Insurance payments related to the coronavirus pandemic hit more than P8 billion. IC Comm. Dennis B. Funa Since the pandemic began, Insurance Commissioner Dennis B. Funa reported that payouts made by life and non-life insurers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and mutual benefit associations...
Solid Future Global Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that things are not always going south, especially when you are in the middle of a pandemic. The reality is, there’s reason to hope that things are turning around for the better. We just need to focus our lens to the right direction. Take for...
Get your dream sleep in style with The Mooie Life Sleep is something we are deprived of in our pre-pandemic times. It is always because of the hustle culture, and if it is not, it is the due to the pressure or doing more or the urge to see and experience more. While COVID-19 has slowed things down,...
By CID REYES What hath this damn pandemic wrought? Whereto, mankind? On the second year of the quarantine and lockdown isolation, when we are wailing in despair and desolation, hanging on to the last vestige of sanity, Mother Nature deliberately gets herself into the act, deranging a volcano and...
How many times in your life can you say that you’re “very sure” about something or someone? Vice President Leni Robredo is one of the persons who knew, right from the moment she met him, that she’s going to marry her husband, the late former Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo. Vice President...
JM De Guzman already has several huge tattoos all over his body, including one that covers almost half of his back. But he keeps adding more. Just recently, Â JM revealed on social media his latest tattoo. View this post on Instagram He didn't say what it was. Located on his left shoulder, it...
Insular Life (InLife) has assured its policyholders that claims and benefits due will be adequately provided as the country continues to reel from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. InLife President and CEO Raoul E. Littaua In a statement, Raoul E. Littaua, InLife president and chief...
The Insurance Commission (IC) wants to remove variable insurance products from the list of mutual fund schemes to avoid increasing costs for consumers and defeating the goal of financial inclusion for all Filipinos. Sec. Dominguez and Comm. Funa In a letter to Finance Secretary and Capital Market...
A highly-acclaimed Japanese film that tackles the life and struggle of a Burmese boy and his family while living in Japan will be one of the few selected major foreign flicks to be screened in this year’s Cinemalaya 17: Philippine Independent Film Festival. Passage of Life (Japan Foundation...
What's better than looking at a beautifully rendered image of the Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEX) in "Minecraft" form? Being able to compare it beside a photo of the real thing, that's what! (Photo from Build Build Build Minecraft Philippines) Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)...
OKAY BORACAY A photo by the author during a stroll on the beach in Boracay one sunny afternoon Let’s put it this way: The road to heaven is paved with challenges and, if you believe in heaven, whatever it represents, or whatever it is represented by, peace and quiet, dizzying success, fame and...
A guidebook which seeks to encourage technology adopters to provide livelihood to conflict-stricken agriculture communities in Mindanao has been launched, the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology...