Barbie Imperial is among celebrities very much active on social media. She loves how the platform allows her to interact with fans. It goes without saying that she also has experienced the ill-effects of the same. Some fans often use social media to directly harass celebrities. Then there are those...
The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has highlighted infrastructure projects under the Duterte administration that aim to give focus on news and information coming from regions in the country other than Metro Manila. PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar ( Photo from Martin Andanar's...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and social media influencers and other digital workers have been asked to chill and give way to dialogue in addressing the taxation controversy that have put them at loggerheads. Axie Infinity Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles aired the appeal as he...
A couple, who reportedly raked in multi-million pesos from video blogging (vlogging), abruptly deleted their social media channel in what the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) officials believe to be an attempt to avoid paying taxes. Based on the initial investigation of the BIR, the couple earned...
Anakalusugan Partylist Rep. Michael T.Defensor has asked the Lower House leadership to summon executives of social media giant Facebook Inc. to respond to questions about its controversial censorship guidelines. Rep Mike Defensor Defensor has filed House Resolution No. 2112 proposing a...
The.Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has told social media influencers (SMIs) such as vloggers to be more accurate in their income declarations to avoid criminal charges, including tax evasion. (Photo from BIR Facebook page) BIR Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay issued the appeal even as revenue...
TOKEN OF APPRECIATION: Geraldine Lamberta Smink (right), Delegated Producer, and Gerard Bernard Oostveen (left), Production Leader, present a token of appreciation to Philippine Ambassador to The Netherlands J. Eduardo Malaya, during a courtesy call at the embassy for the initiative to shoot...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has launched an all-out investigation against monetized social media influencers (SMIs) or vloggers who do not pay taxes from their huge income. (Photo by Dewang Gupta/ Unsplash) BIR Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay ordered regional directors and district officers...
Fake news, riding on the power of social media, brought thousands of people to vaccination centers early morning of August 5. They were “convinced” to line up for vaccination by the news that only the vaccinated can claim the ‘ayuda’ (cash aid) from the government, as the unvaccinated will...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) would dig deep into the world of marketing to unearth social media influencers who are earning huge income without paying taxes, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. BIR LOGO Finance Undersecretary Antonette C. Tionko said Tuesday, August 17, that the issuance...
Kim’s art is talking back CONCRETE BED, Cement, wooden mannequin, wood shaving, wooden box frame, 2921 Everything has a beginning. Every beginning has an ending. And after every ending is another beginning. Kim Hamilton Sulit’s pieces, which were included in the group exhibition entitled...
I often refrain from joining the conversation when they’re ranting about social media. I mean it’s so, like, 2009, over 10 years ago. I must have first joined Facebook in the mid-2000s and, by 2010, I might have had enough time trying to decide exactly what I felt about Mark Zuckerberg’s...
