local government units (LGUs) to include in its guidelines that caroling should be prohibited along roads and main thoroughfares. (UNSPLASH/MANILA BULLETIN) The DSWD made the appeal after the Department of...
Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has expressed optimism that the national government would soon grant the private sector’s appeals to reduce the quarantine period for returning Filipino immigrants, their families, and overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) to just two days....
