The commercial operations of the ancillary services (AS) market will guarantee the full procurement of power reserves needed by system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in efficiently running the country’s electricity system. After more than a decade of planning, policy...
Consumers across Metro Manila can now drop off their empty PET bottles for recycling at over 2,200 sari-sari stores and carinderias. This initiative, the Tindahan Extra Mile (TEM): Balik PET Bottle Program of Coca-Cola Philippines and Basic Environmental Systems and Technologies, Inc. (BEST), not...
Let’s get real. There are many promising beauty and skincare brands out there that most of us want to try, but most of them are not yet available in the Philippine market. The good thing is that Watsons heard our pleas and opened two new stores—in Power Plant Mall and Greenbelt housing some of...
ILOILO CITY – A social media post by the National Museum of the Philippines-Iloilo on January 24 sparked an online word war between the people of Iloilo and Aklan as Ilonggos gear to celebrate the highlight of the Dinagyang Festival here this weekend. The “sádsad” post continues to...
The move to overwhelm the Senate’s 24 votes with the House of Representatives’ over 300 votes is nothing short of an affront to the principles of bicameralism, Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said. That is why, Estrada said insisting on a People’s Initiative (PI) as the mode to amend...
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24, that more than 80 bishops are expected to witness the declaration of the Antipolo Cathedral as an international shrine. Antipolo Cathedral (Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Antipolo) The nation’s Catholic...
Senators on Wednesday, January 24, refused to back down on accusing the House of Representatives of railroading the People’s Initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution and asked members of the Lower House to drop the signature campaign so discussions on Charter change can proceed without any...
Mariana Zobel de Ayala, executive director of the country’s oldest conglomerate Ayala Corp., said the catastrophic impact of the ongoing climate change requires corporations to take drastic steps to counter this as they can longer go on with “business as usual.” “It is our belief that...
Sustainability, diversity, and digitalization are seen as the three components that will bring “transformational growth” which will allow companies to rise to expected economic success instead of muddle along with the rest of the world. Ayala Corporation Executive Director Mariana Zobel de...
The exhibit “Endless Landscape: Digitally Reimagined Korean Art,” presented by the National Museum of Korea, opened at the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC) in Taguig on Jan. 19. Gracing the opening ceremony were Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Lee Sang-hwa, National...
A professor from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) cited reasons for the university's elective course offer on Taylor Swift saying it is aligned with UP's purpose "to provide a space that will generate conversations." (Taylor Swift's '1989' album cover (Facebook) In an article...
Full steam ahead, that’s how 2024 is going, but where are we headed this year? Better yet, where are we aching to go? The Philippine Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) of the Department of Tourism (DOT), along with Tatler Philippines, threw an intimate cocktail party at the Samba Restaurant at...
