The Filipina fashion designer launches her first pop-up in Powerplant Mall featuring her spring-summer 2022 collection ‘Amelia’ It’s about the digital leap. That’s what we saw during the pandemic as businesses try to make a virtual exodus as physical stores are pushed to close their doors....
D&L Industries Inc. reported that the start of commercial operations (SCO) for subsidiary Natura Aeropack Corporation’s (NAC) plant in Batangas will be moved to January 2023 instead of the original May 2022 schedule due to global port congestion and supply chain disruptions. D&L President...
The Philippine Biodiesel Association (TPBA) joined Congress’ call for the long-delayed increase in the biodiesel blend to 5 percent (B5) as mandated by the Biofuels Act of 2006. "Congress sees the immediate and long term impact of a higher biodiesel mandate. The immediate benefits come with...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has recommended the filing of administrative and criminal charges, including graft and plunder charges, against former Department of Budget and Management-Procurement Services (DBM-PS) Undersecretary Christopher Lloyd Lao and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary...
Award-winning coffee, chocolate from PH featured at Lao Food Festival MABUHAY The Philippine booth at the Lao Food Festival Award-winning coffee and chocolate from the Philippines took center stage at the Philippine booth in the Lao Food Festival, which started Jan. 25 at the Chao Anouvong Park in...
Chemrez Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of D&L Industries Inc., together with the Lao Foundation and global essential oil firm doTerra International have put up a solar-powered potable water facility and livelihood projects for coconut farmers in Camalig, Albay. The multi-million-peso...
Former budget undersecretary Lloyd Christopher Lao has called on the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to reconsider his arrest order and called for a “non-hostile” Senate inquiry into the government’s alleged procurement of overpriced COVID-19 pandemic supplies from Pharmally Pharmaceutical...
Gotcha! The Dargani siblings - Mohit and Twinkle - have been arrested in Davao city following an attempt to leave the Philippines aboard a Lear jet reportedly for Singapore. But Lloyd Christopher Lao, resigned Procurement Service, Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) chief, remained at...
Lloyd Christopher Lao, resigned Procurement Service, Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) chief, is still on the run. This as security officers of the Senate Office of Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) failed to locate him since November 5, the day his arrest warrant was signed by Senate President...
D&L Industries is confident of exceeding its pre-pandemic earnings this year after registering strong growth in the third quarter despite the reimposition of stricter quarantine measures. In a press briefing, D&L President Alvin D. Lao said, the country’s largest specialty food...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Thursday, Nov. 4 cited for contempt Lloyd Christopher Lao, a former official at the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (DBM-PS), for avoiding the panel’s ongoing investigation into the national government’s procurement of overpriced...
Boba Girl is the new chill spot for tea-loving and creative Filipino youth Prior to the pandemic, hanging out for much Filipino youth meant getting together in a quaint diner or coffee shop and sharing stories over good eats and brewed drinks. A bonus is when the food spot has an Instagram-worthy...